🔎 It Opens Filtered — And Remembers
The list never opens on the whole catalog: Type starts on
All National & State and State on your home state —
most of the catalog is county and city parks.
All four dropdowns are remembered, so the page reopens on whatever you
last chose; Show All Parks in the no-match box clears everything
to the widest list, and that sticks too.
Size hides only parks known to be smaller than your pick —
a park with no recorded acreage is never dropped — and 🏕️ Activities
keeps a park only if it offers every activity you tick.
Opening a park and coming back resets nothing — search,
filters, chips and page number are restored. Parks you've hidden stay out
of the list until you press Show hidden; un-hiding lives on
Places Near Me → 🙈 Manage Hidden Places.
🏞️ Your List Is Shared With PackListPRO
Signed in, you get a My Parks tab, and the quick chips —
Next, High Priority, Not Visited, Visited —
search only that list, never the catalog; tapping one switches you to
My Parks by itself.
Switching there also widens the default Type and State filters — but only
ones you never chose yourself — so your own list can't be hidden by them.
Being on your list never claims you've been: Not Visited means no
visit is logged, and the 🎒 passport strip counts logged visits
only, staying hidden until you have one.
It is one record on two sites — the list, visits and ratings
you keep here are the same rows PackListPRO reads, and the other
way round.
🧭 The Map, And Getting There
The map plots everything the filters currently select — not just
the 25 rows on screen — up to 600 pins; when anything is left off, the
line under the map says so.
🏷 Park names draw only while 30 or fewer pins are in view, so at a wide
zoom the checkbox looks idle — zoom in and the names appear.
In a pin's popup, Details opens the park's page, Route
draws the drive on this map (tap an alternate to switch),
Google Maps ↗ is the one link that leaves the site, and
Google Place ↗ opens the park's listing — hours, photos, reviews.
Routing starts from 📍 Use My Location, and
Sort: Nearest to Me asks for your location the moment you pick it —
when it can't have one, the sort falls back to Name rather than pretending.
Browsing itself is free: OpenStreetMap tiles, distances computed on your
device — only Route calls out.