🔎 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 qMEET
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.
Two sorts exist only there: Sort: Priority and Sort: My Rating.
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.
The Been! tick on the right of every row is how you log one
without opening the park — it records a real visit with no date ("Date
unknown"), which also puts the park on your list. Untick it to take that
visit back; once a park has visits you gave dates to, they are managed on
the park's own page.
Ticking or unticking asks you to confirm first, and the park's name is in
the question — on a page of 25 rows, that is what makes a mis-tap
catchable before it is written.
It is one record on two sites — the list, visits and ratings
you keep here are the same rows qMEET 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.
Your own My Places pins draw on this map too, and the 📌 button on
it drops a new one — the same pins you keep on
My Places.
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, it says so and puts the sort back the way it was
rather than pretending.
Browsing itself is free: OpenStreetMap tiles, distances computed on your
device — only Route calls out.
🧳 Planning With Your Trip
With a trip selected, every list row and pin popup carries
＋ Add to Itinerary — the park lands on that trip's itinerary as an
undated, planned activity with its location and coordinates prefilled,
for you to schedule on the Itinerary page.
✓ Added only remembers what you added on this visit to the page;
the itinerary is the real record, and adding the same park twice is
allowed — out and back.
🧭 Near My Trip appears when your selected trip's destination can
be placed on the map — it anchors Nearest to Me and the map on the
destination instead of on you.
Tick Only parks on my route and the list narrows to parks within the
distance you pick of the drive — 50 miles to start — for whichever trip is
chosen beside it, and the line under the boxes names the route it's using.
Your trip's own plans are pinned in blue with their names beside
them, and the purple line is the drive between your destinations. Both
follow the trip picked at the top of the page.
A pin marked ≈ sits at the center of its town,
not at its street address — we place plans and stops from their city and
state, so an address on its own is a label, not a location. Link a plan to
a park or a campsite to pin it exactly.
Open 🔑 Map key under the map for what every pin, number
and color means. When a trip has both route stops and itinerary plans, only
one of them is numbered — pick which under Numbers on the map,
and the choice follows you to the other trip maps.