App lets you tour the Mountain Loop Highway with your phone
The Mountain Loop Highway is known for many things, but great cell service isn’t one of them.
Travel deep enough into the 54-mile-long byway, which separates Granite Falls and Darrington, and all connection to the outside world is lost, save for GPS.
That makes the area ideal for going off the grid. But what if you didn’t want to — at least not completely?
Yeah, you guessed it — there’s an app for that.
The Mountain Loop Tour app — an initiative of the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau — serves as a self-guided tour of trails, historical sites, recreational activities, mountain peaks, restaurants and lodging scattered along route. It’s free to download for iPhone and Android smartphones.
There are about 90 stops on the tour, which are tagged in a built-in GPS system that provides directions to each stop. A GeoAlerts feature pings your smartphone when you’re about 100 yards from a place of interest, such as a trailhead or campground.
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