Follow the journey
Hi, I'm Bridger.
I'm the founder of Wylara, and I just spent 36 days camping across the Western U.S. and Canada, putting the trip planner I built to the test and proving it works in the wild.
Real campsites, real trip planning, real routes. Here is how it went.
Community funded
Keep Wylara free
Wylara is free for everyone, and I refunded the people who paid early. The honest catch is that the more people use it, the more it costs to run: the maps, the servers, the data, the systems that plan your trips. I cover what I can. If Wylara got you outside or saved you a headache, you can throw a few dollars in the hat. Every bit keeps it free for the next person. For the people, by the people.
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Cover a night at a campground on the route. Get a shout-out on the journey log when I post from that site.
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See what Wylara doesThe Route
36 days. 22 stops. Two countries.
From Palm Springs up the Pacific coast, into British Columbia and Alberta, down through the Rockies, and home through Utah. The whole thing planned in Wylara.
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New campsites, hard-won lessons, and the honest version of life on the road. Pick your spot.
Why I built it
Nature was the thing that worked
Wylara started as a personal need. A few years back I was deep in a rough patch. Burned out, anxious, glued to a screen most days. The one thing that kept bringing me back to myself was time outside. A dispersed site in the Sierras. A weekend in Joshua Tree. The desert at golden hour.
Nature did more for my mental health than anything else I tried. But getting out there was its own kind of hard. Hours of research. Wrong campsites. Trips that should have been simple turned into spreadsheets, and most of them died before I ever loaded the car.
So I built the tool I wished existed. One that knew what I cared about, surfaced the right sites fast, and got me out the door before the burnout came back.
Then it caught on. A couple of videos took off and thousands of people showed up almost overnight. I could have charged them. Instead I made the heart of Wylara free. Getting outside is what pulled me back from a dark place, and I could not bring myself to put a price on the thing that does that for someone else.
This summer I put it to the real test. I lived out of my car for 36 days across the West and into Canada, planning every stop with the platform I built. I am home now, and it worked. Wylara got me out there, and it kept me out there.
Bridger, founder of Wylara
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