US West Walk Nomad turns your daily steps into a trip from Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States, all the way down to the Mexican border near San Diego. Pass real landmarks, collect badges and get friendly local comments from your guide, Arukyun. No GPS tracking, no ads, no sign-up.
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The app reads the steps recorded by your phone or wearable through Health Connect. You move across a real map of the United States exactly as far as you have walked.
Your steps are collected automatically through Health Connect. There is nothing to type in.
The finish line is fixed, but the route is yours. Tap the map within your available distance and take as many detours as you like.
Reach a famous place to earn a badge and hear what Arukyun has to say about it.
Reach the border near San Diego, then turn around and start another lap back to the north, with a goal badge for every lap.
Built around real American geography, so every lap feels like a trip rather than a number.
Arrive at a landmark and a badge pops up with the place's name and a title to match. The Space Needle, Mount St. Helens, Crater Lake, the Golden Gate Bridge, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon are among the stops, with 183 badges in the collection.
When you arrive somewhere new, your guide Arukyun shares a short comment about the area, so it feels like you are really standing there. Notes are prepared for thousands of cities, towns and local areas across the West, and are marked as AI-generated.
Curious what a place looks like? Open Street View from the spot you have reached and look around without leaving the app.
Tap your position and see what is around you on the route, such as cafes, restaurants, parks and sights, then open it in Google Maps. It is a handy way to plan the next stop on your virtual trip, or a real one.
The Coverage Map fills in every local area you have visited. Track how much of the West you have covered, and earn badges for every state you cross, then for the whole West.
Choose who guides your way: Yajiru, Yanyaru, Yawani, Yauniru and more. Drop a Guidepost anywhere on the map and your companion will point the way.
Japanese Walking is an interval walking routine: three minutes of fast walking, then three minutes of slow walking, repeated for a few sets. The built-in timer gives you a 3-2-1 countdown, a tempo beat while you speed up and a heads-up before each switch, and it keeps running with the screen off.
After each fast segment it compares your real step count with your target tempo, and a card in the Record tab shows the days you completed a session. Open it from the travel map or the Record tab. This is not medical advice: walk at a pace that suits your health.
Start your journey for free in the Pacific Northwest, where the route begins. When you are ready to walk on down the coast to San Diego, switch to the full route with a single purchase.
Prices are shown in USD and may vary slightly by region and exchange rate on Google Play.
It is an interval walking timer built into the app: 3 minutes of fast walking and 3 minutes of slow walking, repeated for several sets, or 15 minutes of continuous fast walking. You can change the number of sets, the durations, the countdown and the tempo sound in the timer settings, and the timer keeps running with the screen off. It is included at no extra charge.
No. Your position on the map is worked out from your step count, not from GPS. The app reads steps through Health Connect and moves you along the map by the distance you have walked. See How Health Connect works and your privacy for details.
US West Walk Nomad is an Android app. It needs Health Connect to read steps recorded by your phone or wearable.
Lap 1 runs southbound from Cape Flattery in Washington, the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States, to the Mexican border near San Diego, across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Arizona. You choose your own path by tapping the map within the distance your steps allow, whether that is along the Pacific coast, through the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada, or across the desert. After the goal you turn around and start a new lap north.
The app is free to download, and the free edition lets you travel north of latitude 42.0, covering the Pacific Northwest including Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Switching to the full route is a one-time purchase of US$6.90, with no subscription.
Distances are shown in miles by default. You can switch between miles and kilometres in Settings.
No ads and no sign-up are needed to use the app.
Yes. See all Walk Nomad apps, including US East Walk Nomad, Japan, UK, Ireland, Italy and Korea.
Install US West Walk Nomad and start walking from Cape Flattery.
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US West Walk Nomad