WANDER with wayfinder
Curious about the trails and recreation options available in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area? Looking for some lesser known areas to check out? Our free Wayfinder App has everything you need to know from trail area maps, descriptions, difficulty and so much more.
Wayfinder Trails & Recreation currently focuses on Thunder Bay, Ontario and the surrounding area. We are in the process of fine-tuning our expansion process to include trails from communities across Northwestern Ontario.
FREE DOWNLOAD
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Wayfinder Features
No service? No Problem!
Register your profile to keep track of the total kilometers you’ve trekked, trails you’ve done, and store saved trails to be used out of service range
Know What To Expect
This app has everything you need from trail area maps, descriptions, difficulty, directions, elevations, length, estimated completion times, points of interest, related activities and more! We have even added an educational component to teach users about the nature of things in the trail environment.
Find The Right Outdoor Experience For You!
You have choices! With a touch of a button view the trails near you, search by name, or use our internal five star rating system to see what trails are recommended by other users. That’s not all! If you're looking for a specific activity, difficulty, or distance Wayfinder will filter trails based your preference.
Other services
Advertising
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Products
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Take a look at some of our brand new clothes, accessories and other products we have in collaboration with local makers!
Eco-Adventures
We will be offering guided tours, educational group outdoor excursions perfect for friends or corporate and more!
Wayfinder BEGINS
In a GIS (geographical information system) course during Katherine’s forestry program she had to come up with an idea for her major project that had to incorporate the collection of data to be edited, analyzed, manipulated, then applied to a map of the earth through coordinates. During this time her sister had gotten lost on a complex trail network. Luckily, she was found then guided out of the forest by a horseback rider who gave her a map of the area. This experience sparked the idea for the class project that is now Wayfinder Trails and Recreation.
About us
Wayfinder Trails and Recreation, it is a FREE outdoor recreation smartphone app that provides detailed information for trails and their related activities. The app launched in Thunder Bay during December of 2018 with plans to expand to a number of communities in Northwestern Ontario.
Katherine Couzelis is the Co-founder and Project Manager. Upon graduating as a Forest Technician, Katherine received her Aboriginal Canadian Relations certificate and previously obtained her Travel and Tourism diploma. Her recent internship with the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre taught her how to combine her previous education and work experience to become a motivated young entrepreneur.
Our team
Katherine Couzelis, Founder
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David Spies, Volunteer
David is a law student at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law and has had a passion for the environment and the outdoors since he was young. As a recent transplant to Thunder Bay, WAYFinder became a tool he relied on greatly and he is over the moon to join the team
BE IN THE KNOW
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Join our email list to stay up-to-date when new trails and features are added and for news on all things, hiking, recreation, and Northwestern Ontario outdoors!
Calendar
Check out our upcoming free and ticketed events to explore new regions, take educational tours, and to experience something new!
BLOG
See what we are up to in the community, where we are finding waterfalls and what other outdoor adventures we are sharing with the world!
CONTACT US
FAQ
You can download the Wayfinder Trails & Recreation app from either the Apple Store or the Google Play Store.
To use the Wayfinder App offline, you must register for a free user profile. After this, save the trails you want to your profile page before you go out by clicking on the top right menu bar on the trails description page. Click here for more!
Your connection to data and/or WIFI may be getting in the way of connecting to the app, or depending on your settings you may not have the latest most updated version of the app. Troubleshooting options are to first try updated the app through the app store. Second is to uninstall the app and re-install the app to your device. If you think it may be a WIFI issue, make sure you are not on airplane mode, check your WIFI connection and try turning your WIFI on and off.
We have been working to correct this bug that occurs for some users. If you have incountered this issue please try deleting then reinstalling our application and make sure you have the latest version of the WAYfinder Trails & Recreation mobile application downloaded.
It’s free to download and sign up for a profile. However, with future expansions of the application, there will soon be purchasable features.
As a small local business of Thunder Bay, Ontario we are working towards expanding to other regions of Northwestern Ontario. We aim to be available in the city and townships that have a lack of outdoor recreational resource materials. Recently (2020) we started to develop components of the smartphone application that enable us to crowdsource information. If you are interested in volunteering as a data collector for your area please contact us directly.
That is yet to be determined, but don’t worry! We’re working on getting Wayfinder in tip-top shape to reach your area.
As one of or goals is to promote environmental stewardship, we are currently working on different ways to incorporate educational features that will teach users about the area and how to conserve the natural beauty and habitat around Northwestern Ontario.
We have a few different advertising opportunities for local business. Please check out our advertising options here.