Trips is the headline of HudsonWay v3, but the release also reworks how you find what is around you, where safety information lives, and how the app stays current. Together these changes make HudsonWay quicker to use one-handed on a trailhead and more useful when things go sideways.
Discover, Rebuilt for One Hand
The Discover sheet has been redesigned around quick, one-tap actions: Open Now, This Weekend, restrooms, and favorites near you are all a single tap from the map. Instead of closing outright when you swipe it down, the sheet now collapses to a peek so the map stays in view while your shortcuts stay within thumb reach. Result lists can expand to full screen when you want to browse more comfortably.
Filters and One-Tap Day Shortcuts
Filters now live in a dedicated nav-bar sheet rather than crowding the map. Stack This Weekend, Family-Friendly, and category filters to narrow hundreds of nearby results down to what actually fits your plan. One-tap shortcuts go a step further and reshape the map around a whole trip goal at once — Family Day, Budget Day, or Accessibility First each apply a curated set of filters instantly.
A Manual Location Picker
Sometimes you want to scout a place you are not standing in — checking what is near a friend's town before you drive out, or planning around a trailhead across the valley. A new manual location picker lets you drop your focus anywhere on the map and see nearby results from there. The location button also moved to a cleaner bottom-left position that is easier to reach.
Safety, One Tap from Home
Safety tools are now one tap from the home screen rather than buried in a menu. The safety article library has nearly doubled, growing from 11 to 20 entries covering the situations that matter on Hudson Valley trails and back roads. Alongside the articles you get emergency service locations, important contacts, and quick-reference cards — all stored on your device so they work when you need them most and coverage is weakest.
Data and Maps That Stay Current
HudsonWay v3 can now pull data and map updates over the air. When information about places, hours, or coverage improves, those updates can reach you without waiting on an App Store release — downloaded updates are verified and applied automatically the next time you open the app. Everything still runs on-device once it is downloaded, so the app stays fast and private.
Polish Throughout
The old Licenses screen has been redesigned into a clearer Information screen, Save and bucket-list buttons on place details are now wider and easier to hit, and icon-based buttons run throughout the trip and filter flows. A range of fixes to list scrolling, sheet presentation, and label truncation round out the release.
Get HudsonWay
HudsonWay is a free, offline-first guide to the Hudson Valley across 11 counties. Download version 3 on the App Store to try the new Trips planner, the faster Discover experience, and the expanded safety library.