A good Hudson Valley day is rarely a single stop. It is a farm stand, then a trailhead, then lunch, then a brewery before the drive home — often across two or three towns with patchy cell service in between. Until now, HudsonWay helped you find each of those places, but stitching them into a plan was on you. Version 3 changes that with Trips, a new way to plan your whole day inside the app and keep it with you when the signal drops.
Build a Day from Anywhere in the App
Trips starts with the places you are already looking at. Add a stop from a search result, from the Nearby list, or from your recently viewed places, and it drops into the trip you are building. There is no separate planning mode to learn — you collect stops as you browse, the same way you would jot names on a napkin, except the app already knows where each one is.
Put Stops in Order, See the Drive
Once you have a handful of stops, drag them into the order you want to visit them. HudsonWay maps the drive between each leg so you can see roughly how the day flows and spot the stop that is a 40-minute detour before you commit to it. Reordering is instant, so it is easy to try a route, see the drive times, and rearrange until the day makes sense.
Been There and Bucket List
Every place in a trip can be marked been there once you have visited, which quietly builds a running history of everywhere you have explored across the valley. Places you have not gotten to yet can go on a bucket list instead — the orchard you keep meaning to visit, the ruin on the far side of the river, the tasting room a friend recommended. It turns HudsonWay from a search tool into a record of your own Hudson Valley.
Saved Trips as Cards
Finished trips do not disappear. Each one is saved as a card at the top of the Trips tab, personalized with an emoji you pick, so a weekend of leaf-peeping and a rainy-day museum run are easy to tell apart at a glance. Tap a card to reopen the itinerary and pick up right where you left off — or reuse it as the starting point for a similar day.
Still Offline First
Like the rest of HudsonWay, Trips is built to work without a connection. The stops, the order, and the map all live on your device, so you can plan on strong Wi-Fi at home and still have the whole day in hand when you are deep in a valley with no bars. That is the point of the app: the plan should not evaporate the moment the signal does.
Get HudsonWay
HudsonWay is a free, offline-first guide to New York's Hudson Valley covering 11 counties. Version 3 adds Trips, a reworked Discover and Nearby experience, an expanded safety library, and over-the-air data updates. Download it on the App Store and start planning your next day out.