The trails are meant to be walked, and the walking happens in places where the signal gives out — under the bridge, along the river, in the blocks behind the Silos. Two things fix that, and both take about ten seconds.
It gets its own icon, opens without the browser bars, and starts on the trail list.
Safari is the only iPhone browser that can do this — if you're in Chrome or Firefox on an iPhone, open artwacotx.com in Safari first.
On either trail page there's a Save this trail for offline button under the map. Tap it while you still have a signal — at home, or in the car before you get out — and every stop story and photo for that trail is kept on your phone.
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Being straight with you about the map.
The stop stories, the photos, the trail line, the numbered pins and your blue dot all work with no signal at all — GPS comes from satellites, not from your carrier. The map background is different: those tiles come from OpenStreetMap as you pan around, and their terms don't allow downloading a whole city ahead of time. Ground you've already looked at stays on your phone. New ground needs a signal.
Saving a trail stores files on your own phone and sends nothing anywhere. You can clear it any time with the same button, or by clearing this site's data in your browser settings. How Art Waco handles information →