Looking for campgrounds in an area you’re not familiar with? There’s an app for that and it’s called The Dyrt. Formerly available on your PC or Mac, it’s now an app for your iOS or Android phone, so you can take it with you as you travel. And it’s free – gotta love that.
Here are some more details from their press release:
Planning a camping trip always takes a lot of work–often, it’s a fun type of work. However, when it comes to finding a campground online, it’s a complete drag. Yes, there are campground databases available, but it is so infrequent that they come with pictures and reviews–campers have rarely been able to see what they reserve before they arrive to the site. Where’s the fun in that?
Enter: The Dyrt. The fastest growing camping app available. The Dyrt plans to conquer the wild behemoth that is the camping industry, all while not giving users a headache. The Dyrt has more user-generated pictures, videos, and reviews of campgrounds than any other platform–with over 70,000 pictures, videos and reviews–all of which are submitted by The Dyrt’s camping community.
While it’s easy to assume that The Dyrt’s community is just a group of campers who share stories around the fire, this small startup knew exactly how to leverage them in order to solve the campground review crux. The Dyrt rapidly crowdsourced more campground reviews than any other company by utilizing an approach that has never been done in the outdoor space.
The Dyrt makes the campground review process fun by encouraging the community to compete with other users and win prizes in exchange for their campground reviews. Campers can stream their progress in real-time through a unique gamification using contests, outdoor gear, and sweepstakes. The Dyrt is onto something special with their driven community, and there’s plenty more reviews to be had with the camping industry’s rapid growth.
The camping community is huge–clocking in at 75 million American households–it’s no wonder that it’s turned into an economic force to be harnessed. Camping comprises of about $166.9 billion of outdoor recreation spending. That is quite a chunk of change to sleep under the stars, but outdoor enthusiasts can agree that camping is so much more than that. It’s about community, and the Dyrt has offered that community an online home, not to mention a user-friendly tool that makes it easier to get outside.
And people keep coming, more users signed up for The Dyrt last month than in all of 2017. Now, a new member signs up every 60 seconds so they can be one step closer to easily planning their next camping trip.