Westbound Roadmap

The core app

Track the drive, earn the stickers

Tap Start when you head out and Stop when you're through. Westbound matches your route against 12 segments: I-70 from C-470 to Vail, plus Clear Creek Canyon from Golden and the spurs to Winter Park (Berthoud Pass), A-Basin (Loveland Pass), Keystone and Breckenridge. Finish segments in either direction to earn stickers for the passes you run, the streaks you keep and the hours you put in: 43 stickers and 9 Summits to chase. No account needed.

Auto-start

A backup for when you forget to tap Start

With "Always" location on, Westbound watches for you entering the corridor at its main on-ramps and starts the drive itself. It ends the way any drive does, once you've stopped driving for a while. It's a safety net, not a replacement: it can start late or miss a drive, so tapping Start is still the surest way to log one.

Build 1.0 (3)

Never lose a drive

If Westbound crashes or gets force-closed mid-drive, your route is saved as you go and offered back the next time you open the app. Finish it or throw it away. And if you forget to tap Stop, Westbound ends the drive on its own after you've been parked a while, at the point you actually stopped moving.

Build 1.0 (4)

Real Summit art, and a streak you can trust

• The nine Summits are finished die-cut seals that change as you climb each one's tiers.
• Streaks no longer reset every Monday. A week now counts only if you finish a segment in it, so your streak may read shorter than before.
• Saving a drive is faster, most noticeably on long ones.

Build 1.0 (5)

Auto-start at the resort end, and a save you can see

• Auto-start now covers the drive out of Winter Park, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone. A drive home from Winter Park didn't auto-start, so Berthoud Pass didn't count. It's still a backup, so tap Start when you leave the lot.
• Tapping Stop shows a progress bar right away, with a percentage and a rough time left. Long drives still take a while to save; now you can see it working.

Build 1.0 (6)

Drive logic overhaul: only the time you're actually driving

One test drive, with an afternoon hike in the middle, came back as an unfinished drive, then as more than 11 hours of "traffic delay" on a five-hour recording. This build changes how a drive is timed so that can't happen again.

• Only moving time counts. Stop for 3 minutes or more, for gas, lunch, a hike or even a full closure, and the clock pauses until you're rolling again. Short traffic stops still count.
• Out and back counts twice. Every time you drive a segment end to end is its own segment drive, in the direction you drove it, timed on its own.
• Forgot to tap Stop? The drive ends after 45 minutes without driving, or 2 hours if you're stuck on I-70. Walking around no longer keeps it going, and the "Drive saved" notice arrives instead of an "Unfinished drive" prompt later.
• Export this drive. Send any drive's full route from its trip screen, so we can see exactly what happened when one scores strangely.
• A tighter corridor and a better A-Basin start. You'll need to be within 150 m of the road (it was 250 m), and the A-Basin auto-start moves about 2 km up US-6, off the parking lot.
• Personal Worst waits for a few drives, and Time Served shows its level in hours.

Heads-up: the first time you open it, every drive you've already logged is re-scored under the new rules. Stickers that came from sitting still (Five-Hour Corridor, Parking Lot, Time Served, Personal Worst) may disappear, and round trips may pick up direction credit they missed. A small banner shows the progress.

Build 1.0 (7)

Copper counts now

Drives to and from Copper never counted Dillon to Copper: the segment ended partway up Vail Pass, so only drivers going on to Vail could finish it.

• Dillon to Copper now ends just north of the Copper exit, where every drive to or from Copper passes. Its normal time drops from 9 to 8 minutes.
• Auto-start now covers the drive out of Copper toward Denver. The zone sits on I-70, well clear of the lots, the village and the gas station, so a ski day or a coffee run shouldn't start a drive. Leaving Copper toward Vail, tap Start.
• Floyd Hill follows the road through Hidden Valley, not the new alignment that's still being built there.
• The big "Closest to earning" Summit opens when you tap it, and the app stays upright on iPhone.

Heads-up: your drives are re-scored once more when you first open it, so Copper drives you were missing should appear.

Build 1.0 (8)

Every sticker gets its own art

The 43 stickers in the sticker book were plain coloured circles with an icon. Now each one is a real die-cut sticker with its own picture, in the same style as the Summit seals.

• Earned stickers show in full colour. The ones you're still chasing show in grey, so you can see what's out there.
• Tap any sticker for the big version on its own page.
• A drive's sticker list shows each sticker's picture, and Summit seals there now go by their real names.

Build 1.0 (9)

Ready for the foldable iPhone, and drives that open instantly

• Westbound fits both screens of the new foldable iPhone. Closed, or open and turned sideways, the tabs move into the strip down the right side, like the phone's own apps. Open and upright, they stay along the bottom. Page headers clear the rounded corners, the sticker book gets more columns, and "Closest to earning" sits beside its progress.
• Past drives open the moment you tap them, even a five-hour one. The map shows a "Loading route" placeholder for a beat while the route draws, instead of the app freezing.
• A drive keeps the same name every time, and drives home from Keystone or up to A-Basin are no longer called a round trip.
• Direction stickers only count I-70. The roads to Keystone and A-Basin head east toward the resorts, so they were counting backwards: a Friday drive home from Keystone could earn Friday Flight. Rush Hour Trifecta now needs a Ski Saturday in ski season.

Heads-up: your stickers were recounted when you updated, so you may have lost Friday Flight, Sunday Scaries, Ski Saturday or Rush Hour Trifecta, or seen a Due West or Homeward Bound tier drop. Every drive is still there.

Build 1.0 (10)

A privacy policy, a support page, and a home on the web

• Westbound has a website, westbound.app, with a plain-English privacy policy and a support page. Both are linked from Settings in the app.
• Questions or problems go to support@westbound.app, read by a person.
• The Stats tab works out its numbers once, so it stays quick with a long drive history.