The problem with camping
Planning a camping trip is weirdly tedious. Which campground? What’s the weather looking like in two weeks? Should I bring rain gear, expect a fire ban, plan for bear country? Every answer lives on a different website, and none of them talk to each other.
What it does
An interactive map of the top hundred Canadian national and provincial parks. Filter by region, check campground info, get a gear list, see bear-country flags. Forecasts, fire-risk likelihood, cooking suggestions based on conditions. The UI keeps things simple: one map, clear filters, everything you’d actually want to know before heading out.
How it thinks
For each campground, weather is built from Open-Meteo’s forecast plus five years of its archive around the same calendar window. That gives you the live outlook alongside the park’s actual track record for those same dates. Fire risk and packing suggestions flow from that. Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap, geolocation from GeoJS. Free APIs end to end, because the goal was to hand it to friends without a paywall.
Solo build for DeveloperWeek 2026. Submitted, didn’t place. The site has kept ticking along since, with a few thousand human visitors and counting.