The Big Sur coast at sunset
Turns

Stories that play as you drive.

Pick a scenic route, press play and start driving. As you reach each overlook, landmark and bend in the road, Turns plays its story, automatically.

Download on the App Store

How it works

You're already taking the drive. Turns turns it into a guided tour.

1

Download before you go

Browse the tours and download one. Everything works offline, so a dead zone never stops the story.

2

Start driving

GPS plays each stop's narration as you arrive. No tapping, no reading.

3

Keep your eyes on the road

Audio plays through CarPlay, the lock screen and your steering-wheel controls.

Why drivers love Turns

  • Hands-free by design — stories trigger themselves, so you never look away from the road.
  • Made for the car — full CarPlay support, plus lock-screen and steering-wheel controls.
  • Truly offline — download once and drive anywhere, no signal required.
  • Real storytelling — history, legend and local color, not a list of facts.
  • On your terms — replay any stop, and drive the route in either direction.
The Turns tour catalog on an iPhone A tour's stops, narrated one by one

11 hand-crafted tours

Across the West and the Northeast, with more on the way. Buy a single tour, or save with a regional bundle.

California

Pfeiffer Beach, a stop on Big Sur Coast Highway

Big Sur Coast Highway

8 stops · 6 hr 30 min · 90 mi

Clinging to the cliffs where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific Ocean.

$17.99
Tunnel View, a stop on Yosemite Valley & Tioga Pass

Yosemite Valley & Tioga Pass

8 stops · 5 hr 30 min · 69 mi

Ascend from the sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley across California's highest alpine highway.

$17.99
Sand Harbor, a stop on Lake Tahoe Shoreline

Lake Tahoe Shoreline

8 stops · 4 hr 30 min · 58 mi

Trace the Sierra's bluest shoreline, from the turquoise sweep of Emerald Bay to the granite coves of Tahoe's Nevada shore.

$14.99

Arizona

Desert View Watchtower, a stop on Grand Canyon South Rim

Grand Canyon South Rim

9 stops · 4 hr · 25 mi

Cruise the edge of the world's most famous canyon.

$16.99
Cathedral Rock, a stop on Sedona Red Rock Byway

Sedona Red Rock Byway

7 stops · 3 hr · 11 mi

Wind through towering crimson mesas and vortex country.

$14.99
Angel Delgadillo's Gift Shop, a stop on Historic Route 66

Historic Route 66

6 stops · 4 hr 30 min · 87 mi

Cruise the longest unbroken ribbon of the Mother Road, from Seligman to Kingman, where vintage neon still flickers and the towns stubbornly refused to be bypassed.

$12.99

Utah

The Watchman, a stop on Zion & Mt. Carmel

Zion & Mt. Carmel

6 stops · 1 hr · 11 mi

Zigzag up Zion's crimson cliffs, thread a mile-long tunnel bored clean through the rock, and spill out among petrified sand dunes on the park's quiet east side.

$14.99
Calf Creek Recreation Area, a stop on Utah Scenic Byway 12

Utah Scenic Byway 12

5 stops · 2 hr · 31 mi

Slickrock domes, the red-rock steps of the Grand Staircase, and a ridge-top mile with nothing but sky on either side.

$16.99
Natural Bridge, a stop on Bryce Amphitheater

Bryce Amphitheater

8 stops · 3 hr 30 min · 22 mi

Explore the Bryce Amphitheater rim past Thor's Hammer and the Wall of Windows, then the Pink Cliffs out to 9,115-foot Rainbow Point, southern Utah's otherworldly realm of hoodoos.

$12.99

New York

Mt. Van Hoevenberg, a stop on Adirondack High Peaks

Adirondack High Peaks

10 stops · 3 hr 30 min · 37 mi

One two-lane byway through billion-year-old peaks, Lake Placid's Olympic ice, and a forest New York swore to keep wild forever.

$14.99
Storm King Highway Cliffside Overlook, a stop on Hudson Valley Scenic Drive

Hudson Valley Scenic Drive

6 stops · 5 hr · 50 mi

Trade Manhattan's concrete for Gilded Age estates, the cliffside river curves of Storm King, and legendary Hudson River School vistas.

$14.99

Save with a bundle

Every bundle costs less than its tours bought separately.

Coast & Sierra

3 tours: Big Sur Coast Highway, Yosemite Valley & Tioga Pass, Lake Tahoe Shoreline

$29.99 $50.97 separately Save 41%

Southern Utah Red Rocks

3 tours: Zion & Mt. Carmel, Utah Scenic Byway 12, Bryce Amphitheater

$29.99 $44.97 separately Save 33%

Arizona: Red Rocks & Canyons

2 tours: Grand Canyon South Rim, Sedona Red Rock Byway

$24.99 $31.98 separately Save 22%

Hudson Valley & Adirondacks

2 tours: Hudson Valley Scenic Drive, Adirondack High Peaks

$24.99 $29.98 separately Save 17%

Built for the car

Turns runs on your dashboard with full CarPlay support: the story that's playing, the stops ahead, and one tap to hand directions to Apple Maps or Google Maps.

Turns is an audio companion, not a navigation app. It keeps your attention where it belongs: on the road, and the view out the windshield.

Turns playing a Big Sur story on a CarPlay dashboard

Your next drive has a story.

Turns is on the App Store now. Get a note when new tours land, or ask us anything.

Photos: Mt. Van Hoevenberg: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0 · Angel Delgadillo's Gift Shop: GothEric from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Natural Bridge: Thomas from Philadelphia Area, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Other photos licensed from Adobe Stock and iStock, or public domain.