Put the guide on your home screen
Three taps on any phone
Three taps put this guide on your home screen. After that the guide opens from its own icon like any other app, fills the whole screen with no browser bars in the way, and keeps showing you the events you already loaded when the signal on the beach gives out.
These are the taps for every phone. Find yours below.
Read this one firstIf you tapped a link inside Facebook or Instagram
Facebook and Instagram open links in a small browser of their own, and that browser cannot put anything on a home screen. You have to move to the phone's real browser first.
- 1Find the three dots in the corner of this window. Facebook puts them at the top on some phones and at the bottom on others, so check both corners.
- 2Tap Open in Safari on an iPhone, or Open in Chrome on an Android phone.
- 3Come back to this page in that window and follow the three taps for your phone below.
iPhone and iPadThree taps in Safari
- 1Tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen. The Share button is a square with an arrow coming out of the top of it.
- 2Scroll that list down and tap Add to Home Screen.
- 3Tap Add at the top right. The icon lands on your home screen.
Safari, Chrome and Firefox on an iPhone can all do this on iOS 16.4 and newer. On an older iPhone, only Safari can, so open the page there first.
AndroidThree taps in Chrome
- 1Tap the three dots at the top right of Chrome.
- 2Tap Add to Home screen. Some versions of Chrome say Install app in that spot instead. Either row is the right one.
- 3Tap Install, or Add if that is the word your phone uses. The icon lands on your home screen.
Samsung Internet does the same thing from its own menu, where the row reads Add page to and then Home screen.
On a computerOne click in the address bar
Chrome and Edge show a small install icon at the right end of the address bar on this site. Clicking that icon puts the guide in your applications and opens it in its own window. Safari on a Mac does the same thing from File, then Add to Dock.
If you would rather not install anything, the whole guide works in a normal tab. Nothing on this site is held back for people who install it.
What you getWhy the home screen is worth the three taps
- The guide opens from an icon. No typing an address, no hunting through tabs.
- It fills the screen. The browser's bars go away, so a card takes the whole phone.
- It still works with no signal. Once a page has loaded, that page keeps opening on the beach, at the campground and anywhere else the bars run out.
- There is no account and no sign-up. Nothing asks you for an email address, before or after.
Show supportHelp keep the guide checked
One family reads every venue’s own page before a listing ships, and no reader is ever charged for any of it. If this guide has earned a place in your weekend, the Support page lists the ways to help, and most of them cost nothing.