Your weather app shows the nearest town. Your campsite is miles away — beside a creek, up a canyon, or 4,000 feet higher. Ridgecast forecasts the exact campground, trailhead or peak — and warns you when your trip's forecast changes.
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Hikers and campers tell us the same things again and again. We're building Ridgecast to fix them.
Most apps forecast the nearest town, which can be thousands of feet lower and 15°F warmer than your camp.
You check on Monday, it's sunny. By Friday it's storms — and nobody told you.
The forecast you need most is the one you can't load at the trailhead.
Camping by a river in the Hill Country? Flash flood watches for your spot go straight to the top, with an alert for your saved trip. Plus heat danger, storm timing, burn bans and big desert temperature swings out west in Big Bend.
Forecasts for your real elevation, not the town in the valley. In our test across 118 Colorado mountain stations, nearest-town forecasts missed the overnight low by 10°F or more on over a third of nights.
Three steps, built around your trip — not just today.
Campgrounds, trailheads, peaks, lakes — or drop a pin anywhere. We use the spot's real elevation.
Ranges and confidence levels instead of fake precision, plus hour-by-hour storm timing and official alerts.
Get a heads-up only when something important changes — and the forecast is saved offline before you go.
Every saved trip gets a simple outlook: what to expect, what to pack, and when to move. Official National Weather Service alerts are always included, always free.
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We're aiming to launch in Texas and Colorado in spring 2027, with a beta for waitlist members a few weeks earlier. More states come next.
Search, short-range forecasts and all official weather alerts will be free. A Premium plan will add the full 10-day forecast, unlimited saved trips, change alerts and offline trip packs. Beta testers get Premium free for a year.
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We combine official National Weather Service data with leading forecast models, adjusted for the exact spot and its elevation. We show ranges and confidence so you know how much to trust each day.
We use it only to show you forecasts. We will never sell your location data.