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Frommer's Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
6th Ed. by Eric Peterson:
Self-Guided Driving Tours:
For $35 a day, gadget fiends can rent dashboard-mounted GPS units with prerecorded audio keyed to waypoints in both Yellowstone and Grand Teton from GaperGuide, 145 W Gill Ave., Jackson, WY 83001 (307/733-4626; www.gaperguide.com).
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"Wanted to let you know that we really enjoyed our GaperGuide while we were in Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago. The information was informative and presented in a very entertaining way. We thought it was hilarious that the guide made comments that followed our own comments and conversations (ex: "That ranger sure was nice"). I also liked that there was different info as you went a different direction on the same road.
All in all, a great product that I would highly recommend to anyone going to Yellowstone. "
 Dan Hipps
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"Wow! Your information was wonderfully on target. We made amazing stops we would never have saved time for without your Gaperguide assistance. Thank you. "
Gillian Moran
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"I just want to let you all know that we really appreciate the hard work you put into the gaperguide. It was a huge help to us!! Before we arrived, I sat down with a couple who stay in Montana for a month at a time and they gave me 4 hours of information. Almost everything that they recommended, ya'll did too! Between the both, we saw so much. I think you are on the right path for success. I will promote it to everybody I talk to. If you ever want to do something like that in Florida, let me know. Thanks again. "
Patty Delph
Florida
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Wicked Good Travel Tips
January 2008
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New Auto Guide for National Parks
Heading for a National Park tour this summer? Don’t go without a Gaper Guide! These portable guides have just been introduced for
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The GPS enabled tour guide sits comfortably on your vehicle’s dashboard. As the GPS
unit identifies where you are, it points out interesting facts, local history and stories of the legends of the national parks.
So instead of trying to read a guide book as you make your way through the parks, this devise will act as your personal tour guide.
The guide rents for $35 a day, or $20 for a half day and can be picked up in Jackson, Wyoming, or West Yellowstone, Montana.
If that’s not convenient, the guides can also be delivered and returned by mail. The guides are available from May 15th to October
15th and must be reserved in advance at the Gaper Guide website:
www.gaperguide.com.
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"We
really enjoyed the GaperGuide! It is great how you make
it interesting for adults and children. (Even the
teenagers in our group thought it was cool!) Everyone in
our group had some laughs and learned a lot of facts
about the area. We really liked how the information was
presented. We dreaded being part of a tour group- the
GaperGuide allowed us the freedom to tour what we wanted
when we wanted."
Susannah and Teddy Uroskie
Virginia Beach, VA
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"The
GaperGuide was fantastic. It was useful and fun. We
ended spending 14 hours driving through the park and the
GaperGuide kept us entertained the whole trip. We've
already recommended the product to several people - a
great idea."
Best of luck.
Robert Gatto
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Via
Magazine
July 2007
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What's New
in the West
Now drive Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks with Gaper Guide, a GPS unit that sits on your dash and describes 750 sites via your car’s stereo. Colter, a moose, narrates, while scientist "friends" pipe up on Old Faithful, Jenny Lake, and more. (307) 733-4626,
www.gaperguide.com.
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Smarter Travel
Posted June 26, 2007
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While
driving from
California to Boston
a few years back, I
spent a lot of time
wondering what I was
seeing out the
window. There's so
much time to digest
information on a
long road trip, and
I really wished for
a way to soak in the
cultural and natural
history of the areas
we passed on our way
east.
So you can imagine
how excited I was
when I read about
GaperGuides, a GPS
dashboard guide to
Yellowstone and
Grand Teton National
Parks. The guide
senses your location
and plays local
history, interesting
stories, and fun
facts through your
car speakers. I
imagine it's like
being on an
interesting tour
without having to
ride in an
uncomfortable bus or
sit behind loud
talkers who take
pictures of
themselves flexing
their muscles in
front of every
scenic outlook.
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Wander Lost
Outside Magazine
August 2006
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Next time you're in Grand Teton or Yellowstone national parks, ditch the maps and try a GAPERGUIDE. Available this August, the new GPS-enabled navigator—named after a local slang term for tourists—sits on the dashboard and uses your exact position on any of the two Wyoming parks' collective 378 miles of roads to select and play one of 700 prerecorded interpretive audio segments through your car's sound system. "The parks' roads are so simple, you don't really need to know where you're going; you just need to know what you're seeing," explains system developer Will Ferguson, 36. Along with partner Katie Lee, 27, Ferguson spent a year gathering the raw material for the guide and then hired a comic to write the script and actors to record it. With facts like "The Chapel of the Sacred Heart was originally named Our Lady of the Tetons, until church members figured out what tetons really means," you'll find it at least as entertaining as waiting for Old Faithful to spew. The two plan to expand into other parks, starting with Glacier and Yosemite next year. $35 per day;
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