USA Travel Safety

All 63 national parks and the major destinations, each with the hazards that actually send people to a ranger station. Add a place to your trip and its checklist items appear automatically.

This is general preparation guidance, not medical advice and not an official park source. Conditions, closures, permit rules and fire restrictions change constantly, so check the official park service page and current alerts before you travel. In an emergency in the United States dial 911, and in a park tell the dispatcher which park and which trail or road you are on.
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Hazard Briefings

Fourteen hazards, each with what actually goes wrong, the early signs, and the decision that prevents it. Read the ones tagged on your destinations.

Insurance Comparison

Enter the policies you are actually quoted and compare them on the fourteen points that decide whether a claim pays. Premium is the least informative number on a policy.

No products, prices or providers are listed here and none are recommended. You enter your own quotes and this compares them against the criteria that matter. Policy terms vary by insurer, by country of residence and by year, so the policy wording is always the authority and this tool is not.

My Checklist

Built from the places on your trip. Every hazard tagged on a destination adds its own items, so a bear country and altitude trip produces a different list from a desert one.

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Add a place on the Destinations tab and your checklist builds itself.

Extending This

Everything renders from four arrays. Adding a destination, a hazard, a checklist item or an insurance criterion is appending one object.