The agency partner wants visitor numbers. So do your own grants.
Nature centers, wildlife refuges and the friends groups that staff their desks already keep a guest book. Photograph the pages and have the numbers ready for both.
For nature centers, wildlife refuges, and the friends groups and cooperating associations that run their desks.
30 days, 150 pages, no card.
Three steps. No app to install.
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Photograph the guest bookVolunteers at the desk can add pages from their own phone with an upload link, no account needed.
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Put a QR sign at the trailhead or overlookPrint it at home. Visitors scan it with the phone camera, with no app, and the hometown question is optional.
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Check every pageEach name, hometown and date sits next to the photo of the page. Your staff check every page before it counts.
Numbers you can hand to anyone who asks.
Visitors by month
For your report to the agency partner, with the counting method stated.
Where visitors came from
Hometowns by state and country, and how far visitors traveled.
A map for members and funders
Counts by area, never names, to link from your website or newsletter.
A monthly report
A monthly report by email, also ready to download as a PDF.
Guest-book sign-ins and QR check-ins are reported as what they are, never as total visitation.
A real map from real guest books.
Here's a live map from a visitor center in Omaha, Nebraska. It shows where its recorded visitors came from, by state and country, with counts only and never names. Your account gets a map like it, built the same way from your own pages and check-ins.
Start with one page from the desk guest book.
Create your account, add your site and photograph a page. No app to install, no setup call.
30 days, 150 pages, no card. After the trial, Standard is $490 a year or $49 a month. Start by January 31, 2027 and it is $390 a year for as long as you stay subscribed. See pricing