UpCanyon

Know before you go.

Live cameras, real weather stations, radar nowcasts, snowpack, and rivers — for the drive up the canyon, the trailhead, and the places forecasts usually lie about.

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The tour
Live camera view of the Diamond face of Longs Peak under storm light, seen full-screen in UpCanyon
Live in the app right now: the Diamond, Longs Peak.
01 · Home

Your home screen is a live camera.

Open the app and you’re looking at the sky — a real camera near you, not a stock photo. It picks one automatically; swap it for any camera you like from the map. No camera nearby? You get a clean weather animation instead.

The nowcast, in plain English: UpCanyon watches the actual radar cells moving toward you, works out their speed and track, and tells you when the rain reaches your spot — “storm arriving in ~25 min,” not “40% chance today.”

UpCanyon home screen: a live Fort Collins camera behind the current temperature, with a nowcast card reading storm arriving in about 25 minutes
Air quality reading of 90, Moderate, from a real EPA sensor with an active alert explained
UV index panel showing the hourly UV curve and the peak sun window
Weather history comparing this same date across seven years

Air quality from real sensors, UV with its peak window, and years of history behind every reading — one tap from home.

02 · Radar

Watch the storm, not the forecast.

Open the map and put the radar in motion — scrub it backward to see where the storm has been, forward to see where it is headed.

Then use the filter bar to layer live cameras on top of the radar and look inside the storm — pick a camera under the cell and see what is actually falling, basically in real time.

Live radar sweeping the Colorado Front Range with a time scrubber to play the storm forward
Map of the western United States showing thousands of clustered camera locations
Mountain weather stations reporting live temperatures across the Poudre Canyon high country
USGS river gauges reporting live streamflow along the Poudre River

One map, every layer: 17,000+ cameras · live weather stations · river gauges reporting real flow.

03 · Local

Hyperlocal, where official stations don’t reach.

The Local layer reads from a network of Tempest home weather stations — real backyard instruments reporting every minute, in the canyons and small towns where no official station exists.

Access is limited to Northern Colorado for now — expansion is in the works. Shoutout to Tempest for making this possible.

Hyperlocal Tempest weather stations reporting from the Red Feather Lakes area where no official station exists
04 · Lists

Save the places you care about.

Build lists — your climbing spots, the drive to work, the town where your parents live — and check on all of them in one glance: live cams, current conditions, alerts if something changes.

A pinned list called Poudre Climbing Beta with live cameras and a Cast button
The same list summary view with a live Cameron Pass camera tile
05 · Cast View

Then put it on the TV.

Any list can broadcast to Cast View — pick the list on your phone and your TV becomes a live dashboard of those spots, refreshing on its own while you make coffee.

Pairs in seconds: open cast.upcanyon.app on any TV browser, type the code from your phone, done. No cables, no casting hardware required.

Choosing a pinned list to broadcast to a TV with Cast View, showing a live broadcasting status
Cast View dashboard on a TV — live camera, current conditions, and the hourly forecast for Fort Collins
06 · Locker

Make it yours.

Themes, a customizable home, your own hero cam — the app bends to how you use it. Pro unlocks unlimited pins, alerts, multi-year history, and Cast View, with a pay-once Lifetime option.

The Locker screen with UpCanyon Pro and unlockable app themes like Founders Edition and Twilight
07 · Anywhere

And it works anywhere in the country.

Search any US town and get the same treatment. Here is Grand Island, Nebraska: current conditions read from a real station, the nearest live camera 18 miles up the road, and the local river gauge with its history.

1Search
Searching for a location in UpCanyon
2Conditions
Current conditions for Grand Island, Nebraska
3Nearest cam
The nearest live camera to Grand Island, 18 miles away in Aurora, Nebraska
4River gauge
The Wood River gauge near Grand Island with a 12-hour flow chart and historical comparison

Search → conditions → nearest cam → the river gauge. Every number sourced, everywhere in the US.

Fort Collins, Colorado

Built by one person who lives here.

UpCanyon is built in Fort Collins, Colorado, by someone who drives the Poudre, checks the snow, and got tired of forecasts that stop being true at the mouth of the canyon.

The app is free to use — live stations, cams, radar, and alerts included. Pro adds unlimited pins and alerts, multi-year history, and Cast View, with a pay-once Lifetime option and a free trial that never auto-converts into a charge. When the trial ends, it just ends.

UpCanyon reads from the sources that report the ground truth — NOAA and the National Weather Service, USGS river gauges, USDA SNOTEL snowpack, EPA AirNow, state DOT cameras, NIFC wildfire data — and shows you where every number came from. Your location is used to fetch your weather, and for nothing else.

Questions, ideas, a cam we’re missing?

hello@upcanyon.app — it goes straight to the person who builds the app.