About What's Up Ahead
Cameras, weather and waits along your way.
What it is
You enter a place, or a start and a finish, and it shows the public cameras, the weather and the waits along the way: snow on a mountain pass, the ferry line, the border, a commute home. Cameras appear in the order you'll pass them, with the forecast for when you'll get there.
Where the information comes from
- Routes and place search: map data from OpenStreetMap contributors, through the open-source OSRM routing service and Nominatim and Photon (by Komoot), and Washington town and ZIP locations from the US Census Bureau. The app uses a route only as a line on the map to find the cameras along it; it doesn't give turn-by-turn directions.
- Cameras and road reports: the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), WSDOT Aviation and the National Park Service.
- Weather, rivers, tides and flights: the National Weather Service, NOAA, USGS and the FAA.
- Some cameras, such as ski areas and viewpoints, come through Windy.com, which is credited wherever they appear.
We only show cameras their owners publish for public use. The full list, and the rule for adding more, is on the sources page.
Your privacy
There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Your recent places and saved choices stay on your own phone. If you press "Use my location" or "Follow my trip", your location is used to find places and cameras near you and is not stored. Like any website, the host's server logs may briefly record ordinary request details.
Please note
This is an independent project and is not affiliated with WSDOT or any agency. Pictures can be late, frozen or missing, and road conditions change quickly. Always check the official source (for passes, WSDOT's pass page) before you travel, and don't use your phone while driving.
Who made it
One person, with voice dictation and Claude Code. It's open source (MIT license) and other people are welcome to help: the code and a list of starter tasks are on GitHub. Found a dead camera or a mistake? Tell us.