TRAILOFF is an immersive audio mobile phone app that embeds stories by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers on nature trails and urban parks by using GPS-triggering to sync stories to users as they walk. TRAILOFF’s mission is grounded in both social justice and environmental activism: creatively re-imagining how users interact with recreational trails and urban parks, expanding the characters one imagines traversing them, and, by extension, expanding the diversity of audiences that feel invited to seek them out. To experience a TRAILOFF story, audiences simply download the free app (for iPhone or Android), select a story, and head to its starting point. Once there, they hit play and follow the delineated path on the interactive map. The story unfolds as they walk, using GPS-triggering to sync audio narrative, musical underscore, and ambient soundscape to what the listener is seeing in their real-life surroundings

TrailOff’s newest story, “There’s A Lot I Don’t Know,” released in September 2024 blends memory and memorial, and explores reverberations of gay history across the landscape of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Inspired by research conducted for a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods essay that explored personal, community, and imagined histories of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the queer community this story invokes both the visible and invisible landmarks that mark those who are gone.