Feb 16, 2026 | Announcements, City & Downtown, Eventzee Exposure, Hunt Tips, Sales & Marketing, Tourism, Uncategorized
Eventzee and TownTrek invite downtowns across the nation to transform their streets into celebration grounds for America’s 250th birthday! Using our mobile app, communities can craft custom interactive events that celebrate local heritage, highlight small businesses, and spark exploration.
Whether you’re unveiling historical landmarks, spotlighting hometown heroes, or guiding visitors (and locals!) to hidden gems, America250 By TownTrek makes every downtown a destination.
The American Dream Team
In 2026, the United States will mark a once-in-a-generation milestone: America’s 250th anniversary. This is more than a birthday—it’s a moment for reflection, pride, and storytelling. From big cities to small towns, every community has a role to play in honoring our shared history and celebrating the people, places, and stories that define America.
At Eventzee, we believe the most powerful stories aren’t only found in history books—they live on Main Streets, in hometown heroes, veteran memorials, local museums, community traditions, and the everyday places that shape community identity. That’s why we’re proud to officially launch America250 experiences through our TownTrek platform, giving communities flexible, modern tools to bring this historic celebration to life.
Unlimited Freedom
Powered by Eventzee, TownTrek is a highly customizable engagement platform built to support everything from weekend festivals to multi-day, multi-location campaigns. Communities can choose from 10 different challenge types with no limits on how they expand their experience, including:
- GPS & Explore Challenges – Visit historic sites and check-in to unlock their stories.
- Quiz & Text Challenges – Test players’ knowledge as they explore your city.
- Photo & Video Challenges – Capture favorite downtown landmarks and curate crowdsourced social content.
- QR Code or Poll Survey Challenges – Encourage engagement with small businesses, and collect feedback directly from participants.
- Information & Route Challenges – Provide educational content, and direct players along specific stops.
Organizers can tailor event duration, player limits, and pricing to fit their community’s size and goals—whether that’s a one-day patriotic celebration or a multi-month America250 heritage trail.
Turning Main Streets into Celebration Grounds
Designed specifically for Main Street and downtown marketing organizations, TownTrek creates walkable, self-guided experiences that encourage exploration, discovery, and community pride.
Communities can create custom routes highlighting:
- Historic landmarks and public buildings
- Museums and cultural institutions
- Veteran memorials and heritage sites
- Downtown gathering spaces and local businesses
With interactive maps built directly into the app, every challenge can be pinned to a real-world location—making it easy to guide residents and visitors to hidden gems and meaningful places. Whether you open up the map for free-form exploration or design specific heritage routes, TownTrek makes every downtown a destination.
Supporting Local Businesses Along the Way
America250 is also an opportunity to drive real economic impact. With built-in check-ins and location-based challenges, participants can earn points by visiting participating businesses—boosting foot traffic and awareness along the route.
Communities can:
- Encourage purchases with redeemable prizes or discounts
- Offer sponsorship opportunities with business logos and branding within the app
- Create intentional routes that guide visitors to local shops, restaurants, and gathering spaces
It’s a win-win: businesses gain visibility, and participants discover new local favorites while celebrating American heritage.
Keeping the Celebration Going
America250 doesn’t have to be a one-day event. With scheduling tools and a challenge library full of ready-made ideas, organizers can roll out new challenges over time—keeping residents and visitors engaged across multiple days or weeks. Real-time leaderboards, social feeds, and progress-tracking badges add friendly competition and community interaction to the experience, encouraging participants to return again and again.
America250 belongs to every town, city, and county. Whether you’re preserving local history in a rural community or activating foot traffic in a busy downtown district, these tools scale to meet you where you are. America’s story is the sum of local stories—and this milestone is your moment to tell yours.
Join the America250 Movement
Now is the time to start planning how your community will celebrate America’s 250th birthday. With Eventzee and TownTrek, you don’t need a massive budget or technical team—just a story to tell and a community ready to explore it.
Ready to launch your America250 experience?
Connect with our team to see how Eventzee and TownTrek can bring your community’s story to life.
Fill out the Contact Form on TownTrek’s website for fastest service or reach out to info@towntrekapp.com to schedule a walkthrough.
You can also check out our free America250 Demo by downloading the TownTrek app or visiting https://towntrek.web.app/#join=USA250 and using the join code USA250.
Jan 9, 2026 | Announcements, City & Downtown, Tourism
If you want to turn a city into an adventure playground, whether for friends, family, a group of explorers, or a community event, a good scavenger hunt app can make all the difference. Some apps take you on pre-built tours of landmarks. Others let you customize every stop. Choosing the right one depends on how much control you want and how much effort you’re willing to invest. Below are some popular options, along with thoughts on when Eventzee shines brightest.
What You Should Look For in a City Hunt App
Before diving into names, here is what a solid city-wide scavenger hunt app should offer:
- Precise GPS tracking so users actually visit the right spots
- A variety of challenge types: photo or video tasks, trivia or quiz challenges, clue-based checkpoints, QR or location triggers
- A map-based interface that guides teams from spot to spot
- The ability to support many participants or teams without lag or confusion
- Easy onboarding for participants: low friction install/join, minimal tech setup
- Option for fully custom routes or the ability to use pre-defined hunts
- Option for people to collaborate and play in teams
With those criteria, you can judge which app fits your group or event.
Some Popular Scavenger Hunt Apps for City-Wide Adventures
TownTrek
Before anyone calls it out in the comments, here’s the transparent truth: TownTrek is built and run by the same team behind Eventzee. So yes, we’re a little biased. But we’re also uniquely qualified to talk about the differences!
TownTrek is built specifically for city-wide exploration experiences. Instead of focusing on short, competitive scavenger hunts, it emphasizes discovery, navigation, and longer-form adventures that span neighborhoods or entire downtown areas.
TownTrek uses GPS-based locations, map-driven exploration, and clue-style objectives to guide participants through real places. It works well for self-guided experiences where players can explore at their own pace, making it a strong option for tourism initiatives, downtown associations, and community-wide programs.
If your goal is to encourage people to explore a city broadly — beyond just a few checkpoints — TownTrek offers a more exploratory, less time-pressured style of play.
GooseChase
GooseChase offers scavenger hunts, “mission-based” experiences, and even virtual escape-room style games. It lets creators assemble tasks like photo/video submissions, text entries, GPS check-ins and simple missions. Users often pick it for its easy setup and straightforward mission flow.
It works well for casual outings, school groups, festivals, or events where you just want something fun and relatively simple. It does support live leaderboards and real-time mission tracking.
Let’s Roam
Let’s Roam is more tourism- or traveler-oriented. It offers pre-made city hunts in many cities worldwide, mixing sightseeing with scavenger-hunt style tasks. For someone visiting a city and wanting a guided treasure-hunt experience, without building the hunt themselves, this can be a good match.
It works nicely for couples, friends, or families traveling together who want a structured tour with puzzles, photo tasks, and local exploration. That said, because the tours are pre-made and public, there is less flexibility if you want a completely customized experience.
Scavify
Scavify is another app that supports scavenger hunts and interactive tours across cities. It positions itself as suitable for events, team activities, tours, and even city-wide hunts.
For groups that want a basic mix of GPS checkpoints, standard missions, and maybe a lighter setup, Scavify can do the job.
Niche or Puzzle-Based Tools (like ClueKeeper)
For people who want a more puzzle-hunt or story-driven experience, less about just “reach these spots and check in,” more about solving riddles, unlocking clues, and experiencing a narrative, apps like ClueKeeper can be interesting. ClueKeeper combines GPS-aware triggers, puzzles, and layered storylines for an immersive hunt feel.
These tend to appeal to smaller groups or puzzle-hunting fans rather than large public events. They work great if your priority is mood, challenge, and creativity rather than speed or scale.
Why Eventzee (and TownTrek) Still Often Comes Out On Top for City-Wide Hunts
All of the apps above serve different purposes depending on what you want from your experience. That’s exactly why Eventzee and TownTrek exist as complementary tools rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
- Eventzee stands out when you want full creative control over your scavenger hunt. You can place GPS checkpoints anywhere, build as many challenges as you want, and choose from photo, video, quiz, QR, or clue-style tasks. You are never locked into a predefined format or route.
- Eventzee works equally well for small groups or large city-wide events with hundreds or thousands of participants. It scales smoothly, while still giving organizers live visibility through dashboards, maps, and leaderboards.
- TownTrek, on the other hand, shines when the goal is broad exploration rather than fast-paced competition. It’s ideal for self-guided city adventures, tourism-driven experiences, and programs designed to run over longer timeframes. Together, the two platforms cover a wide range of city-based engagement needs.
Both tools are built by the same team, which means they share a focus on reliability, thoughtful design, and getting people out into the real world — just with different strengths depending on the experience you want to create.
Why Choose Eventzee
City-wide scavenger hunt apps come in many flavors. Some prioritize ease and simplicity. Others focus on tourism or passive exploration. If your goal is a flexible, scalable, fully customizable scavenger hunt — whether for locals, tourists, a downtown event, a group of friends, or a large public gathering — Eventzee stands out.
And if your goal is a city-wide exploration experience that invites people to discover a place at their own pace, TownTrek is a natural companion.
Between Eventzee and TownTrek, you can build anything from a quick afternoon hunt to an ongoing city adventure — all with tools designed specifically for real-world play. Be sure to visit https://www.towntrekapp.com/ to learn more!
Jul 21, 2025 | City & Downtown, Hunt Tips, Tourism
Use Eventzee to make your event an adventure! Whether players are discovering historic landmarks, searching for the best local shops, or navigating a festival, having a clear and engaging way to guide them makes all the difference. That’s why Eventzee’s interactive map feature is a game-changer for downtown experiences. The map provides a seamless, user-friendly navigation tool that ensures participants can explore with ease while engaging in interactive challenges along the way.
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Utilize Eventzee’s different map based challenge types!
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Explore Challenges encourage self discovery of every inch of your town!
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Route challenges can send participants to specific locations and track activity!
Eventzee’s map feature offers complete flexibility in designing experiences. Organizers can create custom routes, set challenges in specific areas, and adjust experiences based on visitor flow or special events. This not only enhances engagement but also helps direct foot traffic to under-visited areas and local businesses, supporting economic growth and a more balanced downtown experience.
Another major benefit is the real-time engagement and accessibility the map provides. Instead of handing out paper maps or lengthy instructions, participants can simply use their mobile device to navigate and interact with their surroundings. The visual layout makes it easy for visitors of all ages to stay engaged and immerse themselves in the experience, whether they’re lifelong residents rediscovering their city or first-time tourists exploring downtown for the day.
The map feature is particularly powerful in self-guided tours and scavenger hunts especially in downtown areas using our new TownTrek app! This allows users to see challenge locations in real-time and plan their route efficiently. Whether they’re checking in at GPS-based waypoints, scanning QR codes at local businesses, or snapping photos of public art, participants can follow a customized path that highlights key attractions and hidden gems. This makes downtown exploration more intuitive and ensures no must-see location goes unnoticed.
With Eventzee and TownTrek’s map feature, downtown exploration becomes an interactive adventure, transforming ordinary walks into engaging journeys filled with discovery and excitement. Whether you’re planning a historical walking tour, a local shopping challenge, or a seasonal scavenger hunt, TownTrek ensures visitors stay on track while having fun. Contact us today to bring this innovative experience to your downtown community!
Nov 11, 2024 | City & Downtown, Tourism
Mt. Pleasant, IA, found a unique way to spread holiday cheer and boost local businesses with their event, “Gnome Place Like Mt. Pleasant for the Holidays.” Using the Eventzee scavenger hunt app, the town invited residents and visitors to explore their downtown through an interactive photo scavenger hunt. Each photo challenge encouraged participants to stop by local businesses, snap photos, and enjoy the holiday spirit.
For this adventure, participants used the Eventzee scavenger hunt app to track down each festive destination, capturing holiday moments and completing fun photo challenges along the way. The result was an engaging activity that welcomed all ages to participate, all from the comfort of their own device. Mt. Pleasant’s event strengthened community bonds while supporting local business owners, making it a holiday highlight for many.
How Eventzee Added a Spark of Holiday Magic
Eventzee’s scavenger hunt app allowed Mt. Pleasant to create a seamless experience for participants and organizers alike. With easy-to-follow photo prompts and instant updates, the app guided users as they moved through each challenge. This approach made the event a breeze to manage and fun for everyone who joined in. Participants could follow along and see their progress, check out the leaderboard, and earn badges – making the holiday event feel like a true journey through downtown Mt. Pleasant’s unique offerings!
Ideas for Downtown Associations
Any downtown association can replicate this model for a memorable holiday season! Here are some tips for organizing your own version:
- Choose a Festive Theme: Pick a theme that reflects your town’s unique vibe. Mt. Pleasant’s gnomes were a hit, but any holiday icon could work!
- Feature Local Shops: Each challenge can highlight a specific business, drawing foot traffic and boosting holiday sales.
- Encourage Social Sharing: Encourage participants to post photos on social media to extend the reach of your event and promote local businesses, or use the photos in your own social media!
- Stretch it Out: A month-long event lets everyone enjoy the experience at their own pace and gives businesses extended engagement with the public. Businesses can offer dynamic sales and offerings throughout the event to keep the foot traffic high all month.
Mt. Pleasant’s holiday event is a prime example of how Eventzee’s platform can transform a downtown into a holiday hotspot. The “Gnome Place Like Mt. Pleasant” event drew people in, celebrated the town’s small businesses, and created a memorable holiday experience for everyone involved.
Jun 25, 2024 | Sales & Marketing, Tourism
Florida Jeep Jam is an annual event hosted for Jeep enthusiasts and their families in the beautiful Panama City Beach (PCB). This year event organizers introduced an exciting digital twist with the Eventzee scavenger hunt app, which offered attendees a unique way to engage with the event and the event’s vendors.
Explore PCB – The Game 2024
The game, aptly named “Explore PCB – The Game 2024,” was designed to enhance the Jeep Jam experience by encouraging event attendees to visit local vendors and complete fun challenges, which then awarded them points and the potential to win great prizes. The Eventzee scavenger hunt app served as an easily-accessible tool for players to use on this interactive adventure, making it quick for all attendees to download the app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, navigate to the event and participate!
How It Worked – Eventzee Scavenger Hunt App
After event attendees purchased admission, they downloaded the Eventzee scavenger hunt app and joined the “Explore PCB – The Game 2024” event. Once inside, players were presented with a list of challenges that required them to explore different parts of Panama City Beach, including challenges that ranged from visiting specific vendors to completing photo and video tasks, quiz questions, local check-ins and more.
Engaging with Local Vendors
One of the key features of the Explore PCB Jeep Jam event was its emphasis on local vendors. By incorporating these businesses into the challenges, the event not only provided fun for the participants but also supported the local community. Players were encouraged to visit these vendors, which included PCB restaurants and shops, retail companies like O’Reilly Auto Parts, amusement parks like Swampy Jack’s Wongo Adventure, and more. Players could interact with these businesses in a variety of ways, including photo challenges, quiz challenges, and QR code challenges. In addition, players took pictures of receipts from local businesses and were awarded prizes for shopping and eating at local places!
Earning Prizes
As players completed challenges, they earned points and badges all within the Eventzee scavenger hunt app. Big prizes were offered – like the chance to win $1,000 in a cash drawing! All players who earned at least 200 points were entered to win the cash prize, and this approach kept participants engaged and motivated throughout the event.
Benefits for All
The use of the Eventzee scavenger hunt app for the 2024 Florida Jeep Jam offered numerous benefits:
- For Participants: A unique and interactive way to experience the event, discover new places in PCB, and win exciting prizes.
- For Vendors: Increased foot traffic and exposure to a new audience, boosting sales and customer engagement, and social media activity, too!
- For Organizers: Enhanced event engagement through a modern and fun interactive experience. Some challenges even prompted players to tag Florida Jeep Jam on social media, which is a fun way to show off the event and gather content for upcoming promotions!
If you’re interested in learning more about hosting an Eventzee scavenger hunt, email us at sales@eventzeeapp.com or call us at 714-210-3850 x15.
Mar 7, 2024 | City & Downtown, Tourism
As the spring season approaches, it’s the perfect time for event organizers to leverage the power of Eventzee. Elevate your virtual events with our dynamic app, designed to seamlessly facilitate downtown engagements, showcase small businesses, curate immersive art walks, and more. Explore the myriad possibilities of Eventzee as the essential tool to captivate your audience and deliver unparalleled virtual experiences from the comfort of their own device.
Engage Visitors in Downtown Tourism:
Eventzee is your key to orchestrating captivating virtual downtown events. Our platform offers an intuitive interface, empowering event organizers to create and promote lively street festivals, cultural celebrations, and whatever else your downtown has to offer its visitors! With easy navigation, completely customizable features, and exciting gameplay options, Eventzee ensures that your downtown event is a resounding success!
Using Eventzee for your upcoming event is also the perfect way to empower local businesses and effortlessly enhance community connections. Our app allows organizers to seamlessly curate location-based challenges and digital scavenger hunts that spotlight small businesses.
Many cities use Eventzee for their downtown tourism engagement projects. Eventzee client Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID) of Los Angeles, California, used the Eventzee scavenger hunt app to encourage residents and visitors to explore local businesses and landmarks of Downtown LA. Their virtual event brought fun activities to the area’s small business district. Participants stopped by landmarks and businesses, including iconic sites such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Broad and Grand Central Market, and small businesses in the Jewelry District, The Bloc, and FIG@7th.
Craft Immersive Virtual Art Walks:
Ignite the creative spirit of spring with Eventzee’s gamified approach to virtual art walks. Transform digital spaces into interactive galleries, engaging participants with challenges that bring your artistic vision to life. Our app ensures that your virtual art walk captivates audiences, offering a unique and memorable experience that transcends traditional boundaries.
Recently, Concord Adex, Canada’s largest privately funded public art program featuring Indigenous, Canadian, and emerging artists from around the world, utilized Eventzee for their Artwalk. The Artwalk contained more than 20 commissions from local artists, which could be found through the Eventzee app’s map feature. With scannable QR codes at each location, participants checked in and learned more about each installation, the artist, and other associated works from each creator. Players who checked in to every piece of art were entered to win various prizes that were updated monthly.
Customizable Digital Scavenger Hunts:
Eventzee’s customizable scavenger hunts are the secret to delivering unparalleled virtual spring tourism experiences. Tailor challenges to showcase specific online neighborhoods, parks, and landmarks, captivating participants with riddles and photo challenges. Elevate your virtual event with Eventzee, turning ordinary moments into extraordinary adventures that resonate with your audience.
Whether orchestrating downtown engagements, showcasing small businesses, curating virtual art walks, or crafting digital scavenger hunts, Eventzee empowers you to deliver seamless, engaging, and unforgettable experiences. Embrace the future of event planning with Eventzee and captivate your audience in the virtual world in the palm of their hands.
