Virtual tours for parks, gardens and campsites
Let visitors stand on the pitch, the viewpoint or the lawn before they come. A 360° tour on a map shows the space, the views and how far it is from the car.
In short
An outdoor virtual tour links 360° photos of the places along a visit: the entrance, the pitches or the borders, the viewpoints and the facilities. Panoramr places each photo on a map, from its own GPS position or a click, so visitors see where everything is. Making it is free; hosting it without Panoramr’s branding costs from £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos.
- Photos needed
- 10 to 40, along the visitor’s route
- On a map
- From each photo’s GPS, or a click on the map
- Hosting
- From £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos
- Best time
- A bright, still day, in each season if you can
How outdoor sites use a tour
Choose the pitch
Campers and glampers see each pitch, the view from it and the walk to the showers before they book.
Plan the walk
Visitors see the trail, the viewpoints and the steep bits, and pick the route that suits them.
Every season
Gardens show the spring borders in winter: a tour for each season, or a group per season.
Weddings and events outdoors
Couples and organisers stand on the lawn, in the walled garden or by the lake.
What to photograph
Keep the sun behind a tree or a building if you can, so the photo is not glaring.
How to take the photos- The entrance, the car park and the visitor centre
- Each pitch type, or each garden room
- The viewpoints along the trail
- The lake, the beach or the river
- Toilets, showers and the shop
- Play areas and picnic spots
- Accessible paths and the steepest part of the route
Two ways to get the photos
A tour is a 360° photo of each space, linked together. Who takes them is up to you.
Hire a professional
A 360° photographer shoots each space and hands you the photos. Many build the whole tour in Panoramr too, and hand it over to your account, ready to publish.
Take your own
With a 360° camera and a tripod, one press takes a whole room. Export the photos from the camera’s app and upload them.
What outdoor sites use most
A map of where it is
Give each photo its place, from the photo’s own GPS or a click on a map, and show a map in the tour.
How it worksFloors and areas
Group the scenes by trail, area or season, so visitors go straight to the one they want.
How it worksA spoken guide
A ranger’s commentary at each stop, or the birdsong of the place.
How it worksBooking and shop buttons
Book a pitch, buy a ticket, see opening times: buttons to your own pages.
How it worksFive more languages
Translate the tour into Spanish, French, German, Chinese or Arabic. Visitors switch with one click on a paid plan or a hosted tour.
How it worksFloor plan with a live map
Your site map, with each scene pinned and the way the camera faces.
How it works
How a tour is made
- 1
Upload your photos
Open Create Tour, give the tour a name and drop your photos in. No sign-up and no card. They are prepared in your browser, and the tour uploads by itself when they are ready.
- 2
Design it
Choose a theme, then make it yours: colours, menus, buttons and the look of each hotspot. Choose where visitors start looking in each room.
- 3
Link the rooms
Add hotspots so visitors can walk from one room to the next, and add text, pictures, video or a floor plan where they help.
- 4
Keep it
Create a free account and the tour is yours. A guest tour is deleted after 2 days.
- 5
Put it online
Publish it free with Panoramr’s branding, or buy a Vault for it to take the branding off.
- 6
Share it
Paste its embed code into your website, and send its link by email or post it on social media.
What it costs
Making the tour is free. One site fits a Vault; a park authority hosts every site on a plan.
Free
£0
Publish up to 10 tours, 250 photos in all, with Panoramr’s branding.
- The free Default Theme, in your colours
- A Panoramr start screen and badge over the tripod
- Listed on Panoramr’s Explore page
- Embed it on your own website
Vault 36
Suggested£36 a year
Hosts one tour of up to 36 photos. Pay once for one, three or five years, or yearly until you stop. You need no plan.
- No Panoramr branding: no start screen and no logo
- Your own design in any theme, Pro themes included
- Your logo and words on the patch over the tripod
- Private, by link only, or listed on Explore
Pro
£99 a year
Several tours? Pro hosts 250 photos at once with no Panoramr branding, shared by all of them, on one bill.
- Upload up to 1,000 panoramas
- Host up to 250 panoramas with no Panoramr branding
- Every Pro theme on your tours
- Your tour in other languages, with a switch for visitors
- Download your tour as a ZIP, in your own design
- Your own branding, private or published
- Hand a tour over to your client
Questions
Can each photo show where it was taken?
Yes. Give it a place from the photo’s own GPS position in one click, or by clicking a map, and switch the map on in the tour.
Can we show the site in each season?
Yes. Make a tour for each season, or put each season’s photos in a group of their own.
Can visitors book a pitch from the tour?
They click through to your booking page from a button or a link. The tour has no booking form of its own.
Does the tour work with a weak signal?
The tour loads over the internet. Visitors plan with it at home; on site a weak signal makes it slow.
How much does it cost?
Making it is free. Hosting it without our branding costs from £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos.
Ways to share it
On your own website
Copy the embed code from the tour’s Publish tab and paste it into your page. It works with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and most other sites.
How to embed a tourBy its link
Send the tour’s address by email, put it in a booking confirmation or a newsletter, or post it on social media.
On Explore
Panoramr’s gallery of tours, with buttons to share yours on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and by email. A free tour is always listed there; a hosted one only if you want.
Only with your team
Keep it private while you work on it, and invite colleagues or your web designer to view or edit it with you.
Related industries
- Holiday Lets & Short StaysShow the whole cottage, apartment or lodge, so guests book knowing exactly where they will stay.
- Attractions & TourismGive visitors a taste of the place before they travel: attractions, destinations and days out.
- Gyms, Clubs & LeisureShow members the gym floor, the pool and the clubhouse, and fans the view from their seat.
Let them stand there first
Make the tour free, in your own design. You pay only to put it online without our branding.