Create immersive scrolling narratives
The Story Map Cascade℠ app template lets you combine narrative text with maps, images, and multimedia content in an engaging, full-screen scrolling experience. In a Cascade story, sections containing text and in-line media can be interspersed with "immersive" sections that fill the screen with your maps, 3D scenes, images, and videos. Cascade is ideal for making compelling, in-depth stories that are very easy for people to navigate.
Get inspired!
The Story Map Cascade format presents a linear narrative with supporting content. Depending on how you want to tell your story, the maps or 3D scenes you include can be static, automated in a specific sequence, or freely interactive for your audience to explore. Browse our gallery to see how storytellers are designing immersive sections in their Story Map Cascade stories.
Explore the Story Map Cascade gallery
Build your story!
Your story is automatically hosted on ArcGIS Online.
Tutorial
Build story
FAQs
Tips
Blog posts
'How To Cascade' guides
Learn ArcGIS online lesson
You create your Cascade story with an interactive builder
Host it yourself
Story Map apps are open source, so you have the option to host an app on your own web server. For example, you may want to give your story a custom URL, or make styling changes beyond what is possible with our authoring tools. If you're a developer, you can get the source code on GitHub to do more advanced customization. See the introduction below for step-by-step instructions, and visit our Developers’ Corner for customization tips and ideas.
Download the ready-to-deploy app
Get the source code on GitHub
Introduction to hosting a Story Map app
Story Maps Developers' Corner
Participate!
Let us know what you think about the Cascade app. Your feedback is appreciated.