Road trip planner
A good road trip plan answers more than “how do I get there?” RoadTripDesk helps you decide where to stop, how much to drive each day, where to spend the night and what the full journey looks like before you leave.
Plan the journey before you navigate it
Turn-by-turn navigation is useful on the road, but most of the difficult decisions happen earlier. A two-week road trip can include dozens of places, different hotel nights, sightseeing time, rest days and several versions of the route before it feels right.
RoadTripDesk keeps that planning work in one trip. Start with the major places you know you want to visit. Build the route, look at the driving days and then refine the details without rebuilding the trip in a collection of notes, spreadsheets and browser tabs.
Build realistic driving days
Choose the hours you normally want to drive and let the planner show how a long route fits across multiple days. Breaks and overnight stops become part of the schedule instead of something you have to remember outside the map.
If a day is too ambitious, move stops, change the order or adjust the plan. Distance and driving-time summaries help you compare days and spot the ones that need attention.
Learn about multi-stop route planning →
Make overnight stops part of the route plan
A place where you sleep is different from a place where you stop for an hour. RoadTripDesk lets you mark a planned overnight and set the number of nights. Staying two or three nights in one city can therefore be represented as a real part of the itinerary rather than an unusually long stop duration.
If the route reaches the end of a driving day without a planned place to sleep, RoadTripDesk can create an automatic overnight. That gives you a clear signal that accommodation still needs to be decided.
Keep arrival and departure times local
Driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, across Canada or through another large country can mean crossing several time zones. RoadTripDesk uses local time at stops and can show when the trip changes time zone. The schedule can therefore say that clocks move back an hour without pretending that the actual driving took an hour less.
See how road trip time zones work →
Add the places that make the trip yours
A road trip is rarely just a sequence of cities. Add attractions, viewpoints, museums, meals, hotels, campgrounds and small detours. Give stops a duration and keep notes with the place so the reason for adding it does not disappear a week later.
RoadTripDesk is intended for both short trips and routes with many stops. Plan limits depend on the selected plan, while the Pro plan is designed for trips without a stop limit.
Turn a route into a day-by-day itinerary
The same trip can be viewed as a map and as a schedule. Day summaries make it easier to answer practical questions: What time do we leave? How much driving is there today? Which stops belong to this day? Where are we sleeping tonight?
A roadbook gives you a travel-friendly version of the plan when the trip is ready.
Explore the trip itinerary planner →
Plan alone or together
Invite people who should help edit the trip, or share a view-only version when friends or family only need to see the latest plan. Collaboration keeps one current itinerary instead of several copies travelling through messages and email.
Import an existing route
If you already have route points elsewhere, you may not need to start from zero. RoadTripDesk supports imports from GPX, KML and CSV and can read compatible Microsoft Streets & Trips journey files.
Import routes into RoadTripDesk →
Plan the road trip as one journey.
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