RoadTripDeskMicrosoft Streets & Trips alternative
RoadTripDesk is a modern web-based road trip planner for people who miss the whole-trip planning style of Microsoft Streets & Trips. It keeps many stops, travel days, overnight stays, notes and timing together in one trip, and it can import route points from compatible legacy .est files.
What is RoadTripDesk?
RoadTripDesk is a web-based road trip planning application. It is designed for planning the complete journey before and during a trip: where to go, which places to stop at, how much to drive each day, where to stay overnight and how the itinerary changes when you cross time zones.
It is not a Microsoft product and is not affiliated with Microsoft. RoadTripDesk is not intended to reproduce Streets & Trips screen by screen; it addresses the same broader planning need with a modern browser-based workflow.
Why former Streets & Trips users may find it familiar
Many Streets & Trips users planned far more than the next turn. They built long routes, arranged many stops and used the map as a planning desk. RoadTripDesk follows that whole-trip approach while adding features intended for modern multi-day travel.
- Keep the complete route and stop list in one trip.
- Split a long journey into realistic driving days.
- Mark planned overnight stops and multi-night stays.
- Keep notes and planned stop durations with each place.
- Show local arrival and departure times when a trip crosses time zones.
- Find nearby hotel options around relevant overnight locations.
- Share a trip or invite collaborators.
- Create a day-oriented itinerary and roadbook.
Can RoadTripDesk open old Streets & Trips files?
RoadTripDesk includes a native importer for compatible Microsoft Streets & Trips .est journey files. The old EST format changed across Streets & Trips versions, so no importer can promise perfect recovery of every legacy file. RoadTripDesk attempts to recover usable route points and has been tested with journeys created many years apart, including large routes.
Import a Microsoft Streets & Trips route into RoadTripDesk
This walkthrough shows the import process so you can see how an existing Streets & Trips route can be brought into RoadTripDesk and used as the starting point for a modern trip plan.
See all RoadTripDesk route import options →
Modern import and export workflows
RoadTripDesk also supports common route-point formats including GPX, KML and CSV. That makes the planner useful for new trips as well as archived Streets & Trips journeys.
RoadTripDesk versus turn-by-turn navigation
RoadTripDesk focuses on planning. A navigation app is still useful while driving. RoadTripDesk helps decide the structure of the journey first: route, stops, travel days, overnights and timing. When it is time to drive, the plan can be used alongside normal navigation tools.
Who is RoadTripDesk for?
RoadTripDesk is intended for travellers planning road trips with several stops or several days, including people planning long-distance trips, Route 66 journeys, fly-drive vacations, RV or car trips and other journeys where a simple A-to-B route is not enough.
Read the RoadTripDesk product facts →
Looking for a Streets & Trips replacement?
Create a free RoadTripDesk account and try the planning workflow with a new route or a compatible old EST journey.