Road Trip Planner
Plan the drive and the stops.
Set the two ends, then fill the middle with the diners, overlooks, and towns worth pulling off for. Every stop lands on the map with the drive time to the next one, and you can see the shape of each day before you book a room.
- As many legs as you want
- Multi-stopAs many legs as you want
- Between every stop
- Drive timesBetween every stop
- Open it in the car
- Offline-readyOpen it in the car
See it in action
What you get back
Four legs, each with its drive time and the one stop worth making before you get back in the car:
- Arches National Park — Day 1 — Delicate Arch at sunset, sleep in Moab
- Dead Horse Point — Day 2 morning — 40 minutes out, then head east
- Grand Junction — Day 2 night — 2 hours, wine country and a real dinner
- Glenwood Springs — Day 3 — hot springs, 2 hours up I-70
- Denver — Day 4 — 2.5 hours through the Eisenhower Tunnel
Copy a route
Routes you can copy
- How to plan a road trip
Start, end, and driving days first, since four to five hours is a comfortable day.
- How many hours to drive per day
The hours check Maps will not do, with pullout padding built in.
- Moab national parks weekend
Arches, Canyonlands, and Dead Horse Point with drive time on each leg.
- Banff and Lake Louise
A mountain week where trailheads look close on a map.
- Iceland south coast
Waterfalls and a black-sand beach on a driving loop from Reykjavík.
- New England foliage drive
Boston fly-in, White Mountains, Vermont, and the Berkshires across four driving days.
- When to see fall foliage
A corridor you can slide along, since the color moves week by week.
- Pacific Coast Highway
LA or SF fly-in. Big Sur is the slow section; do not rush it.
How it works
Three steps, start to map
Set the ends
Give it a start, an end, and the number of days, and loops work too if the drive comes back to where it began.
Fill in the middle
Arriv suggests stops along the route. Add the ones you already had in mind, and delete anything you don't care about.
Split it into driving days
Stops group into legs with the drive time on each. The day that runs too long is much easier to fix here than from the passenger seat.
Why Arriv
What makes a route work
Distance you can see
Stops sit on a map with the drive between them, which is how you catch a five-hour day early.
Detours stay optional
Keep a list of maybes beside the route. Pull one in when you find a day running short.
Everyone in the car has it
One link, which puts the person navigating and the person booking on the same plan.
Reservations on the timeline
Campsites, hotels, and timed park entries sit on the day they belong to.
Questions
Frequently asked
- What's the best way to plan a road trip?
- Fix the start, the end, and the number of days, then add stops and read the drive time on each leg. Arriv maps the whole route, and the day that looks fine on paper and runs six hours in reality is obvious before you book anything.
- How many hours should I drive per day?
- Four to five hours is a comfortable day once the stops are counted. Six or more turns the day into transit. Add forty minutes for every scenic pullout you know you will not skip, then cut a stop if the total blows past five.
- How is this different from Google Maps?
- Arriv maps the route as driving days, with the time on each leg, the optional detours, and a shared link. Google Maps is what you open in the car for turn-by-turn and traffic. Save places there as you find them, and then build the days here.
- Can it plan stops along the way?
- Yes. Give it the route and it suggests towns, parks, and food worth stopping for, so you can accept them, replace them, or ignore them.
- Does it show driving times?
- Each leg shows the drive between consecutive stops, and each day totals up, letting you rebalance the route while it's still a plan.
- Can I plan a loop drive?
- Yes. Set the same city as the start and the end, and the days form around the loop once you drop the stops in.
- Does it handle national-park timed entry?
- Campsites, hotels, and timed park entries sit on the day they belong to. Book the permits before you lock the route. Several parks run timed entry or shuttles in peak season, and a permit that moves should move the drive with it.
Plan the drive and the stops.
Set the two ends, then fill the middle with the diners, overlooks, and towns worth pulling off for. Every stop lands on the map with the drive time to the next one, and you can see the shape of each day before you book a room.
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