What Is Roadie Trip Planner?

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Roadie Trip Planner (roadietripplanner.com) is a free online tool for building multi-stop road trip itineraries on an interactive map. You pin as many locations as you like, see the distances and driving times between each stop, and search for points of interest along the way. It suits anyone planning a car or RV trip who wants more control than a simple A-to-B navigation app gives — especially routes with several overnight stops or sightseeing detours.

What you can do with it

The site organizes its features around five tasks:

Feature What it does
Plan multi-stop routes Pin unlimited waypoints on an interactive map; see distances and driving times between stops
Find places along the route Search attractions, restaurants, or accommodation positioned along your driving route
Find inspiration Browse curated collections of ready-made road trip routes
Share your itinerary Invite family and friends to plan together, or export the itinerary as a document
Discover inspiring routes Use curated trip guides as templates for your own planning

How route planning works

The core loop is straightforward:

  1. Add waypoints. Drop pins for every place you want to visit — there's no stated limit on how many.
  2. Read the connections. The map shows the distance between each pair of waypoints and the driving time for each leg, so you can judge whether a day's plan is realistic.
  3. Choose your vehicle type. Select car or RV, and the route is optimized accordingly — useful because RV-friendly roads and timing differ from standard car routing.
  4. Search along the route. Rather than searching a whole region, you can look for attractions, trails, national parks, restaurants, or accommodation that sit on your path.
  5. Share or export. Invite others to collaborate on the itinerary, or produce a clean document version to send out.

When it's a good fit

  • Multi-stop trips. If your trip has more than two or three stops, a purpose-built itinerary planner beats stringing together individual navigation searches.
  • RV travel. The car/RV toggle is the main reason to pick this over a generic map tool.
  • Group planning. The collaboration and document-sharing features help when several people are deciding the route.
  • Starting from scratch with no ideas. The curated route collections work as templates you can adapt rather than build from zero.

What to keep in mind

The site describes its features but does not publish pricing details, so check the site directly before assuming any paid tier or limits. Driving times are estimates for planning purposes — always confirm current road conditions, especially for RV-specific routes. And since the tool is built around pinning locations, it works best once you already have a rough list of places in mind; the inspiration collections help fill that gap if you don't.