Planning trips

A trip is a route built around your limits: where you’re going, how long you have, and what you drive. tripster turns that into a day-by-day plan with stops you can swap.

Plan a trip

  1. Open Trips and choose Plan a new trip.
  2. Give it a name, then set a Start and Destination. Type to search, or use Use my location to start from where you are.
  3. Add any stops along the way. Each becomes a point the route must pass through — reorder them with the up/down arrows.
  4. Set how many days you have. Turn on Round trip to loop back to your start.
  5. Pick a vehicle, a max speed, and how far to look for stops (Stops within). Leave any of these blank to inherit your saved preferences. See Vehicles & parameters for what each one does.
  6. Choose Create trip. tripster routes it, splits it into daily legs, and opens the plan.
The new-trip form filled in — name, Start and Destination, days, and the vehicle / max-speed / Stops-within row — with the Create trip button.
The new-trip form filled in — name, Start and Destination, days, and the vehicle / max-speed / Stops-within row — with the Create trip button.

Tune the plan

On the trip page you get the route on a map and a day-by-day itinerary. For each night, tripster suggests where to stop within your limits; swap in an alternative when you’d rather stay somewhere else. Need to change the route itself — different dates, a new waypoint, a bigger rig? Use Edit to update the parameters and re-plan.

The trip page: the routed line on the map with its A→B waypoints, the daily-limit summary, and the day-by-day itinerary below.
The trip page: the routed line on the map with its A→B waypoints, the daily-limit summary, and the day-by-day itinerary below.

Deeper tuning Premium

A few controls go further for members and are marked with a Premium tag in the app:

Overnight temperature band
Plan around a comfortable low/high for each night, not just distance.
Per-day overrides
Cap an individual day’s drive, distance, or required stops independently of the rest.
Weather & map overlays
Lay the forecast — or public land — over the route. See Weather & map overlays.

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