How to use RoadTrippin
New here? Start with Getting Started for a tour of the app, then dive into whichever feature you need.
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Getting Started with RoadTrippin
A quick tour of RoadTrippin, the free road trip planner: plan a route, discover stops along the way, log geocache finds, and plan trips with friends.
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How to Plan a Road Trip Route
Plan a driving route with stops, add parks, museums, and historic sites along the way, and export it as a GPX file or to Google Maps and Apple Maps.
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Plan me a Trip: Build a Route Around Any Area
Pick an area or use your current location and RoadTrippin finds nearby parks, museums, historic sites, viewpoints, trailheads, and geocaches, then builds one route through them.
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Geocaching with RoadTrippin
How the RoadTrippin Geocaches tab works: search geocaches tagged in OpenStreetMap, browse finds other travelers have logged, and log your own finds by GC code.
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Logging Visits and Finds
How to log visits to parks, museums, and historic sites and record geocache finds in RoadTrippin, including logging a place after you have already left.
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Planning a Trip with Friends
Use RoadTrippin Groups to plan a road trip together: share a six-character invite code, chat, send photos, and manage who is in the group.
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Reading the Map and Troubleshooting
What every marker and line on the RoadTrippin map means, tips for getting the best results, and fixes for common problems.
Road trip and geocaching articles
General advice for travelers and explorers, whether or not you use RoadTrippin.
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The Road Trip Planning Checklist
A practical road trip checklist: choosing a route, planning stops and breaks, preparing your car, packing an emergency kit, and staying on track without a signal.
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Geocaching for Beginners
New to geocaching? Learn what a geocache is, how to find your first one, cache sizes and types, what to bring, and the etiquette every geocacher follows.