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Treader
An empty two-lane desert highway running straight toward distant mountains

Road trip planner

Plan a road trip with stops, days and gas estimates

Treader is a free group trip planner that puts every stop on one live map and checks the plan against sunset and public holidays on your dates. Made in Canada.

A road trip is a chain of days, not a list of pins. Put every day on one map with the driving route and time between stops. Planning the route is free; a fuel estimate for each leg comes with Pro.

Start free See a sample trip

Start with where the drive goes

Name the first place on the route, a city or a park. Your free account and a trip there are made together. Then add the stops day by day and the route draws between them, with the driving time for each leg.

Free, no card. Your account and that trip are made together.

Or open a finished route

Canadian Rockies road trip in 7 days

7 days · 41 stops · Canadian Rockies, Alberta and British Columbia

Copy this route into a free trip

Photo: adrian aows, CC0

Every day on one map

Lay stops into days and the route draws itself, with the driving time for each leg. Drag a stop to another day and the plan reflows. That is free on every plan. On Pro, one tap reorders a day’s stops into the shortest path.

Day 4 of a Tokyo and Kyoto trip: the Shinkansen as a 135 minute train leg, then four Kyoto stops with the walks between them

Gas estimates: what is free and what is Pro

The free plan has no gas calculator. What every plan gets is the driving distance and time for each leg, and on long legs the last fuel or charging stop before a long stretch without one. Pro adds a fuel plan: tell it what you drive and it estimates fuel for every driving leg from your car’s consumption and a fuel price you can change. In the US that price starts from a weekly regional average; elsewhere it starts from a typical price you should check. Pro is $4.99 CAD a month.

Calgary to Jasper418 km · 3 driving legs$18128 km$857 km$34233 kmCalgaryBanffLake LouiseJasperYour car8.9 L/100 kmregularYour price · $1.62/LGas for the drive$6037 L · an estimate at your price

Camp nights and trail days belong in the plan

The map knows campgrounds, trailheads and viewpoints, not just restaurants and museums. A campground added to a day becomes a camp night, with its own panel for the booking, the facilities and the drive in before dark. A hike drops into a day as the route itself: import a GPX or KML file and the day shows the trail, its distance and climb, and a time estimate worked out from both.

  • Campgrounds and trailheads as map categories on every plan
  • GPX and KML import free on every plan
  • Sold out? On Discovery a camp stop at a US federal campground watches recreation.gov for an opening and sends a push and an email with the booking link

The plan keeps working from the passenger seat

Treader installs to your phone from the browser. A Today view shows what is now, what is next, and how far the drive is. Trip check keeps one list of what could still go wrong, from a day that runs past dark to a night with no campsite. On Pro, the map around every stop and along the roads between them is saved on the phone, with a read-only copy of the plan, so the trip still opens where there is no signal.

What each plan covers

Free trips run up to 7 days, which covers most long weekends and week-long loops. Money tools sit on Pro: the fuel plan, a trip budget with costs on stops, and the split between the people in the car.

  • Free: up to 50 trips of up to 7 days, the route and drive times, camp nights, GPX and KML import, 1 invited editor per trip
  • Pro, $4.99 CAD a month: trips up to 30 days, fuel estimates for each leg, trip budget and cost split, one-tap shortest order for a day, the offline map, 3 editors per trip
  • Discovery: trips up to 60 days, the campground watch, 10 editors per trip

Start from a ready-made trip

Every stop on a map, day by day. Open one to read it in full, then copy it into your own account and change what you like.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Treader calculate gas costs?

On Pro. Add your vehicle and the fuel plan estimates fuel for each driving leg from its consumption and a fuel price you can edit. It is an estimate, not a pump price: in the US the price starts from a weekly regional average, elsewhere from a typical price. The free plan has no gas calculator, but every plan shows the driving distance and time for each leg.

Can my co-drivers edit the plan?

Yes, live. The host’s plan sets how many can edit: 1 invited editor on Free, 3 on Pro, 10 on Discovery. Everyone else can follow along as a viewer, and joining someone else’s trip is free on every plan. A change log records who moved what.

Does it work without cell service?

The app installs to your phone from the browser, and Pro saves the trip map and a read-only copy of the plan on the phone, so the map still draws and the days still open where there is no signal.

Can Treader tell me when a sold-out campground has an opening?

Yes, on Discovery, for campgrounds booked through recreation.gov. Add the campground to a day, press Watch for an opening in its Camp night panel, and Treader checks every half hour and sends a push and an email with the booking link when a night frees up. It never books for you.

Can I plan a route that is longer than a week?

Free trips run up to 7 days. Pro raises that to 30 days and Discovery to 60. Every plan holds the same number of trips; only the length changes.

Put the whole drive on one map.

Days, stops, drive times and camp nights in one place, free for trips up to 7 days. Fuel estimates when you want them, on Pro.

Start a road trip free