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About Roadtrippers
Roadtrippers is the No. 1 road trip planning app, helping people experience the world around them in an entirely new way by streamlining discovery, planning, booking and navigation into an engaging and intuitive process. Roadtrippers has helped millions of users plan more than 38 million trips across 7 million points of interest, covering more than 42 billion miles.
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Roadtrippers has millions of places on the map. Search for famous roadside attractions, hotels or campgrounds, sights & attractions, places to eat, fuel & rest stops, and more. Roadtrippers helps travelers find a detour worth taking.
Built for Complex Routes
Complex road trips don’t have to mean complicated planning. Build detailed multi-stop itineraries, customize routes for RVs or cars, and discover the best places to visit based on your interests—all in one powerful platform.
Roadtrippers in the Press
Roadtrippers Takes the Life+Leisure Stage with Bill & Giuliana Rancic to Champion the Magic Between the Miles
May 6, 2026
The #1 road trip planning app joined the WE tv lifestyle series to share how millions of travelers are rediscovering the journey-not just the destination
CINCINNATI, OH / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2026 / Roadtrippers, the #1 road trip planning app, was recently featured in a national in-studio interview on Life+Leisure with Bill and Giuliana Rancic, the lifestyle series airing on WE tv and Bloomberg International.
The segment brought together three Roadtrippers leaders behind the product travelers love: the Director of Product, the Customer Experience specialist, and the Head of Marketing. Together, they explored how Roadtrippers is redefining what a road trip can be-and why, more than a decade in, the road trip is experiencing its biggest cultural moment yet.
“Roadtrippers was built on a belief that the best parts of travel happen in the in-between-the unplanned detour, the overlook no one told you about, the small-town stop that ends up being the story you tell for years,” said Mary Heneen, CEO of Roadtrippers. “Being featured on Life+Leisure was a meaningful platform to share that philosophy with a national audience. Bill and Giuliana have built a brand around living life with intention, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to give travelers-a way to slow down, look up, and find the moments that make a journey worth remembering.”
Inside the segment
The conversation explored what’s driving Roadtrippers’ growth-and why travelers are choosing this platform to plan their most meaningful trips:
- Extraordinary Places, Roadtrippers’ hand-picked, field-tested collection of stops curated by the team itself-not scraped, not algorithmic. If a place is featured, someone from Roadtrippers has actually been there, taken notes, and made the case for why it’s worth the detour.
- Roadtrippers Autopilot, trip-planning engine that automagically surfaces the most relevant, road-tested stops along any route-powered by 42 million trips taken by real users.
- A curated database of 7+ million points of interest, from national parks to roadside oddities, built by travelers, for travelers.
- Built for the open road and the people who live on it: RV-safe routing, offline maps, campground insights, and booking tools that have made Roadtrippers the category leader for RV travelers.
Why this matters now
Founded in 2011, Roadtrippers was built on a contrarian premise: travel shouldn’t be optimized-it should be experienced. More than a decade later, that idea is finding its audience. Americans are rediscovering domestic travel, RV ownership continues to climb, and travelers are gravitating toward slower, more intentional journeys over checked-box itineraries. Roadtrippers sits squarely at the intersection of those shifts-offering the planning, navigation, and discovery layer purpose-built for the way people actually want to travel today.
The Life+Leisure feature comes as Roadtrippers continues to expand its product across web and mobile-reinforcing its position as the planning platform for the modern American road trip.
Watch the full segment from Life+Leisure with Bill and Giuliana Rancic here, or start planning your next adventure at roadtrippers.com.
Roadtrippers Featured in The New York Times
July 8, 2025
In a July 2025 travel feature, The New York Times chronicled a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles—and spotlighted Roadtrippers as the essential tool for planning and navigating the journey. Described as the “scaffolding” of the trip, Roadtrippers stood out among other apps for its thoughtful design and premium features for long-distance travelers and RVers alike.
Roadtrippers Introduces AI-based Trip Planning Tool for Cars and RVs
April 18, 2024
The No. 1 road trip planning app, has launched the only AI-powered road trip planner designed for both cars and RVs, with personalized interactive trip recommendations based on their interests, preferences and vehicle type. The announcement establishes a new benchmark for user experience within the award-winning app.
As Road Trip Season Ramps Up, Roadtrippers Introduces Free Itinerary Planner to Simplify the Trip Planning Experience
June 12, 2023
With the Roadtrippers itinerary planner, users can effortlessly plan and customize their ultimate road trip itinerary day by day, with suggestions from the #1 road trip planning tool
Roadtrippers Launches Major Product Update with RV GPS, Helping Users Enjoy Safer Road Trips
May 24, 2023
As Americans gear up to hit the open road this summer, Roadtrippers has unbeatable resources to make their travels extraordinary
Roadtrippers Launches Major Product Update with RV GPS, Helping Users Enjoy Safer Road Trips
May 9, 2023
Roadtrippers, the #1 road trip planning tool that helps roadtrippers turn their trips into adventures, is enhancing its product offering to help RVers find safer routes. The road trip planning experience that millions have enjoyed now incorporates RV friendly route planning and GPS navigation in a single convenient experience.
Roadtrippers Announces Growth Milestone of 35 Million Trips and 24 Billion Miles Planned Through Its Application
June 2, 2022
The brand will celebrate these milestones with its users in a social media and email newsletter giveaway later this week.
Roadtrippers Announces Major Product Update With All New Yelp Integration, Offering the Latest Data on Restaurants and Nightlife
May 17, 2022
This integration will pair Roadtrippers’ best-in-class inspiration for extraordinary places with up-to-date information about nightlife businesses and restaurants along the user journey
Get the most out of your vacation with these travel apps
May 13, 2022
If you’re still trying to plan a vacation this summer, travel apps could help save time and money. NBC’s senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen shares a shortlist of recommendations, including Roadtrippers.
This National Travel & Tourism Week, survey shows that Americans are making more travel plans with their families
April 26, 2022
Three out of five Americans think they’ve wasted their summer if they haven’t traveled anywhere, according to new research.
The poll, which surveyed 2,000 adults, revealed that 58% are either planning a summer vacation or already have one in place for this year.
5 tips for taking a safe summer road trip in 2021
May 26, 2021
The past year of COVID-19 has been full of learning curves, uncertainties, and conflicting advice—but there’s hope on the horizon. The U.S. has already surpassed vaccination goals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given the green light for fully vaccinated people to travel this summer.
Planning a post-quarantine road trip: How to travel safely and responsibly in a changing world
May 29, 2020
In any typical year, the end of May marks the official start of road trip season. But 2020, as we’re all painfully aware, is not a typical year. The COVID-19 pandemic is not just wreaking havoc on people’s health and livelihoods—in just a few short months, it’s all but decimated the travel industry as well. Airplanes are grounded, cruise ships are docked, hotels are closed, and several states still have stay-at-home orders in place.
Roadtrippers sees increase in trip planning intent
May 6, 2020
Roadtrippers, the world’s #1 road trip planning platform that redefines local, regional, and cross-country travel, has released several data points surrounding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on road-based trip planning activity. The volume of trips planned on Roadtrippers.com the week of April 27 was up 107% over the last week of March which was the pandemic-related low-point for trip-planning activity.
Roadtrippers releases list of extraordinary road trip stops across the U.S.
February 27, 2020
Roadtrippers, the world’s #1 road trip planning platform that’s redefining local, regional and cross-country travel, has released its list of Extraordinary Places. Made up of more than 300 recommended road trip hotspots across the country, the list highlights America’s most detour-worthy destinations.
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