🚗 Free Family Road Trip Planner | Make My Drive Fun | Share Routes | Tantrumming Trailblazers

Dennis — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:09:48 +0000

Make My Drive Fun

Plan the drive. Not just the destination.

Turn boring journeys into proper family adventures. Add food stops, toilets, parks, scenic breaks, EV chargers and hidden gems along your route, then hand the trip off to Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze when you are ready to go.

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Why it feels different

Tap. Add. Route. No spreadsheet energy required.

This is not just a route search box wearing a hat. The tool is built around the journey. Tap useful places on or near your route, add them as stops, save favourites, check nearby options, then open the final plan in your navigation app.

Food Toilets Parks EV Historic sites Beaches

Major update

Cleaner, smarter, faster. Built around how families actually drive.

The latest version is more map-first, more mobile-friendly and more useful when you are building a real journey with multiple stops. It is designed for people who do not just want to arrive, they want the drive itself to be less painful and more interesting.

Map-first route building

Add places directly from the map. Food, toilets, parks, EV chargers and hidden gems can become proper stops rather than random pins you forget about five minutes later.

Multi-stop journeys

Build a route with numbered stops, useful waypoints and clearer journey flow. Ideal for families, road trips, scenic drives and emergency toilet situations.

EV-friendly planning

Search for chargers along your route, including useful EV filtering. Perfect for avoiding that low-battery feeling.

Useful family stops

Find toilets, parks, food, shops, beaches, natural places, historic sites and other stops that make family driving feel less like punishment from the gods.

Shareable plans

Save or share routes so other people can load the same journey. Great for family groups and road trip planning.

Navigation handoff

Open stops or final routes in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze — or export GPX/KML for sat-navs and Google Earth. Plan here, drive with whatever you like.

Fun Score & loop drives

Every route is scored out of 100 for twistiness and hills, with an elevation profile to match. No destination in mind? Generate a fun loop from home and just drive.

Timed itinerary + weather

Turn your route into a day plan with arrival times at every stop, the weather forecast when you get there, and a printable version for the glovebox.

Works like an app

Install it to your phone home screen and keep planning in patchy signal — recently viewed map areas and the app itself stay available offline.

Live tool

Build your route.

Add your start and destination, choose the stop types you care about, and let the map help you find useful places along the way.

Free web app

Latest tool updates

Fun Score & elevation profile Added 12 June 2026 Every route now gets a Fun Score out of 100 based on how twisty and hilly it is, plus an elevation chart showing the climbs and descents along the way.

Fun loop generator Added 12 June 2026 Pick a start point and a rough duration and the tool scouts several candidate loops, scores them for fun, and builds the best one for you automatically.

Drag the route to reroute Added 12 June 2026 Grab the route line with your mouse and drop it where you want to go, or long-press it on mobile to add a via point with a tap.

Trip itinerary with weather Added 12 June 2026 Turn any route into a timed day plan with arrival times, configurable stop breaks, the forecast at each stop, and a print-friendly version.

GPX & KML export Added 12 June 2026 Download your route as a GPX file for sat-navs and Garmin devices, or KML for Google Earth, straight from the Share menu.

Four map styles Added 12 June 2026 Switch between Clean, Streets, Terrain and Satellite basemaps. Your choice is remembered for next time.

Install it like an app Added 12 June 2026 Add Make My Drive Fun to your phone home screen. The app shell and recently viewed map areas now work even in patchy signal.

Favourites synced to your account Added 12 June 2026 Logged-in users now keep their saved places across devices, and saved routes can be renamed and duplicated with little route previews on each card.

Faster, lighter, safer Added 12 June 2026 Full light-mode design, quicker loading, stronger security hardening, backup routing servers, and a friendly first-visit tour for new users.

Fullscreen bug fixed Fixed 8 May 2026 Fixed the mobile fullscreen/menu issue where the bottom sheet only appeared when the map was physically in view. The app now escapes the theme wrapper during mobile fullscreen.

Mobile keyboard flicker fixed Fixed 8 May 2026 Stopped the mobile route text boxes from blurring after tap, which was making the keyboard pop up and down.

Mobile fullscreen theme issue fixed Fixed 8 May 2026 Fixed the custom theme CSS conflict that stopped fullscreen mode from sitting above the WordPress header on mobile.

Leaflet map bug fixed Fixed 8 May 2026 Stopped theme/page CSS from pushing Leaflet controls, tiles and popups out of position.

Map-first route building Improved the live map workflow so useful places can be added directly into the journey.

Multi-stop journeys Added clearer support for numbered stops, waypoints and proper family road-trip planning.

EV route support Added EV-aware planning with charger discovery and connector-focused filtering where data allows.

Family stop filters Expanded practical filters for toilets, parks, food, cafes, beaches, shops and natural places.

Navigation handoff Routes and stops can be opened in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze when it is time to drive.

Shareable route plans Added route sharing and copy-link support so another traveller can load the same plan.

Fun Route Planner – Tantrumming Trailblazers

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Filter places

Route builder

Start to finish

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Corridor width

Miles

Searching for places along your route...

Clear this route?

Trip Style

What kind of drive?

Suggestions for this drive

Save this trip for later?

Keep this journey to come back to whenever you want.

Places Along Your Route

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Nearby

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Saved Routes

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Create and save your routes to access them later.

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Saved places

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Why use it?

Because most route planners are obsessed with speed. Families are obsessed with survival, snacks, toilets, places to stretch legs, and not missing the interesting stuff.

✓Find stops along your actual route, not random places miles away from where you are driving.
✓Search for food, toilets, parks, beaches, historic sites, EV chargers and practical stops.
✓Add places as proper route stops, save favourites, check nearby options and share your plan.
✓Use it worldwide wherever OpenStreetMap has useful coverage.
✓Turn long drives into something closer to an adventure and less like a rolling snack tribunal.

Features at a glance

Built for real drives. Not imaginary perfect ones.

Whether you are planning a holiday route, weekend drive, EV road trip, scenic detour or emergency toilet-stop hunt, the tool gives you practical options without making you dig through six different apps.

Historic sites

Find castles, ruins, landmarks, memorials and places with real story value along your journey.

Food and drink

Discover cafes, restaurants, pubs, bakeries and food stops when everyone suddenly becomes starving.

Nature breaks

Find parks, lakes, beaches, campsites and outdoor places for leg-stretching and sanity recovery.

Convenience stops

Locate useful things like petrol stations, shops, toilets and practical places to stop en route.

EV chargers

Search for EV charging along the route, with support for common connector and charger types.

Global coverage

Powered by open mapping data, so it works across many countries. Coverage varies by area, but popular routes and cities are usually richer.

Search variant	Quick answer
make my drive easy tool	Our free route planner for finding stops, toilets and fun along your journey.
makemydrivefun	Same tool, all one word. You found the right place.
make my drive fun australia	Yes, it can work in Australia where mapping data is available.
make my drive fun europe	Yes, it supports European route planning and useful stop discovery.
make my drive fun alternative	A route planner focused on useful stops, family travel and map-first planning.
make me drive fun	A common typo, but yes, this is the fun drive planner you are probably after.

Quick questions

Make My Drive Fun FAQ. The no-faff version.

Does it find toilets and EV chargers along my route?