Make My Drive Fun
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.
Why it feels different
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.
Major update
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.
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.
Build a route with numbered stops, useful waypoints and clearer journey flow. Ideal for families, road trips, scenic drives and emergency toilet situations.
Search for chargers along your route, including useful EV filtering. Perfect for avoiding that low-battery feeling.
Find toilets, parks, food, shops, beaches, natural places, historic sites and other stops that make family driving feel less like punishment from the gods.
Save or share routes so other people can load the same journey. Great for family groups and road trip planning.
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.
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.
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.
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
Add your start and destination, choose the stop types you care about, and let the map help you find useful places along the way.
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.
Features at a glance
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.
Find castles, ruins, landmarks, memorials and places with real story value along your journey.
Discover cafes, restaurants, pubs, bakeries and food stops when everyone suddenly becomes starving.
Find parks, lakes, beaches, campsites and outdoor places for leg-stretching and sanity recovery.
Locate useful things like petrol stations, shops, toilets and practical places to stop en route.
Search for EV charging along the route, with support for common connector and charger types.
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
Yes. The tool is designed to show useful stops along or near your route, including toilets, EV chargers, food, parks and other practical places. Results depend on available map data.
Yes. You can add places from the map and build a multi-stop route rather than just viewing random pins.
The tool supports common EV connector filtering, including Type 2, CCS, CHAdeMO and Tesla-style options where the underlying data is available.
The tool follows the route corridor rather than just searching around a single town. That means results are more useful for the journey you are actually driving.
Yes. The idea is to plan in Make My Drive Fun, then hand off to your preferred navigation app when you are ready to drive.
You can use and share routes without needing an account. Some save features may use your WordPress login so saved routes can stay private to you.
The tool uses open mapping and place data, including OpenStreetMap-based sources, plus routing and place information where available. If something is missing locally, the map data may need improving.
It can work globally where open map data is available. Coverage varies by country and area, with cities and popular routes usually having richer data than very remote places.
Every route gets a score out of 100 based on how twisty and hilly it is — curves and climbs score higher than long motorway slogs. You will also see an elevation chart of the climbs and descents along the way.
Yes. Set a start point, pick roughly how long you want to drive (30 minutes to 3 hours), and the loop generator will scout several circular routes, score them for fun, and build the best one automatically.
Yes. The Share menu includes GPX export (works with Garmin and most sat-nav and ride apps) and KML export (opens in Google Earth).
Partly. You can install it to your phone home screen like an app, and the tool plus recently viewed map areas stay available in patchy signal. Searching for new places and calculating new routes still needs a connection.