RV Trip Planners You Can’t Live Without
TL;DR: Planning a road trip? Dive into top-notch trip planners like RV LIFE Trip Wizard, The Dyrt Pro, and Roadtrippers. These tools offer route customization, campground recommendations, and unique stopovers, enhancing your travel experience!
Planning a road trip? Not sure where to start? Or maybe you are in search of the best planning resources on the market. We’ve got you covered here at Harvest Hosts.
Planning a Good Road Trip Takes Good Tools
If you are looking for a way to speed up the process of planning memorable trips, you are in the right place. People act like you hop in your RV and just go, but there is a little more to it than that.
Throughout this piece we are going to look at what a good trip planner does, and how it can help elevate your experience. Let’s take a look at what a good trip planner does for its user.
You Need a Good Route Planner
A good route planner does a little more than google maps. Route planners need to take into account your specific restrictions and requirements. There are routes that restrict certain weights, aren’t conducive to bigger rigs navigating the streets, or simply won’t fit under the overpass.
A good route planner takes all of those things into consideration and more. Having something that permits extra addresses to be implemented, makes recommendations, and can be downloaded to your phone are fantastic features to have in your route planner.
Helps You Find What Matters
Good route planners are also intuitive. They know what matters to most people and are able to let you know along the way. For instance, fueling stations along your route that can actually handle a truck and camper or a large motorhome that doesn’t have the best turning radius. A route planner that takes that into consideration is fantastic.
There are some other key features you might not even be thinking about when planning your routes, like cell phone coverage for your stays! This can help you stay connected on the road and be able to get work done without leaving your site. Locating active dump stations for your waste water, and making sure you have clean water fill stations periodically are really helpful too.
Another great thing is having access to a weather map that can pinpoint where your host location is. This can help you avoid those stormy nights and redirect you elsewhere. All of these features are great tools to have when planning—and replanning—your road trip.