Who we are
Plan Your Road Trips (PYRT) is a small, independent company based in the United Kingdom. We specialise in road trips, and we make PYRT for car enthusiasts: people who would rather take the long way, who plan a trip around the roads as much as the places, and who think the drive is the best part.
That is why the planner measures every distance along the road, finds the mountain passes and scenic routes between your stops, sends a whole day of driving to your sat nav, and records the roads you actually took, so a trip ends with a map of the drive and not just a list of places.
What we make
- A free day-by-day trip planner on the web.
- The PYRT app for iPhone and Android, which records your drives.
- 26 famous road trips and 144 city-to-city drives, with distances measured along the road.
- Driving guides by country for UK drivers going abroad.
Where our numbers come from
Every distance, time and height on the site is computed from public data, not typed in by hand. When a figure is an estimate, the page says so.
- Drive times and distances
- OpenStreetMap road data, routed with OSRM and OpenRouteService, measured along the road rather than in a straight line
- Heights and climbing
- Open-Meteo and OpenTopoData elevation models, sampled along each route
- Towns and cities
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
- Photos of places
- Wikimedia Commons, credited on every page they appear
- Driving rules abroad
- gov.uk travel advice and each country's own road authority, linked from the country guides
- Fuel and toll estimates
- published national averages, shown as estimates; we say so wherever they appear
Corrections and contact
If something on a page is wrong (a pass that's closed, a rule that's changed, a drive time that doesn't match your experience), tell us and we'll fix it. Email [email protected] or use the support page.