Interactive travel maps for real adventures
The best travel stories are maps
Adventure Mapper turns your trip into a map anyone can explore. Pin the places you stopped, the days you stayed, and every swimming hole, bakery and wrong turn between them. Friends follow the route you took, then wander past it to see what else was out there.
More than a post.A whole adventure.
Photos and captions capture the highlights. A map connects them, so friends can follow your route, find the places you loved, and explore what’s around them.
Same adventure. Three ways to share it.
The same trip, mapped
The same photos and stories, connected to the places they happened. Follow the route, explore a stop, then see what else is nearby.
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Big Sur, California
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adventuremapper Three days riding the Big Sur coast. Started in Monterey, followed Highway 1 past Bixby Bridge, then camped under the redwoods. So many stops, so many photos.
Point Lobos in the morning, McWay Falls the next day, and that golden light at Pfeiffer Beach. The stretch after the bridge was my favorite. We kept pulling over for just one more view.
Monterey → Big Sur → San Simeon. Already want to go back. Saving all the little stops for next time.
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The same trip, in a post
A photo carousel or a long caption shares the highlights. The journey between them takes a little more explaining.
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June 3 · Big Sur, California
Three days riding the Big Sur coast. Started in Monterey, followed Highway 1 past Bixby Bridge, then camped under the redwoods. So many stops, so many photos.
Point Lobos in the morning, McWay Falls the next day, and that golden light at Pfeiffer Beach. The stretch after the bridge was my favorite. We kept pulling over for just one more view.
Monterey → Big Sur → San Simeon. Already want to go back. Saving all the little stops for next time.
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The same trip, in a post
A photo carousel or a long caption shares the highlights. The journey between them takes a little more explaining.
Places, days, and the spots in between
Tell the story the way you lived it. No two trips are shaped the same, so nothing here forces yours into a template.
Everywhere you stopped. Drop a pin for each one and the route draws itself between them. How you got there, whether train, ferry, or a long drive, rides along with it. Not one trip? A collection pins places that belong together, like every national park you've visited, with no route between them.
What happened while you were there. Stay somewhere a week and each day gets its own page. Passing through in an afternoon? Skip days entirely and go straight to the spots.
The small things worth pinning. The viewpoint, the bakery, the swimming hole nobody signposted. Photos with location data drop their own pin, so most of this fills itself in.
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Tokyo 4 days
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Hakone 
Onsen by the lake
Short stop? Spots can sit right on the place.
Kyoto
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Day 1 — Gion 3 spots
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Day 3 — Fushimi 5 spots
Map the adventure while it's happening
Adventure Mapper isn't just for the flight home. Open it on the trail, on the ferry, at the bakery you weren't planning to stop at, and the map builds itself as you go. No notebook to keep up, no camera roll to sort through later: every stop lands where it happened, while it's still fresh.
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Pin it where you're standing
Add a place or a spot right from where you are. Take a photo and it lands on the map at your current location, while you still remember why it mattered.
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Let people follow along
Your trip shows a pin at your last recorded location, so friends and family back home can open the map and see how far you've gotten.
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Finish the story when you're home
Everything you pinned on the road is waiting when you get back. Write the longer entries, add the rest of the photos, and rename the spot you only knew as "that coffee place". The map is already drawn.
Anywhere you go, however you get there
- Car
- Plane
- Train
- Bike
- Scooter
- On foot
- Sailboat
- Ferry
Real trips, mapped by the people who took them. Each one is pinned on the globe; open it and wander past the route.
Where Adventure Mapper began
In 2022, my dad hiked the Appalachian Trail. I built him a basic site called jimmyonthetrail.com so friends and family could follow along. It needed manual updates and wasn't always up to date (sorry, Dad…), but people kept telling me how much they loved seeing where he was. It made me realize this was something everyone should have.
Four years later, that idea became Adventure Mapper. You can share updates as you travel or live in the moment and build the map afterward. Either way, your trip has a lasting home: the route, the days, and the little discoveries along the way, on a map anyone can explore.
Jared
Adventurer
Now get out there and explore!
Map your adventure as it happens, or piece it back together when you're home. Start with one pin and go from there.
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Adventure Mapper is invite only while we're getting it right, so we're adding travelers a few at a time and reading what they make.
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