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.

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Adventure Mapper showing a travel route, numbered stops, photos, and journal entries on an interactive map — My C&O Canal and GAP bike trip: the route and its stops on the map, the story running alongside. Click in and have a wander.

Written by you. Explored by them.

A travel post ends where the writer stopped typing. A map keeps going: everything around your route is still there for someone curious to find.

The same Big Sur route on an interactive map: the road along Highway 1 with its stops, and a card open for Bixby Creek Bridge.

There was a waterfall someone at the motel had mentioned, and a beach down a track with no sign on it. We found neither of them.

From the post, day two. Neither place is named.

The travel post / Posted 14 March, 6 min read

Three days on the Big Sur coast

We picked the car up in Monterey on a Friday morning and were on Highway 1 within the hour. The fog stayed with us until Carmel, then lifted all at once.

We stopped where the pullouts looked promising and ate lunch on a rock somewhere south of the bridge. By late afternoon the light had gone gold.

The second day we drove slower. There was a waterfall someone at the motel had mentioned, and a beach you reach down a track with no sign on it, and we found neither of them.

The same trip, mapped

Every stop pinned where it happened. Follow the route, then zoom out, wander off it, and find what the writer drove straight past.

Explore this trip yourself

The travel post

Reads top to bottom, once. Whatever the writer left out is gone, and there's no way to ask what else was down that road.

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.

Tokyo 4 days
Train
Train
Hakone Onsen by the lake

Short stop? Spots can sit right on the place.

Kyoto

Day 1 — Gion 3 spots
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.

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.
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.
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.

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Jimmy, trail name Rocketman, with his arms raised behind the Katahdin summit sign on the Appalachian Trail — Rocketman 🚀 Katahdin, Maine Aug 17, 2022

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

Read the full story

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.

Leave your name and email and we'll send your invite the day the map opens. One email, nothing else.

Adventure Mapper is invite only while we're getting it right. Every trip that gets built teaches us something about the editor, the map, and the story view, so we're adding travelers a few at a time and reading what they make.

Leave your name and email and we'll send your invite the day the map opens to everyone. One email, nothing else.

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The best travel stories are maps

Written by you. Explored by them.

Places, days, and the spots in between

Map the adventure while it's happening

Pin it where you're standing

Let people follow along

Finish the story when you're home

Anywhere you go, however you get there

Where Adventure Mapper began

Now get out there and explore!

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