Built by someone who does the trips.

I built this app to help me plan my own trips as efficiently as possible. Most of the work that used to go into planning a trip has been handed over to AI, and honestly, it does a reasonable job. I tested it against trips I'd actually taken, routes I knew, places I'd stayed, and the results weren't bad. Not perfect, but a solid starting point. That's the part worth being clear about: a starting point is not a plan.

What I couldn't find anywhere was one place to hold the whole thing: the hike, the hotel, the gear list, the drive. I was tired of checking four different apps and a notes file to make sure nothing had slipped. I wanted to open one screen and know everything was accounted for.

Then I wanted to share it with the friends coming with me, so that got built. Then weather, because a weekend in the mountains lives and dies by the forecast. It kept morphing from there into what you're looking at now.

Field-tested where it matters

The last piece came from wanting somewhere for people to share what they're actually doing out there. That's where the Verified layer comes from: a way for me, or someone I know and trust, to say this one's good, I've done it, while still leaving room for everyone else to add their own experience. AI can give you an itinerary. It can't tell you the trailhead lot fills by 7:30, or that the shortcut is a mess after rain.

I've summited Colorado 14ers on pre-dawn starts, run Class IV whitewater on the Arkansas, scrambled the iron rungs above Ouray, kayaked the Everglades mangroves, and hiked the Precipice Trail at Acadia with the ocean fog still burning off below. These aren't descriptions I pulled from somewhere else.

Every trip on this site, whether I've personally done it or not, is checked against the same standard: current permits, hours, and conditions, verified before it's published and re-checked on a regular cadence. See how we verify for the full process.

So: field-tested where it matters, AI where it saves time, all in one place. That's the whole idea.

What's here

Two ways to use the site. If you want help planning a specific trip, I offer advisory services and will work with you directly. If you want to plan on your own, the planner is free to start and includes every itinerary I've built, with permits, gear lists, and day-by-day structure.

Based in Missouri

I'm not a local. Every trip to the Rockies or the coast means a flight or a long drive, a fixed number of days, and a plan that actually has to work. Most people planning these trips are in exactly that position, and I think that's shaped how I plan better than being a local would.

When you've traveled to get somewhere, a wasted day is a real loss. You need to know which trails are worth the drive, how to stack two big objectives without burning out, and where to sleep so you're not losing two hours of morning. That's the thinking behind every itinerary here.

I appreciate any feedback on what works and what doesn't.