Plan a route
Search for a start and a destination, a trail by name, or click the map.Search for a start and a destination, a trail by name, or tap the map.
- —Distance
- —Ascent
- —Descent
- —Walking time
Time by DIN 33466, the Alpine clubs' formula.
Choosing a date asks MET Norway, through our server, for the forecast at your start, rounded to about 1 km. They never see your address. Privacy policy
Route
Date, daylight and weather
The planner can’t know tides, currents, wind or access rights: check them before you go.
This prefers lower ground where there is another way. It does not avoid high ground: if your start or finish is up a hill, or there is no other way, the route still goes there.
On the water
Locks and weirs
My routes
Kept in this browser only. Nothing is stored on our server.
Open in the app needs Global Adventurer on your phone or tablet, from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or from Google Play for Android. On a computer, copy the link and open it on the phone.
Routes follow paths mapped on OpenStreetMap; in remote country the line may take the long way round.
Routes follow OpenStreetMap, planned by BRouter — our own wherever our server holds the map (Great Britain, Ireland and a growing list of other countries), the volunteer-run public one elsewhere and for very long legs — so they depend on the paths being mapped: in remote country the line may take the long way round. A paddle follows the rivers, canals and lakes mapped on OpenStreetMap, and is a dashed straight line where none joins two points. The route lives in the link.
Maps © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Routing by BRouter. Route overlays by Waymarked Trails. Seamarks © OpenSeaMap (CC BY-SA). US charts by NOAA Office of Coast Survey.
Weather forecasts: MET Norway, asked for by our server when you choose a date.
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On the way
On the way
Summits
Huts, bothies and shelters
Places to stay on the way
Drinking water
Parking near the start
Ways off the route
Towns, villages, huts and bothies near the line, in the order the route meets them: places to get to if the weather turns or the way is shut. They come from OpenStreetMap, which does not say whether a place is open or has room, or whether a path leads to it.
Distances are in a straight line from the place to the line drawn on the map. Whether a path leads to a place is not known: look at the map. Looking for them sends our server the shape of your route and nothing else. Read more
Plan B: variants of this plan
Keep this plan under a name, then change it and keep that one too: a harder day, a shorter one, a way for wet weather. Switch between them here.
No variants of this plan are kept yet.
Compare
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The figures are as they were when each was saved. The small figures beneath show how each differs from the one on the map now.
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Variants stay in this browser. They are not in the link, and our server never sees them. The plan file you download holds them. Read more
Getting there and getting home
Directions open in your map apps, from where you are. In Great Britain, the bus stops and stations near each end are listed, with the timetables for the buses.
Pressing a button here sends our server the start or the finish, rounded to about 100 m, and, for times, the stop’s code with the day and the hour to look from. Nothing else about you or your route is sent, and nothing is kept about who asked. Read more
Days
Days
Make a route and its days will be here.
Suggest days cuts the route into days of about that length, ending at towns, huts and campsites where there are some. A day longer than your figure is marked. The figure stays in this browser: it is not in the link.
Add a start date to see dates here.
Times of day
A later start on the first day, or an earlier finish on the last, makes those days shorter and the others longer.
Looks along the route for towns, huts, hostels and campsites (OpenStreetMap, through our server) and ends each day at one where it can.
Asks our server, with the shape of the route and nothing you wrote, for the shops and the drinking water that OpenStreetMap has along it, within about 300 m. A shop may have closed and opening hours are not known; a tap may be turned off. Read more
One ZIP with a GPX file for each day: that day’s own track, a start and an end point named by place, and the place where you sleep. Nothing you wrote about the nights is in it.
Asks our server for the forecast where each day ends, rounded to about 1 km, at the hour you arrive: one request for each day within about nine days, one after another. Nothing you wrote is sent. Privacy policy
Prices, booking marks and notes stay in this browser. They are not in the link, and our server never sees them. Read more
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Forecasts from MET Norway, asked for by our server once for the end of each day, rounded to about 1 km. Forecasts, not promises. Privacy policy
Directions
Directions
The turns as the router describes them, along the paths OpenStreetMap has. Compare them with the map.
The route opens in the planner on your phone. Tap Open in Global Adventurer there to follow it, take it offline or send it to your watch.
- Drag the orange line onto another path and the route goes that way.Press and hold the orange line, then drag it onto another path: the route goes that way.
- Drag S, F or a stop in between to move it. Click one to remove it.Drag S, F or a stop in between to move it. Tap one to remove it.
- Click the map to carry the route on past the finish.Tap the map to carry the route on past the finish.
- Undo and Redo put it back: Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z on a Mac.Undo and Redo, beside the ? on this bar, put it back.
Keys
- Z
- Undo
- Shift Z
- Redo
- S
- Snap to paths on or off
- A
- Avoid a spot
- Shift A
- Avoid an area
- R
- Reverse the route
- L
- Layers
- D
- Show or hide the profile
- /
- Search for a place
- ?
- This list
- Esc
- Close what is open
These work while the map has focus. Ctrl+Z (⌘Z on a Mac) undoes and Ctrl+Y (⇧⌘Z) redoes from anywhere on the page.