Find the quiet camp. Plan the whole trip. Then go.

Plan for Adventure scouts campsites across America's public lands for solitude, dark skies and the road in, turns your picks into a day-by-day trip with real drive times, and keeps working when the signal doesn't.

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The Plan for Adventure map in 3D over Ouray, Colorado: campsites along US-550 and the valleys of the San Juan Mountains
Public land, mappedGovernment and OpenStreetMap data, unified in the Adventure Atlas.
A recon report on every campSolitude, dark sky, the road in, water and shade.
Trips on real roadsDay-by-day plans with drive times, dirt included.
Built for no signalOffline packs and route-following on the trail.
A recon report on every campsite

Know the spot before you drive the road.

A pin and a handful of reviews won't tell you if a camp is worth the dirt. We read the land itself and check every campsite in the Adventure Atlas for the things that make or break a night out.

The recon report for a dispersed camp on BLM land near Moab: solitude, views, approach, forecast and site details, on the topo map

Solitude

How far it sits from pavement, towns and other camps. Our own score, built for the question everyone asks first: will we have it to ourselves?

Dark sky

How dark the night really gets, for the trips where the stars are the whole point.

The road in

How rough the approach is and what it takes to get there, so you know before you commit the rig or the trailer.

Water & shade

How far to the nearest water and whether it runs year-round, plus tree cover and how much shade you will actually get.

Whose land it is

BLM, Forest Service, wilderness, state or tribal land, and the vehicle-use roads that say what you can drive and when.

Views, shelter & weather

Panoramic or tucked away, how protected the site is from the wind, plus the week's forecast and the usual climate for the month you go.

Adventure Atlas

Campgrounds too, with photos.

Not every night is a dispersed spot. Recreation.gov campgrounds from the National Park Service, Forest Service and BLM sit on the same map, with their photos and the same recon report as everything else.

  • Developed and dispersed side by side, so the backup plan is one tap away.
  • Photos from Recreation.gov on campground listings.
  • One recon report for every kind of camp.
Devils Garden Campground in Arches National Park on the topo map, with Recreation.gov photos of red-rock fins and its recon report
Free for everyone

Show everything. Filter down to your kind of camp.

Start with the whole map and narrow it until only the right places are left: high solitude, dark skies, an easy road for the trailer, close to pavement for a late arrival.

  • The full report on every place, on every account, free.
  • Filters that match how you camp: solitude, dark sky, the road in and more.
  • Search for any camp, town or place by name.
Plan for Adventure filters narrowing the map near Moab to 128 campsites with high solitude and pristine dark skies
Planner

Plan the whole trip, not just tonight.

Pull the camps you like into a trip, lay them out day by day, and see real drive times on real roads, the dirt ones included. Move a stop and the route follows. Every change saves as you go.

  • Day-by-day itineraries with drive times between every stop.
  • Collections for gathering places with your notes, ready to send a friend.
  • Share a trip or collection with one link. Your crew opens it on the map.
  • Trip sheets in PDF and GPX for the glovebox and your other gear.
A four-day Canyon Country Loop from Moab through the San Rafael Swell: the itinerary by day with drive times, and each day's route drawn on the topo map
Planner

Made for no‑signal country.

The plan doesn't stay on the desk. Download a pack before you lose service and your camps, trip and map details ride along. On the trail, Plan for Adventure shows where you are and keeps you on the route you planned.

  • Offline packs for the places you're headed.
  • Route to any place, and follow your trip's route as you drive.
  • Live wildfire layer showing fires burning now and recently out.
  • Works on your phone and tablet, the same account and trips everywhere.
Plan for Adventure on a phone: a dispersed camp on BLM land near Moab with its recon report, forecast and route button
Planner

Bring the pins you've collected for years.

Import your own GPX, KML, GeoJSON and CSV files from wherever they live today. They land on the same map as the Atlas, and your own campsites get the same recon report as everything else. Your data stays yours: private to your account unless you share it.

Trailblazer

Plan out loud with your AI assistant.

Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your Plan for Adventure account and plan the way you'd talk to a friend who knows the backcountry. It searches the same map and recon data, checks the weather and drive times, and saves the trip to your account, ready to open on the map.

Three nights around the San Rafael Swell in late October. Quiet camps, dark skies, nothing my Tacoma can't handle, and no more than two hours of driving a day.
Here's a loop that fits. Night one is a high-solitude camp off a graded road, about 1 h 40 min in. Night two drops into a canyon with some of the darkest skies in the area… I've saved it as “Swell Loop” in your trips.Example conversation
Plans

The map stays free.

Seeing the data never costs a thing. Pay when you want to plan with it.

Explorer

Free, always

  • The whole Adventure Atlas map
  • The full recon report on every place
  • Search and filters
  • Open trips and collections shared with you

Planner

Plan trips by hand

  • Trips with day-by-day itineraries and drive times
  • Offline packs for no-signal country
  • Route to any place and follow your trip
  • Import your own data, collections and sharing

Trailblazer

Plan with an AI assistant

  • Everything in Planner
  • AI trip planning with Claude or ChatGPT
  • Import curated sources
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The first 100 paying members get their first year for $45 on Planner or $75 on Trailblazer. After that it renews at the regular $59 or $99 a year.

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