AI Trip Planning for Overlanders

You have the maps.
We craft the plan.

AI-generated trip plans built around your rig —
every trail, every campground, every condition.

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How it comes together

Your rig.

Tell us what you drive and how it's kitted — ground clearance, tires, fuel range, sleeping setup.

Your route.

Vehicle-aware routing woven through weather windows, seasonal closures, and permit boundaries.

Your plan.

Complete day-by-day itinerary — trails, camps, fuel stops, contingencies — in under 60 seconds.

Overlanding rig parked at a mountain overlook at golden hour

Your rig.

Clearance, tires, capability — matched.

Map and route plan spread across a vehicle-ready terrain view

Your route.

Vehicle-aware routing, weather-woven.

Overlanding scene at a remote campsite at blue hour

Your plan.

Complete itinerary, in under 60 seconds.

Overlanding vehicle with rooftop tent parked at dawn in a golden-lit forest clearing
The Planning Problem

You have 4 apps open
and 12 browser tabs.
There's a better way.

Planning an overlanding trip means cross-referencing trail conditions, campground availability, weather windows, and what your rig can actually handle — across half a dozen apps that don't talk to each other.

PathCrafter does that in one place, in under 60 seconds.

onX shows you the trail. It can't tell you if your rig can run it.
Gaia has the maps. It won't build you a 5-day itinerary.
Google has the directions. It doesn't know what a dispersed camp is.
How it works

Three steps.
One trip plan.

Vehicle profile input panel with make, model, clearance, and tire fields
01

Configure your rig

Enter your vehicle's ground clearance, wheelbase, and experience level. PathCrafter builds a profile that steers every plan around it.

Dark topographic map with a glowing burnt-orange destination pin
02

Set your destination

Drop a region, a state, a specific trail — or say "anywhere within 4 hours of Denver." We work with what you've got.

Complete PathCrafter trip plan card with itinerary, campground, and weather data
03

Get your plan

In under 60 seconds you have a full 5-day plan — daily routes, campground picks matched to your rig, weather windows, and a GPX file to import into your maps app.

What you get

Everything your trip needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Vehicle Intelligence

Every plan, built around your rig.

Clearance, wheelbase, tire size, experience level — PathCrafter steers every recommendation around what your vehicle can actually do.

AI Trip Planning

60-second itineraries.

Weather + Conditions

Know before you go.

Campground Search

Every campground scored for your rig.

GPX Export

Import into onX, Gaia, anywhere.

Trip Saving

Save and re-run any plan.

How we compare

Plan with PathCrafter.
Navigate with onX.

We're not a map app. We're the planning layer that happens before you open your maps.

Smartphone showing chaotic overlapping map, weather, and spreadsheet apps
Before PathCrafter
Same phone showing a clean PathCrafter trip plan card
With PathCrafter
AI trip planning— grounded in real campground and weather data.
Vehicle-aware routing— matched to your clearance, tires, and rig.
Free tier— onX doesn't.
GPX export— we play nice with your maps.
What's Coming

We're building
in the open.

PathCrafter is early. Here's exactly what's built, what's in progress, and what's coming. No vague "exciting features" — real things, real timelines.

Now

Built and working

  • AI trip plan generation (Gemini 2.5 Flash, with Claude as automatic fallback)
  • Vehicle profile input and matching
  • NWS weather integration
  • Interactive map with route display
  • Campground search (5,000+ Recreation.gov sites)
  • Fuel, water & repair points on the map (41,000+ across the West)
  • GPX export
  • Trip saving and account management
  • Stripe checkout (Explorer + Adventurer plans)
Soon

Next 60 days

  • Multi-day itinerary builder with day-by-day breakdown
  • Dispersed camping database expansion
  • Trail difficulty rating by vehicle type
  • POI coverage beyond the western US
Later

Post-LTD

  • Community trip reports and hidden gems
  • Offline trip plan caching
  • React Native mobile app (iOS/Android)
Who's Building This

Built by an overlander,
for overlanders.

I built PathCrafter as a solo overlander who was tired of doing this the hard way — spending 4–5 hours planning trips that took 10 minutes to decide on. I had onX for maps, a spreadsheet for campsites, Weather.gov in another tab, and a forum post for trail conditions. None of it talked to each other.

PathCrafter is the tool I wanted and couldn't find. It's early, it's honest about what it can and can't do, and I'm building it with the people who buy it.

If you buy early, you get direct access to me — and a voice in what gets built next.

See Founding Access
Common Questions

Straight answers.

What exactly does PathCrafter do?

You enter your vehicle's specs — clearance, length, 4WD or not — and where you want to go. PathCrafter generates a complete overlanding trip plan: daily driving segments matched to your rig, campgrounds from a 5,000+ database sourced from Recreation.gov, and weather along the route from the National Weather Service. You can export any plan as GPX for your GPS or nav app.

Does it replace onX or Gaia?

No, and it's not trying to. onX and Gaia are the best maps in the game — keep them. PathCrafter is the planning layer that decides where you're going and where you're sleeping before you ever open the map. You have the maps. We craft the plan.

What does it cost?

The free tier is live today: 3 AI trip plans per month, vehicle profiles, the full campground database, weather-aware planning, and GPX export — no credit card. Paid plans raise the monthly limits: Explorer at $12/month or $99/year, Adventurer at $19/month or $149/year. Cancel anytime.

What's the founding lifetime deal?

A capped batch of 100 lifetime-access seats, sold once for $249. Founding Crafters pay a single price, keep access for life, and get a direct line to the founder plus a real voice in the roadmap. It exists to fund development and build the product with the people using it. Seats are live now — checkout enforces the cap, so once 100 are claimed the offer ends.

Do I need a built rig?

No. PathCrafter plans around whatever you drive — a stock Subaru, a rented 4Runner, or a fully built rig on 37s. Plans are matched to your actual clearance, length, and drivetrain, so you're never routed onto something your vehicle can't handle.