Adding Dates to Your Trip

Whether you're just starting to plan or already have all your stops lined up, you can use our Add Dates feature to tell us the start and end dates for your trip and we'll organize the trip by date for you.

To add dates to your trip, just click or tap the Add Dates button at the top of the trip itinerary and enter your start and end dates.

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After you add dates, you'll be asked if you would like to keep your trip public, or set it to private. You can learn more about privacy settings and how they affect visibility here

If you see a button that says 'Clear Dates' instead of 'Add Dates', you already have dates on your trip!

After setting a date range for your trip, we'll schedule your existing stops with a suggested date. Don't worry - you can easily adjust the date afterward! When you want to add more stops you can either let Roadtrippers insert it where we think makes sense or you can add the stop directly to a date of your choosing.

Clear Dates

If dates are already applied to your trip, then you'll see a Clear Dates button that will clear all dates from your trip. When you'll click that button, a warning message will ask if you're sure you want to continue because this cannot be undone.

If you want to proceed with clearing dates, click Clear. If not, click Cancel to go back to your trip.

Learn more about planning trips with dates on web and mobile below.
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Let Us Suggest a Date

Click the big blue + Add Waypoint button banner that floats towards the bottom of your list of stops to open the "Add Waypoint" search field. You will then have the option to type the place you want to add and and select it from the list, or use our Autopilot waypoint suggestion tool if you are a Premium member. Either way, we'll automatically add this new waypoint to your trip with a suggested date.

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Add Directly to a Date

With dates saved to your trip, you'll also see an Add Waypoint + button to the right of the date on each day or date range segment of your itinerary. Click the blue circle + (add waypoint) button shown there to open the search field, where you can type in a place you want to add and select it from the list, or use our Autopilot suggestion tool if you are a Premium member. The new waypoint will be added directly to your chosen date within the trip.

If you click Add next to an empty segment of multiple days, the waypoint will be added to one of the dates within that range using our date-assigning logic and you can move it to another date afterward.

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Edit Waypoint Dates

To move a waypoint to a different date, click and grab the dots to the left of the waypoint and you can drag and drop the waypoint within the itinerary. 

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Alternatively, you can click the waypoint to open the waypoint details and change the date there.

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Daily Totals

If dates are applied to your trip, you'll see a daily totals line under each date so that you can easily see how many stops are scheduled, as well as the estimated miles/km and time for that day.

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