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Scenic routes for road trips

Discover the roads worth taking.

Your maps app gets you there. Byway™ makes the journey worth it. Tell it where you’re going and how long you have. Get a scenic route built around what you love — and the stops you’d otherwise drive straight past.

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From orbit to asphalt

Every road shown here is real.

All 863 of them — designated, signed, on record.

This one is East Steens.

The gold lights are verified lookouts.

Fly East Steens before you drive it. — 126 mi · 5 Scenic lookouts

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The problem · Speed is the only setting.

The road is the same. The drive isn’t.

Every navigation app solves one problem: arrival. So here is one real corridor driven twice on the same axis — once the way a maps app sees it, once the way Byway does.

There are 435,576 verified places out there. The fastest line was never built to show you one.

Leaving

Every stop on this plan is open when you would reach it.ClearedThe rain lifted — Vista House is back on the plan.

Any maps app58 min48 mi · no stops
Byway1h 15m52 mi · 3 verified stops · 95% scenic+17 min
12 PM

The Historic Highway was America's first scenic road built for the automobile — 1913.

Live · Watch the engine build.

Pick a place. Watch the road draw itself.

Pick a place and watch it snap a route of real, verified stops to real roads — then read why it chose them, the way the engine hands you a byway in the app.

Tell Byway where
A slow coastal day down Big Sur
Reading the road
  • Your taste
  • Verified places
  • Live weather
  • Open hours
Plan your own drive
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Personalization · A different journey for every traveler.

A different journey for every traveler.

Some travelers want waterfalls and mountain passes. Others want architecture, local food, hidden beaches, quiet towns. Byway shapes the drive around what matters to you — and it sharpens as you pick routes and linger at stops. Six signals go into every road it hands back. Yours comes first.

Your taste.

A preference vector that learns from every trip you start and every stop you linger on. Quiet, not creepy.

Verified places.

435,576 places, each traced to a real record before it ships. Zero hallucinations.

Live weather.

Redraws the day when the forecast moves. Not seasonal averages — minute-by-minute.

Operating hours.

Resequences stops so you arrive when places are actually open. No closed-on-Tuesday museums.

Local community.

When locals vouch, it counts most — Anini Beach made a Kauaʻi day because 47 locals backed it. Locals weighted first.

Companion drive.

Every route opens in Google Maps, one tap — beside you, never captive. Our own turn-by-turn is coming.

1.2B
annual road-trip travelers
70%
prefer off-the-beaten-path
6 of 6
signals built into Byway
863
designated & signed scenic routes worldwide
The lookouts · Real imagery only.

Stand here. It's already mapped.

Every photo is a surfaced scenic lookout on a real road, shot by the National Park Service and linked straight to its page — open one and plan the drive that passes it.

Cumberland Gap Pinnacle Overlook
Cumberland Gap Pinnacle OverlookEast Tennessee Crossing · National Park Service
Forest Canyon Overlook
Forest Canyon OverlookTrail Ridge Road Beaver Meadow Road · National Park Service
Phantom Ship Overlook
Phantom Ship OverlookVolcanic Legacy · National Park Service
Sunset View Overlook
Sunset View OverlookCedar Breaks Scenic Byway · National Park Service
Castle Rocks Geological Area Overlook
Castle Rocks Geological Area OverlookCity Of Rocks Back Country Byway · National Park Service
Bentonitic Clay Overlook
Bentonitic Clay OverlookTheodore Roosevelt National Park North Unit Scenic Byway · National Park Service
Lava Cliffs
Lava CliffsTrail Ridge Road Beaver Meadow Road · National Park Service
Bigfoot Pass Overlook
Bigfoot Pass OverlookBadlands Loop Scenic Byway · National Park Service
How it works · Three ways to begin.

Tell it where and how long. Make the journey yours.

Pick a starting point, tell Byway what you enjoy — nature, local gems, culture, food, quiet places — and how much time you have. It hands back a route shaped around that, with stops you can add or drop before handing turn-by-turn to your maps app.

Live in the app

Show me around

Drop a pin where you are. Byway surfaces the byways, stops, and overlooks worth the detour, auto-ordered into the shortest loop — or tap Surprise me and let it pick.

Plan a loop near me
Live in the app

Point A → B

Give it a start and a destination. Byway draws the scenic way between them — pulling in official byways along the route.

Plan A → B
Live in the app

Plan the whole trip

Chain it into a multi-day loop — several byways and parks stitched into one week on the road, an overnight stop anchoring each day.

Plan a multi-day loop

Every one hands back a byway — real places you can reorder, drop or keep, built from the official byways below.

Turn-by-turn · Coming with the app

Byway takes the wheel.

Our own turn-by-turn comes with the app: your exact plan becomes the navigation — on your phone, and in the car — with a voice between the turns.

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On your phone
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…and in the car
Speed
Simulated preview
Building nextScenic itineraries as the navigationA voice between the turnsOffline for the dead zonesDay & Dusk driving themesThen CarPlay & Android Auto
Multi-day · Live now.

Eight days. One loop.

AI bywayLive in the app

Eight days through Montana and Wyoming, June 19–26 — Bozeman out over the Beartooth, down through Yellowstone and the Tetons, and back. This is an AI byway: the engine stitches an official All-American Road together with the parks and extends it across the loop.

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Multi-day planning is live — plan this exact loop in the app. Every leg snaps to real roads; the Beartooth stretch carries the official All-American Road.

Narrate · Live in the app

A voice that knows
where you are.

As your day unfolds, Byway narrates it — Mark Twain’s line as you roll up to Waimea Canyon, the taro-farming history as you drop into Hanalei Valley. Four voices to choose from — Storyteller, Historian, Naturalist, Local — and every stop is written fresh from verified facts, never one it can’t back. Zero hallucinations. Live in the app today; human and local narrators, next.

Now narratingNalani · Historian
Kauaʻi · HI-550 mile 10

Waimea Canyon

A mile deep, 14 miles long · 800 m ahead

0:005:30
Live transcriptstreaming

“Mark Twain called it 'the grandest view of nature.' A mile deep, carved by the Waimea River over four million years. In eight hundred metres you'll round the bend to your first lookout.”

Up
Hanalei Valley · taro fields
Auto-queued in 18 km · 3 min story · Storyteller
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Discover · community file

Hidden gems,
verified by locals.

Take Anini Beach. Before it landed on a Kauaʻi day, 47 locals vouched for it — and the pin traces to a real map record, not a guess. Every pin Byway drops carries a file like this, because “hidden gem” shouldn’t mean “we made it up.” Locals weighted first. 47 locals

community file · anini-kauai-01Live

Anini Beach

22.222°N, −159.449°WKauaʻi, north shore

Reef's wide, no break, still quiet in July.

Verified by
KLMHNP
47 locals
Provenance
Community
When locals go
Early, before the trades
The rule
No real record, no pin

“Reef's wide, no break, no crowd. Come before the trades come up — and leave when the aunties arrive.”

KL · Kilauea local
Not on Google’s “top 10 things to do in Kauaʻi” · missing from TripAdvisor’s top beaches · still quiet for exactly that reason.
Byway Marketplace · Live in the app.

The people who live there
are sharing the drive.

A local who has driven a road a hundred times knows what the record cannot: which pull-off is worth the extra mile, when the light is right, where to eat afterwards. On Byway Marketplace they share that as a byway you can actually drive — some free, some paid, the way the best local guides have always worked. Whoever made it sets the price and keeps 70%; Byway charges nothing to list. Payouts and seller verification are next — we are not calling it done until the money moves.

Become a local — get paid for the roads you know
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Loneliest Road in America

$7

Nevada · Utah · 29 stops · 784 mi

  1. 1Fernley
  2. 2Fallon
  3. 3Sand Mountain Recreation Area
  4. 4Middlegate
  5. 5Eastgate
  6. 6Cold Springs
  7. 7Cold Springs Rest Stop
  8. 8Austin
Creator keeps 70% · no listing feeSee it on Byway Marketplace

Creator payouts and seller verification are still coming — the split is set, the money does not move yet.

The difference · Why nothing else does it.

Google Maps for turns. Byway for soul.

Use your maps app for turn-by-turn. Use Byway to decide what’s worth experiencing along the way. Other tools give you the fastest line or an invented itinerary; Byway reads every signal that makes the journey yours — taste, verified places, weather, hours, locals, companion — and only ships real places. Twelve capabilities; Byway is the only one that does all twelve, and it says plainly which part of the last one is still being built.

Scenic route, built for your taste
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Only real, verified places (zero hallucinations)
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Learns your taste across every trip
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Reads live weather into the route
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Resequences stops for opening hours
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Locals weighted over crowd noise
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Every designated scenic byway in the atlas, from its official record
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Show me around · A → B · a multi-day loop
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Hands turn-by-turn to your maps app
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Narration of stops & routes
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Explains why it picked each stop
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Build & sell your own byways
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Building and selling your own byway is live: any creator in the beta can publish a complete Byway, set it free or paid, and travelers buy today — pricing one takes a paid plan at launch, publishing free never will. Creator payouts and seller verification are still coming, so that row is ticked for what ships, not for what is finished. Everything else, narration included, ships with Byway v1.

Build my route
The byway · One object, four origins.

One byway. Four origins.

A byway is one object, and there are four ways it comes to exist: designated by an authority, planned by the engine, learned from you, or authored by the people who live there.

Official

Official

Every designated scenic byway, drawn straight from the record of the authority that designated it — the US federal record to Norway’s Nasjonale turistveger.

863 routes · 8 countries

Browse the directory
BywayLive in the app

Byway Engine

Not a guess. The engine reads the road itself — official geometry, verified stops, opening hours, weather, daylight — and plans a drive that holds together. Ask again tomorrow and you get the same road.

Plan a drive
PersonalLive in the app

Learned

Pointed at one traveler: you. It learns from the roads you keep and the stops you linger at, and the model it builds is yours alone — every drive it offers lands closer to the one you would have picked yourself.

See your compass
MarketplaceLive in the app

Community

Locals and creators author their own byways and price them — travelers buy today. Creator payouts, next. Locals weighted first.

Publish yours

The engine extends the official roads. Locals author their own. And the more you drive, the more we learn your preferences — personalizing every road we hand back.

Discover places · Every one traced to a record.

Not just the road. What's beside it.

SvartifossWaterfallsSvartifoss · Andreas Tille · CC BY-SA 4.0Morning Glory PoolHot springsMorning Glory PoolBoston LightLighthousesBoston Light · MBTafan2011 · CC BY 3.0Forksville Covered BridgeCovered bridgesForksville Covered Bridge · Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Bowling Ball BeachBeachesBowling Ball Beach · Brocken Inaglory (edited by Noodle snacks ) · CC BY-SA 3.0Castel Sant'AngeloHistoric sitesCastel Sant'Angelo · Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0Mount HoodPeaksMount Hood · Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory.BodieGhost townsBodie · PDPhoto.orgNatural Bridges National MonumentDark sky placesNatural Bridges National Monument · Natural Bridges National Monument · CC BY 2.0
The Byway atlas · 8 countries and counting.

Routes around the world, one road at a time.

863 designated and signed scenic routes, drawn from the records of the authorities that designated them — the US federal record, Norway's Nasjonale turistveger, Québec's routes touristiques, and more — across 56 states and territories. Verified, not invented.

863
Designated & signed routes
8
Countries in the atlas
2,095
Scenic lookouts
435,576
Verified places
United States815 routes
Norway18 routes
Québec19 routes
New Zealand5 routes
Ireland2 routes
Iceland1 route
France2 routes
Northern Ireland1 route
Blue Ridge ParkwayWild Atlantic WayGeiranger–TrollstigenBig Sur Coast HighwayChemin du RoyRing RoadBeartooth HighwayBrowse all 863

Product access is in US private beta; the atlas is global today. Where Byway works

Where to next · The collections.

Pick a road. The rest follows.

Schooner Head Overlook Parking Lot Accessibility InformationBywaysEvery designated scenic road, drawn from the federal record.Acadia Scenic Byway · National Park ServiceDiablo Lake OverlookLookoutsScenic overlooks with real photos and provenance.Diablo Lake Overlook · National Park ServiceGlacier National ParkNational parksEvery US national park, and the scenic drives that reach it.Glacier National Park · U.S. National Park ServiceGrand Staircase-EscalantePublic landForests and monuments, and the overnight rules that apply.Grand Staircase-Escalante · Bureau of Land ManagementTwo tents (yellow and blue) with a picnic table in forested campground areaCampgroundsSites, fees and hours, straight from the Park Service.North Rim Campground · NPS Photoa native stone and wood building, sidewalks through a grassy meadow, towering conifers, and blue skyVisitor centersWhere a park starts, and when the doors are open.Rim Visitor Center · NPS photo
Every road has a story.

Your next great trip may be hidingbetween destinations.

Plan a route that fits your time, interests, and sense of adventure — and remember how you got there, not just that you arrived. The web app is live, free while Byway is in beta. Native apps are close behind, and Byway’s own turn-by-turn navigation — CarPlay and Android Auto included — is on the way.

Create your routeFree while Byway is in beta · no card
One engine · 12 products

Everything Byway makes, named.

The foundation

What you keep

How you reach it