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.
Show me around →Better drive, same destination. Byway™is the AI scenic-routing engine — tell it where you’re going, and it routes you through 373,000+ verified places, picked for your taste. Real places, real weather. Zero hallucinations.
Google Maps for turns. Byway for soul. One tap hands any leg to the maps app you already trust — and Byway keeps your place.
The turns stay yours.
Tap Navigate on the Byway phone — this leg opens in the maps app you already trust.
Both phones are live — tap Navigate to play the hand-off
Our own turn-by-turn is next: your exact plan becomes the navigation — on your phone, and in the car — with a voice between the turns.
Every drive begins one of three ways. Each hands the road to the same engine — which builds you a byway from real places, real weather, zero hallucinations.
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.
Show me around →Give it a start and a destination. Byway draws the scenic way between them — pulling in official byways along the route.
Plan A → B →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 →Each one produces an AI byway — a route the engine builds from the official byways below.
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.
Most tools read one or two of these. Byway is built on all six — which is why the road it hands back feels chosen, not generated.
A preference vector that learns from every trip you start and every stop you linger on. Quiet, not creepy.
373,000+ places, each traced to a real record before it ships. Zero hallucinations.
Redraws the day when the forecast moves. Not seasonal averages — minute-by-minute.
Resequences stops so you arrive when places are actually open. No closed-on-Tuesday museums.
When locals vouch, it counts most — Anini Beach made a Kauaʻi day because 47 locals backed it. Locals weighted first.
Every route opens in Google Maps, one tap — beside you, never captive. Our own turn-by-turn is coming.
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
Reef's wide, no break, still quiet in July.
“Reef's wide, no break, no crowd. Come before the trades come up — and leave when the aunties arrive.”
Byway reads all 184 nationally designated scenic byways — plus hundreds of state routes — straight from the federal record. Blue Ridge to Big Sur, verified, not invented. These are the official byways; the engine builds on top of them.
And the map doesn’t stop at the border — the engine is built global and routes anywhere on Earth. US private beta now, US + EU launch next, then the world. Where Byway works →
Each byway in the directory is drawn straight from the federal GIS record — the actual road, segment for segment. Pick one and watch it land on the map.
North Carolina · Virginia
Verified from the USDOT · FHWA record — then Byway turns it into a drive worth taking: real places, real weather, zero hallucinations.
Other tools give you the fastest line or an invented itinerary. Byway reads every signal that makes a drive worth taking — taste, verified places, weather, hours, locals, companion — and only ships real places. Twelve capabilities; Byway leads on eleven, and is honest about the twelfth.
| Byway | Google Maps | ChatGPT | Roadtrippers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenic route, built for your taste | ||||
| Only real, verified places (zero hallucinations) | ||||
| Learns your taste across every trip | ||||
| Reads live weather into the route | ||||
| Resequences stops for opening hours | ||||
| Locals weighted over crowd noise | ||||
| Every U.S. scenic byway, from the federal record | ||||
| Show me around · A → B · a multi-day loop | ||||
| Hands turn-by-turn to your maps app | ||||
| Narration of stops & routes | ||||
| Explains why it picked each stop | ||||
| Build & sell your own byways |
One Byway row is still in progress: publishing and pricing your own byway is live today; creator payouts and seller verification are still coming, so we’re not calling it done. Everything else, narration included, ships with Byway v1.
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.
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.
South down the Paradise Valley shoulder, then east to the foot of the Beartooths — Red Lodge for the night.
The Beartooth Highway — an All-American Road topping out at 10,947 ft — drops into Yellowstone's northeast corner, past Lamar Valley and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone to the grand lakeside hotel.
Why this order: the Beartooth is seasonal and weather-gated at altitude — the engine crosses it early in the loop, not last.
Geyser country — Hayden Valley, Grand Prismatic at midday, Old Faithful and the Upper Basin — to Grant on the lake's west thumb.
South past Lewis Lake as the Teton range rises ahead — Signal Mountain and Jenny Lake, then the lodge under the peaks.
Oxbow Bend and Mormon Row at first light, Granite Hot Springs, then down to the Snake River — the birthday stop.
North up the Gallatin Canyon in evening light to Big Sky, the high country trailing behind you.
The Kircliff glass observatory at 11,166 ft, then over to Pine Creek and a night under canvas on the Yellowstone River.
A slow morning in Paradise Valley, Livingston's downtown, then home to Bozeman — the loop closed.
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.
A mile deep, 14 miles long · 800 m ahead
“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.”
The engine that plans your drive, the places it trusts, the maps it draws, the voice that reads the road — all ours, live today. Next, we’re building the turns themselves. Coming, and coming fast.
The same routing engine that navigates a Tesla, planning every Byway route on infrastructure we control.
A growing stop knowledge base. If a place can't be verified, it doesn't ship. Zero hallucinations.
Every US state on maps we render ourselves — Alaska and Hawaii included, not bolted on.
Narration that knows where you are — a voice reading the road, live in the app today.
Scenic itineraries as first-class navigation, with the voice narrating between the turns.
Maps and guidance that hold where signal dies. Day and Dusk themes, tuned for the windshield.
CarPlay, then Android Auto — when they're ready, not before. No date we can't keep.
Every Byway route always opens in Google Maps with one tap. We’re building the turns too — but we’ll never trap you in them. No lock-in, ever.
Official, AI, or community — a byway is one thing with three origins. The directory tags each the way it already tags an All-American Road.
Every federally designated scenic byway, drawn straight from the FHWA record.
815 byways · 184 national
Browse the directory →The engine builds a byway for your drive — your location, your A → B, your trip — incorporating and extending the official ones along the way.
Plan a drive →Locals and creators author their own byways and price them — travelers buy today. Creator payouts, next. Locals weighted first.
Publish yours →AI byways incorporate and extend official ones. Community byways come from the people who live there.
We shipped the AI scenic routing engine first — routing, multi-day trips, narration, and the local signal, done right. Native apps land this phase, Q4 2026. Our own turn-by-turn navigation and the creator marketplace follow when the core is undeniable — not before.
On the horizon:Byway’s own navigation reaches the car — CarPlay, then Android Auto. Filed with Apple and Google; we ship when they clear it, not before. No date we can’t keep.
Every scenic route and every byway is free while Byway is in private beta — no card. When we launch, paid plans arrive; beta drivers keep the best seat.
Byway is free while we’re in private beta — every scenic route, every byway, no card.
When we launch, the plans below arrive. Beta drivers keep the best seat — no lock-in, no dark patterns.
Start free →1 user
For the occasional road-tripper.
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For people who drive often.
2 users
For two who travel together.
Up to 6 users
For groups, families & creators.
Help us build it. Lock Voyager-tier access forever, get a founding-member badge on every itinerary you publish, and a direct line to the team.
Built by the team that shipped a travel app to 1M+ travelers across 80+ countries (4.8★, 19K+ reviews). Now shipping Byway.
The web app is live — plan a scenic route today, 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.