Plan a camping ride where the camps, fuel and views are sorted for you

How MotoRidez plans an overnight or multi-day ride: campgrounds from open data, fuel stops where your tank runs out, and lookouts on the way.

Lake Eildon National Park seen from above, forested ridges running down to the water
Lake Eildon, where the bush camping within reach of Melbourne starts. Photo by Bob Tan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Most camping trips go wrong in one of three places. The camp was not what you pictured, the fuel gap was longer than the tank, or the views you wanted were an hour behind you by the time you thought of them. They are three separate chores in three separate apps, and they all depend on the same road.

MotoRidez puts them on one route.

Example three-night ride: a route line with camps each evening, fuel stops where the tank runs low and lookouts along the way. What the planner puts on your route An illustrative three-day ride. Real stops depend on your route and your bike's range. Start Fuel Lookout Camp 1 Fuel Lookout Camp 2 Fuel Lookout Camp 3 Teal circle: fuel option near the road · Rust circle: lookout · Square: campground
Illustration, not a real route.

A camp every night

Tell it how many days you have and how far you like to ride, and it builds the whole ride with somewhere to camp each night and the good roads in between. It works out the nights first, then the roads between them, so a day does not end where there is nothing to stay.

You can also start with the days empty and choose every camp yourself. Either way, every day is an ordinary ride. Swap the camp, make one leg fast and the next curvy, or edit the route like any other.

Because each day is a normal ride, everything else still works: navigation, recording, sharing and offline. You can share the whole trip as one link, and the people who say yes to one day are counted in for the rest.

Camp data that says what it knows

The campground layer is built from government open data, not a scraped listing. State forest campgrounds, huts and parks come from the agencies that run them, alongside open map data and thousands of roadside rest areas.

  • What a camp tells you. Where the source records it: the fee, whether you need to book, what vehicle can reach it, and a link to the park’s own page.
  • Silence is not a no. If a source does not record toilets or fire rules, we treat that as unknown, never as absent. Check the park’s page.
  • Rest areas are not camps. A roadside rest area is shown as one. Whether you can sleep there is a council question the data does not answer.
  • No prices or availability. They change daily, so we send you to the park instead of showing a number that may be wrong.

The vehicle-access detail matters more than it sounds. In our Victorian data, only about one bush campground in ten has a paved road all the way to the door. Camping in Victoria has the numbers.

Fuel, worked out for your bike

Enter your bike’s range and the planner does the arithmetic you would otherwise do at the roadside. It marks where each tank runs out along your route and offers up to three fuel stations within 2 km of the road for that fill-up.

  • Warnings are set at 90 percent of your stated range, which leaves room for a closed servo, a pump that is out of 98, or a stretch that is longer than the map promised.
  • If your bike covers the route on one tank, it says nothing. Silence is the right answer far more often than a warning.

The maths behind it is in fuel range planning for rides.

Lookouts on the way

Lookouts sit on the map as a layer along your route, so a good view is a stop you can add in a tap rather than something you find out about after you have passed it. Place the stops you want, and the ride includes them.

What might go wrong, before it does

A multi-day ride is flagged day by day for the things that spoil one: fuel gaps, arriving after dark, cold nights and road closures along the route. Closures are shown as they are reported by the road authority.

Before you go

Save the route for offline use. It saves the corridor around your route, not a whole region, so do it before you lose signal.

If you want to see how it works, the camping route planner page has the short version, and the camping checklist covers what to pack.

Campground and road details come from public data and change. Confirm fees, bookings and closures with the park or road authority before you go.

Questions riders ask

How do I plan a camping trip by motorcycle or car?

Pick the number of days and how far you like to ride in a day. MotoRidez builds a multi-day ride with a campground each night and good roads in between, or you can start with empty days and choose every camp yourself. Every day is an ordinary ride you can edit.

Does it tell me where to fuel up?

Yes, if you have told it your bike's range. It marks where each tank runs out along the route and offers up to three fuel stations within 2 km of the road for that fill-up. Warnings are set at 90 percent of your stated range to leave room for a closed servo.

Where does the campground data come from?

Government open data for state forests, parks and huts, plus open map data. That is where fee, booking and vehicle-access details come from. Where a source does not record something, we treat it as unknown, never as a no. Prices and availability are not shown: the place card links to the park's own page.

Can I plan a camping ride and use it with no signal?

You can save the route's corridor for offline use. It covers the route, not a whole region, so save it before you leave.

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