cycle.travel makes it easy to plan routes split across multiple days (and you don’t have to pay any extra to do so!).

The basics

Set overnight via points at the places you want to stay. These act just like any other via points, so you can drag them around, but they appear with a special moon icon.

To set an overnight point, just click anywhere on your journey (whether an existing via point or not) and click Overnight stop in the popup bubble.

The yellow distance markers will reset from then on. You can also see each day highlighted on the elevation display.

Automatically suggesting overnights

cycle.travel can place overnight points at a pre-determined interval, so you can easily split your route into days of the same distance. You can then fine-tune the suggestions by dragging the points around to towns with hotels/camping, evening out the daily climb, etc.

Click the Suggest overnight stops text link on the left (under Route summary). Choose how many days you want to split into. As you adjust the number of days, the daily distance is updated. You can choose shorter start/finish days to allow for travelling time to/from your ride.

We’d strongly recommend using the elevation display when planning multi-day routes, because it gives an all-in-one display of distance and climbing for each day.

Saving your multi-day journey

You can just save the journey like any other, and the overnight stops will be preserved.

But once you’ve settled on your overnight stops, you might want to split it into a single journey for each day. This is particularly useful when following routes on a GPS unit or the cycle.travel mobile app. To do this, when saving, click Split into multiple days.