A trip is where you settle, not just the road between

The problem with a line on a map

Most planners model a trip as a single continuous route, with every place reduced to a waypoint on that line. It's a great way to think about driving — and a poor way to think about a holiday. The moment you arrive somewhere, the route stops mattering. You're walking into town, finding a beach, settling in for a couple of nights.

Place-first planning

Hopstead is built around that reality. A trip is a series of place-stays — the bases you sleep at — connected by the driving in between. Each stay breaks into days, and each day holds the things you actually do. Plan the trip the way you'll live it.

Built for motorhomes & campervans

That place-first model is especially powerful for motorhome and campervan travel, where the vehicle shapes everything: which roads you can take, where you can stay, and where overnight parking is allowed. Hopstead bakes those constraints in rather than leaving them to you and a stack of browser tabs.

Where the name comes from

Hopstead joins hop — the easy movement from one place to the next — with -stead, an old word for a place where you settle. It's the whole idea in one word: hopping between places you settle into, however briefly.

Early days

Hopstead is young and growing. It's free to start planning, with an optional Premium plan for unlimited trips and extras, and it's focused on the UK to begin with, with more coverage and features on the way. If it helps you plan a better trip, that's the whole point.

Data & credits

Hopstead is built on open data, and we're grateful to the projects and communities behind it. Map data and points of interest come from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License. Specifically:

• Maps & tiles — © OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered by OpenFreeMap.
• Things to do — points of interest from OpenStreetMap (via Overpass), with details linking out to official websites and Wikipedia.
• Place search — geocoding by Nominatim (OpenStreetMap).
• Routing — driving routes and times from OpenRouteService (HeiGIT).
• Fuel prices— from the UK government's fuel price scheme and retailer feeds, under the Open Government Licence.
• AI guidance — route summaries and suggestions generated with Claude, and geocode-verified before being shown.

Route, parking and legality guidance is advisory only — always check the current restrictions for your vehicle before travelling.