Scenic road-trip plannerDesigned and built by Margarita Gubanova.

Take the road worth remembering.

Byway turns a destination and a time budget into a road trip built around the journey. It finds scenic roads and verified places that fit the route, keeps practical details like weather and opening hours in view, then hands the drive to Google Maps.

01 — Flow

From destination to memorable drive

Describe the trip

Tell Byway where you are going, how much time you have, and what kind of drive sounds good.

Build the route

Byway combines scenic roads with verified places that fit the route, timing, and real-world conditions.

Drive it

Review the route and its stops, then hand each driving leg to Google Maps when you are ready to go.

02 — Features

Built for the journey

Scenic-first routing

Plan around roads worth seeing instead of optimizing every decision for the shortest arrival time.

Verified places

Stops come from grounded place data, so the itinerary is built around places you can actually visit.

Time-aware planning

Byway works within the time you have and accounts for the detours and stops that make a trip memorable.

Practical trip context

Weather and opening hours stay visible while you shape the route, not after the day has already started.

Stories for the road

Route narration adds context to the places and landscapes along the way, turning transit into part of the trip.

Google Maps handoff

Keep Byway for discovery and planning, then open the driving legs in the navigation app you already use.

03 — Under the hood

One routing system, every surface

  • Shared TypeScript engine — the routing logic lives in one package so the same planning rules power every client.
  • Web and mobile — a web planner and mobile app share contracts, route models, and product behavior.
  • Grounded place data — verified-place records keep generated routes tied to real stops and useful trip context.
  • Server-side planning — the route engine, APIs, and Supabase-backed infrastructure do the heavy work before a trip reaches the screen.
04 — Start a route

Plan a drive worth taking

Give Byway a destination and a little time. It will help turn the space between here and there into the trip.