The best driving roads in Wales, the UK and Europe — hand-picked and honestly described. Find one near you on a free Sunday, or build a club run your whole group follows from one link.
Free forever. No account. No subscription. No tracking. Works offline.
Forty-five seconds: find a road, build a club run, share it, drive it.
Great Drives isn't only for clubs. Most of the time it's one driver, one good road, and a couple of hours that were otherwise going spare.
Already driving somewhere? Say where from and where to, and it finds the roads worth the detour along your route — each one priced in extra minutes, so you choose.
Tap Near me and the whole list reorders by distance from where you're standing. No account, no setup — you're two taps from a road worth the fuel.
Every route opens in Google Maps or Apple Maps from wherever you actually are — your house, a hotel, a services car park — with the scenic road pinned so nothing reroutes you onto the motorway.
Drop pit stops on the map for fuel, lunch or a photo. Each pin names itself, so you're not typing place names one-handed on a phone.
Tick a road off when you've driven it and you get a share card to prove it — the road drawn out, the miles, and how many great drives you've now got under your belt.
Every route is hand-curated with the stuff map data can't tell you — speed cameras, single-track warnings, seasonal closures, 30% gradients, and where to stop for a proper brew.
Black Mountain Pass, Gospel Pass, Bealach na Bà, the TT Mountain Road, Trollstigen, the Stelvio and Transfăgărășan — even the Nürburgring's public laps and the old Targa Florio. 233 roads from Snowdonia to Sicily.
Average-speed cameras on the Cat and Fiddle. Winter closures on the Susten. Single-track with ponies on Gospel Pass. We tell you before you set off.
Pit stops, cafés and dinner spots on the routes — the Applecross Inn's seafood, the pub in Llanthony Priory's cellar, the Kirkstone Pass Inn at the summit.
One tap opens Google Maps or Apple Maps from wherever you are, pinned to the scenic road so it can't "helpfully" reroute you onto the dual carriageway. Motorways or no motorways — your choice.
Planning a Sunday loop or a week to Spain — the whole club follows one link.
Pin the exact car park. Everyone gets a "navigate to meet" button straight to it.
Tap the map to drop stops for fuel, lunch or a brew. Each one names itself, and they land in the right place in the running order — not bolted on at the end.
Out one way, back another with the round-trip toggle. Ferries and the Eurotunnel are suggested automatically when the route crosses water — Biscay boats for Spain, Steam Packet for the TT.
A ready-written invite for WhatsApp with the route, the meet and the sell. Opening it shows the full plan — total miles including getting there and back, not just the fun bits.
A proper briefing PDF, timed like a rally schedule with a real map of the day. Plus print-ready Official Window Stickers and Rally Briefing Flyers for your club members.
We studied every driving-roads app out there. Then we built the opposite of what makes them infuriating.
Other apps let you plan free, then charge £60–80/year the moment you press "start". Great Drives never will.
Nothing to sign up for. Your saved roads and trips live on your phone, not our servers. We don't even have servers.
Install it to your home screen and the routes, plans and run sheets work with zero signal — only the map tiles need data.
iPhone or Android, new or old — it's a web app, so nobody in the club is left out of the run.
There's no app store download. It's a web app, so you add it yourself in about ten seconds — then it opens like any other app and the roads work with no signal.
Open Great Drives in Safari, tap the Share button (the square with the arrow),
scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
It has to be Safari — Chrome on iPhone can't install web apps.
Open it in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen or Install app. Some phones offer it as a banner at the bottom the moment you visit.
Once installed, your roads, saved trips and run sheets open with zero bars — mid-Wales, the Highlands, an Alpine pass. Only the map tiles themselves need data.
Nothing to install if you'd rather not. Plan on a laptop, share the link, and everyone opens it on whatever they've got in the car.