How to Plan a Photography Road Trip

01

Open Route on the map. Set the city you leave from and the city you sleep in. Use real LensScape spots if you already know a trailhead or a lakeshore — the corridor search is sharper when the line follows the road you will actually drive.

02

Set the search radius to 15 or 30 km. Scan the spots along the route. Keep the ones with a view you will shoot; drop the rest. You want a day you can finish, not every pin on the Icefields Parkway.

03

Set a departure time. Open the first and last stop and read golden hour. If you will hit a lake at noon, swap it for a viewpoint that works in harsh light, or save that lake for the return at blue hour.

04

Save Trip, then open it once on your phone so it is in My trips. Mountain highways drop cell service. The saved route, stops and corridor spots stay with the trip.

05

If someone is meeting you, use the trip as the plan — same stops, same order. Do not count on a texted list of names. The map is the list.