About r/roadtrip
In its own words:
/r/roadtrip is your source for everything road trip related. Whether you enjoy traveling by motorcycle, car, or recreational vehicle this is your destination for everything related to road trips!
Community guide
r/roadtrip (#224, about 4.2 million subscribers) — your source for everything road trip related. Whether you enjoy traveling by motorcycle, car, or recreational vehicle this is your destination for everything related to road trips! A recent sample averaged 28 posts a day (~50% text, ~20% image, ~15% gallery). Recent phrase samples include “road trip”, “road trips”, “los angeles”, “national park”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Conversation lately clusters around road trip, road trips, los angeles, national park, budget rent.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Trip Planning, Trip Report, Destination Highlight, Gear & Essentials.
The community was created on Aug 5, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 961 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/loseit (#223) and ahead of r/Nails (#225) in our ranking.
What sets r/roadtrip apart
Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (16:00 UTC) sees about 15.0× as many posts as the quietest (00:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/roadtrip climbed from 4,201,376 to 4,213,485 subscribers (+12.1K, +0.29%). That is about 237 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/roadtrip this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- This massive copper mine in Montana is now filled with acidic, metal-rich wateru/chromoscience · Nov 2 · gallery
- Any advice ? Budget just stole 1800€ from meu/PresentationReady873 · Nov 1 · image
- This is how it looks once you make it to the Arctic Circle by road.u/theloneoverlanders · Nov 1 · video
- AAA has become worthlessu/WittyDadUsername · Nov 3 · image
- Richmond to Skyline Drive and Lurayu/1ogic2 · Nov 3 · gallery
- WHERE ASTRONAUTS PRACTICED FOR THE MOON U.S. Route 20 · Idahou/americascorridors · Nov 5 · gallery
- Livingston, Montana: A Historic Railroad Town at the Gateway to Yellowstoneu/chromoscience · Oct 31 · gallery
- Update on Budget rent a caru/PresentationReady873 · Nov 1 · image
- Exploring Historic Butte, Montana: The Richest Hill on Earthu/chromoscience · Nov 2 · gallery
- A Scenic Journey Through Wolf Creek: Montana’s Missouri River, Rocky Hills, and Wildlifeu/chromoscience · Nov 4 · gallery
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/roadtrip, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- So realu/mecoale · Sep 18, 2025 · image
- As a European the US shocked me (in the most positve way)u/Top7DASLAMA · Oct 6, 2025 · gallery
- My favorite photo from the recent road tripu/melchen290591 · Oct 14, 2025 · image
- I have 10 days of paid vacation time in March and am planning this road trip from Seattle to Cape Cod. The only place I don’t think I’ll have time for is Amarillo, Texas. Is that a mistake?u/PanaceaNPx · Jan 27, 2024 · image
- The signs of a roadtrip through rural Americau/commiedeschris · Apr 26, 2026 · gallery
- My 88 y/o grandma seeing one of the Great Lakes for the first time on our 2500 mile road trip togetheru/yellowstoner434 · Sep 19, 2019 · 9,065 points · 155 comments · image
- Gas station wall located in rural Iowa off I-29. Speaks the truth.u/Nippleboy22 · Jul 8, 2019 · 8,527 points · 193 comments · image
- The most beautiful National Park you’ve been?Jun 1, 2024 · image
- Road trip down Hwy 101 on the US Pacific coastu/Alaric_Darconville · May 13, 2026 · gallery
- We just passed 100,000km on our road trip across the Americasu/KombiChronicles · Mar 24, 2026 · gallery
What r/roadtrip talks about
We read the titles of 179 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “trip”, “road”, “advice”, “driving” and “planning”. Other frequent themes are route, car, stops, november, help and montana. Recurring phrases include “road trip”, “road trips”, “los angeles” and “national park”. By format, 50% are text posts, 20% are images and 15% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Trip Planning (128), Trip Report (20), Destination Highlight (18), Gear & Essentials (6), Travel Companions (6).
Activity and best time to post
r/roadtrip gets about 28 new posts a day. The public archive holds 103,176 posts and 1,301,885 comments in total, about 12.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (35 posts) and the quietest was Friday (18). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/roadtrip and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/roadtrip?
r/roadtrip has 4,213,485 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #224 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 12,109 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/roadtrip?
r/roadtrip was created on Aug 5, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Dec 31, 2010.
How active is r/roadtrip?
Very active: r/roadtrip gets about 28 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 103,176 posts and 1,301,885 comments. In a sample of 179 recent posts we counted 161 different authors.
When is r/roadtrip most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/roadtrip about?
The community describes itself as: “/r/roadtrip is your source for everything road trip related. Whether you enjoy traveling by motorcycle, car, or recreational vehicle this is your destination for everything related to road trips!” Recent post titles often mention trip, road, advice, driving and planning. Most posts are text posts (50%).
Is r/roadtrip safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/roadtrip as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/roadtrip?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/roadtrip accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/roadtrip?
Communities with similar topics include r/Roadcam (2.2M), r/JapanTravel (3.5M) and r/CampingandHiking (2.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/roadtrip.