RZR keeps you off state routes and highways. Car takes the fastest roads.
Good news: the standard settings work well. You don't have to change anything.
Tip: tap the map to drop Start, then Destination — more taps extend the ride. Drag pins to adjust; long-press a pin to remove it.
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–est. time
–ft climb
–state/main mi
💧 Creek crossings
📜 History on this ride
Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, National Register of Historic Places (NPS).
🛣️ Route choices Balanced · any surface
Car Mode uses BRouter’s standard fastest car profile — any roads, including state routes and highways.
🎲 Random Ride
Let Backroads pick a destination — a town, gas station, restaurant or park — at the right distance on backroads.
🔁 Make a loop ride instead
Loop generator
Build a round-trip ride on backroads from your location (or the Start pin) and back.
Uses the same Route style settings from the Plan tab.
Ride
Records your actual track with GPS. Keep the screen on while riding.
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0:00time
0avg mph
0max mph
0:00moving
0ft climb
0pins
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Badges
Ride log
Saved routes
Offline maps
Download map areas to your phone so the map works with no signal. Uses USGS National Map tiles (public domain, US-only), which allow offline storage.
Uses what’s visible on the map right now.
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Zoom 13–14 shows individual roads; 15–16 adds detail but quadruples size per level.
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Welcome to Backroads
BACKROADS
Skip the highway. Ride the county.
Version 1.2.0
Backroads plans RZR and side-by-side rides on county roads, gravel and dirt, keeping you off state routes and highways. Plan it, download the map, and ride, even where your phone has no bars.
Routes built for side-by-sides
RZR Mode / Car Mode: backroads routing or a normal fastest route, one tap.
Stay off main roads: a little, normal or always, plus prefer gravel & dirt, avoid paved, farm tracks, legal ATV/UTV trails, curvy scenic roads and creek crossings (avoid, allow or prefer).
Every state-road mile shown and painted red. No surprises at the stop sign.
Road mix at a glance: county, gravel, dirt and local percentages, ride time, climb and an elevation profile.
Loops & rides
Random Ride: pick a time or distance and let Backroads choose a town, store, restaurant or park. Reroll anytime.
Ride Now follows your planned route. Free Ride needs no destination: it records and shows what's up ahead.
Waypoints, photo pins, ride stats and badges.
Loop Generator: pick the miles and a direction, get a round-trip from where you're parked.
Ride recorder with live speed, ride log and GPX export.
Follow mode with a heads-up display and miles to go.
Know what's out there
Rider reports: hazards, washouts, closed or gated roads, mud, trailheads, speed traps. They expire on their own.
TDOT SmartWay layer: official Tennessee crashes, closures and construction.
Closure alerts: the blocked stretch turns red and one tap reroutes around it.
Fuel range check with gas stations along the route, and weather at the destination.
History & Hidden Gems
History layer nationwide from Wikipedia, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Register of Historic Places, with a History on this ride list and an audio tour read-out.
Hidden Gems: hand-picked Middle Tennessee stories, from Goshen Cemetery to forgotten towns, each with its source.
Trails, land & water
OHV / UTV trails from OpenStreetMap legal-access tags and the USFS Motor Vehicle Use Map, public lands (BLM Surface Management Agency), 3D terrain shading, gas / food / store places, and creek crossings with live USGS stream gauges and NWS flood alerts.
No signal? No problem.
Offline maps: download an area, a box or a corridor along your route. Saved routes open offline.
Hand it off anywhere
Open in Google Maps or Waze, export GPX, share a route link, and use night mode to save your night vision.
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