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) is oriented around: /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 activity samples show 28 posts/day in recent samples (~50% text, ~20% image, ~15% gallery). A rules list was not in our snapshot—use the live sidebar before posting. 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; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Trip Planning, Trip Report, Destination Highlight, Gear & Essentials.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Aug 5, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,032 subscribers (+0.03%). 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 2, 2026, r/roadtrip climbed from 4,201,376 to 4,212,524 subscribers (+11.1K, +0.27%). That is about 253 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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 4,212,524 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #224 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 11,148 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 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/solotravel (4.6M), r/Roadcam (2.2M), r/motorcycles (4.4M), r/JapanTravel (3.5M) and r/CampingandHiking (2.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.