RoadLore FAQ

RoadLore is a GPS-powered road trip companion for families. As your car approaches highway landmarks, an AI character voice narrates fun facts and stories tailored for kids. Travelers earn digital stickers and can save a trip journal with photos to remember the drive.

Three steps: 1. Buy a trip for $10 (one-time, covers the whole car). 2. Each traveler picks a character voice — Princess Explorer, Captain Adventure, Ranger Scout, or Professor Owl. 3. Open RoadLore on your phone while driving; when you're within about half a mile of a landmark like Cadillac Ranch, Meteor Crater, or the Blue Whale, the story plays automatically. No tapping, eyes stay on the road.

Families road-tripping with kids, roughly ages 4–12. The narrations are written to be fun and educational — each character voice adapts the same fact with a different personality, so siblings with different tastes all stay engaged.

RoadLore runs in any modern phone or laptop browser with location services enabled — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge all work. No app install required. You'll need to allow location access while the trip is active so RoadLore can detect when you approach each landmark.

Yes. Once your trip is loaded, the route and cached narration continue to work in areas with poor cell coverage — useful for long stretches of Route 66 between towns. Live GPS still requires a location signal, but you don't need continuous streaming.

All 30 RoadLore Route 66 landmarks across 8 states, from the Jackson & Michigan start in Chicago, IL, to the Santa Monica Pier in CA — including Cadillac Ranch, the Blue Whale of Catoosa, the Wigwam Village Motel #6, Meteor Crater, Roy's Motel, and more. See the full state-by-state landmark list on the Route 66 page.

$10 per trip — flat, one-time. That covers the entire run for your whole car (unlimited devices, every traveler in your party). There is no subscription, no recurring charge, and no upsells. You can buy another corridor trip anytime you want to do another drive.

Yes. The free Route 66 trip planner lets you build a custom itinerary — pick which of the 30 landmarks you want to hit, see the route on a map, get a cost estimate, and email yourself a shareable link. No purchase required.

Three steps on the day:
1. Open your trip link in your phone's browser and tap "Start Trip." Allow location access when prompted.
2. Each traveler taps their name and picks a character voice. The character is locked in for the rest of the drive.
3. Start driving. Stories play once per landmark as you pass. Hit "Save to Journal" anytime to capture a photo or note.

No continuous narration. Audio is generated server-side on-demand only when you're near a landmark, so the app stays quiet between stops. GPS uses normal location services rather than high-accuracy continuous tracking. Expect battery use closer to a maps app than a streaming music app.

Yes — in addition to Route 66, RoadLore covers the I-95 corridor from DC to Boston (27 landmarks) and the I-70 corridor from Kansas City to Denver via Kansas (26 landmarks). Each corridor is sold separately at the same $10/trip pricing.

If you haven't started your trip yet, contact us from the start page and we'll refund the $10 — no questions asked. Once you've tapped "Start Trip" and the GPS pass has begun, the trip is considered used. We can transfer your purchase to a different corridor if you'd like to switch.