A paddler preparing gear at the water's edge before a backcountry trip

For You

Your trip. Built by you.

Trip Centre is for families, friends, and groups planning their own adventure. Map the route, sort the gear, plan the meals, track when park reservations open, and share the whole thing so everyone shows up ready.

Start building your trip

Planning is where the trip starts.

Build every piece of the trip, in one place.

Your route

Trace the route you actually want to paddle.

Upload your topo or a map of the area. Mark the put-in, the portages, the campsites you're aiming for, the hazards worth flagging. Drop a note on the lake you've been told is worth the extra day. Make it yours, then share it so everyone is looking at the same plan.

Route editor · Your trip
The Trip Centre route editor showing a marked topographic canoe map with waypoints and route annotations

Your park dates

Know when reservations open, before the scramble.

Pick your park and trip dates. Trip Centre shows when reservations typically open and can remind you before the window. You still book with the park; we keep the dates clear so you are not guessing from a spreadsheet.

Destinations · Your trip
A Trip Centre trip overview showing destination and planning details for a backcountry trip

Your kit

A gear list sized for your group, your trip.

Start from a proven archive of backcountry gear. Add your own items, remove the ones that don't fit, group things into kits so nothing gets forgotten at the trailhead. The list scales to your group size automatically. Everyone on the trip can see it, mark what they're bringing, and nobody shows up with four tents.

Gear list · Algonquin trip
The Trip Centre gear list showing categorized items with checkboxes and bring/rent/buy status

Your meals

Every meal, planned before day one.

Assign breakfast, lunch, and dinner for each day. Pick from a growing recipe archive or add the recipes your group swears by. Trip Centre builds the shopping list from your meal plan automatically, with quantities scaled to your group size. One list, nothing missing.

Food & menu · Day 2
The Trip Centre food planner showing day-by-day meal assignments with breakfast, lunch, and dinner slots
A canoe on a calm lake at dusk, perfectly still water

When you pull up to the put-in and everyone knows the plan, that's the payoff.

Because you built something together, and it worked.

Remember

The trip doesn't end when you get home.

Capture the moments that made it worth the planning. Photos, short notes, the things you'd pack differently. They stay with the trip, ready for next time, and your archive grows one adventure at a time.

  • Photos: Every photo from the trip lives with the trip.

  • Moments: Short notes, tagged highlights, the story of what actually happened.

  • Lessons: What to pack differently. What to do again. What to skip next time.

A golden evening on the water, paddles at rest
Lesson Learned

Just one more day

Portages were a bit rough. Next time we're adding a full day buffer to relax a bit more.

Your next trip is waiting to be built.

Start with where you want to go and how many people are coming. No account required to begin. Trip Centre builds the starting point; you make it yours.