Sports cars
Early starters
Out by seven, home before anyone's up.
- Flowing B-roads
- Coffee at the far end
Early access · UK and Ireland
Take the
long way.
Good roads. Good company.
Plan better drives, keep the stories, and find people to share the road with.
The idea
Most maps are built to save you time. Ours is built to spend it well.
- The pass, not the bypass
- The café worth the detour
- The layby everyone pulls into
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The top of The Struggle
Kirkstone Pass
3.2 miles from Ambleside454 mThe highest pass in the Lake District you can drive.
Who it's for
Same direction.
Different stories.
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Roadsters, Caterhams and bikes
No roof
No roof, so the forecast is part of the route.
- Weather along the route
- Fuel range and surface
Touring
Caravans and motorhomes
Beautiful, and nothing narrower than 2.5 metres.
- Width, weight and gradient limits
- No single-track surprises
Learning
New drivers
Passed in March. Finally going somewhere.
- Routes graded gentle to spirited
- Build up to the good stuff
Classics
Classic owners
It's 56 years old and still does 3,000 miles a year.
- No motorways, easy gradients
- A pub at halfway
Home hidden
Private
Supercar owners
Private by default. Nobody sees where the garage is.
- Home never shown
- Invite-only drives
Clubs
Club organisers
150 cars. One route. Nobody lost.
- Events and tickets
- A live convoy on the day
Multi-day
Tour-goers
Five days, eleven passes, one very good dinner.
- Trips over several days
- Hotels along the way
Starting at home: the UK and Ireland
Roads on our list: Bealach na Bà, Hardknott Pass, Black Mountain Pass, Causeway Coastal Route, Buttertubs Pass, A82 through Glencoe, Snake Pass, Wild Atlantic Way, Cat and Fiddle, Horseshoe Pass, Healy Pass, Cheddar Gorge, Llanberis Pass, North Coast 500, Atlantic Highway, Mourne Mountains
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Down to Ullswater
Glenridding
9.2 miles from AmblesideThe lake's on your right for the next few miles.
Remember
Some roads stay with you.
Write it up, pin your photos where you took them, and your drive becomes someone else's next weekend. GT1's Jurassic Coast write-up runs to a thousand words, with the best layby for the view, the ferry and where to stop for dinner.
Chesil Beach50.669° N · 48.9 mi
Durdle Door50.619° N · 83.5 mi
Sandbanks50.687° N · 103.6 mi
“…the view opens up towards Chesil Beach and the distant Isle of Portland and it is a stunner.”
- Photos find their placePictures pin themselves to the route, right where they were taken.
- Your words, your creditYour stories stay yours, with your name on them.
- Take it with youSend the route to your phone, or export it to Apple Maps, Google or a GPX file in one tap.
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Coffee stop
Keswick
25.1 miles from AmblesideDerwentwater's at the bottom of town. Worth a stretch.
Plan
Plan it like you'd drive it.
Most route planners want the fastest way. This one wants the best one: the roads you'd pick if you knew them, and the stops that make the day.
3D
Finding the roads…
6.5 miles longer, 14% less on A-roads, 33 more bends, 217 ft more climbing.
The Lakes loop
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Driving–
Bends–
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Climb–
Highest–
Steepest–
Two stops, and the instruments come alive.
Twistiest on Honister Pass, where the hatching's thickest.
Gentle and scenic: steady roads, no surprises.
CarClassicBikeCaravan
Road book
- 1Ambleside
3.2 mi · 4 min
Kirkstone Road, The Struggle, A592 Kirkstone Pass
- 2Kirkstone Pass
6.0 mi · 9 min
A592 Kirkstone Pass
- 3Glenridding
16.1 mi · 20 min
A592, A5091, A66
+3
- 4Keswick
9.1 mi · 17 min
B5289 Honister Pass
+1
0.0Myers Street0.1Church Street0.2St John's Street0.2Derwent Street - 5Honister Pass
4.3 mi · 5 min
B5289 Honister Pass
- 6Buttermere
22.2 mi · 31 min
Newlands Pass, Newlands Hause, A591
+10
- 7Grasmere
3.6 mi · 6 min
A591
+2
- Back to Ambleside
01
Drop your stops.
Tap the map where you'll start, then where you're going. Or search for a place, or start from right where you are.
02
It finds the real roads.
Pencil lines become roads you'd actually want to drive, inked in as they're found, while the miles, the time and the bends roll up.
03
Say how you want to drive.
Touring, Spirited or Back roads. Turn the dial and the drive changes with it, then tells you how.
04
Say what you're driving.
A car, a classic, a bike or a caravan in tow. Width, height and weight limits come with it, and a caravan keeps to steadier roads.
05
A road book that writes itself.
Every junction that matters, drawn the way a rally navigator draws it, with the road it joins and where the signs point.
06
See the road before you're on it.
How much it climbs, how steep it gets and where it twists, on a strip you can scrub along. Then press play and fly it.
Ask
Describe the day. We'll find the roads.
Tell it where you're starting, how long you've got and who's in the passenger seat. It knows the roads, the views and the good lunch stops, and every route it suggests is checked against real roads before you see it.
Describe the day
Saturday from Cheltenham. Two hours, twisty but nothing silly, Mum's coming. Somewhere good for lunch.
Find my driveExamplePlanned for you
The Five Valleys Loop
39.2 mi · 1h 26m driving · 620 m climbed · from Cheltenham
| Miles | Stop, and why |
|---|---|
| 17.4 | Rodborough CommonBig skies over the valleys. Worth pulling in for. |
| 19.1 | The Old LodgeLunch, as asked. Book ahead at weekends. |
| 21.1 | The W, NailsworthTight hairpins. Take them gently with a passenger. |
| 28.8 | PainswickHome through the Queen of the Cotswolds. |
Make it longerAdd a coffee stopAvoid single-track
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The steep bit
Honister Pass
34.3 miles from Ambleside356 m1-in-4 down to Buttermere. Low gear, slate everywhere.
Together
Bring your people.
Run the club. Plan the meet. Sell the tickets. Keep the convoy together on the day, with everyone on the same route. Coming later.
EventComing later
Spring Run
Sat 18 Apr · 08:00 · Ambleside
£35 · 32 of 40 places
Get ticketsWhat's next
The road ahead.
The web comes first, then the phone in your pocket, then the device in your car. Here's the order, written the way we'd write a road book.
| When | Direction | What |
|---|---|---|
| Now | On the web. Plan, ask, remember and share. Profiles and garages. | |
| Next | The app. Road-book navigation, drives recorded automatically, offline maps, CarPlay and Android Auto. | |
| Later | Clubs and events. Private clubs, meets, tickets and live convoys. | |
| Further | The Logbook. A small plug-in device that records every drive, so your car keeps its own diary. |
08:12
0.4mi
Bear left onto the B5289
Honister · 356 m12 min
- Plugs inInto the OBD port cars have had since the early 2000s, usually under the dash.
- Records every driveWhere you went, how far, and how the car was doing. Your home stays hidden.
- Stays out of the wayNo screen, no fuss. It syncs with the app on your phone.
- Concept, coming further down the road
Where it started
Built by people who'd rather be driving.
- Since January 2024
- Drives from Cornwall to Glencoe
- One 150-car convoy
I started Find a Drive in January 2024 because the best roads I knew lived in my head, not on any map.
People joined and posted drives from Cornwall to Glencoe. One weekend we drove in a 150-car convoy with Tribal Porsche.
That first version was a concept car: a dream on a motor-show stand, built to see who'd stop and look. Plenty did, and the drives kept coming long after the show.
Now we're putting it into production.
Harry Phillips
Founder. Find a Drive is made by Driven Innovations LTD.
66.4 mi · Back in Ambleside
66.4 miles. That loop deserves a Saturday.
Save your place.
Invites go out in the order people confirm, starting with the UK and Ireland. The first 999 members to publish three drives become founding members, numbered for keeps.
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