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r/roadtrip

Road Trip!. For planning road trips and sharing how they went. Route questions, itineraries, and trip reports. Founded 2009 · 4.2M members · text posts only

4.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 45.7K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.2Mmembers
45.7Kbest post
3.2Kmost comments
408posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

34% 24% 20% 9% 9%
Image 34% Text 24% Gallery 20% Link 9% Question 9% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Trip Planning 237 Trip Report 52 Destination Highlight 46 Gear & Essentials 10 Travel Companions 10

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

So real

↑ 45.7K 💬 485 image 2025

As a European the US shocked me (in the most positve way)

↑ 14.7K 💬 1.3K gallery 2025

My favorite photo from the recent road trip

↑ 10.9K 💬 143 image 2025

I have 10 days of paid vacation time in March and am planning this road trip from Seattle to Cape Cod. The only place I don’t think I’ll have time fo…

↑ 10.5K 💬 3K image 2024

The signs of a roadtrip through rural America

↑ 10.5K 💬 552 gallery 2026

My 88 y/o grandma seeing one of the Great Lakes for the first time on our 2500 mile road trip together

↑ 10.1K 💬 157 image 2019

Gas station wall located in rural Iowa off I-29. Speaks the truth.

↑ 9.7K 💬 184 image 2019

The most beautiful National Park you’ve been?

↑ 8.4K 💬 1.6K image 2024

Road trip down Hwy 101 on the US Pacific coast

↑ 7.7K 💬 248 gallery 2026

We just passed 100,000km on our road trip across the Americas

↑ 7.5K 💬 599 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/roadtrip, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/roadtrip?
r/roadtrip ("Road Trip!") describes itself this way: For planning road trips and sharing how they went. Route questions, itineraries, and trip reports. It was founded in 2009 and has 4.2M members.
How many members does r/roadtrip have?
r/roadtrip has about 4.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 408 of its posts; the biggest reached 45.7K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/roadtrip?
"So real" reached 45.7K upvotes and 485 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/roadtrip.
What subreddits are similar to r/roadtrip?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/roadtrip?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are image posts and 24% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/roadtrip?
Across 408 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 13:00 UTC (12.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 19:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/roadtrip?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/roadtrip has 4.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/roadtrip, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.