Launched: What Arvee Actually Does
After nearly two years of development, Arvee is live.
It’s a trip planner for RVs. Not for cars — for RVs, which is a meaningfully different problem. A car trip is a route and a hotel. An RV trip is a route, plus a place to park a vehicle that may not fit everywhere, plus reservations booked months apart across a dozen unrelated systems, plus a running mental calculation about how far you’re actually willing to drive before you stop enjoying yourself.
Every one of those falls apart in a different way, and most of them fall apart in a spreadsheet. That’s the problem we spent two years on.
What’s in the database
The map is only as good as the data underneath it. As of August 2026, Arvee’s database holds:
- Over 27,000 campgrounds
- More than 12,700 overnight locations
- More than 5,200 dump stations
Those are deduplicated counts, and they grow. We’re not going to tell you it’s the biggest set of RV location data anywhere — we have no verified way to measure that, so we won’t claim it. What we will say is that it’s enough to plan a real trip across the country without falling off the edge of the map.
Reservations arrive by email, so we made email the input
You book a campground and get a confirmation email. You book another one three weeks later, from a different reservation system, in a different format. By the time you’re on the road you have eleven of them buried in your inbox and no single view of the trip.
AdventureSync takes the confirmation email as-is. Forward it to Arvee and we extract the details — dates, site, confirmation number, location — and hand you back a structured reservation you can attach to a trip. No retyping, no copy-paste, no separate spreadsheet that goes stale the moment plans change.
Not every place you stay is in a database
Your brother-in-law’s driveway isn’t a campground. Neither is the boondocking spot you found two years ago and have never told anyone about.
Custom locations let you keep a private list of places and drop them into trips exactly like any other stop. They’re yours — they don’t get published, indexed, or shared with other users.
Reminders that move when your trip moves
Popular campgrounds open their booking windows on a fixed schedule, which means the useful reminder isn’t “June 3rd,” it’s “60 days before I arrive.” Those are the same date right up until you shift the trip by a week.
Arvee’s reminders are anchored to the arrival date, not to a calendar square. Set one for 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, or 210 days out — or a custom offset — and it recalculates itself every time the destination’s dates change. They export to your calendar app too, so they show up wherever you already look.
Search profiles, because “a good campground” depends on the night
What you need on a one-night highway stop and what you need for a week-long stay are different lists. Rebuilding that filter set every time you move the map is tedious enough that most people stop doing it and just squint at the results.
Search profiles save a filter set under a name. Build “quick overnight” and “week-long with hookups” once, then switch between them as you browse. The map re-filters; you don’t re-think.
Changing a trip without rebuilding it
Plans change, and the painful part isn’t the change — it’s the reconciliation. Which reservations still work? Which need new dates? Which do I have to cancel, and by when?
Copy an existing trip, make your changes, and Arvee compares the two side by side: what carried over unchanged, what needs its dates adjusted, what no longer fits. You’re reading a diff instead of reconstructing a trip from memory.
Routing that knows what you’re driving
A car router will happily send you under a 10-foot bridge. Arvee routes your rig as a truck, not a car, and it does that with your actual numbers.
Tell Arvee your RV’s height, length, and weight once, and every route it plans is calculated against those figures — so low-clearance bridges and weight-restricted roads are engineered out of the route before you ever see it. Flag that you’re carrying propane and your routes account for the hazardous-cargo restrictions that close certain tunnels and crossings to you. On top of that you can avoid tunnels, ferries, tolls, dirt roads, and U-turns outright.
It also plans around drive time rather than raw distance. Tell it your ideal driving day and your hard ceiling, and it works out how far you can realistically get and where the stops should fall.
What’s next
This is the starting point, not the finished product. More to come.
Happy travels.