Nice DrivesAbout Nice Drives
What is Nice Drives?
Nice Drives is a platform for discovering, sharing, and exploring scenic drives — the kind of roads where the journey matters more than the destination. Every drive on the site comes with a full interactive route map, distance and duration estimates, scenery tags, difficulty rating, and community reviews from people who've actually driven it.
The drives range from half-hour mountain pass crossings to full-day island routes. Some are world-famous roads that deserve the reputation. Others are roads most people have never heard of, contributed by community members who found something worth sharing. All of them are mapped and described in enough detail to help you decide whether a drive is worth your time — and to help you plan it properly if it is.
Who built this?
Nice Drives was built by Dylan Stones. The idea came from a familiar frustration: when planning a road trip, it's genuinely hard to find reliable, well-described scenic drives in a single place. Travel blogs list famous routes in paragraph form without maps. Google Maps doesn't distinguish between a memorable drive and the fastest route between two points. Nice Drives is the tool that should have existed.
The site is independently run. There's no venture funding, no team of writers, no sponsored content disguised as recommendations. The Official Drives listed on the platform are researched and added by hand. The community reviews are from real people.
How does it work?
Every drive is stored as a sequence of GPS waypoints that draw a route on an interactive map. For Official Drives, those routes are carefully traced along the actual road — not approximated from a start and end point. Each drive page shows the route, key stops along the way, an elevation profile, current road conditions, and a review section where people can leave a star rating and written notes.
Community members can create an account and submit their own drives — anywhere in the world, using a click-to-add waypoint tool on the map editor. Good community drives get reviewed, saved, and surfaced alongside the Official Drives. The goal is a site that gets more useful over time as more drives are added and reviewed.
Get involved
Know a drive that should be on here? Create a free account and add it. Leave reviews on drives you've done — a few sentences about conditions, what to watch for, and whether it lived up to expectations is genuinely useful for other people planning the same trip.
For anything else — questions, corrections, drive suggestions, or just to say hello — email ddylanstones@gmail.com.