What Makes GoodSpots Different?
Every spot comes with readings: shade, altitude, nearby wildfires, mobile signal and the week's weather. You see them before you drive there, and none of it costs anything.
What each spot tells you before you go
- Shade Some shade · 33/100
- Altitude 942 m
- Wildfires No fire detected within 50 km in the last 24 hours
- Mobile signal Bouygues 5G · Free 5G · SFR 5G · Orange 4G
- Weather
- Street-level photos
- Around the spot
- Reviews in your language EN · FR · DE · ES · PT
- Shade
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A tree-cover score for every spot, so you can filter out bare car parks in August. Each spot also shows today's sunrise and sunset times with their compass direction, so you know which side to park on.
- Altitude
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Filter spots by height above sea level. When the valley is too hot, climbing helps: roughly 6 °C cooler for every 1,000 m.
- Wildfires
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Active fire detections are pulled every hour, and spots close to one carry a warning. This season's burnt areas are on the map too.
Last check 44 min ago 2,729 detections in the last 24 h
- Mobile signal
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Coverage by operator in France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, the UK and Ireland, and how many networks reach the spot in Germany and Italy. Worth checking if you work from the van.
- Weather
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A 7-day forecast for the spot itself, with snow depth and freezing level for mountain spots.
- Street-level photos
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Photos taken from the road near the spot, to check the access and any low branches before you commit.
- Around the spot
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Low-emission zones you would have to drive through, nearby hiking and cycling trails, and public book boxes.
- Reviews in your language
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Descriptions and reviews are machine-translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, so you can read what someone wrote in another language.
What Premium adds
Premium is an optional subscription that pays the server bills. It adds planning tools. It never puts a spot, a review or a fire warning behind a paywall.
See what Premium costs- Offline regions
Download a region (about 1Â MB) and keep the map, markers, spot details and photos with no signal at all. Mobile app only.
- Search along a route
Find spots along the road between two places instead of around a single point.
- Satellite view
See the ground itself: gravel or grass, and how much room there is to turn round.
- Fuel prices
Prices at stations near a spot in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Austria, from national open data.
- Tides
Tide times for coastal spots anywhere in the world, so you know when the beach access floods.
What we promise
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Every spot stays free
All 400,000+ spots, every review, every photo and every filter, with no account needed to browse. What the community wrote belongs to the community.
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Spots go back to OpenStreetMap
We share verified spots with OpenStreetMap, so they also show up in the other maps and apps built on its data, not only in ours.
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Usable without a mouse or a screen
The site works with a keyboard alone, with screen readers and in high-contrast mode. If something gets in your way, tell us and we will fix it.
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Light on the battery
The web app is plain JavaScript with no framework, so it opens quickly on a weak connection and the phone does less work.
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Low-impact hosting
Our servers sit in a datacentre cooled by evaporating water instead of air conditioning. The whole service uses about 0.002 m³ of water and 1.5 kg CO₂eq a month, roughly what a car emits over 10 km.