How far can we get today? Meet range rings.

Every travel day starts with the same honest question: how far can we actually get before we need to stop for the night? Range rings put the answer right on the map — and then find you somewhere to sleep at the edge of it.

A ring for every driving day

Range rings draw one ring per driving day, each at your real daily limit. RV Compass uses your max-miles-per-day setting if you've set one, falls back to your preferred drive time, and defaults to a sensible six hours if you haven't told it either. The rings march out from your starting point — Day 1, Day 2, and so on — drawing just enough of them to reach your destination (capped at four so the map stays readable).

The parks sitting right at the edge

This was the single most-requested thing from early riders: don't just show me a circle, show me where I can actually stop. So the Within reach panel lists the overnight options along your route near each day's edge, grouped by day. They're ranked by how close they sit to your ideal stop: the spot where your route crosses that day's limit. Pick from the top and you get the full day's drive. Each one carries its rating, nightly rate, an estimated drive, and pull-through and big-rig filters.

You decide how far to look

Within reach used to search a fixed strip: 40 miles either side of your route, starting 30 miles short of each day's edge. That works on a busy interstate. It comes up short in open country, where the park you want can sit well off the highway, and on the days you'd rather call it early.

Now you set both. Distance off route reaches 40, 75, or 120 miles either side of the route. Stop early by up to starts the search 30, 75, or 120 miles short of the day's limit. Pick your defaults once under Trip preferences on your profile, and every trip follows them, including the ones you've already planned. When one trip needs something different, like a long empty stretch of Nevada, change it in that trip's Within reach panel. Only that trip changes, and a Use my default link puts it back.

A wider search finds more parks, so each day now shows its top 15 with a button to load the next batch, and the pins on the map match the list. Anything more than 10 miles out is labeled with roughly how far off route it sits, so you can weigh the detour before you commit. The search itself looks only along your route before it ranks anything, which means the best stops near your edge always make the list, even in the busiest corners of the map. Both settings are in the web planner.

Every kind of overnight, if you want it

"Somewhere to stop" means different things to different rigs, so range rings cover the whole spectrum: RV parks, campgrounds, Harvest Hosts, rest areas, and Walmart-style overnight lots — each with its own map glyph and a day badge. Which categories show up is your call — a saved preference — and parking-lot nights are opt-in, off by default, for the folks who'd never.

One tap to lock it in

See a park you like at the edge of Day 1? Tap its pin and it drops straight into your trip as an overnight stop — and it's smart about where: instead of always wedging in next to the anchor, it slots into the gap in your route with the least detour. There's a satellite toggle for eyeballing a park's overhead approach before you commit, too.

And a small thing that matters: the map won't add a stop from a stray tap anymore. Adds are deliberate now — you arm add mode first — so brushing the screen never quietly mutates your plan.

"Where are we sleeping tonight?" used to be a 9 p.m. scramble. Now it's a glance at the edge of the ring.