I use it quite for planning routes. You have to use a whole lot of way points to make it go how you want if its not the most direct, fastest or such. So say I want all back roads between Ten Mile TN and Salida CO. I would drag the route to roads I wanted from close to the start. Then I would add way points between start when where I dragged it too. Then I would drag the route again to road I wanted, add more way points. I kept repeating, I used tons of way points on the roads I wanted to take. Worked good, took roads I wanted, and went though Dodge City like I wanted. Takes a little time and effort to figure it out. I practiced on making local routes on roads I wanted to take know it would try to change my route to bigger roads, faster roads and shorter more direct route. I like I can save scenic loops for Say Sturgis area. Then can use them multiple years. Have done the same for North West AR, East TN, West NC.