Roadside America App Reviews

Fun on the road or whenever. Need a scavenger hunt, looking for something to do at home or while killing time till your flight home, interested in the offbeat? This app is for you. Enjoy.

Most fun app on my phone!. If you love driving around and randomly stopping to see some odd monument to something long forgotten or museum full of things you never dreamed you’d care about, this is the app for you! Remember the great molasses flood of Boston? Ever seen 2 thousand arrowheads in one place? My partner and I are crazy for the hilariously written factoids and have gone on little adventures trying to find some of the destinations on this map. I used to try and find these things on my own, but it’s so much easier and fun with this little tool. I bought their book in the 90’s and I’m so excited that technology has managed to find its way to put that big book in my pocket. If you are on your way to Niagara Falls, why not stop at the Jello Museum? Headed to Harrisburg? Stop in at Mr. Ed’s Elephant museum. It’s obviously great for children, but I don’t have any and it’s my favorite thing to do when I have time off! There’s a small fee to unlock all the USA, but it’s totally worth it if you travel. Last weekend I learned all about Lizzie Borden and saw her spooky grave. I never would have done that if it weren’t for these kooky authors and their fabulous app! Thanks for the weird memories!

Amazing!. When you consider that this app is constantly being updated, the $6.99 to unlock everything is very reasonable. We enjoy finding unique and quirky things, so this app has been a fabulous resource. Keep up the good work!

Roadside America is like the Milky Way. This app reminds me of the first time I really saw the Milky Way. I gasped 😳. When I then tried with my binoculars,the black empty spaces filled up with stars! This app gives me sort of the same feeling. This app fills in all the “dark” spaces. This app took a lot of time and work.

Fun, but hard to find everything!. I really enjoy the amount of attractions offered, but it’s very difficult to make sure I don’t miss anything interesting. I would LOVE if you would make the map work so that when I scroll around, it shows all the attractions. Having to push the “show attractions in this area” only shows attractions local to the center of the screen, and I miss many. It would also really help to open the app and have the map appear directly. I would also like a search function. If, for example, I want to find all the Bigfoot-themed attractions on the app, there’s no way to do so. :(

My go to app for road trips. How can you not love the tacky American experience. It’s really what defines us- America is just young to have a lot of impressive historical attraction, so we make up for it in muffler men, giant oxen and monuments to the obscure. This app is your guide book to navigate through the clever and silly to find the down right strangest. It’s easy to use and well thought out. Good job.

Why didn’t I know about this????. Wishing I had known about this years ago. We love to Road Trip and find goofy things. This has been great.

Love this app!. This app is SO much fun! No matter where I am in the country I’m always accessing the app because I love finding weird things and odd places. We’ve had some of the most fun experiences finding places shown in the app. Highly recommended!!!

Never miss a giant pistachio. We use this app before and on every trip we take. It never fails to lead us to great photo opps, some are breathtaking and some are just plain stupid silly. We wouldn’t be without it.

Nationwide fun!. I used the free section for several years, then started traveling around the country. I bought the rest of the national sections. They are as odd, offbeat and fun as the northeast. I don’t get to use RoadsideAmerica as often as I’d like, but I like it as often as I use it.

The most fun I’ve had with an app. I’ve used this app on several trips and it’s lead to some kitchy fun adventures throughout the states! I’ve visited a hole made entirely of paper, a surgical science museum and an abandoned tv walk of fame. I’ve recommended this app by word of mouth and now I’m recommending where it counts on iTunes. Worth the price for the endless adventures it inspires.

Get it and love it. Love this! I love that it takes you to the off the wall places, not your standard touristy places. We are on the road a lot and we have seen a lot of things/places that we otherwise would have missed. The app is easy to use and is always the first thing that I consult when we go to a new city/town.

Love it!. As a full time RV’er, this is an app I can’t live without. Makes life on the road so much more interesting (not that it isn’t already interesting). Whenever I’m in a new spot, I use the attractions in the app as a tour of the city. The paid version is well worth the money even if you don’t live on the road.

Useful. Great app to use when on a road trip with “nothing to do” - we like the oddities for sure! Would give 5 stars if all locations listed a physical address and a simple link to google maps for directions. Not all do, they just have directions turn here, turn there, etc... other than that great app for road trips!

All Access Is Worth It. Pay the extra money for the all access unlock if you travel the country, or would like to one day. Well worth the money. Lots of cool things to see when you use the app to find them.

A Travelers Necessity. If you like discovering off the beaten path travel oddities, this is the app for you. I’ve used this app for several years now and am always finding bits of nostalgia in our travels. Great app to share with our kids when we travel and explore new places.

Accurate!. I love this app that my grandson found! We now explore nearby sites but off the main drag that offer art, history and more with little or no inconvenience. Love it!

This app has made my life better. I have used this app for years, i was just singing its praises to a friend and stated “the quality of my life is better because of roadside America.” It crossed my mind that posting a review is probably in order because I’ve had such a wonderful experience with it so far. It makes trips more fun and you discover so many hidden gems that you wouldn’t know about otherwise. I recommend it to anyone moving to a new area or those would love to road trip around. Pay the full price to open up all of the US, it’s worth it, you never know where your going to end up.

Exciting Find!. What an exciting find! We love to travel and always dislike missing cool stuff. I first looked in the area around my home. I’ve lived here all my life and did not know these fascinating things were here! Oh the adventures we will have...!

Love this ap. My husband and I have used the website for the last couple of years. We love the ap because it lets us preplan stops along our journey. Our friends are always amazed at the quirky little places we find on our trips. The stops really help break up long drives.

A must have while on the road.. A must have, if you are into weird quirky things, but don’t have the time to wander, this is the app for you. A great list of roadside attractions and how to find them. I use it constantly. GET IT!

The best Roadside Attraction app on the web. This is by far the best Roadside Attraction app anywhere. It includes 1000s of fun sites, with ratings, directions, photos and even allows input and updates from users. The site team is always updating with new places. Another great function is the ability to use the geo-locator that will bring up fun and quirky attractions near your location. Get the app, get a camera and get ready to see the FUN side of America.

Joe O'Grady. When ever out traveling on my Harley, I make it a point to Check my app, roadside America. I would hate to miss something, from cool little places to big attraction. I use the app to get to know America, love it & I live it!!! After covering the US, might hit Europe on the Harley. Joe O'Grady

Great App. Traveling local or long distance? The Roadside America app will help you find interesting, weird and/or unique things to see. From a piece of the Berlin Wall to the World’s Largest Rocking Chair, you will find these and a whole lot more with this app.

Fun and easy to navigate. Who knew there was so much to see on a road trip! It’s been fun stopping off and seeing some interesting things! I see there is nothing flagged near me and I know of a few secrets so I’ll submit them as tips!

Skull restaurant & The Thing. Just got the app and rediscovered both of these Quirky Stops. Enjoyed them both and I’m looking forward to many more stops in the future.

Superior to the website. You can use the Roadside America website for free, but the website’s user interface and usability is so terrible that the app—which is vastly more user friendly—is money well spent and better facilitates spontaneity.

Dosappo. I paid for this app and choose Southwest. It showed me nothing but a map. I registered... it redirected me to email. After doing all this I get back to same place. It shows me southwest map lit. That is all. If I choose another area it wants me to pay more. I have not yet saw what I paid for first time. I've messed with this awhile and I do not understand all the places you refer people to learn how to work a simple map. Please give me my money back and I'll just use my map and search from google. A waste of time,

Best way to travel. This is the best app to make a family road trip wacky fun! Whether it’s the shoe shaped house or Captain Kirk’s future birthplace, the most humdrum trip is so much better with a few mind bending stops.

Use 2 love this app. I use to ❤️ this app! Every time we traveled & went anywhere, I always went to my app faithfully. I just got a new phone again & went 2 download my app & am having nothing but issues! I have paid for the app several years ago. Every time I got a new phone I’ve never had an issue reloading the app. Can someone please fix the issue … this is a great app & lots of fun to use when traveling on the road! Makes it less BORING to travel!! 🙏🏼

Helpful and Remarkable!. Easy to search for neat places, things to do and oddities off the beaten paths of our country! You just search on a town, city or area and nearby points of interest pop up. You get mileage to it, ratings like “not worth the bother” or “don’t miss this” as well as 1,2,3 4, & 5 signs (5 signs is worth the stop). It is reasonably priced $6.99 to unlock all areas of the country. You won’t be disappointed!

Favorite App for a trip. I absolutely love this app. I have been visiting roadside America when is was just a website before apps existed. RA makes all of our trips fun and memorable!

Hard to navigate. Would be so much better if it gave you directions or distance to a plotted route... constantly looking up locations on a map to see if they are behind us or not. “Directions not available” which means I have to constantly replay my location!!!

Road trip fun. You never know what fun will be at the next highway exit or along the road. This app made a long drive a little longer but much more fun! Giant Transformers, VW bug spiders, who knows what you will find!

Perfect. If you're the kind of person who likes to stop and look at interesting stuff during long road trips, this is THE app for you. It's well worth the value, and has such a huge library of roadside attractions and other cool things to see along the way.

SUCH FUN!. My family loves this app and we get a kick out of so many of the fun, quirky, weird, & entertaining places we’ve visited! Any time we travel I am looking for amusing little side trips near our destinations. It’s been worth the small amount the app costs!

Essential for everyone!. This well designed, easy to navigate app is a must have for anyone living in, visiting, or having any interested whatsoever in the U.S. of A!

I loooove this app. Help find interesting things to do when just entering a town and have time to waste. Also to find historical spots that you would never think to search for. Plus weird and cool things too. My kids always calls this my adventure I take them on. Especially now that they are getting their drivers licenses and needs hours behind the wheel. I look for something and not tell them then once we get to the spot they will say, “really mom?” Or “wow, now this is cool!”. We have tons of fun with this app.

Frustrating. Purchased the app once I received email to confirm wouldn’t allow access states I had to register. Tried to register again,said account was already active. Had to delete app and start over. Once I finally was able to access app tried to unlock all. Will not allow me to tells me I have to purchase the unlocked version which I have. Still will not allow me to access everything. Waste of money and time.

Travel Enhancer. The app is easy to use and provides useful information with tips and directions. Travel on road trips is more interesting with Roadside America. The map view is a great help.

I plan vacations. I use this app to plan vacation road trips. It is a really fun to plan short day trips and multi day trips with the attractions this app offers. Easy to use, informative, a must for every day tripper.

Awesome road trip helper. Love to use this to find weird little spots to check out. I’ve used it a lot and it’s been fun. this. Exactly what I was hoping it would do. Makes for a fun trip

All Access. I’ve been using the Roadside America App for years now and love it. If you road trip regularly, the all access package for the whole US is worth it! It’s so fun to pull up the map and see the pins of what’s near me. Love the feature that lets me pull up the directions in Apple or Google Maps. Happy travels!

Great app, but no family sharing all access. This app is very fun. We are looking forward to using it on our next big road-trip. Be aware if you use family sharing, though. While the basic app with one region activated can be family shared, the premium all access mode can only be used with one Apple ID. (And a shout out to their great customer service! Very responsive!)

Best App for travel. We’ve used this app for years while traveling around the US. We’ve seen so many neat, unique things because of Roadside America. The app is easy to search, the information and pictures about each place make them easy to find. With this app are able to appreciate each location even more. We recommend Roadside America to everyone we talk to about travel.

Where is “restore previous purchased”. Original review: “I paid for access to the whole United States a few years ago and used it several times, but rarely used the app afterwards. I just noticed my app has updated and now I have no US access and it’s shows I need to pick a single free region. I do not see a button to “restore previous purchases”. What gives??!” Update:A few days after I posted the above initial review, the developer responded to my issue and after a couple of emails they figured out why I was having an issue (I had updated my email account) and told me how to resolve it. I’m up and running. I’m very impressed with a developer who took the time and effort to fix my problem on an app I purchased almost eight years ago. Excellent app and excellent Developer!

App is not accessible. This app is a waste of money. Just because I'm blind, doesn't mean I don't like going to see unique things throughout the nation. The buttons are not labeled on this app, the map is not accessible, there are no lists to scroll through, and it just seems like they did not put any care into properly coding this app. what a waste of money. It's not like I could preview the app for free before purchasing. I thought this was a sure thing. I'm extremely disappointed and cannot say just how much a waste of time this app is for anyone who isn't "normal. "Which is funny, since this app offers up the most abnormal things out there. well, just seems like this company doesn't care about the rest of us. Way to be inclusive, kids.

Worth it, even if only enjoyed from my armchair. I had a little trouble figuring out how access the app at first and can understand why some frustrated users gave it less than a 5-star rating. THEN I read the FAQs and more of the directions and found the app works just as advertised. Gee, imagine that. I am now traveling the entire country from my armchair, delighted with the many quirky sights, roadside parks, museums & oddities. If I never leave home again the reasonable cost was worth it to me (and I have limited resources). From now on, every future trip will start with a review of potential places and sights to see along the way (or even out of the way). Thanks Roadside America.

A road trip necessity. I love this app. I took a 3 1/2 week road trip to drive from the East Coast to the west and found amazing things along the way. I used the app on a 2 1/2 week trip from the West Coast to the east later and also enjoyed finding interesting places. I shared it with the fellow I met recently And he got a great deal of pleasure of looking at the towns he knows in finding the interesting and weird places near his familiar sites. Keep up the good work

Fun app for travelers!. I love this app! I find interesting places to visit during our road trips using this app. I understand that subscription for all access have been eliminated, if this is true then I’m so lucky to have purchased all regions before it stopped. Thank you for making our road trips fun!

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Crashed. Had this app for all of an hour and it crashed. Want my money back. :(

Don't Leave Home Without It. "Roadside America," along with their companion app "Roadside Presidents," are the two most indispensable travel apps in my collection. The content is incredible and it can even be used - to a limited degree - offline.

If you love the journey not just the destination you'll love this app.. Love this app! We took a road trip to Casper Wyoming from Canada this summer. We're the kind of people that love the journey not just the destination. This app lead us to all sorts of interesting places we would never have known about. 30-foot neon cowboy? Check. A huge replica of Medusa made out of hay? Check. A life-sized tyrannosaur lit from within? Check. We had so much fun checking out crazy stuff. The reviews from travelers about each site were handy, too. You get a better sense of whether or not you'd like to drive 30 miles out of you way to visit a mile long pit of poisonous water. (BTW, you do want to stop there because it's absolutely beautiful.)

Awesome site. I just bought this app a few days ago. It is a little more expensive than I was told but around $10.00 still makes it a great app. I have NOT gone anywhere yet but have been able to plan out my entire summer using this map and finding what looks like great places to visit along the way. Sometimes trips can seem long but just stopping for a few minutes (or days) can help make the trip not seem so long... Plus the bonus is, you now how something new to talk about. I will review this again at the end of summer and let you know where we stopped and how great it was.

Roadside America. Excellent suggestions for unique sites to see that you probably won't find in most travel guides. Wish it was more up to date but with more people adding tips and photos, Roadside America will only grow and expand.

The Costing seems like a ripoff. Disappointing. I have been waiting for this app to come out for months. I am a big fan of Roadside America. When I saw it was available at last here in Canada I jumpped on it. The App itself is just fine, wonderful in fact. It gives all the quarky Roadside info I have come to love from the site at my fingertips. It will be great for trips! Recommended. However, the costing is a ripoff! And I urge Roadside America to rethink this in the up dates and opt to reward its fans instead of gouging them. The $3 you pay up front only buys you one of 5 regions of the USA. you only get the info for the region you pay for. You can ad regions later if you want, at another cost. I would have gladly paid one, one time fee for this, even as high as $10 or more. I have paid that much for apps before if I really like it and know I will use it all the time. But the kicker here is, even if you by all access to to all of the USA you have to renew it every year. So every year I pay another $5?!?! So I have to pay for this app every year? I have never heard of such a thing. Who do you think you are, the NY Times? In fact I have NY Times app, and IT WAS FREE! When I buy a travel book, do I have to go back and buy it again every year? This would have been a 5 out of 5 if it wasnt for the costing. This is no way to grow your biz. I would be surprised if anyone out side of die hard core RSA fans bought into this. If you had made it one time fee of 5-10 bucks, all access, you might have brought in more new fans that way. But your current costing scam is a turn off. Rethink this in the next up date of the app, and all will be forgiven and I will gladly write another review, that one would be 5 out of 5! Fans will get this app. They will love it. They should also let RSA know how they feel about the costing scheme. (maybe its jst me?). Newbies may feel ripped off however. PS I have been thinking about it and here is a suggestion. I would pay $15 or so (the cost of a travel book) to have total access forever to this app. Also, if memebers could load up there own pictures to the site and ad reviews that would be cool too.

Great for road trips!. Just did a road trip from Ottawa, Ontario to Corpus Christi, Texas with two teenagers. This app brought us a lot of laughs and directed us to seeing things we enjoyed and would have missed otherwise.

Another way to ask for more money. I probably would have known if I had read more but when I bought it I though I would have the entire US but no, for $2,99 (CDN), I had to chose for only one section of the map. It's very disappointing but I learned my lesson. If you have money to spare… it might be a good thing. If you don't, forget about it!

$$$. It’s one thing to charge someone for your app and another to charge them even more to unlock the content within the app they just purchased. Either charge one price for the app or make the app free and give very basic content with the in app purchase unlocking more features.

More fun than games, these places are real!. I'm really glad I got this, and the "everything on it" all-region expansion. I'm already finding places nearby I hope to visit, like the Sparks electrical museum in Bellingham, Washington, and others I know of that I'll propose they add, like the water cistern It's a walk through to the weirdest parts of real life.

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Initial impression. So my initial impression is disappointment. $3 gets you one area. Seems like a tease. $7 gets you everything. I don’t like apps that do this. So I’ll have to use the apps and update the app review in the future.

Love this app. We use it traveling all over the US. Never disappoints. And you can add your comments and photos to keep it relevant. Worth every cent!

Don't Leave Home Without It. As a longtime user of the website, I was thrilled to discover the app. Roadside aficionados unite! I've recommended this to many friends. Thanks to the developers!

Love this app but wish it had social features!. I’d love the ability to write logs for roadside stops and add pictures to the logs! Would also love to be able to follow my friends and see their feeds :)

Love the app. This app really helps you either plan your trip, or search for spontaneous distractions from the weary road.

Quirky Rules!. I have loved the Roadside America website for years, and now to have it available as a mobile app is so terrific! I love it!

Can’t fix my account. I’ve tried to fix my account but the directions given don’t work.

Excellent info on offbeat places!. Whether you travel a little or a lot, this is a fun app to find offbeat info.

You Have To Pay More. Fun app, but you have to pay extra to access any region other than the one first selected. As an RV-er traveling around the county, I had to pay for all 5 regions. There are apps and google searches that do this for free.

Fun with kid. It’s so much fun to find roadside attractions for my kid to check off!

Trying to access. I opened the app and selected region of interest and then nothing. Can’t post for or access anything. Just stuck on opening page. What a bust

Great app. Used this years ago and looking forward to exploring more post Covid.

This app is a rip off. I paid for the download of this app and in order to unlock more than the area I live in I have to pay even more. That’s kind of a rip off.

Crashy. The app was fun at first, but crashes an freezes so often than it’s unreliable and I’ve moved on. Fun while it lasted!

King of the Road.... This app turns a boring drive into a whacky road adventure.!.!

The essential road trip app. This app will add miles to your odometer and years to your life.

Limited. Didn’t realize you could only select ONE region of states and not all the states for your purchase. Wouldn’t have purchased had I knew this. 🤔 You have to pay for additional 5.99 to get the rest. 🙄. Wish I hadn’t purchased it!

Fantastic.. This app has sent me on a multitude of adventures to track down odd and amazing attractions. Cant recommend enough.

Love this app. I love to drive and stop in attractions such fun or bizarre, talk with locals about unique places in their cities. This app turned all my travels longer but I’m making friends wherever I go.

Best App Ever. I bought this app - All of it ! I used to use the books they wrote, but this app is a God - Send! Worth every penny!!

I love this app!. My wife and I keep it on when traveling. It’s not uncommon for us to detour to see some fantastic or weird posting from the app. We are addicted!

What???. I paid for this app to get all access. Now all of a sudden I can only get one region??? I was never notified the system had changed. Seems like a sneaky rip-off to me. Buyers beware!!!

Not worth it.. The way this app is laid out is really uninteresting to use and for being such a simple app it’s actually really annoying to navigate. I want my money back to be honest. There other free sites/apps that are way easier and have more places.

Quirky. This app quits out and doesn’t always work. I’ve had to re-download it a couple times and is stuck in partial download mode for four days.

Only App I Paid For. I travel a lot and live this app. Lists things even the locals haven’t seen. Also it’s really easy to add sites to the database.

App just doesn’t work.... Downloaded to a current iPhone XR, I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app, and every time I bring it up it says there is no network and cannot connect

Amazing. Plan to take time and travel around the USA with this app. This app is a must for road trips, vacations, and adventures. Outstanding!

I love this app. There is always something bizarre, strange, or funny lurking around the corner. This app will let you know where it is.

Love this app!. We use this for funny fun side trips when traveling. All this entertainment for under $10. How fun!

Fun. We truly enjoy this app on our family road trips.

Once Great App no Longer Updated. Five years ago I used this app as I traveled the US. It was always up to date and they published my tips quickly. Now the attractions are out of date. I sent in tips on several attractions no longer in existence with no response. Don’t waste your time.

Awesome!!!. This app is great!! No matter where we drive, there are cool things to see and places to visit. We have used it in 30 states and counting!! It’s a MUST HAVE for any USA road trip.

IPhone 11 Pro Got too Hot with This App. It is the only app I’ve run where I noticed the phone getting immediately hot. Very hot. It needs to be updated for ios13 and the new generation of devices. It’s otherwise a good app for the information. The interface is definitely outdated looking.

A must have!. Brilliant, hilarious and always intriguing! Roadside America will definitely keep up your credentials as an eccentric & thinker.

Price is misleading. The advertised $2.99 is just for one section, and California alone is considered one section. If you want to unlock the rest of the US, it’s an additional $6.99. Not a deal killer, but I wish they warned about it on the store.

Makes a trip. We never road trip without this app. Makes travel so much fun. I can turn a 3 hour trip into a 6 hour trip 😂

We’ve checked out so many attractions thanks to this app!. Amazingly helpful. So much info with intuitive interface.

Hmmm. I was hoping this app could notify me of upcoming attractions-as is, it requires too much “hands on” use Not helpful to a single traveler

My favorite travel app. We have traveled to 49 states and cross-crossed the county a few times. No app has consistently proved more worthwhile tips than this one. It makes our travels much more fun and memorable.

Numerous. There are so many obscure interesting places and sites to see in this app. Absolutely amazing. Thank you

Not good. Downloaded the app. Paid to unlock all regions. The app is stuck on the map of the US saying “enjoy your trip” BUT it is stuck on this screen! SO DISAPPOINTED especially after I paid in good faith.

Need more but good. The app is fun and interesting, but need more stops

Additional Cost. Be aware, your initial purchase of the app only gives you a region of the United States. Not the full country. To get the full United States you have to pay additional.

Never know what u can find. Found some great places to visit

It’s a blast. I geocache too so a lot of times the 2 apps take me to fun places. I have used it all over the US and parts of Canada. Thanks.

Unable to unlock from searching. Stuck in search mode unable to use

Awful App. Paid for the app to try and find attractions on my cross country road trip but the app will not allow me to go more than 1000 miles even with regions open. Not worth it.

awful. this app is just wants your money. it’s poorly laid out and you have to pay for each place you want me look at. Wish I would have saved my money

Don’t buy. Love the free web version and thought, okay will pay 2.99 for iPhone version; but wait...you get one region and can purchase additional regions. It’s also hard to figure out, can I have my $$ back please?

So much fun. Great app that I use all the time!!!!