Camping trip planner for Australia
Your next camping trip, sorted.
From packing the essentials to planning meals, calculating costs and preparing your vehicle — Gumtrail brings your entire camping trip together in one beautifully simple place.
A$4.99 per month or A$29.99 per year, renewing automatically. The calculator is free and needs no login.
See a whole trip at a glance
This is the trip dashboard, filled with sample data so you can see how it fits together.
Sample data: Lake Eildon Weekend
Gumtrail trip dashboard
Lake Eildon Weekend — 3 Nights | 2 Campers | 4WD Touring + Fishing
Where the money goes
- FuelA$143.50 · 36%
- Campsite feesA$75.00 · 19%
- Groceries and mealsA$176.00 · 45%
Shopping list
9 of 21 items bought
Next up
- Confirm food and water
- Tell a trusted contact your trip plan
- Check equipment and safety supplies
Less planning. More exploring.
Build and organise trips
Set up each trip with its destination, dates, group size and camping style, and keep everything for it in one place.
Realistic budgets and fuel expenses
Add fuel, campsite fees, groceries and extras. Fuel is worked out from your own distance, consumption and price estimates.
Customisable packing checklists
Start from a list built around the activities you choose, then add, remove and assign items to people.
Track preparation and equipment
Work through a departure checklist and see exactly what is left to do before you head out.
Saved trips and printable summaries
Keep more than one trip, and print a clean summary or save it as a PDF to take with you.
Meals, recipes and shopping
Camp-kitchen recipes that actually work
Plan every meal day by day, see what it costs, and turn the ingredients into one shopping list you can tick off. Then fill the plan from a library of 24 in-depth Australian camping recipes.
- 24 recipes across breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks: camp oven, campfire, gas stove, BBQ and no-cook.
- Quantities scale with your group, from 1 to 24 serves.
- Add to trip drops the meal and its scaled ingredients into your plan, ready for the shopping list.
- Every recipe has steps with temperatures and times, make-ahead prep and a cooler tip.
Camp oven
Camp oven lamb shanks
Red wine, rosemary and three slow hours over the coals.
Camp oven
Damper with golden syrup
The bush classic, with the coal-counting done for you.
Campfire
Foil-pack fish and veg
Your catch of the day, steamed in the coals with lemon butter.
Gas stove
Bacon and egg breakfast burritos
One pan, 30 minutes, and they freeze as ice bricks.
How it works
- 1
Tell us about your trip
Enter the destination, dates, number of campers, vehicle and camping activities.
- 2
Build your perfect plan
Gumtrail organises budgets, equipment, meals and preparation tasks.
- 3
Pack up and head out
Follow your personalised checklist, print your trip summary and enjoy your adventure.
Start with the free trip cost calculator
Enter your distance, fuel use, campsite and food costs for an estimate in seconds. No login, and no live prices: the numbers are yours.
Simple plans. Pick monthly or annual.
Choose a monthly or annual plan for the full camping planner. The annual plan is best value.
Gumtrail subscription
Gumtrail — Full Planner Access
Both plans unlock exactly the same features.
Annual
Billed once a year. Works out to about half the cost of paying monthly (A$59.88 over 12 months).
- Multiple saved camping trips
- Full trip planning dashboard
- Fuel and budget calculators
- Personalised equipment checklists
- Meal and shopping planner
- Recipe library: 24 in-depth recipes with scaling serves and add-to-trip
- Trip readiness checklist
- Printable trip summary
- Access to core product updates under the published terms
Subscriptions renew automatically at the price and frequency shown until cancelled. Any applicable tax is shown at checkout. Cancellation steps and refund terms will be confirmed before purchases open. See our Refund and Consumer Rights page.
Questions, answered
What is Gumtrail?
Gumtrail is a camping trip planner for Australian campers. You enter your trip and it helps you organise the budget, fuel costs, packing list, meals and recipes, shopping list and a departure checklist in one place.
Is it suitable for beginners?
Yes. The packing and departure lists give you a starting point based on the activities you choose, and you can edit all of it. They are suggestions only, not a complete safety list, so check official guidance for your destination.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. Gumtrail is a web app that works in your phone's browser. It is not a downloadable app.
Does it work for 4WD trips?
Yes. Choose 4WD touring and add your vehicle's fuel details to estimate fuel costs, with an optional extra fuel allowance for demanding conditions. Packing suggestions include tyre tools, recovery gear and communications. Gumtrail does not know your vehicle's limits or track conditions, so it does not tell you what is safe or how far you can go.
Can I plan multiple trips?
Yes. Gumtrail premium access includes multiple saved camping trips, and each one has its own budget, packing list, meals and checklist.
Does Gumtrail include recipes?
Yes. Gumtrail includes a library of 24 in-depth Australian camping recipes across breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, for camp oven, campfire, gas stove, BBQ and no-cook cooking. You can search and filter them, scale the servings, and add a recipe to a day and meal of your trip, which adds the meal and its scaled ingredients to your meal plan so you can build them into your shopping list. Each recipe has steps, equipment, make-ahead notes and a cooler tip. Three recipes are free to read on the Recipes page. Recipes do not include nutrition information, so check ingredient labels yourself if anyone has an allergy.
Can I print my packing list?
Yes. There is a print button on the packing list, a print button on each recipe, and a printable trip summary. All of them use your browser's print dialog, so you can also save them as a PDF.
Is there a recurring subscription?
Yes. Gumtrail is A$4.99 per month or A$29.99 per year. Both plans renew automatically at the price and frequency shown until cancelled, and both unlock the same features. Any applicable tax is shown at checkout. Cancellation steps and refund terms will be confirmed before purchases open.
Do I need an internet connection?
Yes, for the app itself: Gumtrail is a web app and needs a connection to load and save your trips. Documents you print or save as a PDF can be taken with you and used offline, which helps when there is no reception.
Does Gumtrail show live fuel prices, weather or park information?
No. Every price you see is an estimate you entered yourself. Gumtrail does not pull live fuel prices, weather, fire danger or park data. The departure checklist links to official sources such as the Bureau of Meteorology so you can check conditions yourself.