Custom Waypoints on Strava Routes

While creating your route, you can click on the map to create waypoints. Custom Waypoints allow you to mark specific places along a route, share those details with others, and send these places to certain GPS devices to use during navigation. Beautiful viewpoints, coffee shops, bathrooms, water refills, and anything else can all be included on any Strava route by using Custom Waypoints.

Adding Waypoints While Planning a Route

Create your route as you normally would. More information on creating a route can be found here.

1. Use the search bar on the left to search for a location, landmark, or address you’d like to add to the route. For example, if you plan on stopping your ride at a coffee shop, you can search for that coffee shop by name and save it as a waypoint.
2. Select "Add waypoint" at any time to populate a new search bar. Search for a place or address in the search bar, hit enter, and a waypoint will be added for the chosen location.
3. Drag these waypoints on the map or drag and drop the order of the waypoints on the left to reorder your route.
4. If you click on a waypoint on the map, you’ll see the option to delete that waypoint.
5. Additionally, if you’d like to add a waypoint at any point along the route, click the polyline, and you’ll be presented with the option to "Insert Waypoint".

Creating Custom Waypoints

To customize a waypoint further, click on the waypoint to reveal the menu of options. Click "Customize", enter the details about the point, and then click "Save".

Viewing Custom Waypoints

When you save a route with Custom Waypoints, you can view the Custom Waypoints on the route details page on the Strava website and the mobile app, as well as the record screen when following a route.

Sharing Custom Waypoints With Other Strava Users

If you create a route that includes Custom Waypoints, a Strava user can bring that route including the custom waypoints into their saved routes page by duplicating the route or clicking the star icon. The star option also sends that route to GPS devices if the athlete has their accounts connected.