Travel Planner
With over 15,000 Wisconsin options for dining, staying and playing, where do you start? Right here! Our Travel Planner tools are designed to help you find inspiration, create and build on your travel plans.
Create and save your lists of ideas for Wisconsin getaways. Sharing lists is optional, but browsing for inspiration is encouraged!
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Use Travel Lists To
Plan Trips
Create Travel Lists to save and organize articles, events, destinations and attractions that interest you.
- Easily plan your next family vacation together
- Make road trips fun by finding things to do and places to see along the way
- Capture a list of ideas to pull from on those days you can’t decide what to do
Share Ideas
Share your Travel Lists with friends and family via email, social networks, or just print out a copy for quick reference.
- Keep everyone in your family or group of friends informed about travel plans through email
- Give others advice about where to go and what to see by sharing your travel ideas through various social media networks
- Create and print a Travel List of future events or attractions you’d like to see
Get Inspired
Check out Travel Lists that other people have created to find some great ideas for your own travel plans.
- Explore the most recently created Travel Lists and discover new things to do in Wisconsin that you might not have known about
- Get new ideas about where to go and what to see by searching for a topic you’re interested in and finding related Travel Lists
How to use the Travel Planner
Getting Started
There are thousands of articles, events, attractions and destinations Wisconsin has to offer. Just create a TravelWisconsin.com account and you can use the Travel Planner to create Travel Lists to plan, organize and save items that interest you. Once you register for an account, just follow these simple steps to use the Travel Planner.
Creating New Travel Lists
There are two easy ways to create new Travel Lists to organize and save items that interest you.
- Create an empty Travel List and then add items to it as you find them.
- Find an item that interest you on the site and create the Travel List from it.
Creating an empty Travel List
On the Travel Planner page, click on the 'Create A New List' button
- Name your new Travel List
- Add a description about your list (optional if private)
- Choose your privacy setting
- When finished click 'Submit'
- If you're not already logged into your TravelWisconsin.com account, you will be asked to log in. If you don't have an account, you'll need to register for an account
- You can now browse the site and add items to this list
Creating a Travel List from a found item
Once you've found an item of interest, click on the "Add to my Travel List" button or link next to the item you'd like to save to a new Travel List
- If you're not already logged into your TravelWisconsin.com account, you will be asked to log in. If you don't have an account, you'll need to register for an account.
- From the 'Add to List' menu choose the '+Create a new Travel List' option and a form will appear
- Name your new Travel List
- Add a description about the list (optional if private)
- Choose your privacy setting
- When finished, click 'Continue'
- The item will be added to your new Travel List and saved in your account
Adding New Items to Existing Travel Lists
It's easy to add new items you’ve found to one of your existing travel lists.
- Browse TravelWisconsin.com to find things of interest
- When you find something that interests you, click on the "Add to my Travel List" button or link next to the item you'd like to save
- If you're not already logged into your TravelWisconsin.com account, you will be asked to log in
- Once logged in, click on the drop box to select the existing Travel List you'd like to add the item to
- When finished, click 'Continue'
- The item will be added to the chosen Travel List and saved in your account
- If you'd like to add a note about the item (optional) click on the link under 'What would you like to do now?'
- Add your note and click 'Save' when you're finished
Viewing Your Existing Travel Lists
There are two different ways you can view your existing Travel Lists.
Through the Travel Planner Page
- Make sure you're logged into your account
- Click on 'Travel Planner' found on the bottom of the left site navigation
- Your Travel Lists will be listed in the box on the right under 'My Travel Lists'
Through the 'My Travel Lists' section of your account
- Go to 'My Account' found on the upper right of the page
- Click on 'My Travel Lists'
- All of the Travel Lists you have created will be displayed here
Find or Browse Other Travel Lists
Half the fun of using the Travel Planner is checking out what others are doing to get ideas for your own travel plans. There are several ways you can view other users' Travel Lists to get ideas.
Browsing the Most Recent Travel Lists
- Click on 'Travel Planner' found on the bottom of the left site navigation
- A list of the most recent Travel Lists will be displayed
Using the Search Tool Box
- Type in a word or words of what you’re looking for into the 'Search Site' box at the top right of the page and click 'Go'
- Filter the results by clicking on the 'Travel Lists' filter box found under 'Type'
- Review the results
Share a Travel List
There are several ways to easily share your Travel Lists with friends and family.
If You’re the Travel List Owner
You can share both your public and private Travel Lists
- Make sure you log into your account
- Go to 'My Account' found on the upper right of the page
- Click on 'My Travel Lists'
- All of the Travel Lists you have created will be displayed here for you to access
- Click on the Travel List you want to share
- With Travel List open, choose how you want to share it by clicking on one of the following icons at the top of the list:
- Email – this allows you to e-mail the list directly to people and comes through in html
- Share – this allows you to share the list through a variety of social networks
- Follow the prompts to complete your sharing
*Note: Private lists can only be shared via email
If You’re NOT the Travel List Owner
- Find the Travel List you’d like to share
- Click on the ‘Share’ icon found in the upper right of the page
- Chose among the variety of options and follow the prompts to complete your sharing
Privacy Settings
You can make each of your Travel Lists public or private, depending on who you want to see it and can change this setting at any time.
Public
Travel Lists that are checked "public" can be viewed and shared by everyone.
Private
Travel Lists that are checked "private" can only be viewed and emailed by the list owner.
Printing Travel Lists
Print out your Travel List to take along with you or pass along to a friend.
- Find the page of the Travel List you’d like to print
- Once on the page, click the 'Print' icon on the top right
Subscribing to Travel Lists via RSS
Follow updates others make on Travel Lists that interest you.
- Find the page of the Travel list you'd like to subscribe to via RSS
- Once on the page, click the 'RSS' icon on the top right
Editing My Travel Lists
You can make edits to your Travel Lists at any time.
- Make sure you're logged into your account
- Select the Travel List you’d like to edit
Editing General List Info (Title, Description)
- Click 'Edit List Info' in upper right
- Make changes
- Click 'Save'
Changing Your Travel List's Privacy Setting
- Click 'Change' next to current privacy setting to change your list from public to private or vice versa
Editing Items in Your Travel List
Reordering Your List
- Click and hold the item you want to move
- Drag it up or down to place it in the order you would like
Editing Your Notes
- Click 'Edit Note' in box on right of item
- Make edits to your note (Only you can see your notes. Your notes will not be displayed to the public even when your Travel List is public)
- Click 'Save'
Removing Items from Your Travel List
- Click 'Remove Item' in box on right of item
- Click 'Okay' to confirm removal
- Item is now removed from your Travel List
Deleting a Travel List
When you're finished with a Travel List, you can delete it at any time.
- Make sure you log into your account
- Find the Travel List you'd like to delete
- Click 'Delete Travel List'
- Click 'Okay' to confirm removal
- The Travel List and all the items in it is now deleted
Create a New Travel Item
Have an article, event, attraction or destination you'd like included on your Travel List but don't see on TravelWisconsin.com? You can still add it to your list!
- 1.Go to the Travel List you'd like to add your item to
- Click on the 'Create a New Travel Item' button
- Fill out the form
- Click 'Save'
- Your new travel item has been created and will be displayed in your Travel List
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Planning Tools
- Use our Travel Planner to find, save, and share travel ideas
- Download or order Maps & Guides
- Find fun faster while on the go with the free Travel Wisconsin App for iPhone or Android.
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