Texas Cactus and Canyons: Del Rio to Alpine
Follow this 200 mile drive west on US Highway 90 and you travel through a landscape of desert, canyons, rivers and mountains, made all the more magnificent by the brilliant…
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Texas: Marathon to Marfa via Big Bend National Park
This memorable drive begins by heading south through dramatic desert country, then enters Big Bend National Park, with its spectacular mountains, massive canyons and the Rio Grande itself. From here…
South Dakota: Mount Rushmore / Black Hills
Take the slow route from Rapid City to Deadwood and get a taste of the Black Hills. Along the way you'll visit two of America's greatest sculptural achievements, experience the…
South Dakota, Pierre to Badlands National Park
This is how the rest of the world imagines American road trips to be. For a hundred miles or so, you’ll be travelling an empty road across wide open plains…
Oregon Coast Highway: Southern section
This is a truly wonderful coastal drive, taking in rugged cliffs, picturesque lighthouses, endless sand dunes and arguably the most beautiful beach in the whole of Oregon. And at the…
Oregon Coast Highway: Northern section
This is the northern section of one of America's, if not the world's, great coastal drives, the Oregon Coast Highway. Heading south from Astoria where the Columbia River empties into…
Oregon, Historic Columbia River Highway
‘Majestic’ is the adjective that springs most readily to mind when describing this most scenic of byways (the first 'planned' scenic roadway in the United States). Steep hills and cliffs…
Eastern Ohio on the Historic National Road
Take a drive across east Ohio on the road that helped build America - the Historic National Road. Built between 1811 and 1839, this was the nation's first federally funded…
North Dakota: Dinosaurs & Badlands Bison
This quiet and often remote-feeling drive passes through some of North Dakota's loveliest and most dramatic scenery, taking in the history and nightlife of busy little Medora, the beauty and…
North Dakota, Fargo to Jamestown
Got time to take a slightly roundabout route from Fargo to Jamestown? If so, you'll be rewarded with a lazy and slightly off-beat trip through a part of the country…