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All Routes
Browse every hand-researched itinerary — filterable by region, terrain, duration, and season. From coastal highways to mountain backroads, your next great American drive starts here.
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Pacific Coast Highway
Wind along sea cliffs above the Pacific, passing elephant seal colonies, redwood groves, and Big Sur's wild heart.
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Blue Ridge Parkway
America's most visited parkway drifts through misty ridgelines, apple orchards, and handcraft culture from Virginia to Cherokee.
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Route 66 — The Mother Road
The original American road trip, still alive in neon signs, roadside diners, and the long flat emptiness of the Texas Panhandle.
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Going-to-the-Sun Road
Glacier National Park's impossibly scenic trans-mountain highway crosses the Continental Divide at Logan Pass, 6,646 feet above the sea.
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The Loneliest Road — US 50
Life magazine called it the loneliest road in America. Nevada's US 50 crosses eleven mountain ranges and seven valleys with almost no services.
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Overseas Highway — Florida Keys
Drive over the sea itself on 42 bridges connecting the coral islands of the Florida Keys, from Miami to the end of the American road.
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Trail Ridge Road
The highest continuous paved road in America reaches 12,183 feet inside Rocky Mountain National Park, crossing true Arctic tundra.
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Natchez Trace Parkway
An ancient Indigenous trading path reborn as a billboard-free parkway through cypress swamps, Civil War sites, and old-growth forest.
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Columbia River Gorge Highway
Oregon's first scenic highway threads basalt canyon walls beside a river of the Columbia's scale, past eleven major waterfalls.
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Death Valley Road Loop
The lowest, hottest, driest place in North America offers landscapes of such alien beauty they make you question what planet you're on.
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Beartooth Highway
Charles Kuralt called it the most beautiful drive in America. Beartooth climbs to 10,947 feet through a plateau of glaciers and tundra lakes.
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Kancamagus Highway
New Hampshire's wildest road crosses the White Mountains without a single traffic light, past covered bridges, cascades, and peak foliage.
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