Trip guides
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Classic American drives
The famous two-lane routes and coast roads everyone should drive once.
Route 66, part one: Chicago to Oklahoma City
Route 66, part two: Oklahoma City to the Pacific
Highway 1: San Francisco to Santa Monica
The Blue Ridge Parkway, end to end
The Overseas Highway to Key West
Great River Road: the upper Mississippi
US-50: the Loneliest Road in America
Up the Missouri River through South Dakota
National park loops
Loops that link several parks, with campgrounds and places to stay along the way.
Utah's five national parks, in one loop from Las Vegas
Grand Teton, Yellowstone and the Beartooth Highway
Canyons and cliff dwellings of the Four Corners
West Texas and southern New Mexico: dunes, caves and Big Bend
Going-to-the-Sun Road, west to east
Rainier and St. Helens volcano loop
Death Valley loop
Sequoia and Yosemite
Chihuahuan Desert parks
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah
Mojave National Preserve: dunes, depot and cinder cones
Glacier’s quiet corners: North Fork and Two Medicine
San Luis Valley: Great Sand Dunes and Colorado’s oldest town
Big Thicket: East Texas pines and bayous
Bison and granite in the Wichita Mountains
North Dakota badlands and the Enchanted Highway
Missouri Ozark springs and shut-ins
Manatees and springs on Florida’s Nature Coast
New River Gorge National Park
Moosehead Lake and Katahdin: Maine’s North Woods
Indiana Dunes and northern Indiana’s Amish country
Shawnee National Forest: southern Illinois hills
RV & family trips
Easy days, big parking lots and stops that work for kids.
Badlands and the Black Hills with kids
The Olympic Peninsula by RV
Swimming holes and granite domes in the Texas Hill Country
Lake Michigan's dune coast
Door County peninsula
Hoover Dam and the Colorado River
Deadwood and Spearfish Canyon
Red rock around Las Vegas: Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire
Kanab to Page: pink dunes, hoodoos and Lake Powell
Down the Guadalupe: maples, cypress and dance halls
Mobile Bay and Alabama’s Gulf Shores
Themed road trips
Music, strange sculpture and fiberglass giants: trips built around one obsession.
Giant baskets and infinity rooms: a Midwest oddities run
Music highway: Nashville to New Orleans
Desert art and strange sculpture
East Coast curiosities
High Road to Taos
Hudson Valley
On the Oregon Trail in Nebraska
Kentucky bourbon and caves
Sonoma, Napa and Point Reyes
Cajun Country
The Blues Highway
Amish Country and Gettysburg
Gold Country on Highway 49
Extraterrestrial Highway and Nevada ghost towns
On the Santa Fe Trail: Trinidad to Santa Fe
Off Route 66: Osage country and the tallgrass
Covered bridges, Dutch windmills and the Amana Colonies
Arkansas crystals and diamonds
Alabama’s civil rights trail: Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery
Brandywine Valley gardens and du Pont estates
Things to do in…
Short regional trips for a long weekend.
Death Valley to Yosemite on the Eastern Sierra
Colorado Springs to Rocky Mountain National Park
Fall color: the Kancamagus to Acadia
Oregon's waterfalls and volcanoes
Texas Panhandle canyons
Kansas Flint Hills
Missouri River wine country
Wallowa Mountains and Hells Canyon
Steens Mountain and the Alvord Desert
Dinosaurs and Flaming Gorge
Gila Wilderness: cliff dwellings, a catwalk and the Very Large Array
Southeast Arizona: missions, mines and sky islands
Niobrara River: waterfalls and fossil rhinos
Minnesota North Woods: iron mines to Voyageurs
Cumberland Plateau waterfalls
Chesapeake Bay: Annapolis to Blackwater
Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands
The Mohawk Trail and the Berkshires
Hocking Hills caves and Ohio’s Amish Country
Wisconsin’s Driftless Area
Coast & island drives
Lighthouses, barrier islands and ocean roads from Maine to Maui.
Oregon Coast on US-101
Redwood Coast
Texas Gulf Coast
Lowcountry: Charleston to Savannah
Outer Banks
Florida Gulf Coast and the Everglades
Florida’s Forgotten Coast
Maine’s Route 1
Cape Cod
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Montauk
Road to Hana, Maui
Hawaiʻi Island: Kona to the volcano
San Juan Islands by ferry
The Lost Coast and Shelter Cove
Kauaʻi from Hanalei to Waimea Canyon
Louisiana’s Creole Nature Trail
The Mississippi Gulf Coast on US-90
White sand on the Panhandle: Pensacola to Panama City Beach
Georgia’s Golden Isles and the Okefenokee
North Carolina’s Crystal Coast
Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Bay Bridge-Tunnel
Pine Barrens and the Jersey Shore to Cape May
Scenic byways
Mountain passes, canyon roads and back roads chosen for the drive itself.
North Cascades Highway
Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood
Lake Tahoe loop
Red rock Arizona
Utah Scenic Byway 12
San Juan Skyway
Top of the Rockies to Aspen
Natchez Trace Parkway
Arkansas Ozarks
Vermont Route 100
Niagara, Finger Lakes and Adirondacks
Lake Superior’s north and south shores
Idaho’s Sawtooth Scenic Byway
Alaska’s Seward Highway
Great Smoky Mountains and the Tail of the Dragon
The Palouse: wheat hills and a hidden waterfall
Oregon Outback: volcanoes and high desert
Anza-Borrego and the Salton Sea
Wind River country: Togwotee Pass to South Pass
Black Canyon and the West Elk Loop
Alaska’s Richardson and Denali highways
Davis Mountains: forts, stars and a desert spring
The Talimena Scenic Drive, Oklahoma to Arkansas
Nebraska Sandhills on Highway 2
Iowa’s Driftless bluffs and Norwegian Decorah
Red River Gorge arches and Kentucky crafts
Kansas chalk badlands
North Georgia waterfalls and gold country
Waterfalls of the South Carolina Upstate
West Virginia highlands: Dolly Sods to Cass
Catskills waterfalls and artists’ towns
Tunnel of Trees and Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula
Marquette to Copper Harbor on the Keweenaw
Classic European drives
Coast roads, Alpine passes and fjords everyone should drive once.
Route des Grandes Alpes: Lake Geneva to the Riviera
Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast from Naples
Norway’s fjords: Bergen to the Atlantic Road
The North Coast 500 from Inverness
The Romantic Road: Würzburg to Füssen
Lisbon to the Algarve along the Atlantic
Plitvice and the Dalmatian coast to Kotor
Route Napoléon
Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta
Trabocchi Coast to the Molise and Abruzzo mountains
Western Sicily: Segesta, Erice and the salt pans
Luberon perched villages
French Basque Country: coast and hill villages
Auvergne volcanoes: Puy de Dôme to Puy Mary
La Mancha: windmills and the hanging houses of Cuenca
Swabian Alb: castles, springs and the Danube
Lake Constance’s German shore
Swiss Jura: Doubs gorges and the Creux du Van
Mullerthal and the Luxembourg Moselle
Funen and the islands of the South Funen Sea
Snæfellsnes: Iceland in miniature
Kent: castles, Canterbury and the white cliffs
Isle of Skye by the bridge
Connemara: bogs, the Sky Road and Kylemore
Crete: Chania to Knossos
Mountains & lakes
Loops through the Alps and beyond, with campsites by the water.
A loop through the Dolomites
Swiss Alpine passes from Lucerne
Slovenia’s Julian Alps
Iceland’s south coast
Great Dolomite Road: Bolzano to Cortina
Lake Garda loop
Abruzzo: Gran Sasso and the stone villages
Aosta Valley: castles and Gran Paradiso
Stelvio and Bernina: two giants of the Alps
Pyrenean cols: Tourmalet and Gavarnie
Sierra Nevada and the Alpujarra
Aragon Pyrenees and Ordesa
Northern Portugal: Minho and Gerês
Black Forest High Road
German Alpine Road
Saxon Switzerland and the Elbe
Salzkammergut lakes
Zillertal, Krimml and the Grossglockner
Ticino: Swiss lakes, Italian style
Along the Glacier Express
Hardangerfjord and its waterfalls
Wales: Brecon Beacons to Snowdonia
Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms
Transylvania: castles and Saxon towns
High Tatras: Poland and Slovakia
North Iceland: the Diamond Circle
Brenta Dolomites and the Val di Non
Monti Sibillini: Ascoli to the flowering plain
Pollino and Sila: Calabria’s mountain heart
Piedmont’s western valleys: forts and the source of the Po
Jura: yellow wine, blind valleys and waterfalls
Route des Crêtes through the Vosges
Vercors: gorges and cliff roads
Red gorges behind Nice
Úbeda, Baeza and the Sierra de Cazorla
Asturias to León: Somiedo, Las Médulas and the Camino
Harz: half-timbered towns and the Brocken
Bavarian Forest: from Passau to Regensburg
Ötztal and the Timmelsjoch
Silvretta and Arlberg loop
Lakes Thun and Brienz to the Grimsel Pass
Valais: vineyards, spas and the Aletsch Glacier
Albula Pass and the Lower Engadine
Jotunheimen: Valdresflye and Sognefjellet
Rondane and Dovrefjell: musk oxen and mountain views
Iceland’s Westfjords: puffins, fjords and Dynjandi
Lake District passes: Kirkstone to Hardknott
Wicklow Mountains: the Military Road to Glendalough
Bohemian Paradise and the Adršpach rocks
Slovak Paradise and the Gemer karst
Rila and Pirin: lakes, monasteries and sand pyramids
Kamnik Alps and the Logar Valley
Montenegro’s Durmitor ring
Zagori: stone villages and the Vikos Gorge
Mount Olympus and the Vale of Tempe
Motorhome-friendly trips
Easy roads, plenty of stopovers and towns you can park near.
Tuscany and Lazio by motorhome
Provence: lavender, gorges and Roman bridges
Lake Garda and Lake Como
Normandy and Brittany coast
The Wild Atlantic Way: Clare to Kerry
Tarn Gorges and the Causses
Camargue and Roman Provence
Finnish Lakeland
Lake Balaton
Slovenian Karst: caves and a cave castle
Po Delta: lagoons, abbeys and Ferrara
Sardinia’s west coast: Alghero to Barumini
Maremma: cypresses, hot springs and tuff towns
South Brittany: menhirs and the Gulf of Morbihan
Savoy lakes and the Chartreuse massif
Drôme provençale: olives, lavender and Roman Vaison
Ardèche gorges and the Chauvet cave
Landes: surf, pine forest and hidden lakes
Down the Guadiana: Beja to Castro Marim
The hidden Algarve: villages and the Serra de Monchique
Along the Tagus: Templar castles and river gorges
Franconian Switzerland: rocks, caves and castles
Mecklenburg Lake District by motorhome
Carinthia’s warm lakes: Ossiach and Wörthersee
Burgenland: Lake Neusiedl and the Seewinkel
Hoge Veluwe and the Hanseatic IJssel
Lofoten end to end, by ferry from Bodø
Peak District: Mam Tor, Ladybower and Chatsworth
North Devon and Exmoor on the Atlantic Highway
Galloway: dark skies to the Mull of Galloway
Masuria: the land of a thousand lakes
Dobruja: the edge of the Danube Delta
Themed road trips
Castles, white villages and the midnight sun.
Castles of the Rhine and Moselle
Andalusia: white villages and the Alhambra
Chasing the midnight sun: Lofoten to Nordkapp
Palladian villas and the Prosecco hills
Castles and ravines of the Alta Murgia
Basilicata: Matera, ghost towns and the Lucanian Dolomites
Normandy’s D-Day beaches
Lorraine: Metz, Nancy and Verdun
Champagne: Reims to the Côte des Blancs
Almería: Tabernas desert and Cabo de Gata
Huelva: Aracena, Riotinto and Doñana
Navarre and La Rioja: the wine road of the Camino
Tarragona, Priorat wine and the Ebro Delta
The Douro Valley and the N222
In Flanders Fields: the Yser and Ypres
Central Jutland: lakes, runestones and LEGO
Swedish Lapland: Kiruna to Narvik on the E10
Finnish Lapland: Rovaniemi to Inari
Hadrian’s Wall: Carlisle to Hexham
Mull and Iona by ferry from Oban
South Moravian wine country
Eger and Tokaj: Hungary’s northern wine hills
Eastern Slovenia: castles and wine hills
Coasts & islands
Cliff roads, lighthouses and island loops, from the Atlantic to the Aegean.
Sicily loop: temples, Etna and Baroque towns
Sardinia’s Orientale Sarda
Cilento and Maratea: the quiet side of Campania
Italian Riviera: Genoa to Lerici
Corsica’s wild west coast
Opal Coast: Calais to the Bay of Somme
French Riviera corniches
Brittany’s north coast
La Rochelle to the Dune du Pilat
Green Spain: Basque Country to Asturias
Galicia: Santiago to the Rías Baixas
Costa Brava and Dalí’s coast
Alentejo coast and the Rota Vicentina
Baltic coast: Hanseatic towns and chalk cliffs
Sweden’s High Coast
Bohuslän: Sweden’s west coast
Denmark’s wild west coast
Southern Norway: Kristiansand to Preikestolen
Cornwall’s Atlantic coast
Causeway Coastal Route
Ring of Kerry and the Skellig Ring
Dubrovnik and the Bay of Kotor
Peloponnese: Corinth to Olympia
Riviera di Ponente: Genoa to the French border
Conero Riviera and the Frasassi caves
Gargano: forest, cliffs and sea stacks
Calabria’s Coast of the Gods
Gallura: granite coast of northern Sardinia
Finistère: the capes at the end of Brittany
Côte Vermeille and the little yellow train
Southern Corsica: Bavella and the Alta Rocca
Costa de la Luz: Cádiz to Tarifa
Western Asturias: capes, fishing villages and the Cathedrals beach
Valencia to Cartagena: Costa Blanca and Murcia
Mallorca: the Serra de Tramuntana road
Serra da Arrábida and the Setúbal peninsula
North Frisia: dikes, lighthouses and mudflats
East Frisia’s Wadden coast: harbours and lighthouses
Zeeland and the Delta Works
Friesland and the Wadden coast
Chalk cliffs of Stevns and Møn
The Helgeland coast: Kystriksveien to Bodø
Senja and Andøya: Norway in miniature
Gotland by ferry: Visby, raukar and the south cape
Finland’s Archipelago Trail from Turku
Jurassic Coast: Lyme Regis to Old Harry
Northumberland’s coast of castles
North Norfolk coast: seals, saltmarsh and sand
Gower and the Pembrokeshire coast
Ring of Beara and the Healy Pass
Donegal: Slieve League to Fanad Head
Waterford’s Copper Coast and the Comeraghs
Poland’s Baltic dunes: Hel to Łeba
Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast: Kaliakra to Sozopol
Kvarner: Rijeka and the island of Krk
Southern Dalmatia: Neretva delta to Pelješac
Montenegro’s south coast, Lake Skadar and Lovćen
Halkidiki: Kassandra, Sithonia and the Athos coast
Villages, wine & culture
Castles, wine roads, old towns and the food that goes with them.