# Spring road trips > Routes at their best in April and May, before the summer heat and the holiday crowds. Source: https://camping-spirit.com/themes/spring/ Routes at their best in April and May, before the summer heat and the holiday crowds. ## USA - [Giant baskets and infinity rooms: a Midwest oddities run](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/midwest-oddities/): 4 d - [The Blue Ridge Parkway, end to end](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/blue-ridge/): 4 d - [Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/columbia-gorge/): 2 d - [Utah's five national parks, in one loop from Las Vegas](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/mighty-five/): 8 d - [Death Valley loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/death-valley/): 3 d - [Lake Tahoe loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lake-tahoe/): 2 d - [Sequoia and Yosemite](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sequoia-yosemite/): 4 d - [Red rock Arizona](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/arizona-red-rock/): 3 d - [Utah Scenic Byway 12](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/utah-byway-12/): 3 d - [San Juan Skyway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/san-juan-skyway/): 4 d - [Top of the Rockies to Aspen](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/independence-aspen/): 3 d - [High Road to Taos](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/high-road-taos/): 2 d - [Texas Gulf Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/texas-gulf/): 3 d - [Route 66, part two: Oklahoma City to the Pacific](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/route66-west/): 8 d - [Chihuahuan Desert parks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/chihuahuan/): 3 d - [Natchez Trace Parkway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/natchez-trace/): 4 d - [Route 66, part one: Chicago to Oklahoma City](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/route66-east/): 4 d - [Great River Road: the upper Mississippi](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/great-river-road/): 5 d - [Arkansas Ozarks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/ozarks/): 3 d - [Lowcountry: Charleston to Savannah](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lowcountry/): 3 d - [Lake Michigan's dune coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/michigan-shore/): 3 d - [Outer Banks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/outer-banks/): 3 d - [Florida Gulf Coast and the Everglades](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/florida-gulf/): 3 d - [Highway 1: San Francisco to Santa Monica](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/highway-1/): 4 d - [Florida’s Forgotten Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/forgotten-coast/): 3 d - [Pacific Coast Highway south: Malibu to San Diego](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-socal-coast/): 4 d - [Lassen Volcanic loop: Burney Falls to the mud pots](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-lassen-loop/): 3 d - [Yosemite end to end: sequoias, Glacier Point and Tioga Road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-yosemite-tioga/): 3 d - [Kings Canyon Scenic Byway and the Giant Forest](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-kings-canyon/): 3 d - [US-395: Alabama Hills, Manzanar and the bristlecones](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-us395-south/): 3 d - [Mammoth Lakes, June Lake Loop and the ghost town of Bodie](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-mammoth-bodie/): 3 d - [Death Valley in depth: Dante’s View to Ubehebe Crater](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-death-valley-deep/): 3 d - [Santa Ynez Valley: missions, wine and dunes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-santa-ynez/): 3 d - [Oregon’s capes: Three Capes Route to Cape Perpetua](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-three-capes/): 3 d - [McKenzie Pass–Santiam Pass loop from Eugene](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-mckenzie-pass/): 2 d - [Smith Rock, the Painted Hills and John Day Fossil Beds](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-painted-hills/): 3 d ## Europe - [Tuscany and Lazio by motorhome](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/tuscany-camper/): 5 d - [Sicily loop: temples, Etna and Baroque towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sicily-baroque/): 7 d - [Riviera di Ponente: Genoa to the French border](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-riviera-ponente/): 4 d - [Sardinia’s Orientale Sarda](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sardinia-east/): 5 d - [Puglia: trulli, white towns and the heel of Italy](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/puglia-trulli/): 5 d - [Po Delta: lagoons, abbeys and Ferrara](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-po-delta/): 3 d - [Montefeltro: Rimini to Urbino and Gradara](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-montefeltro/): 3 d - [Conero Riviera and the Frasassi caves](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-conero-frasassi/): 3 d - [Cilento and Maratea: the quiet side of Campania](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cilento-coast/): 4 d - [Monti Sibillini: Ascoli to the flowering plain](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sibillini/): 4 d - [Trabocchi Coast to the Molise and Abruzzo mountains](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-trabocchi-molise/): 5 d - [Gargano: forest, cliffs and sea stacks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gargano/): 3 d - [Castles and ravines of the Alta Murgia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-alta-murgia/): 3 d - [Basilicata: Matera, ghost towns and the Lucanian Dolomites](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-basilicata/): 4 d - [Calabria’s Coast of the Gods](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-costa-degli-dei/): 4 d - [Pollino and Sila: Calabria’s mountain heart](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-pollino-sila/): 4 d - [Western Sicily: Segesta, Erice and the salt pans](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sicily-west/): 5 d - [Inland Sicily: mosaics, majolica and the Madonie](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sicily-interior/): 4 d - [Sardinia’s west coast: Alghero to Barumini](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sardinia-west/): 5 d - [Langhe and Roero: Barolo country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/langhe-wine/): 3 d - [Gallura: granite coast of northern Sardinia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gallura/): 4 d - [Maremma: cypresses, hot springs and tuff towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-maremma/): 5 d - [Italian Riviera: Genoa to Lerici](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/riviera-levante/): 3 d - [Italy’s Food Valley: Parma to Ravenna](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/food-valley/): 3 d - [Umbria’s hill towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/umbria-hill-towns/): 4 d - [Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast from Naples](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/amalfi/): 3 d - [Abruzzo: Gran Sasso and the stone villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/abruzzo-high/): 3 d - [Vercors: gorges and cliff roads](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-vercors-balconies/): 3 d - [Luberon perched villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-luberon-villages/): 3 d - [Drôme provençale: olives, lavender and Roman Vaison](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-drome-provencale/): 3 d - [Ardèche gorges and the Chauvet cave](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-ardeche-gorges/): 3 d - [Cathar castles of the Corbières](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-cathar-castles/): 3 d - [Côte Vermeille and the little yellow train](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-cote-vermeille-conflent/): 4 d - [French Basque Country: coast and hill villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-basque-country/): 3 d - [Val d’Orcia slow road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/val-dorcia-slow/): 3 d - [Landes: surf, pine forest and hidden lakes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-landes-coast/): 4 d ## Oceania - [The Kauri Coast and Hokianga from Kaikohe to Matakohe](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-kauri-coast-hokianga/): 3 d - [Three days in the Bay of Islands: Waitangi to Kerikeri](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-bay-of-islands-loop/): 3 d - [Auckland and the wild Waitākere west coast beaches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-auckland-west-coast/): 2 d - [Auckland to Whangārei by the north-east coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-auckland-north-coast/): 3 d - [The Coromandel Peninsula loop from Thames to Waihī](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-coromandel-peninsula-loop/): 4 d - [Waikato circuit: Hobbiton, Waitomo caves, Kawhia and Raglan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-waikato-waitomo-hobbiton/): 3 d - [Two days along the Bay of Plenty from Waihī to Te Kaha](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-bay-of-plenty-coast/): 2 d - [The East Cape road from Ōpōtiki to Gisborne](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-east-cape-road/): 4 d - [Rotorua, Taupō and Tongariro: a volcanic plateau road trip](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-rotorua-taupo-tongariro/): 3 d - [Tongariro National Park, Whakapapa and Ōhakune in two days](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-tongariro-ruapehu/): 2 d - [Waitomo caves and the SH3 coast road to New Plymouth](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-waitomo-to-new-plymouth/): 3 d - [Around Mt Taranaki on the Surf Highway and mountain roads](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-taranaki-circuit/): 3 d - [The Forgotten World Highway from Stratford to Taumarunui](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-forgotten-world-highway/): 2 d - [The Whanganui River Road from Whanganui to Ōhakune](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-whanganui-river-road/): 3 d - [Hawke's Bay: Napier, Hastings, wine and Cape Kidnappers](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-hawkes-bay-napier-hastings/): 3 d - [Wellington to Wairarapa wine country and Cape Palliser](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-wairarapa-cape-palliser/): 3 d - [Taihape to Wellington through Manawatū and the Kāpiti Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-taihape-to-wellington/): 3 d - [From Picton Through the Marlborough Sounds to Nelson](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-sounds-picton-nelson/): 2 d - [Along SH1 from Picton through Marlborough Wine Country to Kaikōura](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-marlborough-kaikoura-coast/): 2 d - [From Nelson to Abel Tasman, Takaka and the Top of the South](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-abel-tasman-golden-bay/): 4 d - [From Nelson to Westport via Nelson Lakes and the Buller Gorge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-nelson-lakes-buller-westport/): 3 d - [Punakaiki to Hokitika: Pancake Rocks, Lake Brunner and Gorge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-punakaiki-hokitika/): 3 d - [Christchurch to Greymouth over Lewis Pass with Hanmer Springs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-lewis-pass-hanmer/): 2 d - [Greymouth to Christchurch over Arthur's Pass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-arthurs-pass-christchurch/): 2 d - [Christchurch and Banks Peninsula to Akaroa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-banks-peninsula-akaroa/): 2 d - [From Franz Josef and Fox Glacier to Haast and Jackson Bay](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-franz-josef-haast/): 3 d - [Mackenzie Country lakes and Aoraki / Mount Cook](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-mackenzie-mount-cook/): 3 d - [Oamaru to Dunedin along the North Otago coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-waitaki-moeraki-coast/): 2 d - [Dunedin city and the wildlife of Otago Peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-dunedin-otago-peninsula/): 2 d - [The Catlins coast from Balclutha to Invercargill](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-catlins-southern-scenic/): 3 d - [Queenstown, Glenorchy and Arrowtown on Lake Wakatipu](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-queenstown-glenorchy-arrowtown/): 3 d - [Crown Range and Lake Wānaka to Cromwell](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-wanaka-crown-range/): 2 d - [Along the Otago Central Rail Trail by road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-otago-central-rail-trail/): 3 d - [Te Anau to Milford Sound via Homer Tunnel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-milford-road/): 3 d - [Bluff to Stewart Island / Rakiura and Ulva Island](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-stewart-island-rakiura/): 3 d - [Grand Pacific Drive: Sydney to Kiama](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-grand-pacific-drive/): 2 d ## FAQs **How many routes are in this list?** 555 routes: USA 276, Europe 224, Oceania 55. **How is this list chosen?** This list is put together automatically from our route data (season estimate, trip length, terrain, passes and size limits), currently 555 trip guides.