Road Trips

Over the years our editors drove thousands of miles on America's byways seeking out the Best of the Road®. Those notable attractions, shops and places to eat offering something special: friendly smiles, award winning pies, breathtaking views, etc. This is our collection of Rand McNally's best road trips that must be traveled at least once in a lifetime.

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Wild, Wild Life

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

You can take two approaches to looking for wildlife. One, find a promising place and sit there as long as you can, waiting for something interesting to come along (you might call this the duck hunter's strategy). Two, go someplace, take a look around, and then move on. This would be the moving-on strategy (much more in keeping w...

Begin: Fort Totten, ND
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End: Kenmare, ND
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215
Miles

8
Attractions

Utah Ghost Town Tour

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Dried up and forgotten, blown away with the winds, these are towns inhabited only by ghosts. Utah is full of ghost towns. Mining communities mostly, some of them had big populations and lots of stores. Saloons and dance halls and maybe a theater where the vaudevillians played. Maybe even the ultimate status symbol: an opera hous...

Begin: Ophir, UT
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End: St. George, UT
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373
Miles

7
Attractions

That Car of Yours Built a Lot of House

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Okay, maybe not your car. Yours may well have been made in Japan or Germany or in some exotic foreign land like...Tennessee. But your mother's car or your grandfather's car...chances are awfully good that those cars -- those being driven in the 1920s, '30s, '40s and '50s -- were made in and around Detroit. Millions of automobile...

Begin: Rochester, MI
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End: Detroit, MI
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87
Miles

5
Attractions

Southwestern Sojourn

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Northern New Mexico is full of people who came for a visit, fell in love with the place -- and stayed. It's easy to see why. This route traverses an endlessly surprising landscape of mountains, mesas, canyons, and badlands. It passes through booming Albuquerque, sophisticated Santa Fe and laid-back Taos. And it offers plenty of ...

Begin: Albuquerque, NM
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End: Los Ojos, NM
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219
Miles

4
Attractions

Snow on the Eastern Shore

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Marylanders don’t like to call winter off-season. Winter may be a step slower, but the summer amenities are still there and they cost less. At any time of the year wild ponies roam Assateague Island, Harborplace in Baltimore hops, and costumed interpreters give tours at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. There is one caveat: S...