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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Exploring the Ozarks photo

Exploring the Ozarks

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

This trip starts at the northern edge of the Ozark Mountains in Jefferson City and continues through the heart of Missouri to Branson in the far south. The journey through the undulating Ozarks links recreational meccas Lake of the Ozarks and Table Rock Lake, and features forested countryside and rural towns in between....

  • Begin: Jefferson City, MO
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  • End: Missouri, US
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  • 160
  • Miles
  • 6
  • Attractions
Climbing the Hills photo

Climbing the Hills

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Lapping the edge of the Appalachians, the drive from southern Ohio to West Virginia passes fields with rolls of baled hay and grazing sheep, locks and dams on the Ohio River, and into mountainous coal country. This pleasant meander travels from the urban allure of Columbus south to the rolling terrain of Ohio's Hocking Hills. ...

  • Begin: Logan, OH
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  • End: Beckley, WV
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  • 291
  • Miles
  • 6
  • Attractions
Bridging Central Iowa photo

Bridging Central Iowa

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Popularized by a best-selling potboiler-turned-Hollywood blockbuster, the Bridges of Madison County have also become an overnight sensation as a travel destination. Seekers of vanishing Americana will find that the bridges make a great jumping-off point for other charming historic diversions clustered within a short drive of Des...

  • Begin: Winterset, IA
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  • End: Boone, IA
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  • 75
  • Miles
  • 7
  • Attractions
Asheville: Mountain Hip photo

Asheville: Mountain Hip

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Galleries, arts and crafts studios, cafes, and fine restaurants--all nestled within the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains, and the recreational opportunities they have to offer--make visitors to Asheville, North Carolina, not only enjoy their vacation, but leaves them wanting to come back again and again. Begin your North Car...

  • Begin: Black Mountain, NC
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  • End: Bryson City, NC
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  • 109
  • Miles
  • 8
  • Attractions
A Pacific Northwest Passage photo

A Pacific Northwest Passage

Last Updated Sep 13, 2011

Curvy roads along Oregon's Columbia River and coast cut through mountain tunnels and snake from deep woods to scenic overlooks. Ocean waves crash at the base of jagged cliffs, and dense forests loom over nearly every bend in the highway. There's no doubt this route from Portland to Astoria to Florence is breathtaking, but it's a...

  • Begin: Yachats, OR
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  • End: Portland, OR
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  • 276
  • Miles
  • 6
  • Attractions
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Wild, Wild Life photo

Wild, Wild Life

Last Updated May 10, 2012

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 st

  • 8
  • Attractions
  • 215
  • Miles
Utah Ghost Town Tour photo

Utah Ghost Town Tour

Last Updated May 10, 2012

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 ultimat

  • 7
  • Attractions
  • 373
  • Miles
That Car of Yours Built a Lot of House photo

That Car of Yours Built a Lot of House

Last Updated May 10, 2012

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 D

  • 5
  • Attractions
  • 87
  • Miles
Southwestern Sojourn photo

Southwestern Sojourn

Last Updated May 10, 2012

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

  • 4
  • Attractions
  • 219
  • Miles
Snow on the Eastern Shore photo

Snow on the Eastern Shore

Last Updated May 10, 2012

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 Ann

  • 6
  • Attractions
  • 205
  • Miles