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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Wide Skies of the West
Last Updated Sep 13, 2011
The sky just seems bigger in South Dakota, and this drive through the state’s western edge gives travelers plenty of opportunity to admire its spacious, often eerie beauty. This is a land where massive bison appear by the road as if from nowhere, the jagged Badlands loom like monuments to a lost civilization, and locals are on a...
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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...
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Wandering Grant Wood Country
Last Updated Sep 13, 2011
Folk artist Grant Wood captured the essence of rural American in his famous painting American Gothic. It's easy to see his inspiration while meandering Iowa's rolling Wapsipinicon River Valley. Make Cedar Rapids, Iowa, your base, as did Grant Wood. Housed in a 19th-century carriage house, the Grant Wood Studio hosts tours. Cedar...
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Upper Mississippi Valley
Last Updated Sep 13, 2011
The Mississippi River, the second longest river in the United States, travels 2,340 miles from Lake Itasca in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Travel along the Mississippi River in this tour through the great Midwestern states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. Launch your trip from La Crosse, Wisconsin, where you c...
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To the Lighthouse
Last Updated Sep 13, 2011
What is it about a lighthouse? Are they the brooding, romantic, and pensive places the imagination wants them to be? That they were once homes for lighthouse keepers and their families adds to their mystique. The lonely sentinel contemplating fresh water expanses is one of Michigan's most familiar sights. Over a hundred mark the...
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