Road trip stories, route guides, and planning tips from the open road.
The Icefields Parkway runs 232 kilometres from Lake Louise in Banff National Park to Jasper in Jasper National Park, through the Canadian Rockies, alongside glaciers, above turquoise lakes of a colour that the word "turquoise" is genuinely insufficient to describe, and beneath peaks that arrive i...
The Manali to Leh road trip covers 490 kilometres of the Himalayas, through five high-altitude mountain passes, across the Rohtang Pass, the Baralacha La, the Nakeela, the Lachulung La, and the Tanglang La (which, at 5,328 metres, advertises itself as the world's second-highest motorable road wi...
The new zealand road trip itinerary that attempts both islands in two weeks is an exercise in disciplined enthusiasm, the willingness to acknowledge that New Zealand contains more than a fortnight can hold and to choose, with some degree of strategic rigour, the portions that reward the allocati...
Germany has the finest road network in Europe, the Autobahn's no-speed-limit sections being the most celebrated element, though the country's secondary roads, which wind through the Schwarzwald's valleys and the Rhine's vineyard terraces with a scenic consistency that the motorway cannot replica...
The Cabot Trail loops 298 kilometres around the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through Cape Breton Highlands National Park and along a coastline that presents the Atlantic, its moods ranging from pewter to cobalt depending on the weather's editorial decisions, from elevations ...
The South Island of New Zealand contains, within a land area the size of England, the kind of landscape that continents allocate to entire regions. The new zealand south island road trip is not a single itinerary but a series of possible routes through mountains, fiords, wine country, glaciers, ...
Queensland is the state that Australia arranged for people who find the temperate south insufficiently dramatic. The climate is subtropical to tropical.
New England performs the annual spectacle of autumn with the theatrical commitment of a region that has been rehearsing since September and intends to make the most of its limited run. The new england fall foliage road trip is, for a period of approximately six weeks between late September and e...
Texas is a state that one expects, having absorbed a certain amount of cultural information about it, to be largely flat. The Texas Hill Country road trip exists in considerable and beautiful defiance of this expectation.