Road trip stories, route guides, and planning tips from the open road.
Going-to-the-Sun Road through Glacier National Park is, by most measures, the finest 50 miles of driving in North America and, by some more ambitious measures, the finest 50 miles of driving on Earth. This is not a claim made lightly.
Quebec is the province that Canada keeps in reserve for visitors who thought they understood Canada and would benefit from a recalibration. The quebec road trip delivers this recalibration promptly and with good humour: within the walls of Old Quebec City, one finds a UNESCO World Heritage site,...
Ontario is a province of such geographical ambition that fitting it into a single road trip requires either considerable optimism or the willingness to return. The ontario road trip, in its most satisfying form, is a circuit from Toronto that swings south to Niagara Falls, north through the Musk...
Tasmania is an island the size of Ireland at the bottom of Australia, separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait and, in the matter of crowds and development, by considerably more. The tasmania road trip delivers what the Australian mainland's most popular routes no longer quite manage: the ...
The Florida Keys road trip operates on a principle that the rest of the American road trip tradition has largely failed to grasp, which is that a road is at its most effective when it runs, where possible, directly over the ocean. The Overseas Highway, US Route 1 from Florida City to Key West , ...
The Great Ocean Road begins at Torquay, Victoria, with a surfing museum and a monument to Australian soldiers who built the road as a memorial after the First World War, a context that gives the subsequent 243 kilometres a gravity that extends beyond the considerable scenic argument the road mak...
Utah has arranged five national parks in the southern half of the state with the compositional deliberateness of an art director who has been given an unlimited budget and access to geological timescales. The utah national parks road trip through Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, an...
The Romantic Road Germany runs 460 kilometres from Wurzburg in Franconia to Fussen at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, threading through a chain of medieval towns preserved in the kind of condition that suggests either an enormously effective heritage programme or the simple good fortune of having ...
There are roads one drives, and there are roads one experiences. The Blue Ridge Parkway scenic drive falls emphatically into the second category, a 469-mile ridgeline journey through the Appalachian Mountains that connects Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National P...