Road trip guides
The great American drives.
The best routes, the famous stops, and a plan for each — then let Wanderply build your version and narrate every stop for the drive.
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San Francisco → Las Vegas
San Francisco to Las Vegas Drive: Route, Drive Time & Best Stops
570 miles from the Golden Gate to the neon — canyons, Route 66 ghost towns, and the Mojave in between.
Los Angeles → Grand Canyon
Los Angeles to Grand Canyon Road Trip
490 miles of Route 66 nostalgia — burros, ghost towns, and one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Salt Lake City → Las Vegas
Salt Lake City to Las Vegas Drive: Route, Drive Time & Best Stops
420 miles down I-15 — red-rock canyons, a national park detour, and the Strip at the finish line.
Denver → Moab
Denver to Moab Road Trip
350 miles over the Rockies and down into red-rock country — canyons, wine, and Arches at the end.
Seattle → Portland
Seattle to Portland Road Trip
175 miles down I-5 — but the volcanoes, waterfalls, and coffee stops are the whole point.
Zion → Bryce Canyon
Zion to Bryce Canyon Road Trip
85 miles from Zion's canyon floor to Bryce's hoodoo rim — a tunnel through the cliffs, a red-rock canyon, and 4,000 feet of climbing.
Moab → Capitol Reef
Moab to Capitol Reef Road Trip
145 miles from Arches country to the Waterpocket Fold — goblins, a gas station carved into a cliff, and pie in a pioneer orchard.
San Francisco → Big Sur
Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip: San Francisco to Big Sur
155 miles down Highway 1 — lighthouses, elephant seals, Point Lobos, and the Bixby Bridge hanging over the Pacific.
Shenandoah → Asheville
Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trip: Shenandoah to Asheville
Nearly 490 miles of ridgeline road — Skyline Drive, mountain mills, the Linn Cove Viaduct, and the highest peak east of the Mississippi.
Seattle → Olympic National Park
Seattle to Olympic National Park Road Trip (US-101 Loop)
A ferry, a mountain ridge, a glacier-carved lake, a rain forest, and wild Pacific beaches — the whole Olympic Peninsula on one loop.
Denver → Rocky Mountain National Park
Denver to Rocky Mountain National Park Road Trip via Trail Ridge Road
Over the Continental Divide at 12,183 feet on America's highest continuous paved road — elk, alpine tundra, and a loop back through Berthoud Pass.
Phoenix → Grand Canyon
Phoenix to Sedona & the Grand Canyon Road Trip
From the Sonoran Desert to Sedona's red rocks and the South Rim — cliff dwellings, Oak Creek Canyon, and 6,000 feet of climbing.
Yellowstone → Grand Teton
Yellowstone to Grand Teton Road Trip
About 100 miles from Old Faithful to Jackson — geyser basins, the Rockefeller Parkway, Oxbow Bend, and the Tetons rising straight out of the sagebrush.
Flagstaff → Kingman
Route 66 Arizona Road Trip: Flagstaff to Kingman
The longest unbroken stretch of the Mother Road left in America — Seligman's neon, a cavern motel, Hackberry, and burros in Oatman.
Gatlinburg → Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip: A Loop from Gatlinburg
Newfound Gap Road over the crest, the summit of Kuwohi, elk at Oconaluftee, Cades Cove at dawn, and the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail.
Las Vegas → Death Valley
Las Vegas to Death Valley Road Trip
Two hours from the Strip to the lowest, hottest, driest place in North America — salt flats, painted hills, sand dunes, and a ghost town on the way home.
San Diego → Joshua Tree
San Diego to Joshua Tree Road Trip (via Julian, Anza-Borrego & the Salton Sea)
Apple pie in the mountains, metal dinosaurs in the desert, a sea that shouldn't exist, and Joshua Tree's boulder piles at sunset.
Portland → Crater Lake
Portland to Crater Lake Road Trip
Ten waterfalls in the Willamette Valley, a 286-foot plunge in the Cascades, and the deepest, bluest lake in America inside a collapsed volcano.
Rapid City → Mount Rushmore
Black Hills & Badlands Road Trip from Rapid City
Badlands spires, Mount Rushmore through a tunnel, bison jams on the Wildlife Loop, and the narrowest granite tunnels you'll ever fold your mirrors for.
West Glacier → St. Mary
Glacier National Park Road Trip: Going-to-the-Sun Road
Fifty miles across the Continental Divide on a road carved into cliffs — cedars, a weeping wall, mountain goats at Logan Pass, and the lakes of Many Glacier.
Portland, ME → Acadia
Maine Coast Road Trip: Portland to Acadia National Park
Lighthouses, lobster shacks, a windjammer harbor, a bridge with an observatory on top, and the first sunrise in the country from Cadillac Mountain.
Miami → Key West
Florida Keys Road Trip: Miami to Key West on the Overseas Highway
Island-hopping down US-1 — a coral reef state park, sea turtles, the Seven Mile Bridge, tiny Key deer, and sunset at Mallory Square.
Nashville → Natchez
Natchez Trace Parkway Road Trip: Nashville to Natchez
444 miles of commercial-free road along an ancient footpath — a soaring double-arch bridge, Meriwether Lewis's grave, Elvis's birthplace, cypress swamps, and a sunken trail.
Astoria → Brookings
Oregon Coast Road Trip: Astoria to Brookings on US-101
The whole public coastline of Oregon in one drive — Haystack Rock, lighthouses on headlands, a hole that drains the sea, giant dunes, and sea stacks in the south.
Durango → Ouray
San Juan Skyway Road Trip: Durango, the Million Dollar Highway & Telluride
A 233-mile loop over five high passes — steam trains, mining towns, guardrail-free switchbacks, a box-canyon ski town, and the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde.