47
Classic trips
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47 classic road trips from the guidebooks, crossing 47 states — every route snapped to real roads. Ordered stops from the Wikivoyage guides, verified against the map. Zero hallucinations.
47
States crossed
Where the snapped lines actually run
29,424
Snapped miles
Summed only where the line covers the trip
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Route 66 to the Pacific Coast — each with a real agency photograph from its own corridor, or its own snapped line. Nothing staged, nothing stock.
The directory
Every trip, A to Z.
All 47 classic road trips — ordered guidebook stops, snapped to real roads where the map allows.
- A Taste of Coastal TexasTexas · 63 guidebook stops
- Alaska HighwayAlaska · 14 guidebook stops
- American Industry TourMassachusetts · New York · New Jersey +6 more · 2,592 mi · 82 guidebook stops
- Bandit RunTexas · Mississippi · Alabama +1 more · 7 guidebook stops
- Blue Ridge ParkwayNorth Carolina · Virginia · 33 guidebook stops
- Braddock ExpeditionVirginia · West Virginia · Maryland +1 more · 21 guidebook stops
- Breaking Bad TourNew Mexico · 309 mi · 56 guidebook stops
- Buffalo-Pittsburgh HighwayNew York · Pennsylvania · West Virginia · 685 mi · 111 guidebook stops
- Dalton HighwayAlaska · 6 guidebook stops
- Driving between the contiguous United States and the Alaska HighwayMontana · Washington · 57 guidebook stops
- Easy RiderCalifornia · Arizona · Utah +2 more · 12 guidebook stops
- El Camino RealCalifornia · 763 mi · 21 guidebook stops
- El Camino SierraCalifornia · 27 guidebook stops
- From Plymouth to Hampton RoadsMassachusetts · Rhode Island · Connecticut +7 more · 105 guidebook stops
- From St. Augustine to Hampton RoadsFlorida · Georgia · South Carolina +2 more · 35 guidebook stops
- Historic churches of Buffalo's East SideNew York · 23 mi · 21 guidebook stops
- Interstate 10California · Arizona · New Mexico +6 more · 331 guidebook stops
- Interstate 5California · Oregon · Washington · 340 guidebook stops
- Interstate 80California · Nevada · 118 guidebook stops
- Interstate 90South Dakota · 13 guidebook stops
- Lewis and Clark TrailIllinois · Missouri · Iowa +5 more · 25 guidebook stops
- Lighthouses in New JerseyNew Jersey · 0 guidebook stops
- Lincoln HighwayNew Jersey · Pennsylvania · West Virginia +8 more · 87 guidebook stops
- Loneliest Road in AmericaNevada · Utah · 784 mi · 29 guidebook stops
- Mississippi RiverMinnesota · Wisconsin · Iowa +4 more · 18 guidebook stops
- Mohawk TrailMassachusetts · 254 mi · 20 guidebook stops
- Motorcities TourMichigan · 142 mi · 5 guidebook stops
- Natchez Trace ParkwayTennessee · Alabama · Mississippi · 1,623 mi · 116 guidebook stops
- North Cascade LoopWashington · 498 mi · 29 guidebook stops
- Olompali–Petaluma–Sonoma historic parksCalifornia · 27 mi · 9 guidebook stops
- Oregon TrailMissouri · Nebraska · Wyoming +4 more · 4,710 mi · 58 guidebook stops
- Pacific Coast HighwayCalifornia · 1,067 mi · 94 guidebook stops
- Pan-American HighwayAlaska · Washington · California · 82 guidebook stops
- Pony Express National Historic TrailMissouri · Nebraska · Wyoming +3 more · 25 guidebook stops
- Radiator SpringsTennessee · North Carolina · Missouri +7 more · 3,268 mi · 24 guidebook stops
- Route 66Illinois · Missouri · Kansas +5 more · 2,336 mi · 69 guidebook stops
- Santa Fe TrailOklahoma · New Mexico · 8 guidebook stops
- Selma to Montgomery National Historic TrailAlabama · 51 mi · 2 guidebook stops
- Star-Spangled Banner National Historic TrailMaryland · Washington, D.C. · 7 guidebook stops
- The Jazz TrackMissouri · Tennessee · Mississippi +1 more · 11 guidebook stops
- The Wire TourWashington, D.C. · 65 guidebook stops
- Touring Shaker countryNew York · Massachusetts · New Hampshire +3 more · 2,054 mi · 17 guidebook stops
- U.S. Highway 1Maine · New Hampshire · Massachusetts +11 more · 187 guidebook stops
- U.S. Highway 101California · 99 guidebook stops
- U.S. Highway 395California · 23 guidebook stops
- Underground RailroadMaryland · Delaware · Pennsylvania +12 more · 7,531 mi · 100 guidebook stops
- Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary RouteMassachusetts · Rhode Island · Connecticut +5 more · 706 mi · 13 guidebook stops
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