A National Scenic Byway is a road recognized by the United States Department of Transportation for one or more of six “intrinsic qualities”: archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic.
There are 184 National Scenic Byways located in 48 US states (all except Hawaii, and Texas).
Mount Rainier stands 2,000 feet higher than anything surrounding it. Around it is a 368-square mile National Park that features three visitors centers, old-growth forests, waterfalls, 26 glaciers, and numerous alpine meadows. Seattle is the perfect starting point for this…
The Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway stretches 512 miles through Utah and Colorado, and is the best road trip for those with kids (or adults!) that love learning about dinosaurs. Paleontologists, who’ve been coming here for over 100 years, continue to…
Can you visit Rocky Mountain National Park in a day from Denver? Yes! While you could certainly spend a full week exploring this vast wilderness, a one-day trip up from Denver is a perfect way to see this majestic park. This particular trip…
Alaska is breathtaking, but many never get the chance to see it in their lifetimes. The National Parks of Alaska are some of the least-visited parks in the country, which is due to their extremely limited accessibility. We circumvent this…
This is a road trip with a lot of driving! A multiple day trek along the Blue Ridge Parkway is sandwiched between a day each at the Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks. The Blue Ridge Parkway is maybe…
The Outer Banks is steeped with history. While it is most known for its beautiful eastern seaboard beaches, it also is where Orville and Wilbur Wright learned to fly, and where the Lost Colony disappeared. We also take a day to visit…
This California trip is very similar to another one we put together, but this one follows the coastline much closer and does not venture into the middle of the state to visit Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks. Following along the…
We’ve created other road trips that either included Yosemite or Pinnacles before, but wanted to change things up for this one. Here, we visit three National Parks, with the highlight of the trip being a drive along Sherman Pass. For…
This trip is 100% contained in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In fact, most of the trip – outside of the trip to Vancouver on the way home – is located on Vancouver Island. We do not squeeze in…
Route 66 is the iconic American road that stretches over 2,400 miles from Chicago west to Los Angeles. It touches parts of 8 states from the Midwest all the way to the Pacific Coast. Originally built in the 1920’s, this…
In this road trip, we start in Portland, Oregon, and head immediately to the Pacific Coast. From there, we will follow US-101/US-1 along the coastline for over 600 miles (966 km). Much of this stretch of road is called the…
The North Cascades National Park is hard to incorporate into one road trip with other parks. It’s really too far north to loop back down around to visit Rainier National Park. It is, however, pretty close to Seattle, so we…