North Dakota’s Badlands: A Theodore Roosevelt Road Trip North Dakota’s badlands do not announce themselves with much fuss. One minute we are rolling along I-94 beneath a wide prairie sky, and the next the ground has folded into striped buttes, dry gullies and ridges,…
The Icefields Parkway is a premier scenic drive through the Canadian Rockies, and it has a talent for turning a straightforward road trip into a full day of stopping, staring, and changing your plans. A lake catches the morning light, a glacier appears around…
A Colorado map can fool you. The lines look short, the towns seem close, and then you arrive to find mountain passes, photo stops, elk by the roadside, and a national park that deserves more than a hurried glance. If you are planning your…
Badlands and Black Hills: How to Drive South Dakota Properly The Badlands and the Black Hills are two of the American West’s great spectacles — and they sit barely 60 miles apart. Done well, a week linking the two feels effortless: dramatic scenery,…
Some road trips are about diners and viewpoints. This one is about the shape of a herd in morning light, a pronghorn flashing across sage, and the small jolt of spotting wild horses on a distant ridge. If you’re planning a wildlife-watching road trip…
Skyline Drive looks simple on a map. One road, 105 miles, plenty of views. Then you arrive and realise it’s more like a slow-moving gallery wall, one overlook after another, with deer in the wings and short hikes tempting you off stage. If it’s…
On a first visit to Maine, the challenge isn’t finding pretty places. It’s stopping yourself from trying to see all of them in one sweep. A good Maine coast road trip feels roomy, not frantic. Start in Portland, head north, and save your longest…
South Dakota looks simple on a map, then the road starts to fold into prairies, rock walls and pine-covered hills. For a first visit, the trick is pacing. Try to do it all in one hotel base and you’ll spend too much of the…
A California Redwoods Road Trip: The First-Timer’s Guide Standing under a redwood for the first time feels a bit unreal. The trunks look like pillars in a quiet cathedral, and your normal sense of scale stops working. If you’re planning a California redwoods…
If you are flying across the Atlantic, you want more than one stop for your time and money. That is where multi centre holidays North America style really come into their own. A smart mix of cities, coast, and national parks turns one big…
