Road Trip USA

by Jamie Jensen

Published June 1996
Now in its seventh edition, Jamie Jensen's best-selling Road Trip USA is better than ever. Inside, you'll find cross-country routes and road-tested advice for adventurers who want to see the parts of America that the interstates have left behind. Jensen also includes mile-by-mile highlights celebrating major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities (if you're looking for the world's largest jackalope, you're in luck), local lore, and oddball trivia. With full coverage of more than 35,000 miles of classic blacktop, Road Trip USA will take you off the beaten path and into the heart of America.

Features include:

  • A flexible network of route combinations, extensively cross-referenced to allow for hundreds of possible itineraries
  • Essential tips for the road: survival guides for two dozen cities, call letters of the liveliest radio stations, and details on where to eat and sleep
  • Full-color interior with more than 140 meticulously detailed maps

Rediscover the Open Road Road Trip USA: Atlantic Coast shows you how to make the most of almost 2,000 miles of two-lane highways, from the bright lights of the Big Apple, through the Carolina low-country, and all the way to Florida's free-wheeling Key West. With mile-by-mile highlights and detailed driving maps,all in a handy, portable format,this is roadside Americana at your fingertips.Along the way, you'll find:Coastal kitsch along the Jersey Shore, the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk, and the fabled Fountain of YouthRoadside curiosities and amusements, stopovers and detours, and the local history and personalities that make each town and city uniquefull-colour modern and vintage photos and illustrationsroadtripusa.com

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this trip from coast to coast, Jensen highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Starting from the golden sands of San Diego and moving through the plains of New Mexico and Texas to end on the coastal shores of Savannah, Georgia, Road Trip USA: Southern Pacific, Highway 80 offers a full-spectrum taste of America.

Exit the interstates and create your cross-country driving adventure with Road Trip USA: Southern Pacific, Highway 80.

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of US-83, Jamie begins at the Canadian border and takes you all the way down to Matamoros, Mexico. This must-do long-distance byway transnavigates our broad, odd nation without once grazing a conventional tourist destination. From sights like the Sitting Bull Memorial and the Alamo to events like OzFest, Road Trip USA: The Road to Nowhere, Highway 83 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, local lore, and oddball trivia.

Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on America's most famous highway with Road Trip USA: The Road to Nowhere, Highway 83.

The Oregon Trail

by Jamie Jensen

Published 21 May 2013
Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour that follows the path of the Oregon Trail, Jamie takes you from Oregon's rugged coast to the glorious sea and sand of Cape Cod. Covering two wonders of the world Yellowstone National Park and Niagara Falls Road Trip USA: The Oregon Trail highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia, covering every aspect of this two-lane trek.

Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on US-20 with Road Trip USA: The Oregon Trail.

Atlantic Coast

by Jamie Jensen

Published 21 May 2013
Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling travel guide Road Trip USA. In this focused tour of the Atlantic Coast, Jensen highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Starting at the Statue of Liberty and winding up at free-wheeling Key West, these almost two thousand miles of two-lane country roads run within earshot if not sight of the Atlantic Ocean.

Exit the interstates and create your own seaside driving adventures with Road Trip USA Atlantic Coast.

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling travel guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of the Pacific Coast Highway, Jamie takes you from the dense green forests of Washington to the gorgeous beaches of Southern California. From logging towns to surfer lore, Road Trip USA Pacific Coast Highway covers every aspect of this mostly two-lane route through the unabashedly breathtaking western coast. Road Trip USA Pacific Coast Highway highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on the west coast's unrivaled scenic highway.

This full-color guide includes vibrant photos and helpful maps.

Road Trip USA Route 66

by Jamie Jensen

Published 21 May 2013
Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of Route 66, Jamie covers the kitschy "Main Street of America", one of the country's first transcontinental highways. From the Meramac Caverns to the wild creatures on display in roadside menageries, this historic route survives, despite being replaced by a high-speed Interstate. From the Golden Sands and Sunshine of Los Angeles to the gritty streets of St. Louis and Chicago, Road Trip USA Route 66 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, local lore, and oddball trivia on this unforgettable journey into America, then and now.

This full-color guide includes vibrant photos and helpful maps.

Professional traveller Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling travel guide Road Trip USA . In this expanded tour of the Pacific Coast Highway, Jamie takes you from the dense green forests of Washington to the gorgeous beaches of Southern California. From logging towns to surfer lore, Road Trip USA Pacific Coast Highway covers every aspect of this mostly two-lane route through the unabashedly breathtaking western coast. Road Trip USA Pacific Coast Highway highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on the west coast's unrivaled scenic highway.This full-colour guide includes vibrant photos and helpful maps.

Road Trip USA Route 66

by Jamie Jensen

Published 22 May 2012
Professional traveller Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA . In this expanded tour of Route 66, Jamie covers the kitschy "Main Street of America", one of the country's first transcontinental highways. From the Meramac Caverns to the wild creatures on display in roadside menageries, this historic route survives, despite being replaced by a high-speed Interstate. From the Golden Sands and Sunshine of Los Angeles to the gritty streets of St. Louis and Chicago, Road Trip USA Route 66 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, local lore, and oddball trivia on this unforgettable journey into America, then and now.This full-colour guide includes vibrant photos and helpful maps.

The Great River Road

by Jamie Jensen

Published 21 May 2013
Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling travel guide Road Trip USA. In this focused tour of the Great River Road, Jensen highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia along the Mississippi. Old Man River, Father of Waters, "body of a nation," Big Muddy by any name the mighty Mississippi River cuts a mythic figure across the American landscape.

Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures with Road Trip USA Great River Road.

Rediscover the Open Road Road Trip USA: Great River Road shows you how to make the most of the route following the mighty Mississippi River, from its Minnesota headwaters all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. With mile-by-mile highlights and detailed driving maps,all in a handy, portable format,this is roadside Americana at your fingertips.Along the way, you'll find:Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Elvis Presley's Graceland, and Cajun CountryRoadside curiosities and amusements, stopovers and detours, and the local history and personalities that make each town and city uniquefull-colour modern and vintage photos and illustrationsroadtripusa.com

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this trip from border to border, Jensen highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Besides offering up-close looks at mile after mile of almost completely untouched wilderness, Road Trip USA: Canada to Mexico, Highway 93 also takes you right through the neon heart of Las Vegas.

Exit the interstates and travel between the Canadian Rockies and the Rio Grande with Road Trip USA: Canada to Mexico, Highway 93.

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of US-50, Jamie begins in San Francisco and heads all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Passing through 11 states and some of the country's most magnificent landscapes, Road Trip USA: The Loneliest Road, Highway 50 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, local lore, and oddball trivia. From sea to shining sea, this drive follows the footsteps of pioneers and gives a reverse time line of national development.

Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on the backbone of America with Road Trip USA: The Loneliest Road, Highway 50.

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of the Great Northern, Jamie takes you from the Pacific port of Seattle to the breathtaking Acadia National Park. Following US-2 through wide-open spaces, Road Trip USA: The Great Northern, Highway 2 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia, covering every aspect of this gorgeous trek across America.

Exit the interstates and "get away from it all" on US-2 with Road Trip USA: The Great Northern, Highway 2.

Appalachian Trail

by Jamie Jensen

Published 21 May 2013
Rediscover the Open Road

Road Trip USA: Appalachian Trail shows you how to make the most of over 2,000 miles of two-lane highways, from the north woods of Maine, through Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and all the way to the heart of Dixie. With mile-by-mile highlights and detailed driving maps all in a handy, portable format this is roadside Americana at your fingertips.

Along the way, you'll find:
Gettysburg, Dinosaur Land, and the Great Smoky Mountains
Roadside curiosities and amusements, stopovers and detours, and the local history and personalities that make each town and city unique
Full-color modern and vintage photos and illustrations
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