John Morrison

Nashville sits within a day's drive of the most visited national park in the country, a 444-mile parkway with no advertising on it, and the Mississippi Delta. The eight drives below are ordered by distance, and the one thing that most often ruins them is October weekend traffic in the Smokies. Two features shape driving […]

Seattle is boxed in by water and mountains, which is what makes the driving good and the logistics fiddly. Three of the routes below involve a ferry or a border, one crosses a highway that closes for roughly half the year, and two enter parks that have used timed-entry systems in recent seasons. The pattern

Phoenix is the rare city where the best road-trip season is winter and the worst is summer. Every route below gains elevation, which is the point: from a low desert at over a hundred degrees in July you can be in pine forest in two hours and on a canyon rim in three and a

Denver has the best road-trip geography of any large American city, and also the most rules. Two of the eight drives below run over passes that close for roughly half the year, two enter parks that have used timed-entry reservations in recent seasons, and one is a loop most people attempt with too few nights.

Chicago sits at the bottom of a lake with good roads running in every direction, which means the honest answer to where to drive depends less on distance than on season. Two of the eight routes below are best in April, three peak in October, and one is genuinely better in winter. The city's real

Detroit is one of the better American cities to drive out of: two Great Lakes shorelines are inside half a day, a car-free island sits four and a half hours north, and a second country starts on the far side of the river. The eight drives below are sorted by how far they take you.

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