See all of America — the definitive road trip, mapped hour by hour.

The trip's opening act: colonial Boston, the Massachusetts coast and islands, the Maine coast and Acadia, the White Mountains and Green Mountains at peak foliage, the cultured Berkshires, and the Connecticut and Rhode Island shore.

23 stops · 69 days · CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT

The megalopolis and its hinterland: New York City, the Hudson Valley and the state capitals, the Jersey Shore, Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch country, Gettysburg, the du Pont estates and Delaware beaches, the Chesapeake at Baltimore and Annapolis, and the monuments of Washington, DC.

20 stops · 76 days · DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA

Down the mid-South: Shenandoah and Jefferson's Virginia, the Historic Triangle and the Outer Banks, the Research Triangle and Asheville's mountains, the Carolina coast and the Grand Strand, historic Charleston and the Gullah Sea Islands, Savannah and the Golden Isles, and the north-Georgia towns before Atlanta.

21 stops · 59 days · GA, NC, SC, VA

The Sunshine State as one clean loop: the oldest city at St. Augustine, the theme-park capital at Orlando, the Gold Coast and Miami down the east coast, the Everglades and the Keys at the tip, the genteel Gulf beaches and Tampa Bay coming back up, and the capital and Emerald Coast across the panhandle.

12 stops · 44 days · FL

The soul of the South, as one loop: Gulf Mobile and Mardi Gras New Orleans, the plantations and Cajun country of Louisiana, the antebellum and blues heritage of Mississippi, the civil-rights landmarks of Alabama, the Smokies and Chattanooga, Kentucky's bourbon and horse country, Music City and Memphis, and the springs and art towns of Arkansas.

25 stops · 67 days · AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, TN

The Lone Star State (with a start in Oklahoma): Tulsa and Oklahoma City, the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Waco, live-music Austin, the Space City and the Gulf coast at Houston/Galveston/Corpus, the Alamo and missions of San Antonio, the German Hill Country, and the vast west — Big Bend, Marfa, El Paso, and the roof of Texas at Guadalupe.

13 stops · 39 days · OK, TX

The red-rock heart of the West: New Mexico's caverns, adobe capital, and pueblos; Arizona's canyon country from the Petrified Forest and Monument Valley to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and Jerome; Utah's Mighty 5 parks and Salt Lake City; remote Great Basin; the neon of Las Vegas; and the Sonoran Desert at Phoenix, the Old West, and Tucson's saguaros.

21 stops · 63 days · AZ, NM, NV, UT

The whole Golden State, south to north: San Diego and the SoCal desert, Los Angeles and the Central Coast, the eastern parks of Death Valley, Sequoia, and Yosemite, the Monterey coast and Big Sur, San Francisco and the capital, the wine country and Lake Tahoe, and the volcanic north through Lassen, Mendocino, and the tallest trees on earth at Redwood.

16 stops · 51 days · CA, NV

Up through Oregon and Washington: Ashland and Crater Lake, Bend's high desert, the Columbia Gorge and Mount Hood, Portland, Salem, and the Oregon Coast; then Washington's volcanoes at St. Helens and Rainier, the capital at Olympia, the Olympic Peninsula's rainforest and wild coast, Seattle, the San Juan Islands, a Vancouver and North Cascades detour, and the Bavarian village and wine country of the eastern slope.

17 stops · 48 days · OR, WA

Through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming: Coeur d'Alene and Boise, the lava of Craters of the Moon, Sun Valley, and Missoula; Glacier's Crown of the Continent and the Montana capitals of Helena and Bozeman; then Yellowstone and the Tetons, Buffalo Bill's Cody, the battlefield at Little Bighorn, Devils Tower, and the Old West capital at Cheyenne.

14 stops · 38 days · ID, MT, WY

The Front Range and the high country: Fort Collins, Rocky Mountain National Park, Boulder, mile-high Denver, and Colorado Springs' Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak; then a loop through the tallest dunes in America, the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and the Durango steam train, Telluride's box canyon, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the hot springs of Glenwood, and the legendary ski towns of Aspen, Vail, and Breckenridge.

11 stops · 30 days · CO

The heartland, from the Dakotas to Kansas: the Nebraska panhandle's Carhenge, the Black Hills with Rushmore and the Badlands, Deadwood and Wall Drug, the Dakota capitals and the painted badlands of Theodore Roosevelt, Fargo, the Corn Palace and Sioux Falls; then Omaha and Lincoln, the world's largest ball of twine, Old West Dodge City and the Flint Hills, Wichita, Eisenhower's Abilene, and the civil-rights history of Topeka.

15 stops · 37 days · KS, ND, NE, SD

Barbecue and the Arch, the Twin Cities and Lake Superior, Chicago's architecture, and the industrial Midwest that built the country.

11 stops · 28 days · IA, MN, MO

Three rivers, a house over a waterfall, the New River Gorge, and Niagara — the road home.

11 stops planned · ~25 days · not yet written