A–Z America Editors 
One road loop can take you from cartoon-shaped Joshua trees to dunes that hum under your feet and a basin that sits below sea level. Here is how to string the three parks together without joining a tour bus.
The eastern edge of North America is a road-tripper’s puzzle — an island province reached by ferry, where fishing villages, fjords, and a thousand-year-old Norse settlement unfold along two-lane highways. Here is how to plan the drive without missing the point.
Four hundred and sixty-nine miles of two-lane blacktop that never rushes, connecting two national parks through some of the oldest mountains on the continent. The speed limit is 45 mph for most of the way, and that is the entire point.
Five national parks, one looping highway, and a week of red-rock scenery that somehow looks bigger in person than in every photo you’ve already seen. The photos lie.
More than 13 million people a year walk these ridgelines, yet the Smokies still hand out quiet mornings and empty trailheads to anyone willing to show up early. Here is how to plan a trip that sidesteps the crowds.
Tucked into sandstone alcoves across Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings are among the most arresting ruins in the Americas. Here is how to visit them without treating the living landscape like a theme park.
There is no single view that defines the Oregon Coast. It is 363 miles of salt air, fog, sea stacks, and small harbor towns threaded together by one two-lane highway.
California’s Highway 1 is the rare road that matches its reputation. Here’s how to drive it well, from the Golden Gate to the Mexican border.
Mexico’s peninsula is one long invitation to keep the windows down. Here’s how to drive it from border to cape without the guesswork.
Chile’s Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, a high-altitude expanse of salt flats, geysers, and volcanic peaks that looks more like Mars than anywhere else most travelers will reach.
