Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips. Featuring 51 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can cruise the cliffs along California's Big Sur coast or roll alongside Appalachian hills, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips: Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - 120 easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers New York & the Mid-Atlantic, New England, Florida & the South, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips is perfect for exploring the USA in the classic American way - by road trip! Planning an Americana trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's USA guide, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide focused on a specific American city? Check out Lonely Planet's New York City guide, San Francisco guide and Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California guide for a comprehensive look at all that these cities have to offer, or Pocket New York City, Pocket San Francisco and Pocket Los Angeles, handy-sized guides focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
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America’s ‘Mother Road’ offers a time-warped journey from Chicago to LA past neon-lit diners, drive-in movie theaters and roadside attractions that beg for a photo.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
14 DAYS
2400 MILES / 3862KM
GREAT FOR…
BEST TIME TO GO
May to September for extended opening hours at attractions.
ESSENTIAL PHOTO
The Gemini Giant, a fiberglass spaceman, in Wilmington, IL.
BEST TWO DAYS
California’s stretch of road offers tumbleweed landscapes and malted milkshakes.
It’s a lonely road – a ghost road really – that appears for a stretch then disappears, gobbled up by the interstate. You know you’ve found it again when a 20ft lumberjack holding a hot dog rises up from the roadside, or a sign points you to the ‘World’s Largest Covered Wagon,’ driven by a giant Abe Lincoln. And that’s just Illinois – the first of eight states on the nostalgic, kitschy, slowpoke drive west.
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1 Chicago
Route 66 kicks off in downtown Chicago on Adams St just west of Michigan Ave. Before you snap the obligatory photo with the ‘Route 66 Begin’ sign (on the south side of Adams, FYI), spend some time exploring the Windy City. Wander through the Art Institute(
312-443-3600;www.artic.edu;111 S Michigan Ave;adult/child $25/free;
10:30am-5pm Fri-Wed, to 8pm Thu;
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Brown, Orange, Green, Purple, Pink Line to Adams) – literally steps from the Mother Road’s launching point – and browse Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (a diner scene) and Grant Wood’s American Gothic (a farmer portrait) to set the scene for what you’ll see en route. Nearby Millennium Park(
312-742-1168;www.millenniumpark.org;201 E Randolph St;
6am-11pm;
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Brown, Orange, Green, Purple, Pink Line to Washington/Wabash) is just plain cool, with mod public artworks and concerts at lunchtime and many evenings June through August.
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The Drive » Stay on Adams St for 1.5 miles until you come to Ogden Ave. Go left, and continue through the suburbs of Cicero and Berwyn. At Harlem Ave, turn left (south) and stay on it briefly until you jump onto Joliet Rd. Soon Joliet Rd joins southbound I-55 (at exit 277), and you’re funneled onto the interstate.
LINK YOUR TRIP
23 Along the Great River Road
The epic roadway (actually a series of roads) traces the meanderings of the Mississippi River. Pick it up in St Louis.
40 Pacific Coast Highways
This route along the edge of the continent cruises along an equally iconic numbered ro...
