The Open Road: 50 Best Road Trips in the USA (Travel Guide)

perfect

Lots of info in this book, though the type is small, a strain on my eyes, (I don’t need glasses normally), but readable. Each subject has a paragraph or two attached to it, so its a brief, national overview. Helpful for planning any trip across America, though a specialized book on each state en route will probably prove useful. Some of the accommodation is expensive. In Death Valley the listed Oasis is $409 to $506 nightly. But there are other cheaper alternative places to stay such as Furnace Creek Ranch and motels within easy reach of the valley in Lone Pine, (covered in another section of the book). (Lone Pine, a destination for movie buffs, is also close to the highest point in continental America, Mt Whitney. With the lowest in Death Valley, you might want to visit the two together).The main problem I have with the book, through no fault of its own is for Route 66 it drives east to west. If traveling west to east, as we are, you must perform some extensive mental juggling, reading one, or several, paragraphs attached to each road section, memorizing and then reversing this information, (there ought to be an app for that), changing left to rights or east to west and vice versa. Good luck with that... Update. There is a book which covers east to west for Route 66 and, when reversed, west to east, titled ‘The Complete Guidebook to Route 66’, Volume 1. Volume 2 contains detailed maps of the journey, including feature locations given in volume 1.

Nicely done,Great locations

This road trip book has it all—everything needed for planning as well as an on-the-road guidebook. There’s fun “best of” lists but the geographic organization is the heart of the book. I checked road trips that I’ve done against the guide and found the info to be accurate, especially the suggested driving times, which were not overly aggressive. Another feature I really like is the emphasis on locally owned restaurants and accommodations and info about what’s unique to each region like winery tours and food specialties. The regional road trip maps are so useful for understanding distance, time, and recommended stops. The pull-out-folded US map in the back of the book is inspiring road trip dreams in me! I love the playlist and podcast suggestions for each region and I’m going to start listening even as I wait for it to be safe to hit the road again.

We are getting ready to take a trip around the USA in our retirement. This book has lots of great ideas. It will be fun to explore the options. We also invested in an atlas - even though we all use google to get around, it's fun to look at a map you can touch - yes- because we are baby boomers.

I found this book to be trying too hard to cover too much stuff. I of course want the maps of the most scenic spots and the tourist info but don’t need the restaurants or wineries and their phone numbers that were probably really paid advertising. I bought one for me and one for my brother and now I wonder why. I live in the west and this book would have been a lot better if it were just written for trips in the west or south or Midwest etc rather than for the entire country. Because of this the author was limited to one or two road trips in a section of country as if there were no other and we know that’s not true.

Bought this for a friend planning a long expiatory road trip. This book compared to others highlights interesting features you won't want to miss written by someone who's been there rather than the usual drivel about what different cities are famous for.

This will help up plan a trip to the USA for our Retirement 🙂

Schönes Produkt