Great Plains

210 miles - 4 hours

Got time to take a slightly roundabout route from Fargo to Jamestown? If so, you'll be rewarded with a lazy and slightly off-beat trip through a part of the country that hasn't changed much in decades, with its scattered communities centered around ...

81 miles - About 6-8 hours

The Black Hills, ancestral home to the Sioux Nation and teeming with Americana heritage historical sites including Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Wind Cave and an ancient burial ground for giant mammoths. This route is one of the best ...

200 miles, 6-8 hours

St. Louis, Missouri, is a great city to visit, and its location along the Mississippi River makes it a great hub for river road routes. On this adventure road, you can find a historic bridge from Route 66, a very special high water mark, a row of ...

260 miles -- About 8 hours

The book "Road Trip USA" calls US Highway 83 the "Road to Nowhere," and it connects Brownsville, TX, with the Canadian Border north of Westhope, ND. This route is a one-day, 260 mile, drive on southbound US Highway 83 through western Kansas. You can always tell when you're approaching a town when driving in Kansas ...

112 miles – 4 hour 45 minutes

This is how the rest of the world imagines American road trips to be. For a hundred miles or so, you’ll be travelling an empty road across wide open plains under brilliant blue skies. Sure, you could save a little time by taking the freeway but I guarantee, by the time you reach the famous Wall Drug Store and Badlands National Park, you’ll be wishing the drive was twice as long. ...

106 miles, 3 hours 25 minutes

Heading west from Des Moines? Here’s a lovely scenic drive that gives you an excuse to discover the dustiest of Iowa’s dusty back roads. In little more than 100 miles you’ll visit the birthplace of The Duke, pass by some of America’s most iconic bridges, visit a fascinating collection of vintage aircraft and, finally, take in the site of the West’s ...