Hi Everyone,

I'm planning a road trip in June/July to New York and back from Los Angeles, I'd like to be in New York by July 5th and will be staying there a little over a week before driving back to Los Angeles. I'm planning to rent a standard size car. I was thinking to leave L.A. on June 25th and go the Northern route through Nevada and Idaho for a few days and stop at the Glacier National Park in Montana for a day, then continue the trek East through one of the Dakotas to Minnesota / Chicago / Ohio / PA and finally NY. On the way back home I was thinking to go a Central route so we could drive through Colorado and Utah. I was just wondering if anyone has driven these areas and could offer any advice or things to look out for that we haven't thought of. Any recommendations on the route would be great, for example if North Dakota is a better drive than South Dakota or vice versa. As much as we'd like to see every state, we don't really have time to drive through all of them.

Thanks and happy travels!