PennDOT’s byway network stretches about 675 miles across 27 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. None of those byways come with a highway-style rest stop attached. State parks fill the gap instead. These are the scenic routes across Pennsylvania with rest stops along the way. 1. Elk Scenic Drive Elk Scenic Drive is a 127-mile loop through…
Vermont’s Department of Tourism and Marketing says about 2.5 million visitors arrive for fall foliage season, and they spend close to $500 million. That’s a lot of money for one season. In a small Vermont town, that crowd is hard to miss. These are the signs leaf-peeper season has officially taken over a Vermont town….
The Cliff Walk in Newport promises million-dollar views. But it delivers a private beach fence instead. These are the Rhode Island trails that end somewhere visitors don’t expect. 1. Cliff Walk Rhode Island’s Cliff Walk in Newport starts as a paved, mansion-lined promenade and turns into a very different trail by its far end. The…
Bandelier National Monument’s shuttle into Frijoles Canyon runs on an intermittent schedule only through Oct. 14, according to the National Park Service. Visitors drive the canyon again after that. Bandelier isn’t the only stop on New Mexico’s map with a deadline like that this fall. These are the New Mexico drives that change once it…
The Buc-ee’s in Loxley opened at 6 a.m. on a Monday in January 2019, and by noon, Mobile’s local TV station (WKRG) counted hundreds of people who had already pulled off I-10 to see it. It wasn’t a holiday weekend. It was just a Monday, and Alabama had the first Buc-ee’s built outside the state…
The National Park Service finalized a new visitor use plan for Cumberland Island on August 28, 2026, amending rules that had stood since 1984. Its visitor cap rose from 300 to 700. But it’s still a cap. The other seven stops on this list follow rules that have nothing to do with any ferry cap….
A storm two ridges over can turn an Arkansas swimming hole dangerous before a single drop of rain falls where a swimmer is. These are the Arkansas swimming holes that turn dangerous after the first fall rain. 1. Mulberry River The Mulberry River runs shallow enough by late summer that the Forest Service’s page for…
Florida’s population swells by more than 5 percent every winter, and the surge always starts the same week: The week the seasonal rentals reopen. Locals feel it fast. These are the things Floridians notice the week seasonal rentals switch to high season. 1. Traffic Thickens Overnight Interstates carry a different crowd the week the season…
A family pulls off Route 14 in New York’s Finger Lakes with a five-stop itinerary printed from someone else’s blog post. The first stop already disappoints them. New Yorkers who grew up making this same drive could have told them which stops to skip and why. These are the Finger Lakes stops New Yorkers say…
You’ve seen the Route 66 photos enough times to feel like you already know the stops. Then you pull over in Oklahoma and discover the picture left out a pretty good story. Recognizing a landmark isn’t quite the same as knowing what you’re looking at. These are the Oklahoma Route 66 stops that aren’t what…
