Fall in New Hampshire isn’t only about the leaves. A farm stand or a corn maze can be reason enough to plan a whole day. Here are the New Hampshire fall farm stands and corn mazes worth planning a trip around. 1. Coppal House Farm Coppal House Farm in Lee keeps its corn maze open…
Fall color looks great in a photo. It looks a lot less great from a bumper-to-bumper line, and some of Michigan’s best-known drives can ask more of your weekend than the leaves give back. These are the Michigan fall color drives that aren’t worth the weekend traffic, if you ask us. 1. Pierce Stocking Scenic…
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…
Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources tracks fall color county by county every autumn. Its numbers put the northern tier at peak color between October 1 and October 10 most years. That’s a tight window. Everyone heads for the same handful of narrow mountain roads during it, so these are the Pennsylvania foliage drives…
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…
You cross the same bridge every week. But you’ve probably never wondered who built it, why it’s shaped that way, or what almost went wrong underneath it. These are the West Virginia tunnels and bridges drivers underestimate. 1. Silver Memorial Bridge Silver Memorial Bridge carries U.S. Route 35 across the Ohio River between Point Pleasant…
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….
