Tagged: road-trip

Scam Alert: Road Trippers Getting Fleeced by E-Toll Racket

During the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, road authorities around the world accelerated toward a destination they had been nearing for years: cashless tolls. From New York City's…

Great Smoky Mountains to Charge for Parking and Raise Camping Fees

Parking at Great Smoky Mountains National Park will soon require a fee. Starting March 1, 2023, vehicles parked in any lots within the preserve, which straddles the Tennessee–North…

Italy Just Made the Amalfi Coast Drive Harder for Rental Cars. Here’s How to Visit Anyway.

UPDATE, July 13: After publishing the story below, originally dated July 1, 2022, Frommer's received an email from a reader asking about, among other things, how the Amalfi Coast's new…

This New Long-Distance Bus Service Has a Bed for Each Passenger

A new luxury coach service wants to make buses with beds a viable alternative to air travel. Known as Napaway Coach, the start-up offers passengers rides on a bus equipped with 18…

American Roadsides: Acclaimed Photographer Captures Rural Strangeness and Beauty

There was a time when driving across the American heartland meant encountering a steady parade of weird and wonderful roadside scenes—fire-and-brimstone billboards, idiosyncratic art…

Shuck Yeah! Plan a Bivalve-Based Road Trip Along the Maine Oyster Trail

Autumn in New England isn't just for leaf-peeping. It's also prime oyster-slurping season.  Many devotees of the bivalve find that oysters "taste best in fall as they store fat and…

Weird Weather Could Shift Fall Foliage in New England in 2021

As we round the midpoint of August, it's time to look ahead to the autumn travel season, and for many, that means leaf peeping in New England. It's a classic fall escape, and one…

How to Protect Your Car from Insect Damage and Remove Bug Guts from the Windshield

From the perspective of the bug community, your summer road trip is basically just one long massacre. Moths, mosquitoes, beetles, cicadas, and other flying insects don't stand a chance…

Meet the USA's Newest National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads

What makes a great road trip?The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has an answer for that. In designating roads that are truly worthwhile for travel and preservation, the agency…

Road Rage, USA: Which Places Have the Most Stressed-Out Drivers?

Considering a road trip this year? There may be a few speed bumps, including an unusual shortage of rental cars and potential sellouts at campgrounds for overnight stays. And as more…

12 of America’s Most Overlooked National Parks

Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite are well-known for their striking landscapes and their reputations attract millions of visitors every year. But sometimes it’s hard to truly…

What Road Trips Are Really Like Right Now: Staying Safe, Saving Money

Life goes on. Although it may be wiser to wait until there’s a vaccine before hitting the road (a prospect that, knock wood, seems right around the corner), many of us want, or even…

Take a Cinematic Driving Tour Through the Hometown of the “Halloween” Creator

We'll say this for Michael Myers, the embodiment of pure evil in the Halloween movies: At least he wears a mask when he's within 6 feet of people. His bare-faced victims, on the other…

Luxury Rock Star Tour Buses Become A Travel Option in This Pandemic

There’s a certain flavor of fear that comes from trying to do something potentially dangerous that you are in no way competent to do. I experienced that intense mix of panic and…

Class Up Your New England Road Trip with Picnics at Gilded Age Estates

A recently introduced offering in elegant Newport, Rhode Island, gives visitors the chance to practice social distancing, Vanderbilt style. The new "Stroll the Gardens and Grounds"…

[Updated 2021] Find a Hookup or Site for Your RV in Four Easy Steps

UPDATED JUNE 4, 2020 Thinking of renting an RV this summer to escape the crowds? Join the crowds. Demand for rental RVs is up 1,000% over last year, and the campground-finder app The…

Plan U.S. Travel With This New Interactive Map of Each State's Covid-19 Rules

We need to give a big thank you to the National Governors Association. It just created an interactive map, the Covid-19 State and Territory Actions Tracker (pictured above in a…

Texas Gets a Temporary Drive-Through Zoo

Las Vegas has drive-through wedding chapels. Memphis has a drive-through convenience store. A Connecticut law firm located in a former fast food restaurant even uses its drive-up…

6 Strategies for Road-Tripping in a Pandemic

A good driving trip can teach you something important for your mental health: The world is huge and most of it thrives without the slightest concern for human headlines. As lockdown…

Invading Dairyland: The Perfect 3-Day Wisconsin Cheese-a-Palooza Tour

Wisconsin loves dairy so much that there, wearing foam cheddar wedge-shaped hats is considered "normal behavior." But Wisconsinites have a good reason to boast: Theirs is the…

Tour Alaska On Your Own: Driving Its National Parks

Alaska is home to 23 national parks. Many of them are remote and are only reachable by expensive air charter, but luckily, a few of the best ones are accessible by car. From the city…

Waterbury, Vermont: Four Miles of Foodie Bliss

How did a 5,000-person rural Vermont town become a famous center for artisanal food and drink? Waterbury seemed to appear on the map in 1986 when two guys named Ben and Jerry expanded…

Drive to Florida in a Rental Car for Only $7.99 a Day

Winter is coming, and in Florida, so are the tourists. Each year, the major car rental companies shift their inventory to where the business is, and now that summer is ending, Hertz…

Road Trip from Nashville on the Natchez Trace Parkway: Americana, History, and a Whole Lot of Music

The Natchez Trace Parkway, a national byway that spans three states, was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps following the Native American trading route of the same…

Ireland’s Greatest Road Trip: The Wild Atlantic Way

It’s a common dream among travelers: an old-fashioned Irish road trip. Few drives anywhere are more rewarding than the Wild Atlantic Way, a twisting 1,550-mile (2,500-km) route along…