Shutterstock Lincoln’s Kentucky roots run deep here Three miles south of Hodgenville, a stretch of central Kentucky hill country holds the first…
Shutterstock It’s more than a park About 25 miles west of Chicago, in Lisle, Illinois, a 1,700-acre spread of woodlands, prairies, lakes,…
Shutterstock Where Two Rivers Meet in Nebraska Northeast Nebraska keeps a spot most road trips skip. Niobrara State Park sits where the…
Shutterstock It’s the Caribbean of the Rockies Bear Lake sits right on the Idaho-Utah border, split almost evenly between the two states.…
Shutterstock Blowing Rock’s cool altitude and older charm There’s a cliff in western North Carolina where snow floats up. The wind rising…
Wikimedia Commons/Terry Greene Louisiana’s Northshore is worth the drive Cross the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and the city falls away behind you. Water…
Shutterstock Three falls, one canyon, all yours About 50 miles east of Moscow, past small towns and reservoir views, Elk Creek Falls…
Shutterstock It’s the Southwest’s best front-row seat You drive paved highway for miles through southeastern Utah, and then the pavement just stops.…
Wikimedia Commons/LandyFeeled Ringwood Manor’s Gilded Age secrets You’d never expect a 51-room Victorian mansion to be sitting in the woods of northern…
Flickr/gurdonark The Chickasaw Nation’s frontier fort Fort Washita sits on a grassy knoll above the Washita River in south-central Oklahoma, about 16…