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Top 5 American Road Trips
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America's roads, from the open freeway of Route 66, to the dusty pioneer trails, are iconic and take in some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world. With more cheap transatlantic flights to the US becoming available, the weak dollar, and a wide range of low cost accommodation, from hostels to motels, it's becoming easier to travel to America on a budget.
Americans may moan about the price of gas, but compared to the UK, prices are still comparatively cheap and the roads are far less stressful to navigate than anywhere in Europe.
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Forget crowded motorways and hairpin turns, America's roads promise excellent views of mountain ranges, vast lakes and sparse desert from your passenger seat.
If you are short on time, try americansky.co.uk, or Jetsave for coach tours that pack in as many sights into your trip as possible. For car hire, most mainland airports carry outlets for the main hire companies Dollar, Hertz and Avis, or try booking online with Holiday Autos.com and choose your car before you go. Whether you want to recreate your own version of literary classics such as 'On The Road' and 'Lolita', stopping off at motels and diners across the land, or want to explore real backwater country, here are some of the best road trips around America.
- The Alcan Highway: Feel like a true pioneer on the road from the Canadian Rockies to Alaska. Fly into Calgary or Edmonton, and drive from Dawson Creek in British Columbia to the end of the highway at Delta Junction, for 1,400 miles of snow capped mountains, bears and caribou.
- The Great River Road: This pioneer trail journeys through the American Midwest. Start in St Paul, Minnesota and travel along alongside the Mississippi River past hills and bluffs, quaint villages, pioneer cabins and Indian burial mounds.
- Highway 101: This trip along the rugged Oregan coast encounters wild, beautiful beaches edged by rocky shores and evergreens. Fly into Portland, a chic and cosmopolitan city, and then on to Aurora for a 350 miles past sea stacks at Brandon, rainforest at Cape Perpatua, and the cliffs at Cape Kiwanda.
- Route 66: It takes about two weeks to drive this iconic route through America, but it's a great way to pack in some of the country's greatest hits. Starting in Chicago, the route winds through Missouri, through the fields of Oklahoma, the vast terrain of Texas, New Mexico's desert, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the neon lights of Las Vegas, ending in sunny Los Angeles, California.
- New England to Niagra Falls: America's East Coast is a charming scene of clapboard churches, green mountains and a rugged coast, as well as some of the most historic cities in the US. Start in Boston, and drive past New Hampshire's majestic white mountains up to Lake Placid and Niagara Falls, for the most spectacular waterfall on the continent.
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