Road Trips
The Frugal Traveler started in New York and ended in Seattle, on a $100 a day.
A Big, Beautiful Country
A cross-country road trip includes plenty of unusual sites.
Southern Utah: The West’s Best-Kept Secret
Canyons yawn and pinnacles sprout in the desert landscape.
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Take a historic trip down U.S. 15, lined with Civil War sites.
Mileposts: A Journey Through the Land of the Giants
In Northern California, trees reach hundreds of feet into the sky and measure time in centuries.
Ancient Midwest Road Trip
On a road trip of a few days in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio you’ll find the burial mounds of long-vanished civilization.
One-Tank Trips
Are high gas prices keeping you homebound? Find more than 50 round-trip getaways you can take on one tank of gas.
134 Miles of Yankee Charm
Some of the loveliest spots in Connecticut, Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts that somehow elude the crush of summer visitors.
Two for the Road
With limited time, a tight budget, and a minivan as overnight lodging, a couple make their way across the country, fulfilling a dream for both.
Slide Show: A Big, Beautiful Country
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Two-Wheeled Rambles, Even When Frost Is on the Pumpkin
Motorcycle tours offer an autumn opportunity for scenery and solitude. Here are four weekends’ worth of scenic rides.
Just Outside San Francisco, a Wild Coastline
Stark beauty and treacherous mystique make a stretch of coast on Highway 1 called Devil’s Slide a heart-stopping road trip.
Where Camels Once Trod, a Train Crosses Australia
Rolling from the temperate south to the lush north, the Ghan train runs 1,900 miles with just four stops through the country’s vast interior.
America’s Outback: Southern Utah
In the southern region of the state, 1.9 million acres of natural wonders remain almost as unknown and unexplored as when a precocious teenager helped map them in 1872.
Riding the Rails
Riding the rails isn’t quite the romantic journey it once was. But for one traveler, a cross-country trip was a way to reconnect with America.
Audio & Photos: Voices From the Rails
Path of the Sacred and the Mundane
America’s most densely packed historical terrain is U.S. 15, home to crucial sites in the Revolution and the Civil War.
Interactive Map: Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Jet Set, Meet the Bus Bunch
The route between Boston and Washington has become jammed with cheap express buses with jazzy names and Web sites to match.
Cruising Carolina
Graham County, N.C., is a region renowned for its fun-worshiping vibe, its crazily tilted landscape and its five dam-created reservoirs.
Ancient Midwest
From St. Louis to southern Ohio, an overland journey in quest of hidden cities built long before Columbus set sail.
The $4.49-a-Gallon Vacation
With gas prices near historic highs and airfare prices out of sight, a Chicago family takes a weekend trip to Saugatuck, Mich., which requires no more than one trip to the gas station.
134 Miles of Yankee Charm
On a meandering road trip between two standard tourist spots — Sturbridge Village, Mass., and Newport, R.I. — a less known, often achingly beautiful New England reveals itself.
The Sportsman’s Life in a ‘Bathtub Nash’
The Nash Airflyte, known as the "Bathtub Nash," was once the vacation vehicle of choice for outdoorsmen, with seats that turned into a bed.
The Frugal Road Trip
After 11,000 miles and 26 states, the Frugal Traveler columnist tries to coax his Volvo across the finish line.
In a ’64 T-Bird, Chasing a Date With a Clam
After visiting 16 clam shacks and covering more than 625 miles, I found the luscious, plump-bellied beauties of my youth.
The End of the Road
On his final leg of the road trip, Matt drives deep into Oregon’s deserts, where he is moved by their beauty and remoteness, and by their place in American road-trip history.
From Wyoming to Montana on Foot
Matt lives out his “Man vs. Wild” fantasies in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, a section of the Gallatin National Forest on the Wyoming-Montana border.
Twisting Roads Take You to the Heart of Appalachia
A journey into the mountains where lives are shaped by coal and country music.
Zen and the Art of Volvo Maintenance
In the Colorado Rockies, Matt Gross meditates on the purpose of his cross-country trip at the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat.
Three Miles to Go in New Mexico
There’s a world of difference between the border towns of Columbus, N.M., and Palomas, Mexico.
Pilsners? Wines? Yes, in Texas Hill Country
The Frugal Traveler discovers German culture and viticulture in Fredericksburg, Tex., a tourist town in the state’s wine-growing region.
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