Planning a Road Trip in the USA: 13 Best Routes!
Planning a road trip in the USA is an ultimate holiday bucket list idea. USA road trips are a popular choice for honeymoons, anniversary holidays and break up trips because they’re just so, damn, incredible. Driving across the USA a la Thelma and Louise is so freeing, so exciting, and as the voice of experience, FUN.
Obviously you need to choose your car – cheapest vs most awesome – sort your playlists out, and get your team / friend together. But first up, you need to decide where exactly you want to go in the USA for your road trip.
So, from my USA road trip history, recommendations from others, and a few tips I’ve heard along the way, here are the best routes for your USA road trip.
Planning a Road Trip in the USA: 13 Best Routes
Read through these top USA road trips, think about the kind of things you want to see most along the way, and then come back for another read and decide. If you have any questions about what exactly you think you’d enjoy most, just let me know in the comments at the end.
1. Pacific Coast Highway road trip
I feel like the Pacific Coast Highway is the ultimate West Coast road trip in the USA. I’ve done it twice, and it’s definitely the most popular USA road trip among my friends. Stretching from San Francisco to San Diego, it goes past some of the most beautiful coastal scenery I’ve ever seen.
– Me on the Pacific Coast Highway with my friends, and my Mustang
Also known as Highway 1, you can complete the Pacific Coast Highway in around three days, ticking off the likes of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran, before hiking in Big Sur National Park and washing it all down with wine tasting in Solvang, California’s ‘Little Denmark’.
- I have a whole post on road tripping the Pacific Coast Highway – check it out.
- And also, Top Tips for Driving the Pacific Coast Highway.
2. Seattle to San Francisco
And if you want to add to your Pacific Coast Highway trip, how about making it even longer and adding on a drive from San Francisco to Seattle?