The Ultimate USA Road Trip

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Tracy Staedter from Discovery News has with the help of Michigan State University doctoral student Randy Olson, an expert in algorithms, put together the ultimate road trip. This road trip will take about three months to finish and will have taken you through all 48 states in the contiguous U.S. There will be 50 stops along the way with each stop being either a National Natural Landmark, National Historic Site, National Park, or National Monument.

Here’s the map.

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And the list of all the destinations:

  1. Grand Canyon, Arizona
  2. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
  3. Craters of the Moon, Idaho
  4. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
  5. Pikes Peak, Colorado
  6. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
  7. The Alamo, Texas
  8. The Platt Historic District, Oklahoma
  9. Toltec Mounds, Arkansas
  10. Elvis Presley’s Graceland, Tennessee
  11. Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
  12. French Quarter, New Orleans, Lousiana
  13. USS Alabama, Alabama
  14. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
  15. Okefenokee Swamp Park, Georgia
  16. Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina
  17. Lost World Caverns, West Virginia
  18. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, North Carolina
  19. Mount Vernon, Virginia
  20. White House, Washington, D.C.
  21. Colonial Annapolis Historic District, Maryland
  22. New Castle Historic District, Delaware
  23. Cape May Historic District, New Jersey
  24. Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania
  25. Statue of Liberty, New York
  26. The Mark Twain House & Museum, Connecticut
  27. The Breakers, Rhode Island
  28. USS Constitution, Massachusetts
  29. Acadia National Park, Maine
  30. Mount Washington Hotel, New Hampshire
  31. Shelburne Farms, Vermont
  32. Fox Theater, Detroit, Michigan
  33. Spring Grove Cemetery, Ohio
  34. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
  35. West Baden Springs Hotel, Indiana
  36. Abraham Lincoln’s Home, Illinois
  37. Gateway Arch, Missouri
  38. C. W. Parker Carousel Museum, Kansas
  39. Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion, Iowa
  40. Taliesin, Wisconsin
  41. Fort Snelling, Minnesota
  42. Ashfall Fossil Bed, Nebraska
  43. Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
  44. Fort Union Trading Post, North Dakota
  45. Glacier National Park, Montana
  46. Hanford Site, Washington
  47. Columbia River Highway, Oregon
  48. San Francisco Cable Cars, California
  49. San Andreas Fault, California
  50. Hoover Dam, Nevada

As an added bonus another map has also been created that is based on popular US cities.