General travel info on the United States and Canada

Road trips

Resources for the Great American Road Trip - Everything you need to help plan your next road trip...

Reid's Road Trips - Some of my favorite road trips, detailed day by day: Southern Utah, Mid-Coast Maine, the Mississippi Delta, and Washington's Olympic Peninsula...

America's Byways: The road less traveled - A paean to America's Byways, the program that singles out scenic drives and historic routes across the USA...

Road trip guides - If you like your road trips in pre-approved segments, several books, magazines, and Web sites detail drives carefully constructed to link fascinating sights and towns along some of the country's most scenic stretches of road...

Highway guides - A few books to make even the Interstate more interesting, from knowing what's at the next several exits to discovering what fabulous local eatery awaits, hidden just down the road from those exits...

Saving on gas / getting better mileage - Tips for stretching that road trip budget by reducing your fuel consumption...

A road trip... without the road - Prefer trains to planes or automobiles? Learn all about the Amtrak USA Rail Pass...

National Parks

National Parks section - All about our national parks...

The National Parks Pass - America's single best travel value...

Federal Sleeps - How to sleep on various federal lands, from national Parks to National Forests, and from historic lodges to free campsites...

Endangering Our National Parks - An award-winning editorial essay on how changes to various federal laws, statutes, and policies in the early 2000s continue to threaten America's national parks...

America's Most Underrated National Parks - A roundup of 10 little-known but fantastic national parks I recently wrote for TravelandLeisure.com, including Biscayne, Congaree, Isle Royale, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Theodore Roosevelt, Capitol Reef, Great Basin, North Cascades, Channel Islands, and Wrangell-St. Elias. (Note: these links take you off-site.)

Seven alternatives to the Grand Canyon - Ditching the Big Ditch as part of the Boycott Arizona movement? Here's a baker's half-dozen nearly-as-grand canyons to help fill the void this summer.

Guide books

Specialty guides - In addition to generic guidbooks, there are dozens of specialty guides to the U.S.A.—covering variously national and state parks, eccentric sights, factory tours, food, or some other subject—that can make any trip (or trip-planning) go more smoothly...

Lodging options

Federal Sleeps - How to sleep on various federal lands, from national Parks to National Forests, and from historic lodges to free campsites...

Free campgrounds across the U.S. - Where to sleep for free across the USA, whether in an RV or a tent...

Six sensational U.S. hostels - For less than $30 you can bunk down in a 19th-century lighthouse on the California coast, a Deco landmark in South Beach, or a cabin in the Colorado Rockies. The only catch: you'll have bunkmates...

Farm stays USA - How to find agriturism opportunities—the chance to stay on a working farm—in all 50 states...

Misc

A road trip... without the road - Prefer trains to planes or automobiles? Learn all about the Amtrak USA Rail Pass...

Ride of the Century - A primer for how not to plan and execute a 100-mile bike trip...

Seven alternatives to the Grand Canyon - Ditching the Big Ditch as part of the Boycott Arizona movement? Here's a baker's half-dozen nearly-as-grand canyons to help fill the void this summer.

On Buffalo - A brief history of the amazing comeback of that Titan of the plains and symbol of the West : The American bison...