The Dispatch
Summer road trips are the easiest to plan and the hardest to execute. School's out. Weather's clear. So is everyone else's. The posts here cover summer trips with the heat factored in: routes that include lakes and shade, when to leave to beat I-94 traffic going north, what to do at noon when the asphalt's at 140°F and the kids are melting in the back. We also cover the maintenance side — tires, coolant, AC — because the trip that strands you in a Wisconsin cornfield in July is the one nobody forgets.
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Six western drives, ranked by what they actually deliver between the trailheads: ocean cliffs, red rock, alpine switchbacks, and one road Charles Kuralt called the most beautiful in America.
A driveway check, a jump pack, and one habit that's saved more kids than any dashboard alert.
Heat kills more car batteries than cold does, and that's only the third-worst thing the southwest summer is doing to your vehicle.
There are a few key car problems that cause the AAA to rescue 7 million drivers every summer? Spoiler Alert: Almost all of them show up in a simple 20-minute driveway check. Are you ready for summer?
Ten Midwest weekenders, ranked by drive time, kid-tested, and honest about which one's a stretch from Friday to Sunday.
Here's a season-by-season guide to the best road trips from Chicago, with real drive times, what each spot does best in that window, and the stuff worth spotting out the window along the way.
