Backroads of the Great American West: Your Guide to Great Day Trips Weekend Getaways

178 Pages·2021·83.971 MB·English

by  Editors of Motorbooks

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b a c k r o a d s
g r e a t
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merican
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Your Guide to
Great Day Trips
and Weekend
Gary Crabbe
Getaways Diana Fairbanks
Jim Hinckley
Theresa Husarik
Karen Misuraca
George Ostertag
Rhonda Ostertag
Mike Sedam
Claude Wiatrowski
David M. Wyman
Contents
chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3
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6 Colorado 28 New Mexico 54 Southern
and rizona California
8 Stone, Coal,
and Silver
30 Double-6 in 56 San Joaquin
Marble to Aspen
the Land of Valley’s
Enchantment Freedom Roads
14 San Juan
Glenrio to Gallup Delano to
Skyway
Allensworth
Durango to
38 An Ancient Land
Mancos
Tucumcari to 60 Southern
Albuquerque Mountains and
22 Cripple
Deserts
Creek Gold
42 America’s The Laguna
Cascade to
Main Street Mountains
Westcliffe
Route 66 from
Ash Fork to 64 Mojave Desert
Topock and Historic
Route 66
50 The Arizona Victorville to
Coast Amboy
Kingman to
Grand Canyon 70 Dana’s Pilgrim
West and the
Swallows
of San Juan
Capistrano
Dana Point
to Caspers
Wilderness Park
74 The Seven
Sisters
Morro Bay and the
Edna Valley
chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7
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80 Northern 112 Utah 134 Oregon 152 Washington
California
114 The Old West 136 All Things 154 Wild Beaches 166 Contributors
Comes to Life Coastal La Push to
82 Where It’s
Old Pony Express Lincoln City to Hoquiam 168 Index
Always
Road Reedsport
Yesterday
158 Carbonado
Locke and the
118 Butch Cassidy 140 Volcano Buckley to
Delta
Was Here Central Mowich Lake
Beaver Canyon to McKenzie Pass
86 The Sacramento
I-70 to Santiam Pass 162 Steptoe
Valley
Scenic Byway Palouse to Steptoe
The Midway
122 All-American Butte
Road 144 Fire and
92 The Great
State Route 12 Feathers
Basin Desert
Volcano Scenic
Bodie
126 Along the Byway to Crater
Mighty Lake and Klamath
96 Marshlands,
Colorado Basin
Rainforests,
Potash Road to
and a Rocky
Dead Horse Point 148 Paradise Found
Seacoast
Hells Canyon
Arcata to Prairie
130 Cowboys and Scenic Byway
Creek State Park
Indians, Both Main Loop
Past and
102 The Sleeping
Present
Maiden
Trail of the
Muir Woods,
Ancients Scenic
Stinson Beach,
Byway
and a Mount
Tamalpais Loop
108 Paso Robles
Cowboy Country
Chapter 1
8 Stone, Coal,
colorado
and Silver
Marble to Aspen
14 San Juan
Skyway
Durango to
Mancos
22 Cripple
Creek Gold
Cascade to
Westcliffe
The Million Dollar
Highway near Ouray,
Colorado. Dawn Wilson
Photo/Shutterstock

By Claude Wiatrowski
S t o n e , C o a l ,
S i lv e r
and
Crystal Mill near Marble is one of the
most photographed sites in Colorado.
Marble to Aspen Peter Kunasz/Shutterstock
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