The Drives

Some roads are packed. These are our field guides to them: the land, the history, the wildlife, and every stop worth slowing down for, written the way we'd tell it from the passenger seat.

The Big Sur coastline at Bixby Creek, cliffs dropping to the PacificDavid Iliff · CC BY-SA 3.0

No. 01 · Highway 1, California

Big Sur

Ninety miles of cliff-hung coastline where the Santa Lucia Range falls straight into the Pacific. Condors overhead, whales below, and a bridge story around every third curve.

90 miles · 12 stops →

In the works

Battle Road · Route 66 · Natchez Trace · being written now. The app doesn't wait for us, though: it finds stories on any road you point it down.