2026 Road Trip Plans

[JayhawkCO]

I think I started the 2025 thread around this time last year. Might as well spin it up as we create plans.

Only one planned so far:

Flying into Paris and going to be driving from there to visit Normandy and Brittany, so I'll be driving on some Autoroutes as well as departmental highways. We're staying right outside of Caen in Ver-sur-Mer, so should get some clinches around the area.

[CoreySamson]

I'm trying to cook up something sorta massive for spring break of senior year. Currently the trip has St. Louis, Pittsburgh, DC, and Nashville on the docket. I'm also planning on taking a day trip or weekend to Wichita as well.

[Max Rockatansky]

My wife and are likely going to Capitol Reef National Park in early April for our wedding anniversary.  I'll probably knock out seeing my brother in St. George (he recently moved there) and maybe other stuff around Moab.

[JayhawkCO]

My wife and are likely going to Capitol Reef National Park in early April for our wedding anniversary.  I'll probably knock out seeing my brother in St. George (he recently moved there) and maybe other stuff around Moab.

Eat at George's Corner in St. George. Pretty tasty.

[pderocco]

I'm considering retiring pretty soon, so I should have lots of time for road trips in 2026 and beyond. I don't know what order I'm going to do them in, but my vague trip ideas include:

• I-25 trip. I've driven very little of this, and could combine it with driving a lot of the nearby US routes, filling in some gaps in I-90 from Billings MT to Buffalo WY, and a couple small pieces around Rapid City SD, driving the 3dis around Denver (clinching all Interstates in the western 11 states), and doing all of Historic US-66 in NM.
• PacNW east/west US routes. This would involve filling in gaps in US-2, US-12, US-20, and US-26 in WA, OR, ID, and MT, and driving a lot of state routes along the way, hopefully including WA-20.
• Fly-and-drive from MN to MA. This would clinch I-94, and fill in eastern gaps in I-90. I could also clinch I-86 and I-88 in NY, and extend my coverage of US-6 and US-20 from their eastern ends perhaps as far as Cleveland. While in New England, I could maybe clinch US-1 (north of NY), US-2, US-5, US-7, I-89, and I-91.
• Fly-and-drive from FL to MA. This could clinch I-40, I-87, I-95, US-9, US-9W, and whatever other nice roads I could find in the northeast.[/i]
  

Shorter trips might include more Utah exploration, including Skyline Drive in the Wasatch Mountains, and some of the 4wd roads in Canyonlands. Or US-550 in NM and CO, with a couple of high mountain passes. But these will have to wait for the snow to melt.

[hbelkins]

None of my proposed trips for this year came to pass. I've only taken one out-of-state trip this year, so I'm not going to predict anything for next year.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Only thing I'm certain of, for 2026, at the moment, is a trip from Central Ohio to Baton Rouge.
I just haven't decided if it'll be in February or April.