Birth of The Road Trip

Before the Lincoln Highway, Dixie Highway and National Old Trails Road there was a national obsession with the bicycle.This was the dawning of the great American road trip and the good roads movement.

It was the dawning of a new era. AAA was formed in Chicago, automobile manufacturers were funding road development, visionaries were competing to build a coast to coast highway, and there was a looming political battle over the creation of a US highway system. 

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