What's the best 3-city trip you could take in the USA in the span (1 Viewer)

[chauncey]

We're going to Scottsdale in May. Is Tucson worth checking out while we're down there?

Not really, unless you wanted to see some old west type tourist stuff at Old Tucson or down in Tombstone. Most anything that Tucson has can be found in the Phoenix metro (hot college girls, breweries, hiking, mexican food, resorts/spas, golf)

If you have a free day or two go north and check out Sedona, Flagstaff, and/or Grand Canyon.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Austin --> Houston --> NOLA

Damn I'd like to do this one myself sometime!

This was my life at one point.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I'll throw out another one, though I have not tried it: Savannah, Charleston, Charlotte, or vice versa perhaps.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Austin --> Houston --> NOLA

Austin -> NOLA -> Memphis

TBH I've driven these routes and while all 3 are obviously great cities the distance is a haul.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Austin --> Houston --> NOLA

1 and 3 sound awesome.Must be a better choice than Houston. There HAS to be.

Houston is actually a really good food city. If you're into music though you could skip Houston and do Lafayette and Cajun country like a side trip to Mamou.

 

[El Floppo]

Is there a Rockies trip? Park City, Denver... ?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Boise, Billings, Bismark

 

[Zow]

Phoenix - Sedona, (stop at Grand Canyon) - Vegas

This is the one I was going to suggest. Every part of the trip is great and totally different. Beautiful ride, the crazy crystal people in Sedona are awesome, you get some normal city time in Phoenix/Scottsdale/whatever and Vegas is Vegas.

Have done a version of this.

Was in Vegas for a conference and did a week before it with my wife. Few days in Veags, drove

to Sedona with a stop at the GC..only did a night in Phoenix for dinner with my brother when he was living there.

Then back to Vegas and stopped at the Hoover

Dam.

I basically do some leg of this nearly every weekend.

 

[Zow]

We're going to Scottsdale in May. Is Tucson wort

h checking out while we're down there?

Not really, unless you wanted to see some old west type tourist stuff at Old Tucson or down in Tombstone. Most anything that Tucson has can be found in the Phoenix metro (hot college girls, breweries, hiking, mexican food, resorts/spas, golf)

If you have a free day or two go north and check out Sedona, Flagstaff, and/or Grand Canyon.

I'd agree with this. Tucson is great, but it's just a little bit slower version of Phoenix. I'd head north and see Sedona and flag as suggested. I also like Jerome.

 

[TenTimes]

Austin --> Houston --> NOLA

Austin -> NOLA -> Memphis

TBH I've driven these routes and while all 3 are obviously great cities the distance is a haul.

Guess it depends on what one would consider a haul. These are 6-7 hours in between vs. the 4-5 hours between Bos/NY/DC. Granted it's not a very scenic drive, especially through Mississippi.

Portland -> SF at 10 hours would be a little long for me.

 

[jamny]

We're going to Scottsdale in May. Is Tucson wort

h checking out while we're down there?

Not really, unless you wanted to see some old west type tourist stuff at Old Tucson or down in Tombstone. Most anything that Tucson has canbe found in the Phoenix metro (hot college girls, breweries, hiking, mexican food, resorts/spas, golf)

If you have a free day or two go north and check out Sedona, Flagstaff, and/or Grand Canyon.

I'd agree with this. Tucson is great, but it's just a little bit slower version of Phoenix. I'd head north and see Sedona and flag as suggested. I also like Jerome.

We've been to Sedona and Grand Canyon. We only drove through Flagstaff so maybe we'll head back up that way instead of down to Tucson...thx!

 

[Sabertooth]

Manitwoc, Kenosha, Racine.

 

[pats3in4]

SF to LA/Orange County to SD has plenty to fill 2 weeks with, especially with the stops between SF and LA (Monterey, Hearst Castle, SLO/Pismo Beach, Solvang, Santa Barbara) and the beautiful PCH drive between Big Sur and Hearst Castle.

I'd leave Vegas to its own trip. It's such a different world vs. the rest of the country that it's probably going to stand out from the rest of your trip for better or worse.

Shoehorning in a side trip to Yosemite would be ambitious, but memorable.

 

[The General]

Manitwoc, Kenosha, Racine.

A drive up around Michigan Upper Penisula, Wisconsin, Minnesota mixing in Minneapolis is sneaky good. Love that area.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

Anywhere along route 66. Old Americana and nostalgia.

 

[-jb-]

Please don't listen to people recommending SF and Vegas in the same trip.

 

[-jb-]

Anywhere along route 66. Old Americana and nostalgia.

Have you done this trip? If so, how was it and what did you wind up doing most? It's always been of interest to me, but not my wife.

 

[El Floppo]

Anywhere along route 66. Old Americana and nostalgia.

Have you done this trip? If so, how was it and what did you wind up doing most? It's always been of interest to me, but not my wife.

I did a stretch of 66... must've been the wrong stretch.

 

[Mister CIA]

Anywhere along route 66. Old Americana and nostalgia.

Have you done this trip? If so, how was it and what did you wind up doing most? It's always been of interest to me, but not my wife.

I did a stretch of 66... must've been the wrong stretch.

To make it right, you could have hit Amarillo and went south to Lubbock and then onto Odessa.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

I want to do the route 66 trip. Several people I work with talk about the little towns to visit, the nostalgia of old time motels, sights, and restaurants. It isn't for everyone, but I would like to show the kids how everyone traveled "back in the day."

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Is there a Rockies trip? Park City, Denver... ?

Park City -> Moab -> Telluride

Or

Denver -> Aspen -> Moab

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Early Fall - Friday night - Cincinnati Reds game. Saturday - Columbus tailgating and OSU Buckeyes game. Sunday - tailgating and Indy Colts game.

 

[Chapelboy]

Nashville-Memphis-New Orleans

that's kinda long though, from Nashville-Memphis and down...how about Kansas City-St Louis-Memphis? BBQ heaven

 

[No. 16]

Please don't listen to people recommending SF and Vegas in the same trip.

Two weeks is plenty of time.

3 days in SF, 3 Days in So Cal, 3 Days in Vegas. 4 days of travel total, so you'll have 1 extra day to spend in either SF or So Cal.

Then again I live on the west coast so I've been to each of those places numerous times. First timers might want to straggle in SF or So Cal for a bit longer.

I don't drive directly from SF to Vegas anymore, but with a pit stop in So Cal it's not bad at all assuming you don't have to drive back from Vegas to SF. Driving back 10 hours after partying hard for 3 nights is the absolute worst.

 

[Judge Smails]

Madrid Barcelona Paris

Yeah two weeks for any three American cities seems like a lot of time. Not sure about the rest of you, but I get very few opportunities to travel for two consecutive weeks, which is what you want for Europe. You can knock out any US city in a long weekend.

We did Spain two years ago plus Rome-Florence-Venice last year. We wanted this next one to be more of a relaxing beach type vacation so that's where Hawaii fits in the equation. if we don't decide to do it ($$ may be the only reason), I was looking at alternatives here in the states. We're certainly not against Europe so that's a possibility too.

I'm in Punta Cana right now. Pretty freakin sweet.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Anyone not getting in Patterson, Newark, Camden is missing out.

 

[Ladsud]

When Cuba goes back to being a vassal state, Miami > Havana > New Orleans would be a hell of a trip.

 

[GoBirds]

I'll throw out another one, though I have not tried it: Savannah, Charleston, Charlotte, or vice versa perhaps.

Charleston is awesome.....I would sub Wilmington NC for Charlotte. Maybe OBX NC for Savannah? I've heard good and bad about Savannah?

 

[Abraham]

El Paso, Dallas, Houston

Joking, right?

 

[mr roboto]

Another mountain drive could be Reno/Tahoe, Mammoth/Yosemite, San Francisco.

 

[Michael Brown]

Wife and I did LA, San Diego, Vegas awhile back. Wanted to start in San Diego and work our way up, but but since we were going to a Chargers game, we had to do it in that order in order to be in San Diego on the Sunday. Plus flying from NJ to LA was way less money than from NJ to San Diego for some reason.

Spent a few days in LA driving around Malibu and doing the LA thing. The drive from LA to San Diego, we stopped at every beach town we could in OC, was one of our most fun days ever and the drive was beautiful.

Drive from SD to Vegas was pretty long and uneventful, but worth doing once just to say I did it. Total trip was 9 nights.