Get ready to shift into gear and roll across America with our in-depth guide to everything you need to know about road trips.

Whether or not they have a destination is rarely the point; the iconic American road trip is an end in itself. Professor Allyson Hobbs teaches a class on American road trips at Stanford University.

For a quintessential American road trip, drive along Highway 1 in California, the classic coastal stretch between Los Angeles and San Francisco, says Gabe Saglie, senior editor of Travelzoo.com.

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