Route-shaped starts
Routes
Choose a Route 20 corridor band, compare state gateways, or start with a representative day trip, weekend, rural crossing, or Yellowstone approach.
Routes
Use this page to choose the shape of your Route 20 drive. Start with a corridor band when you know the part of the country, or choose one representative trip when you want the pacing decisions already made.
Ready-made drives
Browse every Route 20 trip
Compare all available day trips, scenic drives, weekends, and longer corridor itineraries.
Broad gateways
Compare all 12 state hubs
Start with a state when you know the broad area but still need to choose towns, overnights, and route sections.
Build your own
Use the complete segment catalog
Open a town-to-town segment when you want to assemble your own driving day along the corridor.
Choose a coast-to-coast corridor band
Eastern terminus and long state crossing
Massachusetts and New York
Connect Boston and Kenmore with the Berkshires, then cross New York through the Capital Region, Finger Lakes, and Lake Erie towns.
Great Lakes corridor
Pennsylvania and Ohio
Use Erie, Ashtabula County, Cleveland, and Toledo to organize the lake-edge and northern Ohio portions of the route.
Midwest handoffs
Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa
Move from the Indiana Dunes and South Bend through Chicago-side connections, northwest Illinois heritage towns, and Iowa's broad east-to-west crossing.
Plains to Yellowstone
Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana
Plan the long Sandhills and Wyoming distances, approach Yellowstone from Cody, then resume the corridor at West Yellowstone.
Idaho to the Pacific
Idaho and Oregon
Cross east Idaho, the high desert, Boise, and eastern Oregon before finishing through the Cascades, Willamette Valley, and Newport.
Representative drives
These are useful starting points, not a second trip catalog. Use the complete trips index when you want every available itinerary.
One-day sampler
Galena and Freeport
A lower-commitment Illinois route day with heritage-town time and a practical second anchor.
Lake and town weekend
Western Finger Lakes
A New York weekend that balances a practical base, smaller towns, and the approach to Canandaigua.
Great Lakes weekend
Indiana Dunes to South Bend
A west-to-central Indiana drive combining the lakefront gateway with a substantial overnight city.
Heartland weekend
Dubuque to Waterloo
An eastern Iowa trip with a Mississippi River start and a clear inland anchor.
Rural crossing
South Sioux City to Harrison
A measured Nebraska crossing built around service stops, Sandhills scenery, Valentine, Chadron, and Pine Ridge.
Wyoming weekend
Lusk to Thermopolis
A long-distance Wyoming trip using Casper and Thermopolis as separate overnights.
Yellowstone east approach
Cody to Yellowstone East Entrance
A dedicated scenic day through Wapiti Valley to the park boundary, kept separate from a Yellowstone interior plan.
Yellowstone west approach
West Yellowstone to Ashton
A park-west connector drive through Island Park to a practical east Idaho gateway.
Idaho interior
Arco to Fairfield
A nature-focused interior drive linking volcanic country, Carey, Picabo, and Silver Creek country.
Pacific finish
Bend to Newport
A two-day Oregon finish across Santiam Pass and the Willamette Valley to a full destination day on the coast.