U.S. Route 1 runs 170 miles through South Carolina, and none of it is the South Carolina anyone comes here for. No Charleston, no Myrtle Beach, no Beaufort. Instead, the highway cuts a diagonal line from the Georgia border to the North Carolina line through the inland state most visitors drive past at 75 mph […]
U.S. Route 1 takes the road less obvious through Georgia. While tourists follow I-95 to Savannah’s squares and River Street, Route 1 cuts inland from the South Carolina border near Augusta and runs south-southwest through 250 miles of piney woods, swamp edge, tobacco country, and small towns that haven’t changed much since the highway was […]
New Jersey suffers from an image problem. Sandwiched between New York City and Philadelphia, it’s often dismissed as a mere corridor, a place you pass through rather than visit. The jokes write themselves: industrial wastelands, aggressive drivers, reality TV caricatures. But those who know New Jersey – really know it – understand that these stereotypes […]
Route 1 through Pennsylvania runs about 100 miles, from the Maryland border at West Nottingham Township to the Delaware River crossing at Morrisville. This itinerary covers it over three days: Chester County’s mushroom farms and Quaker farmland on Day 1, the Brandywine Valley and Philadelphia on Day 2, and Bucks County’s Delaware River corridor on […]
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