Route 1, by theme

Route 1, by theme

Curated journeys through the archive — follow one story up the coast.

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The Trails

Thirteen stories along the road

Route 1 runs the length of the East Coast, and its stories don’t sort themselves neatly by state. A Trail gathers dozens of views around a single thread—vanishing theaters, dead malls, the Maine coast—so you can follow one idea from town to town instead of scrolling the whole map. Pick a thread and pull.