Road Trips

Drive, He Said

Tom Zoellner’s The National Road seeks to take the measure of America.

Searching for Mary Austin
Life for the author of The Land of Little Rain was as hard as the in…
A Mother’s Road
Alta Editor at Large Mary Melton searches for a deeper connection wi…
Alta Asks Live: Mary Melton
Can a mom forge a deeper connection with her autistic son — and a di…
Mojave on My Mind
Twenty-five years after a landmark act of Congress, a writer hits th…

Alta hits the asphalt with these stories from the open road. 

May 17, 2019
The Call of the Open Road
David Thomson’s dispatch is nicely timed with summer on the horizon and the beckoning of the open road. A road trip around California s…
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May 15, 2019
Lost Highways

The roads of the American West are an endless frontier of beauty, ecstasy, and spirituality.
Oct 3, 2018
‘The Greatest Piece of Writing I Ever Saw’
Jack Kerouac called it “the greatest piece of writing I ever saw” and cited it as the inspiration for the writing style of “On The Road…