15 Great American Road Trips For Your Bucket List

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15. The Badlands Loop isn’t bad at all

Early road trippers to South Dakota’s Badlands once drove their way through tunnels carved right out of the dramatic stone landscape, but today’s road offers a little more safety by skipping those precarious subterranean channels. The Highway 240 scenic loop is a tiny, two-lane road that offers countless scenic overlooks of the area’s imposing geography, towering buttes, and jagged rocks.