America\u2019s early coast-to-coast automobile dream, from Times Square to San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Why take this road?<\/h2>\n
Promoted beginning in 1913, the Lincoln Highway helped convince Americans that long-distance automobile travel\u2014and better roads\u2014were possible. Its story survives in markers, bridges, town streets, and alignments later absorbed into numbered highways.<\/p>\n
Signature chapters of the journey<\/h2>\n
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Times Square origins and New Jersey approaches<\/li>\n
Pennsylvania mountain and roadside architecture<\/li>\n
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois town corridors<\/li>\n
Iowa bridges and early concrete sections<\/li>\n
Nebraska and Wyoming plains<\/li>\n
Utah and Nevada desert challenges<\/li>\n
Sierra crossings and San Francisco\u2019s Lincoln Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Roadside memory<\/h2>\n
Concrete Lincoln markers, old garages, tourist camps, diners, hand-painted route signs, and tiny bypassed towns preserve the first-generation road-trip atmosphere.<\/p>\n