Maryland to Washington State -- best routes

Just follow Google map direction and stop on the national, state and country campsites along the way (assuming you are traveling using your RV and that's the reason you are asking that here).

Need to know what your time frame is, when are you leaving east coast and how long you are planning for the trip.

bigdon68 wrote:

We are beginning to plan a WEST Coast trip for 2020 to see our son and daughter-in-law in Washington State.

We are in Maryland and would like to take the NORTHERN Route out to Washington State and then return via the Southern Route.

If anyone has any ideas about routes, time of the year (weather), your help would be appreciated.

bigdon68

Well you have a pretty Opened ended question here!

How Long? When - winter - spring - summer - fall????

Would you be touring on the way out?

How far do you normally drive each Day?

Have you been to the Rockies and the SouthWest before?

What do you enjoy?

Are you Boondockers or FHU only?

Give us some ideas so we are not just shooting into the Dark.

JMHO,

In a hurry or plenty of time? You don't say. If in a hurry let the GPS figure it out. Got time? Go up the MI. LP & take Hwy #2 all the way. Nice ride. Not much traffic & changing scenery. Coming back slow? Get on hwy 50 & follow it all the way back to Ocean City if you want to. Finding your way onto hwy 36, The Pony Express, is another good highway of mostly not much traffic & mostly good road.

Great idea. I first made that drive in 1969 in a 1957 Chevy. I would take the PA turnpike to Chicago. Take interstates until you get to South Dakota. Then you can start wandering on smaller highways.

If weather is a concern, then go west in the Spring using the southern route and return in the summer using the northern rout. It is **** hot in the south in the summer and snows in the Rocky mountains in the north in the Spring.