A cypress swamp near Laurel holding the northernmost natural stand of bald cypress in the country, best paddled by kayak among the knobby "knees" rising from dark water.
Road trips · Delaware
Delaware road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Delaware — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A 1960s flying-saucer-shaped fiberglass house — one of few survivors of its kind — parked beside a small airport near Milton, pure retro-future roadside oddity.
16,000 acres of tidal marsh along Delaware Bay near Smyrna with a 12-mile auto loop and observation towers — one of the East Coast's great spots for shorebirds and snow geese.
A 10-foot cast-iron pan outside the Seaford Historical Society honoring the town's old chicken-fry festivals — a quick, goofy photo stop in southern Delaware.
A free Dover museum tracing the talking machine and the Victrola, complete with period rooms and the famous "His Master's Voice" dog — a small, charming slice of recording history.
At Auburn Valley State Park in Hockessin, the world's largest collection of operating steam-powered automobiles, sometimes fired up for rides alongside a 1/8-scale railroad in rural Delaware.
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