The Lincoln Highway (US 30)
Times Square, NY → Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA · ~3,400 miles · 2 weeks+
Dedicated in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was the first road built to cross the United States coast to coast — the route that taught America to road-trip, decades before the interstates. Much of it is shadowed today by US 30 across the Midwest and Plains, still marked by century-old concrete posts.
Good to know: It’s a historic auto trail, not one signed modern highway — alignments shifted over the years, so follow Lincoln Highway Association markers and US 30 rather than a single route number.
America’s first coast-to-coast road.
It’s the original transcontinental road trip — small-town main streets, vintage motor courts, and Lincoln Highway markers all the way from Times Square to the Pacific.
States on this route
The signature stops
What to pull over for.
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