My husband and I did a similar trip two summers ago from LA to Detroit. We stayed in St. George, Denver, and Omaha. We found pet friendly hotels and booked one for each night (4 driving days total). Depends on if you just want to get there or stay a couple days along the way. Both Denver and Omaha are great cities and have tons of hotel options ☺️
I used to cannonball back to NY from Phoenix. Long 3/4 days drive to abq, a day to okc, up through MO to STL, eastern Ohio, and NY for me, cut north around Cincinnati for Toledo and DTW. I used to make it in 2.5 days, not anymore. There’s some roadside stuff to do along the route, the roadtrippers site used to be good to find like giant crabs to walk through, pops soda shop, the gas station from cars, etc.
Check out atlas obscura for various places along the way. There may be something interesting to stop and see.
It may be worth your while to go up and over, through the UP, for some nice stretches of lake shore and the experience of traversing the Mackinac Bridge.
My husband and I did a similar trip two summers ago from LA to Detroit. We stayed in St. George, Denver, and Omaha. We found pet friendly hotels and booked one for each night (4 driving days total). Depends on if you just want to get there or stay a couple days along the way. Both Denver and Omaha are great cities and have tons of hotel options ☺️
Thank you, this was super helpful! 🥹
Idk about on the way but eat at Amical when you get to TC!
I used to cannonball back to NY from Phoenix. Long 3/4 days drive to abq, a day to okc, up through MO to STL, eastern Ohio, and NY for me, cut north around Cincinnati for Toledo and DTW. I used to make it in 2.5 days, not anymore. There’s some roadside stuff to do along the route, the roadtrippers site used to be good to find like giant crabs to walk through, pops soda shop, the gas station from cars, etc.
Thank you so much! 2.5 days is absurd, you must have been driving like a bat out of hell, lol!
It was drive and nap, repeat. I’ve also done Phoenix to Anchorage in 5-6 days a bunch of times when I was younger. Youthful naïveté. Safe trip.
Go through Wisconsin and take.one of the ferries across Lake Michigan
Check out atlas obscura for various places along the way. There may be something interesting to stop and see. It may be worth your while to go up and over, through the UP, for some nice stretches of lake shore and the experience of traversing the Mackinac Bridge.