Featured loop · Southwest
The Red Rock Loop
Las Vegas to Phoenix through the canyon country that built the American western.
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Fly into one city, drive a circle, fly out of another. Stop-by-stop plans with seasons, budgets and how hard each place is to reach.
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Film Locations & Unique Places
Single-place spotlights: the frames you recognise from screen, and the landmarks too strange to belong to any list.
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Routes worth taking three weeks off for
9 days · SouthwestThe Red Rock Loop
Las Vegas to Phoenix through the canyon country that built the American western.
1,420 mi/April–May, October/Budget $$
7 days · Pacific NorthwestThe Fog Loop
Seattle to Portland the long way — rainforest, shipwreck coast, and the towns that TV made strange.
780 mi/June–September/Budget $$
Seen on screen & stranger still
Places that behave like scenes
Unique PlaceDelicate Arch After Dark
The most photographed rock in America is a completely different object at midnight.
Arches National Park, Utah
Film LocationThe Shelter on the Salt
A single concrete room in the middle of a white void, built for a film that was never finished.
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
Film LocationThe House on the Hill in Astoria
A private Victorian on a steep Oregon street that half the internet still treats as a pilgrimage.
Astoria, Oregon
Film LocationThe Frame John Ford Built
One mile of highway in northern Arizona did more to invent the western than any studio backlot.
US-163, Monument Valley, Arizona
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Multi-location guides
GuideSeven Roadside Landmarks That Should Not Exist
Built by obsessives, abandoned by productions, or simply never explained — and all of them within reach of a rental car.
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