This list displays the list of road trips that I have taken since 2023 IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Click HERE for trips from 2021 and earlier). Click on any of them to read all about it and to see pictures. The list also is separated by locations: Downstate Illinois, Chicago Metropolitan Area, and other states. Links may lead you to written content, or photos from the Road Trip Random feature.

Some locations also are part of features that include multiple places, so sometimes a link may not be all about that very location; they are noted with parentheses with “(mentioned)”.

Located noted with a “(Facebook album excerpt)” are viewable as long as you have a Facebook account.

Downstate Illinois:
Annawan: Classic Illinois Route 78 from Hooppole
Ashton: Schuetz Case Tractor Museum
Astoria: Spoon River Solar Farm learning center (Facebook album excerpt)
Barth Corners: Elizabeth Blacktop (mentioned)
Bernadotte: Camp Ellis remains (Facebook album excerpt)
Bernadotte: Spoon River town (Facebook album excerpt)
Brussels: Red and White food store and Wittemond Hotel (Facebook album excerpt)
Buda: Nipper advertisement
Canton: Banner Marsh (Facebook album excerpt)
Channahon: Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area (mentioned)
Cherry: Plank Road and mine disaster
Earlville: Shabbona County Park (mentioned)
East Dubuque: Classic Route 5 (mentioned)
East Dubuque: Mulgrew’s Tavern (mentioned)
East Moline: Campbell’s Island
Elizabeth: Elizabeth Blacktop
Elizabeth: Old Georgetown Bridge / Classic Route 5 (mentioned)
Ellisville: Old buildings (Facebook album excerpt)
Franklin Grove: Sites along Franklin Creek
Galena: Classic Route 5 (mentioned)
Galena: Visitor Center
Galesburg: Carl Sandburg State Historic Site (Facebook album excerpt)
Grafton: Aerie’s Resort Skyview (Facebook album excerpt)
Grafton: Pere Marquette State Park (coming soon)
Harmon: St. Flannen Catholic Church
Hollowayville: Standing on a corner
Hooppole: Classic Illinois Route 78 from Annawan
Hooppole: Pray the “Rollery”
Lewistown: Dickson Mounds State Museum (coming soon)
Lombardville: Road marker
Lone Tree Corners: Schoolhouse (mentioned)
Loves Park: Old Harlem village site
Oregon: Pine Creek Historic Wooden Bridge Park
Menominee: Classic Route 5 (mentioned)
Mineral: Bureau-Henry Moraine
Mineral: Witness Tree (mentioned)
Mineral: McCune Sand Prairie (mentioned)
Mineral: Mineral school memorial
Morris: Dresden Power Plant cooling bridge
Morris: Shabbona grave site (mentioned)
Mossville: The Railsplitter (mentioned)
Mount Carroll: Elizabeth Blacktop (mentioned)
Mount Palatine: Ghost grids
Osco: Graffiti Barn
Peoria: Archbishop Fulton Sheen Museum
Peru: Plank Road
Polo: Soup can art
Princeton: Lovejoy Way (mentioned)
Princeton: Red Covered Bridge (mentioned)
Prophetstown: Thicksten’s Popcorn
Rochelle: Ken Wise Rochelle Railroad Park
Rockford: St. Thomas Catholic High School (mentioned)
Rockford: Fairgrounds Park (mentioned)
Rockton: Hononegah Forest Preserve
Rock Island: Black Hawk State Forest, Museum and Lodge
Rock Island: Douglas Park (Facebook album excerpt)
Rock Island: Fort Armstrong
Roscoe: Depot replica Beef-a-Roo
Seneca: Chief Shabbona’s final home (mentioned)
Shabbona: Named after an important chief
Silvis: Hero Street U.S.A. (Facebook album excerpt)
Smithfield: Red Brick School (Facebook album excerpt)
Tiskilwa: Hennepin Canal Lock and Dam No. 11 (mentioned)
Triumph: Shabbona’s hangout (mentioned)
Utica: Shabbona’s Rock (mentioned)
Valley City: Griggsville Lime Kiln and ghost town (coming soon)
Van Petten: Brandon Home
Winslow: Well, water you waiting for?
Yorktown: Royal Blue General Store

Chicago Metropolitan Area: (Counties: Cook, Lake, DuPage, Will, McHenry, Kane, Kendall)
Bannockburn: The Leaf Cafe (mentioned)
Glencoe: Lakefront Park (mentioned)
Glencoe: Ravine Bluff Subdivision (mentioned)
North Chicago: National Museum of the American Sailor (mentioned)
Waukegan: Jack Benny sites (mentioned)
Winthrop Harbor: North Point Marina (mentioned)
Zion: Illinois Beach State Park (mentioned)

Iowa:
Route 136: Clinton, Delmar, Elwood, Lost Nation, Oxford Jct., Onslow, Cascade, Dyersville
Big Rock & Toronto: Farmer Burns memorial and gravesite (mentioned)
Camanche: Eco Center at Rock Creek (mentioned)
Clarence: Elvis Presley shrine (mentioned)
Dyersville: National Farm Toy Museum
Davenport: Credit Island
Davenport: Nahant Marsh (Facebook album excerpt)
Eldridge: Dan Nagel Walnut Grove Pioneer Village (mentioned)
McCausland: Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead (mentioned) (another post)
Wilton: Wilton Candy Kitchen (Facebook album excerpt)

Wisconsin:
Elkhorn: First National Bank courtyard (mentioned)
Kenosha: Frank’s Diner (mentioned)
Kenosha: Historical street cars (mentioned)
Kenosha: Kenosha History Center (mentioned)
Kenosha: Woodman’s grocery store (mentioned)
Pleasant Prairie: Lakeshore Park (mentioned)
Racine: Bentsen’s Bakery (mentioned)
Racine: Horlick Athletic Field (mentioned)
Racine: Hot Shop Glass (mentioned)
Racine: Racine Art Museum (mentioned)
Racine: SC Johnson world headquarters exterior (mentioned)
Somers: Pritzker Military Museum and Library (mentioned)
Wind Point: Wind Point Lighthouse (mentioned)

Indiana:
Coming soon

Missouri:
Hannibal: various places (coming soon)