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There's something undeniably magical about a road trip-the sense of boundless freedom, the ever-changing scenery, and the thrill of the unknown. It's not just about reaching a destination; it's about the experiences along the way. The hum of the engine, the wind rushing through open windows, and the endless stretch of asphalt ahead create a rhythm that lulls you into a state of adventure.

The Beginning: Anticipation and Excitement

Every road trip starts with anticipation. The night before departure is filled with last-minute packing, checking maps (or GPS), and that giddy excitement that makes sleep elusive. The car is loaded with snacks, playlists, and a mix of essentials and just-in-case items. As the engine starts the next morning, the journey truly begins-windows down, music up, and the open road calling.

The first miles are electric. The cityscape fades into suburbs, then into open countryside. The world feels full of possibilities. Conversations flow easily-plans, memories, jokes, and comfortable silences. The road is a companion, always moving forward, urging you to see what's around the next bend.

The Middle: Unexpected Discoveries

A road trip is never just about the highway. It's the detours that make it unforgettable. A hand-painted sign for a roadside attraction, a local diner with the best pie you've ever tasted, or a scenic overlook that wasn't on the itinerary-these unplanned moments become the heart of the journey.

Small towns welcome you with their quirks-a vintage gas station, a Main Street frozen in time, or a friendly waitress who calls you "hon." The landscape shifts: rolling hills give way to deserts, forests morph into plains, and mountains rise in the distance. Each mile brings new textures, colors, and stories.

There are challenges, too-wrong turns, sudden rainstorms, or that one rest stop with questionable bathrooms. But even these become part of the lore, the tales you'll laugh about later. A flat tire in the middle of nowhere leads to an encounter with a kind stranger. A missed exit becomes a chance to explore a hidden gem.

The Rhythm of the Road

Hours blend together in the best way. The playlist shifts from upbeat anthems to mellow tunes as the sun dips low. Golden hour bathes everything in warmth, and the world feels slower, softer. Conversations deepen as the miles pass-dreams, fears, and the kind of talks that only happen when you're untethered from daily life.

Night driving has its own magic. The road is quieter, lit only by headlights and the occasional glow of a distant town. The stars seem brighter out here, away from city lights. A 24-hour truck stop becomes a beacon of coffee and greasy comfort food, the neon sign a welcome sight in the darkness.

The Destination-and the Journey Home

Eventually, the destination appears, whether it's a national park, a coastal town, or a loved one's doorstep. There's satisfaction in arriving, but also a quiet longing for the road itself. Because the truth is, the trip isn't just about where you're going-it's about who you become along the way.

And then, there's the return. The road back is different-familiar yet changed. You're wiser, wearier, but full of stories. The car smells like adventure: sunscreen, fast food wrappers, and the faint scent of pine from that hike days ago. Home feels both comforting and strange after so much movement.

Why We Keep Going Back

A road trip is more than travel; it's a reminder of life's spontaneity. It's about control and surrender-planning the route but embracing the detours. It's about connection-to the people beside you, the strangers you meet, and the land unfolding outside your window.

And when it's over, you'll find yourself dreaming of the next one-because the road never really leaves you. It whispers in the everyday, calling you back to where the horizon never ends, and the journey is everything.

In the report below, the county's county seat is used as a starting point for a county. From there, all county seats within 250 straight-line miles from that county seat orgination point are shown. In those instances where a county does not have a county seat, than the largest city within that county is used as a reference point. There are a few cases where a county has two county seats, in that case, one is arbitrarily selected.

 
Seattle (King County, WA)
Dallas (Dallas County, TX)  
Sioux Falls (Minnehaha County, SD)  
Manhattan (New York County, NY)  
Thedford (Thomas County, NE)  
Omaha (Douglas County, NE)  
Lincoln (Lancaster County, NE)  
Chicago (Cook County, IL)  
Atlanta (Fulton County, GA)  
Greeley (Weld County, CO)  
Los Angeles (Los Angeles County, CA)  
Akron (Washington County, CO)
Burlington (Kit Carson County, CO)
Cheyenne Wells (Cheyenne County, CO)
Fort Morgan (Morgan County, CO)
Greeley (Weld County, CO)

Holyoke (Phillips County, CO)
Hugo (Lincoln County, CO)
Julesburg (Sedgwick County, CO)
Sterling (Logan County, CO)
Wray (Yuma County, CO)

Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, IA)
Le Mars (Plymouth County, IA)
Logan (Harrison County, IA)
Onawa (Monona County, IA)
Orange City (Sioux County, IA)

Rock Rapids (Lyon County, IA)
Sioux City (Woodbury County, IA)
Atwood (Rawlins County, KS)
Belleville (Republic County, KS)
Beloit (Mitchell County, KS)

Colby (Thomas County, KS)
Concordia (Cloud County, KS)
Dighton (Lane County, KS)
Goodland (Sherman County, KS)
Gove City (Gove County, KS)

Hays (Ellis County, KS)
Hill City (Graham County, KS)
Hoxie (Sheridan County, KS)
La Crosse (Rush County, KS)
Leoti (Wichita County, KS)

Lincoln Center (Lincoln County, KS)
Mankato (Jewell County, KS)
Minneapolis (Ottawa County, KS)
Ness City (Ness County, KS)
Norton (Norton County, KS)

Oakley (Logan County, KS)
Oberlin (Decatur County, KS)
Osborne (Osborne County, KS)
Phillipsburg (Phillips County, KS)
Russell (Russell County, KS)

St. Francis (Cheyenne County, KS)
Scott City (Scott County, KS)
Sharon Springs (Wallace County, KS)
Smith Center (Smith County, KS)
Stockton (Rooks County, KS)

Tribune (Greeley County, KS)
WaKeeney (Trego County, KS)
Washington (Washington County, KS)
Ainsworth (Brown County, NE)
Albion (Boone County, NE)

Alliance (Box Butte County, NE)
Alma (Harlan County, NE)
Arthur (Arthur County, NE)
Aurora (Hamilton County, NE)
Bartlett (Wheeler County, NE)

Bassett (Rock County, NE)
Beatrice (Gage County, NE)
Beaver City (Furnas County, NE)
Benkelman (Dundy County, NE)
Blair (Washington County, NE)

Brewster (Blaine County, NE)
Bridgeport (Morrill County, NE)
Broken Bow (Custer County, NE)
Burwell (Garfield County, NE)
Butte (Boyd County, NE)

Center (Knox County, NE)
Central City (Merrick County, NE)
Chadron (Dawes County, NE)
Chappell (Deuel County, NE)
Clay Center (Clay County, NE)

Columbus (Platte County, NE)
Dakota City (Dakota County, NE)
David City (Butler County, NE)
Elwood (Gosper County, NE)
Fairbury (Jefferson County, NE)

Franklin (Franklin County, NE)
Fremont (Dodge County, NE)
Fullerton (Nance County, NE)
Geneva (Fillmore County, NE)
Gering (Scotts Bluff County, NE)

Grand Island (Hall County, NE)
Grant (Perkins County, NE)
Greeley Center (Greeley County, NE)
Harrisburg (Banner County, NE)
Harrison (Sioux County, NE)

Hartington (Cedar County, NE)
Hastings (Adams County, NE)
Hayes Center (Hayes County, NE)
Hebron (Thayer County, NE)
Holdrege (Phelps County, NE)

Hyannis (Grant County, NE)
Imperial (Chase County, NE)
Kearney (Buffalo County, NE)
Kimball (Kimball County, NE)
Lexington (Dawson County, NE)

Lincoln (Lancaster County, NE)
Loup City (Sherman County, NE)
McCook (Red Willow County, NE)
Madison (Madison County, NE)
Minden (Kearney County, NE)

Mullen (Hooker County, NE)
Neligh (Antelope County, NE)
Nelson (Nuckolls County, NE)
North Platte (Lincoln County, NE)
Ogallala (Keith County, NE)

Omaha (Douglas County, NE)
O'Neill (Holt County, NE)
Ord (Valley County, NE)
Osceola (Polk County, NE)
Oshkosh (Garden County, NE)

Papillion (Sarpy County, NE)
Pender (Thurston County, NE)
Pierce (Pierce County, NE)
Plattsmouth (Cass County, NE)
Ponca (Dixon County, NE)

Red Cloud (Webster County, NE)
Rushville (Sheridan County, NE)
St. Paul (Howard County, NE)
Schuyler (Colfax County, NE)
Seward (Seward County, NE)

Sidney (Cheyenne County, NE)
Springview (Keya Paha County, NE)
Stanton (Stanton County, NE)
Stapleton (Logan County, NE)
Stockville (Frontier County, NE)

Taylor (Loup County, NE)
Tekamah (Burt County, NE)
Thedford (Thomas County, NE)
Trenton (Hitchcock County, NE)
Tryon (McPherson County, NE)

Valentine (Cherry County, NE)
Wahoo (Saunders County, NE)
Wayne (Wayne County, NE)
West Point (Cuming County, NE)
Wilber (Saline County, NE)

York (York County, NE)
Alexandria (Hanson County, SD)
Armour (Douglas County, SD)
Burke (Gregory County, SD)
Canton (Lincoln County, SD)

Chamberlain (Brule County, SD)
Clark (Clark County, SD)
Winner (Todd County, SD)
Custer (Custer County, SD)
Deadwood (Lawrence County, SD)

De Smet (Kingsbury County, SD)
Dupree (Ziebach County, SD)
Elk Point (Union County, SD)
Faulkton (Faulk County, SD)
Flandreau (Moody County, SD)

Fort Pierre (Stanley County, SD)
Gann Valley (Buffalo County, SD)
Gettysburg (Potter County, SD)
Highmore (Hyde County, SD)
Hot Springs (Fall River County, SD)

Howard (Miner County, SD)
Huron (Beadle County, SD)
Kadoka (Jackson County, SD)
Kennebec (Lyman County, SD)
Lake Andes (Charles Mix County, SD)

Madison (Lake County, SD)
Martin (Bennett County, SD)
Miller (Hand County, SD)
Mitchell (Davison County, SD)
Murdo (Jones County, SD)

Olivet (Hutchinson County, SD)
Onida (Sully County, SD)
Parker (Turner County, SD)
Philip (Haakon County, SD)
Pierre (Hughes County, SD)

None (Oglala Lakota County, SD)
Plankinton (Aurora County, SD)
Rapid City (Pennington County, SD)
Redfield (Spink County, SD)
Salem (McCook County, SD)

Selby (Walworth County, SD)
Sioux Falls (Minnehaha County, SD)
Sturgis (Meade County, SD)
Timber Lake (Dewey County, SD)
Tyndall (Bon Homme County, SD)

Vermillion (Clay County, SD)
Wessington Springs (Jerauld County, SD)
White River (Mellette County, SD)
Winner (Tripp County, SD)
Woonsocket (Sanborn County, SD)

Yankton (Yankton County, SD)
Cheyenne (Laramie County, WY)
Lusk (Niobrara County, WY)
Newcastle (Weston County, WY)
Torrington (Goshen County, WY)

Wheatland (Platte County, WY)
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1253
1273
 
1320
1193
1355
1445
1151
 
1340
1508
1333
1304
1284
 
1236
1250
1495
1481
1259
 
1215
1162
1204
1352
1217
 
1310
1170
1247
1235
1535
 
1270
1445
1274
1541
1540
 
1205
1275
1413
1238
1328
 
1437
1444
1310
1540
1344
 
1184
1299
1396
1217
1306
 
1400
1245
1263
1393
1442
 
1149
1275
1294
1226
1472
 
1151
1178
1219
1142
1176
 
1288
1468
1273
1199
1205
 
1506
1330
1204
1377
1379
 
1317
1154
1376
1416
1399
 
1370
1178
1193
1179
1202
 
1231
1230
1258
1306
1170
 
1308
1232
1394
1521
1525
 
1221
1422
1175
1301
1173
 
1360
1291
1341
1314
1515
 
1218
1253
1416
1334
1268
 
1198
1429
1292
1243
1377
 
1225
1346
1197
1424
1357
 
1471
1265
1501
1271
1211
 
1348
1177
1514
1397
1234
 
1187
1270
1378
1334
1255
 
1211
1600
1569
1550
1559
 
1599
407
410
438
428
466
 
351
463
333
388
370
 
165
59
139
109
50
 
29
74
340
261
290
 
364
278
400
388
372
 
349
330
347
371
424
 
319
270
309
388
303
 
372
323
301
294
340
 
369
412
413
281
313
 
437
352
258
172
143
 
327
273
287
196
147
 
156
226
284
346
141
 
194
349
209
172
115
 
86
180
320
338
219
 
149
79
159
259
236
 
264
146
163
212
371
 
199
316
165
382
365
 
69
220
304
237
254
 
276
327
230
387
245
 
189
193
305
124
239
 
242
118
241
265
304
 
161
122
174
168
322
 
169
99
101
180
67
 
256
295
183
145
183
 
359
160
113
239
280
 
182
124
223
320
255
 
198
161
91
117
212
 
190
53
82
131
18
 
131
105
218
344
352
 
71
262
59
157
36
 
190
118
189
151
338
 
51
93
239
158
95
 
37
252
131
66
200
 
52
184
22
249
188
 
295
89
325
128
35
 
212
0
342
251
68
 
53
99
201
157
85
 
56
444
393
373
391
 
429
622
545
521
646
688
 
619
576
642
647
588
 
585
691
614
639
706
 
735
671
540
488
467
 
514
471
444
530
474
 
444
486
498
421
470
 
439
490
441
429
517
 
493
529
472
501
437
 
558
456
505
495
479
 
482
464
485
695
618
 
725
525
664
562
636
 
693
517
535
567
605
 
654
704
616
634
708
 
681
579
772
654
539
 
598
665
585
565
508
 
519
598
596
537
730
 
568
620
613
716
786
 
680
547
583
512
548
 
692
598
561
695
576
 
554
599
555
625
546
 
681
649
517
616
637
 
586
676
620
581
670
 
578
644
651
569
675
 
513
752
589
598
561
 
670
712
633
635
571
 
637
621
668
562
648
 
726
582
653
625
531
 
560
752
732
731
726
 
773
837
755
843
884
 
802
885
683
855
777
 
823
786
861
823
819
 
776
803
804
786
722
 
775
766
819
759
796
 
724
842
733
821
823
 
774
760
853
840
756
 
895
742
880
903
707
 
690
786
775
750
782
 
698
726
806
863
758
 
781
1079
1154
1171
1051
1002
 
1103
1110
1090
1062
1125
 
1372
1311
1362
1336
1310
 
1294
1309
1188
1339
1331
 
1204
1348
1266
1177
1246
 
1300
1258
1232
1314
1228
 
1346
1315
1362
1292
1238
 
1224
1210
1306
1266
1320
 
1156
1247
1194
1289
1281
 
1211
1270
1366
1147
1259
 
1024
1251
1095
1286
1227
 
1161
1363
1229
1157
1349
 
1166
1029
1193
1204
1183
 
1237
1277
995
1077
1295
 
1296
1310
1313
1211
1348
 
1270
1336
1271
1316
998
 
1268
1119
1239
1005
959
 
1265
1277
1162
1329
1238
 
1077
1135
1242
1019
1210
 
1348
1228
1191
1279
1255
 
1109
1244
1306
1152
1109
 
1362
1205
1220
1296
1071
 
1365
1305
1265
1378
1292
 
1290
1023
1253
1310
1326
 
1053
1144
1287
1151
1190
 
1193
1338
1132
1175
1129
 
1106
1337
1288
1314
1346
 
1304
1213
1195
1155
1277
 
1137
1186
1074
941
919
 
1206
1003
1290
1118
1258
 
1074
1147
1080
1115
956
 
1216
1176
1036
1110
1191
 
1235
1043
1136
1199
1071
 
1228
1081
1249
1023
1077
 
1010
1179
950
1150
1229
 
1066
1264
929
1020
1226
 
1276
1165
1078
1124
1180
 
1251
973
931
911
967
 
932


Sources: STI: PopStats and STI: Colossus

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