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A road tunnel cut through a canyon wall, in a toned early photographic print
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Cody and the Canyon Road to the Absarokas

Cody sits at the mouth of the Shoshone River canyon, where the highway to Yellowstone runs west through the Wapiti Valley into the Absarokas.
A car buried nose-down and painted grey, beside metal animal sculptures in dry grass
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Cars Standing Still on the Nebraska Prairie

North of Alliance, a man rebuilt an ancient monument out of old sedans, and the small town that kept it learned to live with wonder.
Grain elevators above a small-town street, with a visitor centre in a former filling station
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The Middle of the Country Is a Field in Lebanon

In north-central Kansas, a small town sits at the exact midpoint of the forty-eight states.
A two-lane highway between snowbanks below jagged snow-covered peaks
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Why the North Cascades Highway Closes Every Winter

Each November the state locks the gates on the North Cascades Highway, and the snow takes over the pass until spring.
The Extraterrestrial Highway sign, thick with stickers, beside an empty desert road
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Rachel, Nevada, Where the Silence Runs Deep

On the Extraterrestrial Highway the desert outlasts every story, and the smallest town in the basin holds its ground.
A curving highway on a forested bluff above a river, with a round stone viewpoint building
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The King of Roads

On the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge, a hundred-year-old highway clings to the cliff, built for nothing but the view.
A large green brontosaurus sculpture beside signs reading Wall Drug Dinosaur
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The Drugstore That Gave Away Free Ice Water

A pharmacist's wife sent him out to paint signs on the prairie, and a dying town on the edge of the Badlands became a destination.
The long adobe portal of the Palace of the Governors, with people walking beneath it
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Santa Fe in the Off-Season

The galleries thin out, the light goes long and gold, and the town returns to the people who live in it.
The inside of a lived-in camper van: folded bedding on a bunk, a two-burner stove, a kettle and coiled rope
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What Eighteen Months on the Road Taught Me About Less

On owning little, fixing things twice, and the unexpected freedom of a very small space.
A yellow steel gate closed across a two-lane mountain highway under fresh snow, the road climbing on beyond it
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The Pass Closes in October

What happens to a mountain community when the only road out is shut for five months.