Evening star., 1932-07-03
ROADS TOOL LyMP|C
| GAMES DESCRIBED
Various Routes BeCkon Mo-
torists Going to Los
Angeles Contests.
BY ERNEST n. SMITH.
BY ERNEST N. SMITH,
Executive Vice President American Automo-
bile Association.

Die ESSOCldllOu
From the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific
Coast is a 10 days auto journey for any
car. A very leisurely trip can be made
in two weeks.
No highway is completely paved. but
Western gravel roads are wide smooth
and fast. Unless there are heavy rains,
one could choose any main highway
with safety and not find 100 miles of
poor road in the entire distance.
There will never be the slightest diff
ficulty about securing gasoline day or
night. Tuck a quart can of good oil
under the seat, however. Garry set Of
tools and a tow rope. In the West
carry a few sandwiches in the car and
thermos bottles and perhaps some fruit
II there are women in your party throw
in couple of large pillows to ease
their backs.
Try to carry most Of your baggage on
the outside of the car. Baggage inside
which crowds you become a great nui-
sance otter days on the road.
Which Road to Take.
Which road to take? From the North
Atlantic States you can have a great
trip over the Yellowstone Highway to
Seattle and Portland and then take the
magnificent coast route to Los Angeles.
This route will carry you from Chicago
through lovely Wisconsin to Mime
apolis and ST. Paul, thence through a
wheat country-where incidentally
there is also fine tishing-thenee into
the wild open spaces of Montana. At
livingston. Mont, you can go north
short distance to Glacier or south to
Yellowstone National Park.
Thence through the Rockies in easy
grades and into the State of Washing
ton with its great forests, leaping, clear
streams and magnificent vistas. Seattle.
on Puget Sound, has a natural setting
mntched by few world cities. BY all
means take a boat trip on Puget Sound
before starting south. A three days
run from Seattle via Portland, Greg,
and San Francisco will put you in Los
Angeles. 1 have suggested this trip as
probably the coolest Of any in the midst
of Summer.
A route a little south of the above
and equally good is the Atlantic-Yel-
1oWstone-Paciflc Highway. From Chi
cago one drives west to Dubuque, Iowa,
the northwest through Mason CITY
Iowa, into Sioux Falls, S. Oak. Here
you pass from the rich grain and stock
raising district into a more sparsely
settled stock region.
At Black Hills, S. Oak, you are ad-
jacent to the Bad Lands" Here gold
woo NAoOOhN4CA III lIlC fOSs Is
nothing in America that offers a coun-
terpart to these Bad Lands" They will
reveal more than sermon or guilty
conscience. And the Black Hills-with
1000 peaks-and the highest mountains
east of the Rockies. There is a cave
with 5000 rooms and 100 miles of ex-
plored passages. Here are old running
towns, former home of Calamity Jane,
Wild Bill Hicock, Deadwood Dick and
Fly-Specked Billy.
Out to Custer and the scene of the
The Devils Tower in wyoming 1890
feet high, 100 feet in diameter, f1uted
and magnificently colored, is the most
unique natural phenomenon in the
United States, in my opinion 1t is
little known to the travelling public.
Through wyoming the road goes near
the Bighorn Mountains which contain
800 lakes and peaks $4,000 feet high.
From the eastern entrance to the
Yellowstone the road swings southwest
into Idaho and makes a great circle
sweep through the Snake River Valley
to the western edge of Idaho. Thence
a climb over the beautiful Blue Noun
tafns and last day down the mag
nif1cent Columbia River Highway to
Portland, Greg. Here is Joseph Urban
scenery arranged bysnature. From Port
land two roads may be taken south to
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Lincoln Highway Direct.
The Lincoln Highway.-Here is the
most direct and the most famous
coast-to-coast highway from New York
to San Francisco. 1t is unQualifiedly
recommended for any one making his
first transcontinental motor trip. Al
most an air lane, 1t goes through Chi
cago, Omaha, Nebr.; Cheyenne, Wyo.;
Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah;
Reno, New, and Sacramento, Calf. 1t
is in splendid condition, fast time can
be made, and excellent accommodations
may be found everywhere. 1t is
comparatively level road until one
reaches California. 1t is true that the
road reaches 1000 feet going over the
Rockies, but the ascent is gradual and
over a plain and the mountains are
only to be seen on the horizon. On
this route one may see the granary Of
America, the Western plains, cross the
Great Salt Lake on unique causeway,
travel for two days over the real desert,
and enter California over the forest
clad Sierra Nevada Mountains and
through the country made famous in
the gold rush of '49.
Old National Road and Santa Fe
Trail.-From the Middle Atlantic sea-
board 1 recommend these roads, paved
from the Atlantic Coast to the center
Of Kansas. This route passes from
Baltimore or Washington over the seven
ranges of the Appalachian through
Wheeling, w. Va, where the Ohio is
crossed, thence through Columbus,
Ohio: Indianapolis. Ind; St. Louis,
Mo: Kansas City. Mo; Topeka, Kans.;
Trinidad, Colo; Albuquerque and Santa
Fe, N. Mex: Williams, AriZ., and direct
~ to Los Angeles. On this road one
gets the mountains in the East and
only two heavy grades in the West and
these are splendidly constructed. On
this road one sees Indians, pueblos,
and painted desert and comes in touch
with civilization distinctly Spanish
and Mexican A short journey off the
main highway is the Grand Canyon.
Historical Ground
One will cover more historical ground
over this highway than any other ma
tional route. Starting from New York,
for instance. one may cross the Dela-
ware River where Washington crossed
it one Christmas morning in 1776.
Historic Philadelphia is worth all the
time one may give it. The route goes
through two cities that were once the
Capitals of the United States, also
through Gettysburg, magnificent park
where the decisive battle of the Civil
War was fought; through Chambers
burg Pa. the only Northern city
sacked during the Civil War This
route from New York is really the Lin
coin Highway but from Chambersburg
one may drop down a few miles, con-
meet with the National Trail and con-