Greetings from the Lincoln Highway: A Road Trip Celebration of America's First Coast-to-Coast Highway

by Brian Butko

Greetings from the Lincoln Highway( A Road Trip Celebration of America's First Coast-To-Coast Highway) <> Paperback <> BrianButko <> GlobePequotPress

Genres: Travel

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2005

About the author

My 2024 resolution is to become more active on Goodreads! My most recent book is about Isaly’s Dairy and its Klondike bar. I’m also quite proud of “Luna: Pittsburgh’s Original Lost Kennywood” and “Kennywood: Behind the Screams.” Other books explore diners, roadside attractions, and the Lincoln Highway.

I’m working now on a book about the daring women and men of Bettis Airfield and other early Pittsburgh aviation stories. Big Kennywood book #3 is also underway, and I’m 95% finished with my first novel, a paranormal mystery inspired by a nearby quarry and surrounding woods.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are at all interested in travelling the Lincoln Highway as part of a road trip, I highly suggest taking this book with you! The author includes hundreds of roadside attractions categorized by state (east to west) that could be hard to find from a general Google search, especially if you are looking for funky local places that don't draw a huge crowd. He also warns of little odd turns and jogs that a driver might encounter along the highway (doesn't hurt to have this information in addition to modern-day GPS systems). The author also sprinkles in quotes of drivers who took the original routes decades ago and their perils along the once dirt (and weather-prone) road. You really get a sense of the history of not just the highway itself, but the era in which it was built and how the highway has evolved over the years.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful in planning my cross-country trip.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt bogged down by all the details reading this book. It covers various routes the Lincoln Highway took across the country from New York to California and the 12 states in between. It includes conditions of the road, roadside attractions, and quotations from travelers in the 1900's as well as what you will and won't find along the way today. It might be best to read state by state as your travel, rather than cover to cover as I did.
I most enjoyed the chapter on Iowa since that is the part of the Lincoln Highway with which I am most familiar.
It is unfortunate that more of the road and its markers have not been preserved.
Good resources listed in the back under "Further Resources" the best one being the Lincoln Highway Association www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org