Mark Hits The Road To Travel Illinois

Illinois Travel

Here are some highlights of my travels to Illinois:

Road Trips (PDFs)

To Iowa and Back (including Yellowstone) Road Trip 2024

I made my annual trip to the Midwest to see family, with stops at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and in St. Louis as I headed east. Heading back west, I visited the Badlands and Black Hills in South Dakota, and I finally had a nice visit to Yellowstone National Park after other attempts in recent years were thwarted by early winter storms.

To Iowa and Back Road Trip (Part 1) - Along the way to Iowa and then South Dakota Sites

Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2022

I headed out to the Midwest to visit family. Along the way, I checked out a wide variety of sites, from dinosaur bulges to Frank Lloyd Wright, Pullman cars to French colonial settlements, Buffalo Bill to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Garden of Eden to Popeye.

Cross Country Relatives Road Trip (Part 2) - Returning to Las Vegas through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2017

In October 2017 I drove from Las Vegas to Illinois and Iowa to visit some relatives, padding the drive with some sightseeing days in New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah.

To the Midwest and Back Road Trip

Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2016

Here is a summary/photo set from the October 2016 cross-country road trip I took to visit relatives in Texas and the Midwest.

Sightseeing in Texas, the Great Plains, the Midwest and at the Grand Canyon

Slide Shows (YouTube)