Celebrate 85 years with Rand McNally … and win!
* Winner Selected, Contest Officially Over * 
The GPS is a great invention, but sometimes you take a trip you want to preserve on paper. When we drove to Florida last year, we bought a Rand McNally Road Atlas. Passing through five states in 24 hours can be kind of hard to explain to young kids. Maps made all the difference. ;)
We’re getting ready for another trip this fall and now we’ve got greener options for our recording our family roadtrip adventures. In celebration of providing accurate, helpful information to travelers on the road for 85 years, Rand McNally has given their road atlas a bit of an overhaul. This includes sourcing their paper from forests managed under programs like the Sustainable Forest Initiative, and manufactured without many traditional chemicals, like chlorine.
The guide has much more to offer though, with a variety of fun family roadtrips, hot spots, and state trivia to make planning trips easy, and time spent on the road more fun.
Between now and the 4th of July, you can enter to win one of their 2009 85th Anniversary Rand McNally road atlases. Just let me know where you’re going, or tell me about your favorite family roadtrip from the past. I’ll pick a random winner on July 5th.
More information on the guide, and its online features, at the Rand McNally website.
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We are going to Gulf Shores,Al for a weekend getaway this summer. My favorite roadtrip is the drive we took from Denver, Co to Jackson Hole ,Wy. Wow, was that a beautiful drive!
We’re spending the summer in Western Colorado in a small campground with it’s own private lake. My favorite roadtrip has been the last ten years living in an RV. :) Holla’ Vicki
We’re driving from Texas to Colorado to go camping and spend time with relatives.
I do better with overall visuals, than closeup GPS, and I feel safer.
Help,I’m lost.
We are going to Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have enough hotel points to save money on rooms although nothing helps on gas. We will enjoy the trip anyway.
Denver and we want to go the scenic, more mountain route.
Anyone who loves to travel will be sure to drool over Vicki’s website. I would strongly encourage you to click her link. A private lake? That is something the kids and I could really get into.
We’ve been talking about summer vacations because Dennis has a week coming up for expiration. We’re thinking about Silver Dollar City.
Thanks for the comments everyone. Keep the entries coming!
Been using them for years, always a good product.
We are a travelin’ family. We love to go to new places and see new things. It’s quite simply one of the funnest ways to get smarter.
My favorite family vacation had to be the one we took over the Thanksgiving holiday last year. My oldest son loves the desert and had long dreamed of exploring Monument Valley. We were only too happy to oblige on our way out from Texas to California. We made a pit stop at Four Corners and have a photograph of each of our family standing in four different states. It was amazing.
I have teenagers and both of them love to keep an atlas in the backseat to know where they’re going and what they’re going to be seeing. So we definitely get “mileage” out of our maps LOL
Recently I was able to go back east and I think for our next family vacation we’re going to head out toward the Carolinas.
This summer I’m traveling from Ocala, FL to
Watertown, N.Y. My favorite trip was going from
Mitcell, SD to Waynesburg, PA, because this let
me see the variety & grandeur of our country
favorite roadtrip was driving from chicago all the way to toronto and back. thanks for the conetst
Congratulations Rand McNally on 85 years. I will be traveling from Upstate New York to Atlanta, Georgia to visit my 23 year old son. I need the shortest route, because I really don’t like riding in a car for so many hours. Please help me.
Traveled from N.J. to visit my son at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Md. One of the most beautiful cities and one of the most emotionally patriotic visits one can imagine. Do not miss an opportunity to experience it.
Michigan for a birthday party, and maybe Florida for a little while this winter.
Going to va. I travel alot with my mom and we always use an atlas.
Last year we went to the Black Hills in SD and sat through a massive hail storm on our last day there. It was a unforgettable vacation to say the least.
Going from NC to OH to Adirondacks to NC
Favorite past time trip was to the beach in Florida.
We will be going to Sedona, AZ in October for some beautiful scenary and bead-shop-store-hopping. I would love an updated road map, mine is about 15 years old.
This really does look like the best option. It’s reliable, earth-friendlier and … fairly inexpensive. That’s always good. :p
We are going to Pennsylvania because my daughter (9) is really interested in the history of our country. This would really come in handy! It will be a nice trip and we will be staying in 4 cities while we are there.
The best trip is the MIND trip, composed of playing back fond memories of your fave places.
Having toured Europe 6x, I can easily put my feet up & take myself back to Versailles Palace, Eiffel Tower, Rome’s Spanish Steps, The Vatican, London Bridge, Hyde Park Corner, etc.
Rising gas prices won’t affect THIS trip!
Coast to coast, NY to Los Angeles. Yeah! Doing the I-40 or I-70, one way. Thanks for the contest. I’d use this for sure.
My daughter and I went on a month long road trip from Florida to the Grand Canyon. We visited 12 different states along the way. We use the RandMcNally road atlas and never got lost. We traveled over 6,000 miles and would never take another road trip without the road atlas. Thanks for getting us there and back . We will share these memories for years to come.
We are staying local at going to Branson this year.
we will be traveling to michigan to visit the inlaws
The Gulf Coast is in my plans! and my favorite past trip is a tie between 11 days cruising the Inside Passage of Alaska and 14 days driving around Ireland! I couldn’t possible choose one over the other.
I would love to replace my 20 year old Rand McNally Atlas for which I paid about $80. It would be so nice not to actually have to pay this time around!
Just came back from the inside passage to Alaska – it was the most enjoyable cruise I have ever taken
Planning a trip to New Orleans. Still want to drive, have some Bar-B-Que stops to make on the way. Need a new atlas for the trip. I have worn out I don’t know how many atlases. I need this .
Planing a trip to Edwards AFB to visit old friends from my military days.
without mcnally I can’t get on the road
A memorable road trip was taken from Lexington, KY to Chicago, IL. It was a balmy day and traffic was good. Eventually, the bucolic rural scenery of southern Indiana turned into the night sky lit by industrialized factories up north, the transition which I found beautiful.
We are going to the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. My son is racing in the Camping World Series West race – wish us luck!
One of my favorite memories was driving cross-country from Los Angeles to Pennsylvania. One the second day I woke up around 5am and while listening to Philip Glass’s soundtrack to Martin Scorcese’s Kundun (new window) I drove through Colorado just as the sun was rising up over the mountains. Very awe-inspiring.
Like everyone I’m going to hell if I don’t change my ways. The problem is we all know the way there. What we’re not to sure of is how to stay on the road not going there. We get off it all the time. Got a map tha shows how to stay on it?
I am taking my family to Disneyland! Yay! Perhaps, just perhaps, with a stop in Las Vegas on the way…well, maybe in 10 years or so. Thanks!
That map can come in handy,my husband travels alot.
We’re going all over Nevada, including Vegas, Tahoe, Reno, & Virginia City.
we are going to hampton beach nh from vermont :)
Shortly after my husband and I married about two years ago, we took in my sister-in-law due to a family crisis, and she’s lived with us ever since. We’ve not had a vacation just between the two of us since we’ve been married! We are both very excited because we found a cabin on the New River to visit in October of this year (just the two of us!) and I’ll be using my OLD Rand McNally altas to get there – unless, of course, we win this one!
Heading down to Fort Walton Beach, Florida from Oklahoma.
We are hoping to go to the Smoky Mountains and Gatlinburg. This is our normal family trip – just long enough of a drive to be enjoyable, but not so long we are on each others nerves.
We’re meeting the grandkids at the Alabama gulf shores for a week in a beach house. Looking forward to it
and weill be using our old Rand McNally unless…
Thanks so much for everyone taking part. I hope you all have AWESOME vacations this year, whether or not you’re driving. A winner has been selected, and Vicki R. should have her atlas before she heads out on the Virgina vacation. :)