A virtual road trip lets you experience the open road without leaving home. America is a browser-based road trip simulator built for exactly that: you drive real U.S. highways and back roads, and every stop becomes a window into the place you are passing through.
Try a saved road segment near Yosemite, Monument Valley, or New Orleans below. Each example opens the actual simulator, with a map and controls to pause or resume the drive. There is nothing to install.
Start your tripThese short examples use roads already saved in America. A marks the start and B the finish; the outlines show the route geometry. Open an example to drive it on the real app map, pause the journey, or explore the application windows.
About 23.3 km of saved simulator road.
A: 37.815756, -119.507506
B: 37.848916, -119.673269
About 79.4 km of saved simulator road.
A: 37.198771, -109.878999
B: 36.706828, -110.253196
About 24.3 km of saved simulator road.
A: 29.919448, -90.190182
B: 29.928746, -89.991444
Choose Play here to load the interactive simulator. Your saved trip stays separate.
These are sample road segments near the linked places, rather than complete sightseeing itineraries. For a new journey, start your own trip.
Each mile of the drive is rendered on a real map, so the trip feels like an actual journey rather than a slide show. When you reach a town, canyon, or overlook, the simulator opens the local story: an encyclopedia article about the place, the regional radio station playing now, local news, photos of the area, and the current weather.
You steer, set the pace, and decide when to stop. There is no scoreboard and no timer. The point is serendipity: the small roadside moments and the monumental landscapes that make an American road trip what it is.
The examples are saved simulator roads, with their start and finish coordinates shown above. They are short virtual drives rather than complete Route 66 or Pacific Coast Highway itineraries.
For a new journey, choose a starting point from the places directory. The simulator generates a route from that location, and local information changes as you travel.
The natural wonders of the United States are the heart of the trip: the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Badlands, the Great Smoky Mountains, and hundreds of lesser-known places in between. Each has a page of history and context inside the simulator, so you arrive knowing what you are looking at.
If you want a focused journey, aim your route at the national parks corridor of the West, or follow one scenic byway end to end.
Yes. America is free to play in any modern browser. There is nothing to download and no account required.
Yes. The simulator runs in the browser on both desktop and mobile devices, with touch controls adapted for phones.
You drive an actual route on a real map, and each stop adds local context: encyclopedia articles, regional radio, news, photos, and weather. It is an exploration game, not a video.
No. Open the trip page in a modern browser and start driving. Your progress can be saved if you want to continue later.