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Lincoln Highway Companion: A Guide to America's First Coast-to-Coast Road

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This book is fantastic! The color maps are clear and easy to read. The photos are excellent. And the contents are superb. The places described in this book are unique and fascinating. This book makes me want to fill up my gas tank and strike out again. It is a "must-have" for anyone wanting to drive our first coast to coast road, the Lincoln Highway.

This book is a convenient size, easy to bring along on a trip. The maps are not necessarily turn-by-turn, but detailed enough to keep you on the highway. The book is full of good information, but I get the feeling that the author left a lot of additional good material out due to space constraints. The pictures are wonderful. The book's only shortcoming is that it could easily be twice or three times as many pages, the Lincoln Highway has so many interesting sights to see!

Though its 192 pages are filled with great full-color photos on quality paper, this is no coffee table decoration designed to give you something to flip through during commercials.

It's the ultimate detailed authority on the current and historical alignments of the Lincoln Highway, conveniently sized to fit in a glove box (just over 8×5').

Every mile of the Lincoln Highway is covered with detailed color-coded maps showing the following:

* Original 1913 alignments

* Intermediate alignments or sanctioned detours

* Final Alignments still in use by 1930

* Modern detours

* Gone or hard to reach

The map scale varies as needed to show meaningful detail, all the way down to 1 inch per mile.

It bursts with snippets of interesting things to see, lodging and great food along the route - but the maps are the star of the show. It is obvious that a great deal of research went into this.

The author has put together a short video highlighting the features of the book: [...]

I originally bought it with the intention of putting together the "definitive" route for a Lincoln Highway Coast-to-Coast ride, but now I see there are too many variables and the decisions are just too subjective. The good news is that it gives me everything I need to choose the route I find most interesting.

We have thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is well-written and the notes for the various sights along the way are excellent. We especially like the places to eat, as we are making the trip on the Lincoln from Chicago to Salt Lake City in September, 2010. In addition, living in NW Indiana we have already seen much of the road locally and will follow the original route from the IN/Ill state line to Fort Wayne and the Ohio line in May of this year. We highly recommend this book. The authors books on Route 66 helped tremendously on our trip to California. Keep up the great writing!

I purchased The Lincoln Highway Companion with the intent of using it to find old diners, mom and pop motels, and other sites of interest during my journey along the highway from New York to San Francisco. What I didn't realize until the trip was underway was how much I would rely on this guide's wonderful maps covering each alignment of the road. I traveled alone, and the book truly became my companion. It was in my lap for the entire coast-to-coast trip and was in fact my primary guide to each turn along the way. Of course, the book still tells you about all those interesting places to see, eat, and stay, all of which are conveniently listed in the order you encounter them as you make your way along the highway.

While some Lincoln Highway travelers have the luxury of taking months or even years to see everything there is to see along the old road, my trip was a fairly quick one. I had read Butko's excellent coffee table book and history of the road, Greetings from the Lincoln Highway, but there was no way my schedule would allow me to see everything included there. The Lincoln Highway Companion's more limited scope allowed me to easily find the most popular sites that shouldn't be missed, yet it didn't overwhelm me with more than I would ever have time to see.

If you're planning a trip along the Lincoln Highway, do your homework. Read the many excellent books on the subject, make lists of the things that are most important to you, and plan to spend as much time on the road as you possibly can. And as you head out on your journey, be sure to have the Lincoln Highway Companion on your lap.

After looking at several reference books we chose this book and this past weekend we began our adventure on the Lincoln Highway.We started in New York City and are heading west so we are simply looking at the book and using it in reverse since it starts in San Francisco. We are glad we purchased this book.

Useful for off the beaten path traveling. Good starting point to get you off of the interstate and explore some of the "real" America out there. The author's love of the road less traveled is evident.

An okay guide for generalization work. Maps are limited in information, as well as the text. I was hoping for more indepth information. As it is, I will have to fill in the blanks of what this book leaves out. But, it is a small book, and maybe I was expecting too much.