I hitchhiked from Bridgeport Connecticut to California in 1971..traveled I 80 and US 30...I was 19 years old...one of my best road trips...I am 69 and still on the road .Over the road trucking....by the grace of God....God. Bless America.

I had my Cadillac 1958 convertible shipped from Norway to drive from Times Square to San Francisco in july 2013. It was a great trip... and a nice way to see America

My step father has just died in January 2020. He was 107. He told me when he was young he and his friends decided to drive across the country. He told me one day of his trip they had 7 flat tires. When they got to CA they were asked “I hear there’s a depression back east”. I guess his trip was about 1929 to 1930.

I'm a retired truck driver. This is a beautiful video. I used to run all the old highways I could. I've run every interstate end to end....and had gotten tired of them.....

Drove through all these places as a 19 year old young marine in 71..what memories going through all these little towns..went from Calif to N Carolina my first trip..22 dollars on gas for the whole trip. Stayed in rest areas at night in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk..lucky I dident get eaten by a cougar.

Love watching videos of the history of the USA. Your never too old to learn new things

Moved in 2009 from PA to ND and opted to drive the Lincoln highway from Pennsylvania to Iowa. Made the trip very relaxing going through all the small towns! Saw America at it’s best!

Don't even know how I ran across this documentary but I love this sort of 📽️

My late husband and I were OTR team truckers and drove through most of the areas in this film; I even had my picture taken with the Lincoln monument between Laramie and Cheyenne. My favorite state is Wyoming and I love all the western states. I watched this with fond memories and a few tears..

I agree. The best hour spent watching KZfaq. I loved it. Love small towns and as often as I can take the side roads and visit them.

Over the road truck companies say come see America.. you don’t see America , you see I 80 and pilot truck stops..done the slow out of the way trip..that gave me memories for life. That leisurely trip in my car was long and most of the time boring but I’ll never forget it. Got to see stuff like this show is talking about. If you have time take only state routes to get there. You’ll meet good people and get very good food.

OK I am ready to go ride the Lincoln Highway. Enjoyed the little documentary very much. Bring back a much simpler time in life Where people actually enjoyed themselves and seeing our beautiful country. People are in too much of a hurry nowadays to get nowhere.

Fortunately, back east in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, long stretches of several generations of the Lincoln Highway are still in use and are, in fact, major thoroughfares. For decades I lived in Philadelphia just a few blocks from an original stretch of the highway and drove on it almost daily. Although a number of interstates do parallel the road, the area is built up enough that it still remains vital, especially Route 30 in Pennsylvania. It's sad to see the old roads abandoned and towns wither away out west where the interstates did them in. Thank you for this tribute.

Proud to say I’m old enough that my parents knew and traveled these roads on our infrequent vacations. Had grandparents that lived in Reliance, Wyo. and granddad was a coal miner and salt miner throughout his life starting in mining at age 12. Wyoming holds more history than most peoples know or history that isn’t taught anymore!

I worked at Little America along time ago , when I was in my teen years.

For my 40th birthday I rode my bicycle from Wyoming thru Utah and into Nevada ending near Ely , Nv. Best birthday present ever. To go back and see the road at 5 to 10 mph really gives you a sense of solitude, seeing what they saw back in the 30's.

This reminds me of when I was a youngin, and our father took us on a trip across the southern parts of the country to visit his parents. It had to be really hard on him since my mother didn't drive and my brother and me were to young to drive. At 70 I still have vivid memories of the trip. Rest in Peace dad you were a good father, yes mom you did a good job too. My Brother wish you were still here, wish you all were still here . 12/19/2018

I'm a 66yr old Grandpa. I spent 35yrs as a trucker. I miss the freedom & adventure of 18 wheels. I ran 11 western states with double flat-beds. I used to haul California produce to Boston & Maine. The bottom dropped out of the economy in 2008. I got laid-off. I live in Long Beach, Ca. now in Veterans Housing. I enjoyed the story about the Lincoln Highway. It reminded me of my adventures in the past.

I lived on the Lincoln Highway. Never knew it by that name until now. It was always Highway 30 to me.

Fabulous history of the Great U S A 🌸😌👋🦋🐬🍀💫 It was so wonderful to follow you. Thank you so very much for inviting and with us 🇺🇸

In 1915 my Grandfather and Granduncle drove two Indian Motorcycles from Columbus Oh. To San Francisco. The trip was so difficult they sold their motorcycles and bought two train tickets to bring them home.

My parents married in 1929 in Montana. I remember seeing photos of their cars trips in the 30's throughout the Northwest. They continued their summer trips until long after I was born...

When I was in the 4th grade, way back in the mists of time, the Catholic School I attended was using American Geography books that had been printed in the 1930s and were still considered too sufficiently serviceable to replace. I recall almost an entire chapter on the Lincoln Highway extolling its Coast-To-Coast conceptual magnificence. The good Sisters may have heard about the new-fangled "Interstate Highways," but they never mentioned them to us!

Dude, does one long back to times long gone, by times..! In this hour I learned a lot about both endurance and the American spirit. I appreciate it!

I love these old days documentaries especially about Wyoming !!! Thank You PBS !!!

I am a Canadian and love American and Canadian history,thats where I made my highest marks in school days.

The freedom a vehicle provides is hard to match, God bless the USA and all those who stand for freedom.

I loved this, thank you for sharing with us, it has softened my view of America . Not a single mugging, shooting, or murder. One of the American media's greatest exports is the continual distribution of all that is bad in American society today. This documentary warmed me from within thanks again bob 👍🇬🇧

To all the folks that made this possible,THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!!!

I loved it at the end when the guy with the camera talked about appreciating the hard work done by our forebears to get us where we are today. I live near the Kennet and Avon Canal in the West of England: that was built 200 years ago by guys with picks and shovels - and sweat - not a JCB ! Our forebears were tough people.

Loved this. Nothing beats a road trip and discovering something new around every bend of the road.

Beautiful This Country is Amazing As is Thee entire World. Such a beautiful place.

Greetings friend, Thank you for the development of this film. It pleases my heart, to know there is still, some people who care enough to support the quality of life and preserve the past. I spent 13 years of my life, as a traveling business man. And on my days off, I would go search out, the wonderful sites, you don't normally see, blasting down the interstate. God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤ I pray these places are preserved for my grand kids and other travelers. They are spectacular. Thanks again for your help preserving America 🇺🇸

Being 38, I feel like I was born a generation (or two) too late. The slower paced travel with going through small towns, and seeing unique roadside buildings/signs has always intrigued me. I feel lucky to have at least seen a lot of the old stuff (usually recently closed and starting to rust) when traveling as a young kid. Sadly after a trip this year out west along 66, I noticed a big difference at how much has disappeared in my short tenure. At least some places have managed to hold on to most of their old signage and some notable buildings.

I just watched the the 100 years of the Lincoln Highway and loved every bit of it. I have always loved cars ever since I was a little boy growing up in Southern California. Although I was born in East Detroit in 1955 and would travel around California with my parents in the 1960s, it wasn't until December 3rd, 1977 that my brother and I started out on our first road trip in my 1969 Mustang Mach I. We had 2 weeks vacation from work. We both worked for the IBM Corporation and have both since retired. We didn't have a particular destination in mind back in '77 but we ended up in Jackson Hole Wyoming. We tried to make it to Yellowstone, but couldn't get there due to the weather. Being December, by the time we made it to Jackson, it snowed every day, but that didn't mean we were having the times of our lives. Since then we have traveled all over the US but we would end every trip by going through Yellowstone, then west on I 80 to Reno, south on US 395 to Los Angeles. I 80 is my favorite interstate in the country, and my favorite stretch of I 80 is from Wyoming's eastern state line to Salt Lake City. There's nothing quite like it. I've done it in motorhomes and cars, but enjoy motorhomes the best, and since my first trip with my brother, I've been out there with with other family members and friends. My life has changed a lot since the 70s, but one thing is for certain I plan to get back to Wyoming's I 80. Even if I have to go alone, in either my 2008 Explorer or in another motorhome, I'm anxious to get back out there as soon as possible, and I will.

A fascinating story, thank you. What a pleasure to watch an hour-long documentary, with *no* adverts, Thank you again. Cheers for now, Dougie from Scotland.

Well, that is one of the best hours I have spent viewing KZfaq! Absolutely fascinating and very informative. I live in the UK and our little country pales into insignificance compared to the sheer landmass of the US but clearly a lot of people share the same love of slower travel and the ability to actually observe and interact with the places you visit at everything but breakneck speed, lol. Love it! Thank you for making and uploading this film. 😊

The only similar trip I took was the northern route on a bus with four kids in 1979, from Tennessee to California!. When we went over the Rockies, we were above clouds. Our country is gorgeous!!!

8:45 "it's just really neat to just go back in time and live the way they did..." from a certain perspective, that time was hell

What a great documentary! I've always been fascinated by the old routes, hearing stories from my parents & grandparents. I've never been one for chain establishments, but love the mom & pop diners, etc across the country. Would be great to see more of the whole route, not just the part in Wyoming.

My Dad, who was born in 1906 on a farm in Tama County Iowa, often recalled how, as a small child, he saw a man in a buckboard wagon, pulled by a mule, carrying three cans of paint: red, white, and blue, paint stripes around the telegraph poles, going down what would become the route of the Lincoln Highway. What an incredible memory of this historic moment in time!

I drive over Lincoln highway 🛣 two times a week... Outstanding historic times 👏

We always stopped at Little America on our way through Wyoming on summer vacations. Always a highlight when we were kids.

Wow I never realized how durable and tough those model T's were. They look like off-roading vehicles.

These old pictures from the 30's are amazing.

What a brilliant production...It beautifully highlights the early motoring days, freedoms of wanting to get somewhere and how to use and enjoy some of the more local pit stops. The challenges of those early years must have have presented should always be remembered and it's so interesting to know that Dwight D Eisenhower, our great allied supremo in WW2, actually realised the importance of paved highways and how that was connected to any country's defence.

Thank you so much for putting these documentaries on KZfaq. It's very informative and useful and heartwarming.

Nice to see History in the making in the Form of The Lincoln Highway. My Dad was a Korean War Veteran in The Army Corp of Engineers whom came home to N.C. worked on the 666.7 mile Interstate 85 back in the mid 1950's.

I want to forget I ever saw this documentary.. so I can watch it again and get fascinated all over again.. not a single minute of my life wasted on this documentary

I just saw a sign in Castro Valley, Ca stating it was part of the Lincoln Highway. I am 53 and wonder how I missed this piece of history all this time

I really enjoy hearing story's of the past with pictures to give a better idea of things. Thou it had to be a adventure, most of use now days ,well might not enjoy some aspects of yesterday's travel method. Because we have it to cusheny now , well back then what they had was modern. Hope to get more PBS programs thank you 👍💖

One of the last lines is "Getting there is half the fun." In my humble opinion getting there is three-quarters of the fun. Thanks for this fine documentary. Where I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills the Lincoln Highway is route 40.

God I used to love watching videos like these back in middle school in the late 80s early 90s. I've always been fascinated by our american history and the building of our country. Fantastic documentary, thank you so much for sharing this with us.

For some reason the Norwegian guy at 52:00 makes me more proud than normal to be an American. Just to know that at least some people of other nationalities care about our history makes me happy.

What a superb program real people real places real history i loved it

Why anyone would thumb this down is beyond me. If you don't like stuff like this just move on. This was very well done and now I want to put it on my bucket list to drive the Lincoln Highway where possible to do so. Thank you for posting this excellent documentary.

This was the most wonderful documentary I've seen in years. As a UK resident we have no real comparison to this kind of grandeur. We do have out own automobile and road history of course but certainly not on this scale. I had a huge smile on my face from beginning to end. Thankyou very much for posting.

This fascinating overview of when and how America’s roadways came to be is a “must see” for “We, who love to drive long distances”. A Wyoming PBS production, sorta Wyoming centric - but even those parts are interestingly done. Enjoyable + Educational.

My wife and I recently took a road trip from Seattle to Yuma AZ and back, two months and 5,000 miles on mostly back roads doing what we call "windshield television", looking out the windshield at beautiful western scenery. This is such a grand country!

The Grate Country! The Grate People! I wish I lived in America.

Thank you all for a very interesting ride on the Lincoln Hwy. Also like to see the old Rt. 66 soon. Thanks again. you made my day.

Thank you Wyoming for sharing excellant video. Bless Wyoming PBS!

What a great documentary! When I got about halfway through the video (25:55) I heard a song playing that was really good. It's "Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway" by Shadric Smith.

What an inspirational and well done production👍SLOW TRAVEL!!!OH YEA😁

What an utter pleasure it was to watch this documentary, it's one of the best I've yet seen here on KZfaq....well done WyomingPBS

Beautiful ! The original “Mother Road !” I used to frequent the portion of highway between Lancaster and Chambersburg. I marveled at the incredible little towns and sites in between. The Lincoln Highway is a little known gem. A bucket list destination along with Route 66.❤️🇺🇸

This popped up on my YT & I'd love to watch this - but it's 1AM as I fall into bed. So it's going to be in Watch Later so I can come back to it. PBS is our favorite channel to watch in the Bay Area (KQED) & I'm sure this PBS channel won't disappoint either + history, like this, is 1 of our passions👍💕. [Last nite, watched a piece on "Flood in the Desert" about the LA Water District's Saint Francis Dam collapse in 1928. If you get a chance, it's worth viewing, especially if you live in the Western US drought zone.]

US 30 & State Route 430 ( the original Lincoln Highway ) is a minute's walk from my house in Mansfield, Ohio. Roadside fests still happen along the way.

Very informative, I did not know about this highway until someone on an RV video talked about it. Route 66 gets lots of noteriaty, but this highway seems to be a hidden gem. Thanks for posting this wonderful video.

What a really well-thought-out presentation! Kathy & I thoroughly enjoyed this : ) Thank you for all the time and effort creating it!

I am a Wyoming resident who loves the Old Lincoln Highway!

Great story about the USA and the roads over 100 years ago. I learned about the Lincoln Highway, a road I never knew, except I 80. Wondeeful to see the old "classic" cars and the people of that era. Very well done and produced. Thank you for the terrific lesson in American history. Very much appreciated. It would be great to do this roadtrip one of these days.

The comments on here are refreshing insightful and respectful. A testiment to a moral generation. Thanks. Great documentary and a historic record of now those wonderful back roads of America. United we stand. Divided we fall. God Bless American.

Superlatives apply to this film. Outstanding in every way; writing, narration, photography, imagination, heartfelt American History and those fearless people who dared to make it happen for us all. A grand film, this section focused on our Wyoming. In retrospect, I must add that the words "slow down and take in the old highways remaining" are the finest words of advice ever spoken to a traveler. If you don't, you'll awake some day to find the best of your days are gone, and all you've really seen of our great land is a long, unending stretch of blistering, soulless concrete to remember as your "American Experience".

Crossed the country by bicycle twice, many times by motorcycle and several times by car or truck. My destination was always exactly where is was at any given time. And by the way .. I love traveling Wyoming!! Another piece of God's country.

They was fantastic. Inspiring a new song I’m writing. Always loved the history of the Lincoln Highway but this really went into depth on more than I knew. Thanks so much.

AWESOME STORY AND VIDEO. I WAS BORN IN GREENSBURG, PA. AND NEVER KNEW FOR YEARS THAT US HIGHWAY 30, THE HIGHWAY THAT RUNS THROUGH GREENSBURG, RAN ALL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO. I ONLY KNEW OF ROUTE 66.

I was once on the Lincoln Highway in the Loess Hills region of Iowa. What a beautiful route.

Can’t help but remember how my grandparents collected memorabilia from all the “road trips” they took in the years following World War 2, after Papa came home from the war. He got a job as a mechanic for Chevrolet. He loved family outings on road trips from the Lassen lava beds to the Salton Sea. Collecting rocks along the way and taking photographs trips, and of his car going through the giant Sequoias! Camping in Yosemite National Park. America is and was a dream. ✨The American Dream! 🇺🇸 Let’s not surrender it all to socialism or “Globalism!” 💔

It’s the search, not the find… I thoroughly enjoyed this.

In 1919, my grandfather took his fiancee and her mother from Casper to Yellowstone in his Model T. The highway markers were rocks along the way that were painted yellow to mark the route to the National Park. In Cody he had to stop at the blacksmith shop where he and the smith made new rod bearings for the engine. After a number of vehicle failures during the trip, my grandmother and great grandmother took the train back to Casper. My grandfather got home a week later.

Way back when (I'm 75) we drove from Wis. to Cal. on route 30 and a lot of the old hwy. You would get on the "New" interstate 80 for 15 miles then back to 30. Was an awesome trip. Came back on route 66. Miss the "diners" :( Was a trucker for many years and hated the signs in NM that said "To Historic Rout 66" Made me feel old cuz I had driven it when it was the only way :( :( :(

Wyoming PBS: You do great works! Beth Tennessee, USA

I used to come across small markers, which had been recently placed, while riding an old dirt road on my motorcycle in eastern Nevada. Small posts, with a 4x4 placard featuring a red, white and blue “L” and the words “Lincoln highway”. I was fascinated by this, and started to research the Lincoln Highway. The area I came across these was very remote, and was never paved. Through rough, hilly country, I can only imagine how many model A Fords or Tin Lizzies traversed that remote wilderness. I believe the entire area has been consumed by the expansion of a nearby copper pit mine. History, lost forever.

Thank you for this truly entertaining historical documentary.

great documentary, I just love American history.....hi from the UK

Thank you for this most interesting and thorough documentary; I am 63, have lived in the United States all my life (many of my ancestors came to this country many years before the American Revolution), yet knowledge of the Lincoln Highway somehow escaped me. Was thinking about investing in an old RV of some sort for mobile living and travel, had been hedging about it for a few years, but now I know why I need to buy one, SOON! Planning to travel this wonderful route as best I can, while I can, taking my time about it. Thank you, again, so much!!

This is such a glorious country. I so enjoy seeing the history of its making.

One of the few most riveting, engaging, and fascinating historical/cultural documentaries I have watched, with bated breath, and sheer admiration for those visionaries who conceived of this coast-to-coast highway and for the local people and historians who are keenly in love with the highway and the small towns along the way, some of which are now ghost towns sadly. Effie Gladding should be lauded and enshrined as one of the gracious and eloquent literary diarists of our nation.

Thank you for posting an eloquent well made piece of work. Being from Canada I had heard of Route 66, but never the Lincoln Highway. All very interesting and the period photography made up a fascinating part of it. I found myself stopping the video and backtracking 10 or 20 seconds here and there just to pause and look at the old photos or back to re-watch a short piece of film.

I just came across this doco loved it I had a vision of chitty chitty bang bang lol l love American history it's so interested and the old cars are absolutely gorgeous this would be my ultimate road travel adventure I'm loving the blast from the past it reminds me of the vast highway's in Australia in the middle of nowhere gladly watching from Australia ❤️🇦🇺❤️🇺🇸

I wish I had one of these old 1920s vehicles , they looked really cool !!

I remember when I-80 was built through my back yard practically. Growing up we rode motorcycles and bicycles around it. Hid under the overpasses for shelter from the rain.. Hunted around it.. About 30 years later I was in California where the western end of it is and noticed an entrance ramp to I-80. I wasn't expecting it at all. What a surprise as the last time I had seen it was in Pa.

Wonderful video...thanks Wyoming PBS...awe inspiring!

William Least Heat Moon wrote a fascinating book called "Blue Highways" - a reference to those thin blue road lines on a map, roads less travelled. This PBS show reminded me of his book - ghost towns, mom and pop businesses, and a way of life the interstates never see.

Great history. I grew up in Dyer,IN with US RT30, Lincoln Highway, right in front yard. At the IL/ IN border is a major choke point at the southern tip of Lake Michigan. 80/94 and RT30 are the only major routes east/west. Always terrible traffic through town with lots of semis. We even had an old hotel, now gone when the road was widened.

Wonderful documentary! None of this was taught in the schools as i grew up (quite literally along the Lincoln Hwy) in Utah and Wyoming. This film brings back my memories of wonder about the old roads that i had seen darting into and around hills and mountains as we traveled always by car or R.V. and on the back of my Dads Harley (When I was tall enough to reach the passenger floor boards). I have had the pleasure to see first hand many of the locations shown in this film. A very, very special "Thank You" to everyone who took the time and effort to make and post this film! Teachers please get back to "teaching interest vs teaching a test", thank you.

Well said. Yes. We should stop and smell the Rose's or admire the tumbleweeds as the terrain changes each unique and beautiful. Those road trips and small town hospitality are under rated in a society that wants to go faster and faster. It's the memories made when you stopped to play that become your favorite past time as the years quickly spin away. God Bless America. United we stand divided we fall..

Thank you for a fabulous documentary, glad it was posted to KZfaq as well!

@50:39 He was trying to make me cry! @ 51:41 Great Roadway trailer catch :D @54:29 @ 55:55 Stunning!