--- title: Road Trip! Photos From US Route 30 in 1948 description: A series of pictures, none of which ran in LIFE magazine, made along U.S. Route 30 in Nebraska and Wyoming seven long decades ago. canonical: https://time.com/3880017/road-trip-photos-from-us-route-30-in-1948/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-30T01:36:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:39.981Z og:title: Road Trip! 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) May 30, 2014 1:36 AM UTC  Not published in LIFE. Route 30 Nebraska, USA, 1948. Not published in LIFE. Route 30 Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) May 30, 2014 1:36 AM UTC In the summer of 1948, LIFE photographer Allan Grant set out on a trip from Omaha, Neb., toward Salt Lake City, Utah, traveling west through Nebraska and Wyoming along one of the most storied stretches in America: Route 30, part of the early transcontinental [Lincoln Highway](https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/). For reasons lost to time, none of Grant’s marvelous photos from that epic post-war road trip were ever published in LIFE. Here, as summer approaches and the urge to hit the highways — and the byways, and the back roads — begins to take hold, LIFE offers a whole series of Grant’s pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made seven long decades ago, in tribute to the innate human desire to get up and go. [\[MORE: “The Road Goes on Forever: Route 66 and the American Dream”\]](http://life.time.com/culture/route-66-and-the-american-dream-the-road-goes-ever-on/#1) [\[MORE: An unbelievably tricked-out ’47 Cadillac\]](http://life.time.com/curiosities/louie-mattar-and-his-1947-cadillac-photos-of-a-tricked-out-masterpiece/#1)  Not published in LIFE. Route 30 Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Route 30, Wyoming, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Motel along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Family sleeping outside by a billboard alongside Route 30, Wyoming, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene after driver fell asleep at the wheel on Route 30, Nebraska, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Motel along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Cars pulling out of trailer camp onto Route 30, Nebraska, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. The 1733 Dance Hall -- reportedly 1,733 miles from both Boston and San Francisco -- in Kearney, Neb., 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Driver filling a water bag at a gas station alongside Route 30, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. A couple and their five-month-old daughter head back home to Cheyenne, Wyo., after a visit to Omaha, Neb., 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Motor lodge along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Scene along Route 30, Nebraska, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Motor lodge along Route 30, USA, 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Charles Corwin White, bicycling from Los Angeles to New York and speaking along the way on "Americanism" and the citizenry's participation in a democracy. Here he's photographed west of Rawlins, Wyo., in 1948. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3880017/road-trip-photos-from-us-route-30-in-1948/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3880017/road-trip-photos-from-us-route-30-in-1948/"},"headline":"Road Trip! 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