Gas Prices: How To Take Road Trips

Above, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad at Highline. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since the onset of sky-high gas prices, there's a word (I don't know if it's a new one) that is being frequently spoken and written these days: nearcation.

Nearcation means taking a vacation road trip closer to home. That's exactly what I plan to do this year.

I was planning to roam about eastern Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota, but since gas prices are so high, I decided to take a trip closer to home to Durango, Colorado and Navajo Lake State Park in New Mexico instead. Both are roughly three hours from home.

The Travel has posted some tips on how to take a road trip without breaking the bank.

They start it with:

It's a change that everyone who owns a car has felt recently: The climb of gas prices as the spring season opens itself to travel ventures. While the next three seasons are some of the most popular for road trips, many are looking at them with doubt and concern due to rising gas prices. While emptying one's bank account for the sake of a road trip might feel like an inevitability, there are definitely some ways to keep the cost low when it comes to filling one's tank.

With some simple tips and some know-how, we can't completely soothe the burn of how expensive it is just to take a road trip. However, we can do what we can to mitigate the effect that it has on how, and when, we can travel.

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