Let the Good Times Roll
The Keystone State
Mountain Highs & Deep Roots
Sunshine & Sea Breezes
Great Lakes, Great Stories
100

Road Scholar programs in New Orleans take participants to this famous street, known for jazz clubs, parades, and nightlife.

What is Bourbon Street?

100

Road Scholar participants visit this historic bell, known for its famous crack and symbolizing American freedom.

Road Scholar participants visit this historic bell, known for its famous crack and symbolizing American freedom.

100

Road Scholar’s Appalachia programs feature this genre of music, which originated in the mountains and features banjos and fiddles.

What is bluegrass?

100

This famous island chain, included in Road Scholar’s eco-adventure programs, is home to Key Largo and Key West

What are the Florida Keys?

100

Road Scholar programs in Michigan explore this Great Lake, the only one entirely within the U.S.

What is Lake Michigan?

200

During a Road Scholar program, you can visit this New Orleans district, famous for its ironwork balconies and Creole architecture.

What is the French Quarter?

200

Road Scholar’s Pittsburgh program explores this historic funicular railway, offering stunning views of the city skyline.

What is the Duquesne Incline?

200

Road Scholar participants explore this scenic trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine.

What is the Appalachian Trail?

200

Road Scholar’s space exploration programs in Florida take participants to this famous NASA facility.

What is Kennedy Space Center?

200

Road Scholar programs in Michigan feature this stunning national lakeshore, known for its towering sand dunes.

What is Sleeping Bear Dunes?

300

This traditional Louisiana dish, often featured in Road Scholar cooking classes, combines rice, meat, and spices in a one-pot meal.

What is jambalaya?

300

Road Scholar participants visiting the Laurel Mountains get to know the work of this man, who is considered by some to be the greatest American architect 

Frank Lloyd Wright

300

This West Virginia river, featured in Road Scholar adventure programs, is a prime spot for whitewater rafting.

What is the New River?

300

In Road Scholar’s Everglades programs, participants may spot these large, invasive reptiles that have disrupted the local ecosystem.

What are Burmese pythons?

300

Participants on Macinack Island will check out homes of this style architecture. 

Victorian

400

Louisiana is nicknamed this state, after a winged local. 

The Pelican State

400

The Pennsylvania Dutch are actually descendants of immigrants from this European country.

Germany

400

Coal mining was a major industry in this Appalachian state, which is home to the New River Gorge.


Vest Virginia

400

 The Florida Keys are connected by this scenic highway, which includes the Seven Mile Bridge.

What is U.S. Route 1?

400

Michigan is the only state that consists of two peninsulas, separated by this body of water.

What is the Straits of Mackinac?

500

This massive swamp and wetland area in southern Louisiana is home to alligators and cypress trees.

What is the Atchafalaya Basin?

500

The first American flag is said to have been sewn by this woman in Philadelphia.

Betsy Ross

500

The highest point in the Appalachian range is Mount Mitchell in this state.

North Carolina

500

Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de León, landed in Florida looking for this magical construction.

The Fountain of Youth

500

The Mackinac Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, spanning this Great Lake.

What is Lake Huron?