About Roam States

Roam States is an independent US road-trip planner with a short library of destination guides we actually maintain — not a 5,000-page catalog and not template filler scraped from booking sites.

How we research

• Primary sources first: National Park Service (nps.gov), state park systems, official attraction websites, and state tourism boards.
• Grounded research with citations: Each guide is fact-checked against current 2026 fees, hours, and access rules.
• Specific, useful answers: We focus on the questions travelers actually ask — parking, best season, sample itineraries — not generic listicles.
• Quality over quantity: Guides release in batches as research completes — we do not dump hundreds of thin pages at once.

Editorial standards

Every published guide includes a visible last-updated date, author attribution, outbound citations to primary sources, and internal links to related state hubs and nearby destinations. Guides below our quality threshold stay unpublished until they meet our standards (≥900 words, citations, unique intro).

Corrections

Found an error? Email hello@roamstates.com. We update guides when fees, hours, or access rules change.

Part of Oz Systems.