Documents the author's trip along Highway 50 from Ocean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California.

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of US-50, Jamie begins in San Francisco and heads all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Passing through 11 states and some of the country's most magnificent landscapes, Road Trip USA: The Loneliest Road, Highway 50 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, local lore, and oddball trivia. From sea to shining sea, this drive follows the footsteps of pioneers and gives a reverse time line of national development. Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on the backbone of America with Road Trip USA: The Loneliest Road, Highway 50.

Considers efforts to include Highway 50 of northern California within the Interstate Highway System. Also considers right-of-way and easement problems resulting from highway construction programs through federal and privately owned forest areas in northern California. Nov. 30 hearing was held in San Francisco, Calif.; Dec. 2 hearing was held in Stateline, Calif.