Key West
At the southern end of the road, follow Key West’s music, people, and cultural connections through the destination’s Atlas feature.
United States
Highways, neighborhoods & cultural crossroads
Music scenes, river towns, city streets, and places that keep making trouble. Explore the United States through Motherlode’s destination features, or take to the road with the Route 1 Project.
Miami
Music, photography, and connections: Henry Stone, Betty Wright, DJ Le Spam, Berenice Abbott, and the places between them.
IOWA
Davenport is where the Mississippi stops being a boundary and becomes a cultural crossroads, carrying the stories of America's heartland from one generation to the next.
MILE MARKER ZEROES
The Route 1 Project follows America's original main street, uncovering the people, places, and forgotten stories that transformed a highway into a living archive of the American experience.
400 YEARS
Boston is where revolution became tradition, and tradition continues to provoke revolution.
300 YEARS
Provincetown is where America ends geographically—and begins imaginatively.