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# Road Trip! How Far Could You Go For Just $50 In Gas?
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/road-trip-how-far-could-you-go-for-50-in-gas-on-a-quick-vacation-from-detroit/
- Published: 2016-02-19T13:44:35.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T19:49:22.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: gas prices, #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #daily-detroit-staff

Michiganders love their road trips and gas prices, [as we’ve talked about before](http://www.dailydetroit.com/2016/01/17/gas-dips-below-1-a-gallon-in-houghton-lake-michigan/), have been plummeting. It’s cheaper than it has been in years to fill up your tank, and that might just mean it’s time for vacation.

But say you’re budget-concious (like most of us are) and wanting to skip the bothersome lines at the airport, hop in your car and hit the road.

[Thanks to the folks at HowMuch.net, here’s a handy-dandy map](http://howmuch.net/articles/the-$50-american-road-Trip?ref=dailydetroit.com) that’ll show you that you could, depending on your mileage, get as far as New York City on just for $50\. Other cities in reach are Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Louis, Missouri; or Chattanooga, TN. Although it’s relatively warm in the 50s here this weekend, you’re just $50 bucks and some drive time from a nice winter break of 69 degrees in North Carolina.

Here’s how the map works. The light green is for $10; the darker the shade, the more it’ll cost with the darkest green representing $50 for the cost of driving.

Other fun cities in the $50 range include Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. In the next couple of months before the heat returns, a quick jaunt south to help get through winter is a very tempting thought.