Thankfully, this year’s Road Trip Issue (our third) won’t be quite as tricky as last year’s “Social Distancing Edition.” Indeed, in the six fact-finding missions we undertook for this week’s cover package, we got to enjoy so many of the things 2020 was missing: dining out, congregating, interacting with high-touch surfaces.

In the stories that follow, your friends at the Scene head south to the quirky attractions of Tupelo, Miss., and the superior eats of Huntsville, Ala. We also journey east to the Monteagle, Tenn., area and the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Pisgah Region, and north to Bardstown, Ky., and the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.

Throw this issue in the back seat of your car — or if you’re reading this on our newly redesigned website, bookmark this tab — and bring us along on your next weekend journey. We found some great spots you really ought to check out.

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