Four one-tank National Historic Site Road Trips to Take from NWA in your 2020 Chevy Trax

Four one-tank National Historic Site Road Trips to Take from NWA in your 2020 Chevy Trax

Having been cooped up much of the summer due to the pandemic, we’re itching to get out there and see America again. Like we always tell people: there’s no better way to see the USA than from the window of a new Chevrolet from McLarty Daniel Chevy of Springdale. One of our favorites for road-tripping is the reliable, economical 2020 Chevy Trax. The smallest SUV in the Chevy family of Sport Utility Vehicles, the 2020 Trax features seating for five, and loads of cargo room to bring home those road-trip treasures. Maybe best of all, it’s a fuel sipper, delivering 31 mile-per-gallon fuel economy. With the 2020 Chevy Trax’s 14 gallon fuel tank, that means you can drive an incredible 434 miles on a single fill-up! Now that’s fuel economy to fit any budget!

One of our favorite things to visit on road trips are our National Parks, National Landmarks and National Historic Sites. Run by the National Parks Service, each of these spots showcases a spot on the American landscape where a crucial part of our history was made. It’s always humbling to stand in a place like that and know that it played a role in weaving the great tapestry of America.

Seen below, check out our picks for four National Historic Sites that you can reach from Northwest Arkansas on only one tank of fuel in your 2020 Chevy Trax. And if you need a reliable, affordable, fuel efficient SUV to get you there, stop in today at McLarty Daniel Chevy of Springdale for a test-drive of the 2020 Chevy Trax, the small SUV that goes big on fuel economy and fun!

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Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs, Arkansas
Distance from NWA: 196 miles

One of our nation’s oldest National Parks, Hot Springs National Park was established by Congress in April 1832 to preserve a series of naturally-occurring hot springs that had been a source of recreation and healing in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas for eons, utilized by Native American tribes, trappers and explorers alike. There’s plenty to see and do in Hot Springs besides taking a long bath in naturally-heated hot water, though, including learning about Hot Springs’ former identity as a mobster hangout as well as the spring training site for early 1900s baseball greats, including Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Babe Ruth, who swatted the first 300-plus-foot home run in Hot Springs’ Whittington Park. Visit the National Park Headquarters inside the old Fordyce Bathhouse on Central Avenue for full information about local attractions.

Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Springfield, Illinois
Distance from NWA: 419 miles

Considered America’s greatest-ever president by many historians, Abraham Lincoln rose from humble beginnings to become the savior of the Union and the man who finally drove the stain of chattel slavery from the United States. For those looking to walk in Honest Abe’s long shadow, a visit to Springfield, Illinois and the Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site is a bucket-list trip. Established in August 1971, the site at 413 S. Eighth Street in Springfield preserves the only home that Lincoln ever owned in his lifetime: a twelve room house that Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln purchased in 1844. Lincoln would live there, building his law career, until he won the presidency in 1861. Sadly, his assassination by John Wilkes Booth days after the end of the Civil War in 1865 meant he would never live there again. Today, the site includes the Lincolns’ restored home, which you can tour, along with four surrounding blocks and a visitor’s center.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Little Rock, Arkansas
Distance from NWA: 200 miles

Many of our National Historic Sites, Parks and Monuments were set aside to commemorate moments of turmoil and turbulence in our national story, but few speak more about the courage of young people than Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Established as a National Historic Site in November 1998 during the tenure of Arkansas-born president Bill Clinton, Central High National Historic Site serves to recall the events of Fall 1957, when nine black teenagers, now known as the Little Rock Nine, sought to integrate the city’s all-white high school following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court three years prior. What followed was a firestorm of controversy, with President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sending in troops to ensure that the nine students could attend school. Today, the site is centered on the circa 1927 school and a visitor’s center where you can learn more about the nine brave teens who changed the course of
American history. While you’re in town, don’t miss the life-size statues of the Little Rock Nine on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds.

Gateway Arch National Park

St. Louis, Missouri
Distance from NWA: 323 miles

That’s right: St. Louis is reachable in the 2020 Chevy Trax on far less than one tank of fuel! Built to preserve and showcase one of America’s “Great Wonders,” Gateway Arch National Park was established in February 2018 as a 90-acre preserve around the foot of the 630-foot-high, 630-foot-wide Gateway Arch, which was completed in October 1965 and which has since become the enduring symbol of St. Louis as the tallest manmade structure in Missouri. In addition to the massive arch, Gateway Arch National Park also serves to preserve the Old St. Louis Courthouse, a monumental structure which was the location of the original proceedings in the Dred Scott Case of 1857, which led directly to the furtherance of slavery and thereby to the Civil War. Of course, there’s plenty of other things to do in St. Louis while you’re there, from viewing hundreds of species at the always-free St. Louis Zoo to sampling some of the best pizza, barbecue, record shops and antiquing anywhere in Missouri
and the midwest.