As a private, nonprofit institution, membership is what drives the Historic US Route 20 Association to success on its mission to preserve and promote the many great sites along the longest highway in the United States.
Student / Senior Member – $20
Eligible students and seniors (+60) may become members at a discounted rate. Your basic membership gives you:
- Personalized Route 20 Itinerary
- Premium Online Content
- Discounted Items & Services
- Travel Guide
- Quarterly Newsletter
- Free Gift
- Renews Yearly
Twenty Membership – $25
- Personalized Route 20 Itinerary
- Premium Online Content
- Discounted Items & Services
- Travel Guide
- Quarterly Newsletter
- Free Gift
- Renews Yearly
Lifetime Membership – $75
- All the above
- No Renewal
- Complimentary T-Shirt
- Free Historic 20 Passport Book
- Online email / Phone Support
- Discounted Small Signs for just $25
- Yearly updated gifts
Your membership will be confirmed via email in 1-3 business days. If you need immediate assistance or discount applied with your membership, please write us info@historicroute20.org
We left Newport Oregon on Sept 12, 2022. We arrived in Boston on the 27th. We did this with a Tesla 3. We managed to do this in a Tesla 3. Charging was tricky in Wyoming. We had to divert off of 20 in Wyoming between Cody and Caspar. Nebraska was simply not possible yet( we had a wonderful time in South Dakota). Perhaps in a year or so it will be possible.
It was a glorious trip. I was amazed at how pretty upstate New York is.
I grew up in upstate New York. So glad you experienced New York State apart from New York City!
I still have family in Rochester, Canandaigua and Middlesex.
My husband I are driving back to New York in mid-October, and we’re considering driving US Route 20.
I would appreciate permission to use your total United States map in a project I’m participating in.
Respectfully,
Paul Schwimmer, R.L.S.
Ace Land Surveying
Ann Arbor, MI
Would love to do this trip sometime, too bad I don’t drive😠always love going on road trips and seeing new places!
We are considering this trip at some point. We have a small travel trailer and wonder if the route is RV friendly.
I thought I joined the lifetime membership a few nights ago but I haven’t been able to log on yet? Hows this supposed to work?
My wife and I are planning to drive 20 from Toledo, Ohio to Toledo, Oregon in September.
I have tried to join the group using your membership page without success. There doesn’t appear to be a phone number to reach you. How can I join?
Why am I unable to gain membership? I’ve tried several times. The Buy Now button doesn’t take me anywhere. Is there something I’m missing?
Look in the lower right corner for the “shopping bag.”
Having grown up driving beautiful rt. 20 across central New York State, visiting the famous “Pre-Historic Creatures Museum” as a kid, The Tee-Pee (still there), Sharon Springs (thriving still) and driving rt. 20 to/from Duanesburg to and through Albany before I-88 was built, I have longed to get back on it and just roll. My fellow performer/song writers feel the same And so…..
The Horseshoe Lounge Playboys are in the planning stage of celebrating the scenic beauty, the towns, people and businesses along Rt 20 by commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Historic Rt. 20’s designation (1925) as ‘”The Longest Highway in America.” Our plan is to take The Horseshoe Lounge Cavalcade on tour, perform our original “Small Town Americana” music and promote the people, businesses and towns along Historic Rt. 20. We plan to make our way coast to coast in our 1985 Blue Bird Bus. We are going to document the tour as we go via a blog(s) on reputable social media outlets with regular updates/highlights as well as capture much of the experience on video for episodes of a potential Docu-series tbd.
We could use suggestions and all the help we can get to arrange sites, towns, venues, partners/sponsors to highlight.
Will Lunn – wlunn@whatsup-ny.com
for The Horseshoe Lounge Cavalcade
Will, I, too, am a route 20 cowboy, growing up on 20 in the village of Esperance in the 1960’s and 70’s. My wife and I work in Oneonta now and have heard the Horseshoe Lounge Playboys a few times.
Flash forward to now. We have been planning a 2025 coast to coast route 20 tour as well. The plan is to kick it in from Kenmore Square starting on July 7, and travel to Newport, Oregon without veering off. It is likely that we’ll turn left when we get the to the pacific and head down route 1, but we may also turn around and head back.
Would our timing somehow coincide with your cavalcade tour? Do you need some back up singers, roadies, groupies? All of the above? This just sounds like a hoot, and we’re up for that.
This is still a work in progress. Give a shout back if you’re open to talking further about the possibilities.
As we plan our cross country documentary series, this lines perfect with our mission and vision.
I guess I should have read these comments before I signed up on May 11th, 2024.
Now it’s September. I “joined” on May 11th, I still haven’t received any “Membership” information, nor have I been given any member access to the web site I was charged $20. I sent an email message on May 24th, asking when I’d get my membership info and received a reply that “it’ll be in the mail soon”, but have heard nothing since.
Since I have no web account access I can’t cancel the “membership” and am afraid I’ll be “auto renewed” next May. I sent a message requesting to cancel my “membership” and to not auto renew, a month ago, but.. No reply…
Hwy 20 was an awesome adventure, but I’d suggest anyone think twice before “joining” this group….
I am 79, and a lifetime resident of the Greater US 20 Neighborhood, specifically as it passes through Western Upstate NY. I recall a massive highway improvement project in the 1950s wherein the road was widened and radical rises, dips and curves were leveled and straightened. This was a safety initiative to make the road visible, where possible, for 1500 feet in either direction. Construction detours were common and often meandered for some distance through farmers’ fields. This was before construction workers had two-way radios or cell phones. If you were the last car in line in a group of cars approaching a construction detour the flagman handed you the flag and you drove the flag through the detour and handed it to the flagman at the other end of the detour (often out of sight of the first flagman). My brother and I, ages eight and 11 respectively, fought over who would be sitting behind my father, who was driving, so we could be the one to reach out and grab the flag from the flagman. I usually won since I was older. This was great entertainment in an era before we had electronic devices to amuse children riding in backseats.