People drove from all corners of North America for the ANARC Diamond Jubilee event last month, the largest gathering of Land Rover enthusiasts on this continent in the past quarter century. Over a dozen Series I 80" vehicles were part of that count, but all but one of them arrived on a trailer. Steve Owen, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was the holdout -- driving his 80" four days across the United States and Canada to get to the event.

In 1998, Land Rover replaced the venerable 300tdi diesel motor with the Td5, a five-cylinder 2.5-liter engine that brought computer control to a Land Rover diesel for the first time. Now, in 2023, we are entering the era in which the Td5 is legal to import to America in Defenders and the earliest rest-of-world Discovery Series IIs.

They say everything is bigger in Texas. As my friend Chris and I hit our fifth hour of travelling to Big Bend National Park from El Paso, the nearest city with significant airline service and Interstate connectivity, we started to realize this was not just a marketing slogan. We were on our way to the most remote National Park in the Lower 48, with some of the best Land Rovering terrain in the entire National Park Service system.

The border with Canada had reopened, and it was time to exercise my passport again. After spending twenty months exploring the United States, I was ready for a change of pace.

The third generation Range Rover (L322) has aged like a fine Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The design was launched twenty years ago, in 2001, a major break from the more staid and traditional design themes of the Classic and P38. A sleek architectural exterior combined with a yacht-inspired cabin created something as at home in Monaco as in the mud.

There’s not many places on the East Coast where you can disappear into the bush on dirt roads for hours on end, like you can in the West. One of the few exceptions is the North Maine Woods, a collection of private land in northern Maine that produces timber used in the paper industry. With a daily entrance fee, you can access hundreds of miles of logging dirt roads leading all the way to the Canadian border.

A lot of people dream of driving across the country, from sea to shining sea, visiting the extreme points of the United States. But if you take Canada into consideration, your eastern terminus of the continent moves a lot further east. It was the temptation to go as far as he could without taking a ferry that took Jacob Silberfarb and his 2013 LR4 from Orange County, California to Meat Cove, Nova Scotia over the new year, returning via the Trans-Canada Highway.

Most people go on normal vacations for New Year's. Maybe skiing, or to a beach. Not many people decide to spend their holiday driving into sub-freezing temperatures in Northern Quebec, in search of the end of one of the northernmost roads in North America.

There's no greater off-road pilgrimage in North America than Moab, Utah, where every 4x4 enthusiast must one day take their truck to experience the most iconic trails that wind around the red rocks. I took the opportunity this past weekend to join a few friends from the Atlanta area on a cross-country trek by LR3 to ride some of the trails in Canyonlands National Park's Needles District.

These days, the scarcity of Range Rover Classics means you're not likely to find the perfect truck close to home. So when Oregonian Brock Keen found the perfect Range Rover in San Diego, he hopped a flight to Southern California for an all-American delivery voyage.

In the early 2000s, Max Thomason saw a photo on the Internet of a Series IIa 88" Land Rover descending Colorado's Black Bear Pass. The truck was teetering precariously on the iconic switchbacks looking over Telluride. He decided that he had to go there and see it for himself. Finally, this past summer, he got the chance, as part of a cross-country road trip from Atlanta to Colorado in his LR3.