Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- DINOPARK
- Roadside dinosaur parks became a craze in mid-20th-century America, life-size concrete or fiberglass creatures frozen mid-roar beside the highway, impossible to drive past without slowing down.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PAINTED
- Arizona's Painted Desert stretches across roughly 93,500 acres of layered red, orange, and purple badlands, a sight so vivid that early Spanish explorers called it El Desierto Pintado.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TOTEM
- Totem poles outside roadside trading posts became a familiar sight across the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest, acting as a giant beacon visible from a quarter-mile down the highway.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CAVERN
- Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico was established as a national park in 1930, and its main chamber, the Big Room, stretches nearly 4,000 feet in length, making it one of the largest cave chambers in North America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Roadside Attractions word search, free and large-print. Spot the giant, the cavern, the trading post, and every wonder worth the detour.
About Roadside Attractions
Long before the interstate bypassed the two-lane blacktop, America strung its highways with homemade wonders, a concrete dinosaur here, a painted cliff face there, a trading post with a totem pole tall enough to flag down the sky. Lookout towers climbed above the tree line so a carful of kids could see four states at once, while caverns lured travelers down cool, dripping passages lit by a single strand of bare bulbs. The hand-painted sign, the giant fiberglass Paul Bunyan, the souvenir shop overflowing with turquoise and arrowheads, these were the true landmarks of the open road, as American as the asphalt beneath the tires.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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