Gas up the car, gather your friends and family, and get ready to take a weekend road trip that will show you Delaware like you’ve never seen it before. Here are some of the best ways you can spend a weekend, exploring all corners of our state and enjoying great restaurants, spooky haunted places, or just our most charming destinations. We’ve created an interactive map for each trip below, as well as a list of recommended destinations. Of course, you can customize your weekend however you’d like! Use the Visit Delaware Hotel Finder to find your ideal overnight spot in whichever towns you decide to stay. Most of these trips can be done as day trips, too, if you start early enough! Enjoy…

1. See the best of Delaware's small towns.
Flickr / John Mollura
Delaware's small towns are all decked out for the holidays this year, but any time of year is perfect for strolling the main streets of our best tiny towns.

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2. Enjoy a trip that takes you through perfect towns, and perfect scenery.
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Delaware is a beautiful state, but oftentimes it's overlooked for other, better known destinations. See the best of Delaware, from our charming, historic towns to our gorgeous natural parks in this all-in-one Delaware road trip.

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3. Discover Delaware's hidden beaches.
Flickr / Mike Mahaffie
Our bayshore beach towns are charming, quaint, and old fashioned, and our hidden bayshore beaches are quiet and serene. Take this trip to find our best kept beachy secrets.

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4. Enjoy the thrill of Northern Delaware's spookiest places.
Facebook / Bellevue State Park
There's a lot of haunting happening in the DuPont Corridor, so check out some of the spookiest places in the state without really leaving New Castle County.

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5. See our best natural wonders in the state.
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From the dunes of Cape Henlopen to the rocks at Alapocas Run, our gorgeous, scenic state will wow you ever time.

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6. Travel the whole state - on one tank of gas.
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Gas up the car just once and see the state, from our historic cities to our charming small towns, and everything worth seeing in between.

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7. Eat at some of our underrated restaurants on a 3 Day Foodie Road Trip.
Facebook / Two Stones Pub
You could just spend a weekend in Rehoboth Beach eating everything in sight, but it's fun to take a three day trip and include some of our classic and underrated restaurants, too.

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8. Check out our most haunted places - if you dare.
Flickr / Jeffrey
The most haunted places in Delaware range from a terrifying Civil War prison to a mansion filled with wine-drinking ghosts, and each place is worth checking out with your bravest friends.

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What’s your favorite place that you’ve discovered when wandering around the first state? Share your best kept Delaware secrets in the comments below!

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