---
title: "You Can Travel the 5,900-Mile TransAmerica Trail on Google Street View Thanks to This Ford Bronco"
date: "2025-10-27"
modified: "2025-10-27"
authors:
  - name: "Caleb Jacobs"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/caleb-jacobs"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/you-can-travel-the-5900-mile-transamerica-trail-on-google-street-view-thanks-to-this-ford-bronco"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Bronco"
  - "Ford"
  - "Off-Road"
  - "suv/crossover"
---

# You Can Travel the 5,900-Mile TransAmerica Trail on Google Street View Thanks to This Ford Bronco

![Ford Bronco, Ranger, and Expedition Tremor on TransAmerica Trail](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FordxGoogle-Maps_Campaign_Still_3_CONVOY_MOUNTAINS_1920x1080_01.jpg>)
*\<em\>Ford\</em\>*

It's 2025 and [I'm still blown away by Google Street View](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/nearly-1000-people-are-driving-across-the-us-one-photo-at-a-time-on-google-maps>). You're telling me that I can type in almost any address—in the United States, or Japan, or wherever—and [see what's around without actually being there](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-giant-six-wheeled-ford-rv-has-lived-in-tokyo-for-years-and-still-gets-driven>)? Amazing. I use it a quite a bit when I'm writing blogs for this here website, and thanks to a recent [Ford](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/ford-news>) collab with Google, I won't be so confined to normal city streets anymore. That's because a team of Blue Oval vehicles recently drove the entire 5,900-mile TransAmerica trail system, led by a Bronco with a Street View camera on top.

Now, obviously, [the TransAmerica Trail is a big'n](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/4377/a-well-loved-motorcycle-is-good-for-the-soul>). The Ford fleet's trek across 13 states took 35 days altogether. They started in Port Orford, Oregon, and ended in Nags Head, North Carolina, after driving over all kinds of terrain to get the job done: sandy beaches on the WEst Coast, slickrock in Utah, gravel and jagged rocks in... lots of other states.

They even journeyed through [my neck of the woods in the Ozarks](<https://www.thedrive.com/authors/caleb-jacobs>). If it's on the TransAmerica trail, Ford and Google logged it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4Ezi5oZS-i8

Obviously, this is good marketing for the Bronco as it drove the whole trail, but so did a Ranger and an [Expedition Tremor](<https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2025-ford-expedition-first-drive-review>). I guess it's good to know you can take the whole family. Just make sure to follow [the Tread Lightly principles](<https://treadlightly.org/>) like Ford did here.

This will inevitably come in handy for me when some goober in a Cybertruck [gets royally stuck on the trail](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-tesla-cybertruck-tried-conquering-the-rubicon-trail-its-been-stuck-for-days>) and [I'm tasked with writing about it](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/stuck-tesla-cybertruck-owner-speaks-after-conquering-hellish-week-on-rubicon-trail>). If you are such a goober, think ahead and plan your route using Street View first.

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-6.57.19-PM.png>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-6.57.29-PM.png>)

*Got a tip or question for the author? Contact them directly: caleb@thedrive.com*

## Author
Caleb Jacobs is The Drive’s senior editor. When he’s not searching for stories or poring over copy, he’s usually driving his dump truck or wishing it was running so he could drive it. He was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, and he lives there today with his family.

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