Family Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

by Austin Weatherwax
(Montello, WI, U.S.)

Family Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

This road trip scavenger hunt is for when my family is going to Kansas City, Missouri from all the way up in Wisconsin (near Portage and Wisconsin Dells). Anyways, we wanted to think of something to do that would pass the time and a scavenger hunt was an awesome idea. The list below is what we came up with to do.

Road Trip Scavenger Hunt List

1) Flashing red light
2) 3 Buses from the same bus line
3) Signs with foreign languages
4) Dog
5) Food store
6) Railroad tracks
7) A billboard with a baby on it
8) License plate with letter “Q” and “Y”
9) A cop eating a doughnut
10) Person with tall boots
11) Person talking on a cell phone while driving in a Dodge vehicle
12) School with a torn flag on a flagpole
13) Flashing traffic light
14) Church without a steeple
15) Someone on a bike
16) Statue with bird poop on it
17) A billboard advertising a strip club
18) A McDonald’s food sign when we are hungry in the car
19) Playground
20) Flower garden
21) Pickup truck with a lot of rust on it
22) 5 Wal-Mart’s
23) Person walking a dog with headphones
24) Armadillo
25) 10 deer
26) Barn with a door missing
27) Horses
28) Gas station with at least 2 semis getting gas
29) Tractor driving
30) Dirt road with puddles
31) Pond with someone fishing on it
32) Railroad tracks with a train on it not moving
33) Silo
34) Car with no front plate
35) Person wearing a cowboy hat
36) Someone in the car punching another because they saw a VW bug
37) Motorcycle cop
38) Person completely oblivious of their blinker being on
39) Person without their lights on that needs to have them on
40) Fire truck with lights on
41) Ambulance with siren on
42) Motorcycle with a trailer
43) Stretch limo
44) Airplane runway
45) A bluuuuuue Prius
46) Dump truck
47) Car with a spoiler on it playing a hip hop song with a lot of bass
48) A mattress on the roof of a vehicle
49) Car with foam dice hanging from the rear-view mirror
50) Radio station sticker
51) Funny bumper sticker
52) Someone sleeping in another car (because mom sleeps a lot)
53) Person pulled over by more than two police
54) Stalled at the side of the road
55) A dead deer on the side of the road
56) Someone sitting or lying on a sidewalk
57) A toddler on a leash
58) Someone picking up litter
59) A tree house with someone in it
60) Local bar with a lot of cars in the parking lot
61) Movie theater
62) A car with a lot of bird poop on the windshield
63) Dirty car
64) Chevy without rust
65) Garage sale in the yard
66) A sign for a birthday party
67) A sign for a dealership
68) 3 VW bugs that are the same color
69) Gazebo
70) Person staring into space
71) 3 straight cars with their windows down
72) 2 stray cats
73) Someone on a porch
74) Someone smoking outside a store
75) A banana in a movie we are watching in the van
76) A car with flames on it
77) Wash me written in dirt on a car
78) A bag replacing a broken window
79) Duct tape holding together another car
80) Gold spinner wheels
81) Broken taillight
82) Something replaced with pink duct tape
83) Two or more stuffed animals on the rear window shelf of another vehicle
84) Smoking exhaust
85) Bumper that doesn’t belong on the car
86) A vehicle with a radio antenna ball that is from out of state of what state you’re in
87) Religious sticker
88) 4 or more men in a little car
89) 4 or more women in a little car
90) Two people on cell phones in one vehicle
91) At least 3 people in a car, all singing
92) Parent with a kid driving with them
93) All passengers in a vehicle are asleep
94) People that are obviously lost
95) Person looking at an unfolded map
96) See someone washing all of their windows at a gas station
97) Driver playing a musical instrument while steering with their knees
98) See someone playing air guitar or air drums
99) Driver applying make-up
100) 3 dogs in one car
101) One adult in front one in the back
102) Dog in front passenger seat, person in back (can’t be a kid in back)
103) Driver shaving
104) Someone running a red light
105) See no living thing for at least 3 miles
106) Someone else tailgating with an open lane
107) Car you saw previously pulled over by cop
108) Semi tailgating another semi
109) Car cutting through traffic more than 3 times (every lane he moves from counts as one)
110) Arguing on a cell phone
111) 2 people using their hands when they’re talking
112) Long skid mark on road
113) 5 drivers in a row with their hands at 10 and 2 or 9 and 3
114) Flat tire
115) Lit flare
116) Person sitting on hood while on the side of the road
117) Hood up on side of road
118) Someone pulled off the road just a little bit to go fishing
119) Someone driving with the top down in bad weather
120) Lit up sign telling you your speed
121) Sign that is misspelled
122) See more than one land fill
123) A goat
124) Baby animal
125) Vine-covered wall
126) Windmill
127) More than 10 cars in a yard
128) Beer can on side of road
129) Bulldozer
130) 3 Starbucks
131) 20+ story building
132) Someone with mismatching socks
133) Someone with mirrored sunglasses
134) Someone with a long beard
135) Someone that looks like Santa
136) Someone that’s wearing a straw hat
137) Handlebar mustache
138) A really funny personalized plate
139) A sign that has been run over or has fallen
140) A flying kite
141) 2 shoes tied together hanging on a telephone pole
142) Driver weaving around in the lane while dealing with kids
143) Someone smoking with kids in car
144) Someone taking a picture on the side of the road with nothing special in background
145) More than one person crying in a vehicle
146) Someone on a unicycle
147) A zoo
148) A green crotch rocket
149) Someone bobbing their head in a vehicle listening to rap
150) Canada license plate
151) Alabama license plate
152) Alaska license plate
153) Arizona license plate
154) Arkansas license plate
155) California license plate
156) Colorado license plate
157) Connecticut license plate
158) Delaware license plate
159) Florida license plate
160) Georgia license plate
161) Hawaii license plate
162) Idaho license plate
163) Illinois license plate
164) Indiana license plate
165) Iowa license plate
166) Kansas license plate
167) Kentucky license plate
168) Louisiana license plate
169) Maine license plate
170) Maryland license plate
171) Massachusetts license plate
172) Michigan license plate
173) Minnesota license plate
174) Mississippi license plate
175) Missouri license plate
176) Montana license plate
177) Nebraska license plate
178) Nevada license plate
179) New Hampshire license plate
180) New jersey license plate
181) New Mexico license plate
182) New York license plate
183) North Carolina license plate
184) North Dakota license plate
185) Ohio license plate
186) Oklahoma license plate
187) Oregon license plate
188) Pennsylvania license plate
189) Rhode Island license plate
190) South Carolina license plate
191) South Dakota license plate
192) Tennessee license plate
193) Texas license plate
194) Utah license plate
195) Vermont license plate
196) Virginia license plate
197) Washington license plate
198) West Virginia license plate
199) Wisconsin license plate
200) Wyoming license plate
201) People working on a construction site
202) See someone putting groceries in their trunk of their car
203) See someone carrying a watermelon
204) See a fox
205) Go through a city that has the same name as a Wisconsin city
206) See someone that is really sunburned
207) See someone that is in handcuffs on the side of the road
208) A sign that has something weird about it
209) Someone eating chips out of a bag on the side of street
210) See a tire on the side of the road

Girls Night Out Road Trip Scavenger Hunt