More than 55 million travelers are making plans to kick off the holiday season with a trip of 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving.
This will be the second-highest Thanksgiving travel volume since AAA began tracking in 2000, trailing only the record set in 2005.
In Wisconsin, more than 1.1 million people will be traveling for the holiday weekend, which is a 2.9 percent increase from 2018. Of those travelers, more than 1 million will be driving (up 2.7 percent from 2018) and 97,000 will be flying to their destination (a 5.4 percent increase from 2018).
Gas prices across Wisconsin are on average $2.38, down from 2.47 last month and down from $2.58 a year ago.
