 Best Road trips & Scenic Drives |
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| wakingdream |
 Jan 29 2007, 09:54 AM
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The best road trips I've been on (so far) have been the Trans Canada from Toronto to Vancouver, and the Pacific Coast Highway in Cali all the way down to Tijuana, which were both amazingly memorable.
Some of the best N.A. routes are said to be;
1. Icefields Parkway from Jasper to Lake Louise, Canada
2. California North Coast,
3. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
4. Stowe to Smuggler's Notch, Vermont
Long or short, a road trip is always a great way to relax, unwind and stop wherever, whenever! Have you been on any of these routes? Like to go? Or do you know of another fabulous road trippin' routes to suggest?
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'Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present.'
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| bradleyt |
Feb 28 2007, 04:40 PM
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There are no lack of beautiful drives in North America. If there is one thing we Canadians & Americans love is good roads. If you need further proof just check out my travelogues.
Aside from the Cabot Trail, PCH & Icefields my Top 5 are...
1. Blue Ridge Parkway through Virginia, North & South Carolina -- Best to drive during the fall when the Appalachians will show off all their colour. A road so pretty that commercial traffic is not allowed on it.
2. Interstate 70 from Denver to Grand Junction, Colorado -- the whole drive is gorgeous especially in the late autumn when there is a dusting of snow everywhere but more specifically the 14-mile run through Glenwood Canyon is a marvel of road engineering and driveability.
3. Dempster Highway -- In the 800 km (760 of them unpaved) between Dawson City, Yukon & Inuvik, NWT you will pass by exactly 2 gas stations but you will cross the Arctic Circle once and the Continental Divide 3 times.
4. Creole Nature Trail -- From Port Arthur, Texas to New Iberia, Louisiana -- After Katrina I'm not even sure this road exists anymore but it was a beautiful drive where the waves of the Gulf of Mexico lapped up onto the road at some points before it veered off into the beautiful bayou.
5. US Route 2 from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Havre, Montana -- Some people may find it boring but I'm a big sucker for the wide open plains of the Midwest. Do the drive in the dead heat of July when you can see convection thunder storms build on the edge of the horizon.
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| battlemonkey |
Apr 9 2007, 05:41 PM
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Second from me for the Blue Ridge in the fall. Breathtaking, and if you are a mountain hiker, you can bag something like 44 peaks over 6000 feet tall -- not high by Western standards, but that's not bad for the Appalachians.
I've been to and through every state on the continent, usually multiple times, always by car. A few more of my all-time favorites:
1) Highway 89 -- From Glacier National Park to the Mexican border, through or very near Bryce, Zion, the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, the Very Large Array -- do I even need to go on? This is the sort of drive that can change your life.
2) Old Route 66 through New Mexico and Arizona -- the Mother Road ain't what she used to be, with most of it either gone or looking like any other stretch of American road, with Wal-Marts and strip malls. But NM and AZ were really a lot of fun, with lots of quirk and oddity still hanging on. Dinossaur parks and hotel rooms shaped like teepees abound.
3) US20 from Cape Cod to the Pacific coast. You pass through some of the ugliest, as well as most beautiful, places in America -- from the putrid smelling industrial rot of Gary, Indiana, to the city sprawl of Chicago, the farmlands of Iowa, and then the mind-blowing mountains and prairie lands of Wyoming. Then it's over the Rockies and to the Pacific northwest. The transformation as you go is amazing. And you get to swim in two oceans.
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Any more suggestions?
