You’re making me homesick just by reading about those drives!
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I want to do a bike trip on this. I just have to retire to have the time both for the trip and to train for it.
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Dutchess County & the Hudson Valley areas of New York and the portion of the New York throughway near Hudson Valley.
Litchfield County, Connecticutt. (The Hotchkiss School is in this area).
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I’ve not done it but it’s on my bucket list is to do the “Going to the Sun” road. It’s in Glacier National Park
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Going to the Sun Road Glacier National Park. I could do it every single day. It is the most breathtaking , awe inspiring experience.
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True… but it had already been mentioned.
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Adding driving Lake Shore Drive up to Sheridan Rd and then driving Sheridan Road up north through Lake Bluff.
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Seconding Highway 395 and the Eastern Sierra. Also the drive from there over to Death Valley (either vía Ridgecrest or Lone Pine).
North Cascades Highway is amazing, especially the glacier blue Diablo Lake and the area further east around Washington Pass (pictured below)
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Gorgeous but appallingly crowded, even worse than Yosemite in summer because the season is so short. And this year full of dust along Lake McDonald because the road was being reconstructed. But the shuttle buses are a big help.
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We drove from Park City, UT to Sundance this summer and it was gorgeous! Much greener than I expected.
2nd, 3rd M-22 in MI, one of my favorite places and the Lake MI shoreline through the UP!
Just drove from Eastern MI to eastern WI today and it was beautiful with the leaves turning.
I-75 through Kentucky and Tennessee
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Missoula MT to Glacier National Park. Beautiful green valleys, mountains, Flathead Lake.
Of course as mentioned above “Going to the Sun” road in the park is fantastic.
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A few years ago we intentionally went to Glacier when it was iffy whether Going to The Sun road would be open all the way. It was a way to get reservations only 3 months ahead.
Turns out the road was closed. That’s Ok. We had 2 nights at Many Glaciers lodge (impressive), 2 night at Rising Sun hotel (cute, nice restaurant too). THen we drove the long way to White Fish for 2 nights (per original plan) in order see the other side of park. Fun memory!!
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San Rafael Reef (I-70) through Utah. I remember thinking of the Pioneers got to that section (not that they were taking I-70) and saw that the rocks went straight up, and thinking “Oh Sh**, what do we do now?”
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That reminds me that we loved our trip to Moab (with Arches National Park) during Covid shutdown. Went to Arches 3x, Canyonlands and Dead Horse State Park 2x. We had lived 8 hours away for more than 25 years but had not been.
NOTE: We went in October. Don’t recommend this for summer, but if you do that bring A LOT of water. Hat and sunblock too.
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Jemez Pueblo to Los Alamos NM passing by the Valles Caldera National Reserve, a huge volcanic crater.
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Kankamagus Highway in New Hampshire, Smuggler’s Notch and anywhere around Woodstock/Quechee in Vt.
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Highway 12 in Utah from Bruce Canyon to Capitol Reef is also an amazing drive.
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Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire–a favorite leaf peeper road in New England.
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VA Route 119 between the NC border and US158. Beautiful farm country.
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After the Spin-Off, I’m anxiously awaiting the next topic:
“Prequel - favorite carriage rides, from Lancester County to Central Park”
