A highway, or road you enjoy driving?

I like this road.

Close to our home.... The Beartooth. Highway! Second place would be Powder River Canyon! memtb

I don't have any pictures, but the county I live in is split geographically, with the south being highly productive farmland, mostly rolling, just about all cropland. The north portion has a lot of farmland as well, but is a mostly hills and hollows, heavily forested, with some beautiful scenery, especially when the leaves start turning. I usually go for a drive or two through there every fall.

By the way, I live right along that split. I can look to the south, and see mostly open land, and look back to the north and see the divide. I consider myself quite fortunate.

Wisconsin 13 across the bayfield peninsula and county C that intersects it...

U.S. 16 across the bighorns from Buffalo to Ten Sleep
And all the little loop roads and cross roads into the country there aboot

U.S. 20 through the Wind River Canyon
And 120 up through meteetse

Stranger's Home Road from Clover Bend past Shirey Bay

I like the "back way" to Watson Lake YT, AKA The Cassiar Hwy

https://www.themilepost.com/highways/cassiar-highway

Minnesota highway 61 along the north shore of Superior.

Going to the Sun, Montana

Needles Highway, Black Hills South Dakota

Many others...

A long par 3. Easy swing with a driver put me 16" from the hole.

Titleist DT TruSoft virgin ball.

With a healthy dose of Viagra.....it might have been a “hole in one”! memtb

We used to drive through Rocky Mtn Park over trailridge to Grand Lake, get an icecream cone, then return either over Berthoud or Back through Estes. Health has stopped that for right now.

If I can ever find a long lonesome highway I would enjoy it; not much chance in Colofornia.

The drive up window to the bank...

LOL

Yes, being 16 inches short must be embarrassing, but it would take a lot of balls to admit it.

Any road leading out of Indiana.

As a kid the drive up Highway 1 to Point Arena. Later, the drive from Calgary to our place outside Sandpoint Idaho.

Hwy 64 off 25 in NM, head west through 40 miles of plains and enter Cimarron Canyon, open up to eagle nest at the top of the pass, roll through the valley and head to Taos via more winding roads as you follow the canyon. You can turn North at Taos and head towards questa and then to Red River. Beautiful country and special place!

502? I like that.

Highway 67 from Cripple Creek, CO, to Divide, in late Sept.-early Oct. is hard to beat!

Beartooth was my favorite.

Hwy 88 just south of Mondovi, WI.. Starts at Hwy 37 and goes S. all the way to State Hwy 35 at Fountain City... Twisty, curvy, hilly, and beautiful...

Next would be SD 16 from Custer W. to Newcastle, then north on SD 85 all the way to I-90.. Gorgeous scenery..

Been there, that time of year, beautiful area to drive thru.

Beartooth Highway is pretty spectacular.

Runs generally from Red Lodge MT, through Cooke City, and into the NE corner of Yellowstone.

To add another,”not” close to the house....Red Mountain Pass, Silverton to Ouray, Colorado! memtb

M28 west from the Soo to Marquette. US41 from Houghton to Copper Harbor.

the road to the beer store

Beartooth highway is spectacular!!!

Closer to my home, US 395 in California has hundreds of miles of beauty.

+1 more

Beartooth Hwy MT/WY

I'll vote for "Going-to-the-Sun" highway in Glacier National Park (MT). I worked in Glacier in the summers of 1960-61 and regularly drove the road over Logan Pass. I've been back several times and the beauty never escapes me.

Wabigoon: One of my favorite drives here in Montana is the long loop drive starting in Dillon, Montana travelling west to Jackson, Montana then northerly to Wisdom, Montana then easterly to Wise River, Montana and Divide then southerly through Glen, Montana and eventually back to Dillon, Montana - thus encircling the entire Pioneer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains!
Took this 130 mile drive just yesterday in fact with the VarmintWife and our houseguests from out of state - they were mesmerized by the beauty of this drive and the abundance of wildlife seen (Mule Deer, Whitetailed Deer, Antelope, huge herds of Elk, Coyotes a Moose, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Ground Squirrels, Hawks galore and numerous flocks of waterfowl!).
This scenic drive also had breathtaking views of the Anaconda Range, Bitterroot Range and the Highland Ranges of mountains plus the stunning Bighole Valley itself!
Then we drove through the steep canyon of the Bighole River.
Pictures taken galore and a very relaxing drive which took us over two high mountain passes with elevations of 7,400' and 6,760'!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

The drive from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Wyoming is THE BEST.

The same drive in reverse SUCKS.

Seriously tho son & I did the Beartooth this past October and it was AMAZING!

Home from work!

US 101 along the coast from Florence to Lincoln City, Oregon, is a beautiful drive.

Another is SR 92 from Highland, Utah to American Fork Canyon up and over the Alpine Loop into Provo Canyon. Fall colors as pretty as anything you'll ever see.

Link

Texas Hill country, & Vermejo Park before the rich and famous absconded with it.

Utah 12, Panguitch to Mexican Hat.

Stanley, Id. to Challis Id. in the fall.


mike r

Highway 306, from Buena Vista, CO, to Taylor Park- view from the top of Cottonwood Pass. Taylor Park is becoming the 'Moab of the Rockies'.

Hwy 1 between ely and north shore was always a nice motorcycle road. I haven't been on it for over 6 yrs now though so I don't know if they've "ruined it" or not?

Richardson Highway to Valdez, Alaska. Spectacular glaciers and snow capped mountains.

Honorable mention to the unpaved Denali Highway.

I like driving down the Lochsa.

Hwy 88 and Hwy 4 out of the Valley upto and including 395.

I can feel the slimy stink urbanity fall away the further up into the high country I get.

Fellow Kommiefornians know what Im talking about.

I feel like writing all of these down and putting them on a motorcycle bucket list.

Skyline, Shenandoah National Park. Buy local, as the saying goes.

Have yet to venture South of Big Meadows, but maybe someday.

First time I took my wife on it, there were so many buses full of Chinese tourists she began to think she was back home.

Might want to be more specific; lotsa Skyline Drives across the US. The one in Central Utah is spectacular, especially when the wild flowers are in full bloom.

Sir David, my picture, from the web, handier, is Ontario 502, Fort Frances, to Dryden, Ontario. For you it'd be a hop, skip, and a jump.

We should make plans, we could fish a few days!

Shenandoah National Park.

Yes it is! Even though I’m somewhat color blind, it is a pretty drive.....early summmer or fall. The “huge” negative......too many people! memtb

NYS route 28 from Margretville to Phoenicia, through the high peaks of the Catskills in the fall.

Lamoille Canyon, in the Ruby Mountains of N.E. Nevada, preferably in the autumn.

I really love the drive into Lake Tahoe....

From here following the Payette River to north of Lowman, then from Stanley to Salmon and beyond along the upper Salmon River.
Hwy 1 Ca Morrow Bay to San Simeon.
Oregon coast
Columbis River gorge.
Beartooth Hwy
And I have been meanining to do Hwy 2 across N. WA..
Enjoyable changes Hwy could be I-70 from I-15 in Utah to Denver.
I really enjoy some of central Nevada off the freeway, sagebrush and mountains, not many people.

Either Glenwood canyon or the wind river canyon during a full moon after a snowfall is like driving through pure silver. Also, I70 over the San Rafael swell.

Kansas Inerstate 70 East to West in October and November

Just the drive to the boat ramp.

Highway 170 from Lajitas, TX to Presidio, TX along the Rio Grande.

Just awesome.

Highway 395 in eastern California up through the Owens Valley, past MT Whitney through the Eastern Sierra Nevada Range. Lot of old Westerns were filmed up there. Will be driving that way on the 29 to take my later brothers grandson fishing. First photo is of Mt Whitney highest peak in the lower 48.

The most fun I've had on a motorcycle was on US 129 from NC into TN a little way. 318 curves in 11 miles, many of them nearly 180 degrees.

https://maps.roadtrippers.com/stories/tail-of-the-dragon

Has some good views if you stop to look.

us395 sucks
Highway 67 from Cripple Creek, CO, to Divide, in late Sept.-early Oct. is much better!

u suck prick WTH

Princes Highway, it follows the southern coast through New South Wales and Victoria. I didn't make it to the part that goes through South Australia. No pictures, it was years before the advent of digital cameras.

One of my "favorites" is CA hwy 299 from the coast near Arcata up through the Trinity River canyon to Redding CA.

Another might be the Avenue of the Giants in Redwood country.

Driving west from Cedarville CA on 299 over Cedar Pass and seeing Mt Shasta over 100 miles away is pretty stunning too.

89 (?) From Flagstaff to Sedona ain't a bad one. (or going the other direction)

US 60 (?) from Show-Low to Globe is kinda cool.

The Apache Trail is wonderful.

Too many more to list.

Even the drive from town to my house is much better than any commute in a city.

Geno

depends what you're drivin'

M134, because it ends on Drummond Island.

Really? While I've no use for Indy or Fort Wayne, I found the Columbus area to be not all that bad. Politics that horrible in IN ?

As for drives, there are some I won't mention on the interweb. Too much fun as they are, no need for more traffic.

Some that haven't been mentioned, or mentioned improperly

CA 1 from San Simeon to Carmel. AKA Big Sur
US 50 from Fallon NV to Salina UT
CA 35 from CA 92 down to CA 17


Absolute worst: US 5 through the Central Valley with holiday traffic. I'd rather be stuck in stop-n-go on 80 trying to get over the Bay Bridge...

The Beartooth. East to west. Beautiful.

I like the stretch of Hwy 11 from Nipigon down to Rossport.
Well i guess 4 of us just about covered Lac Superior

I have to agree with that one. It's like 4 distinct geographic regions. From the crimson colored hoodoos of Bryce to the pale white and pink striated canyons of Escalante to the aspen stands in Boulder to the rusty red high desert of Capitol Reef. Simply stunning.

That is being paved from what I understand.

That's pretty.

My favorites are in my home state, Oregon. The rim drive around Crater Lake is pretty spectacular. Hit a blue-sky day in late fall after the summer traffic is gone. So is Hwy 242 over McKenzie Pass in mid fall when the vine maples turn color.

Tom

Million Dollar Highway, Engineer and Imogene Pass Jeep roads in CO, Beartooth Highway, Snowy Range Scenic Byway (near home), Wind River Canyon, along the Tetons (multiple ways), Monument Valley, Spearfish Canyon, along the Sawtooths north of Sun Valley, to name a few. There are too many to name.

We liked that, too!

Anywhere I'm going with a rifle or bow to hunt.

NW North Carolina to SW Pennsylvania about the third week of October. Pretty the whole darn way.

Chief Joseph highway and the road through the Wind River canyon between Shoshoni and Thermopolis.

On a long drive, the last mile.

Headed home.

Always liked 14 heading out of Ft Collins CO. Up Poudre canyon and all the way over to Steamboat. Lots of great spots to fish and camp for a few nights.

My favorite motorcycle 'drive' when I lived in Minnesota, was the loop around Lake Superior.... from Duluth, and circle the Lake in either direction.... 1200 or so miles round trip....and especially in the fall, when the leaves change, but before the storms and winds kick up... and strip every leaf off of every tree in an overnight storm....

yup done that one....also...

there is a lot of beautiful drives in California....

its a wonderful state... its just screwed up by a large number of A Hole Liberals who pollute it...
and illegal aliens...

Route 2 along Michigan's Upper Penninsula. The other would be the old roads we took to get from Youngstown, Ohio to deer camp in Clearfield County, Pa. before I-80 went through. Lots of little towns to pass through, rive crossings, scenic vistas of the Alleghenies. It was always a fun ride. Towns along the way like Clarion, and others.

I don't have a favorite drive, but I do love finding alternative roads away from the interstate in parts of the country I've never driven before. One trip I had a couple of days to get there so I drove a little convertible from New Orleans to St. Louis - passing thru Vicksburg and a bunch of little towns along the way. I'll find a mom-n-pop burger stand , a farmers markets, maybe an old holdover five and dime or a state park. You never know when you'll come up on a curvy road that goes around a lake or a gorge.

I can stretch out a drive.

I have to drive to Detroit 7 or 8 times a year for work. I've stopped taking the interstate, now I pass thru little towns that haven't been ravaged by Wal-Mart. They still have a town square and some areas so rural the road I'm on just has a letter - D route or something like it. I call it windmill country because they have all these giant windmills scattered across the flat land.

Sometimes I'll hit craigslist for cities along the way and see if there is a bargain to be had on something I need as well.

We live in a beautiful nation... if folks would just get off the interstate...

a lot of still almost long forgotten America still exists...

I take a lot of the old US routes when I travel if I am not up against a time clock...

for example, GopherG mentions old US 2....across the UP of Michigan..

when I was in the service, I did basic and AIT in Oklahoma and then Texas....after that my duty station was Ft Lewis WASH...I went back to New England, got my old Volvo Wagon, and drove up to Maine and picked up old US 2... and drove it across to Rouse's Point NY where it ends at the border with Quebec above Lake Champlain.... drove across Canada to Ottawa... picked up Rt 17 across Ontario to Sioux Ste Marie, crossed into Michigan's UP....picked up US 2 again there... and drove it across Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington State, until it ended in Everett WA....I had 10 days to get to Ft Lewis, so I took Us 2 cross country.... done a lot of old US routes like that.... its even easy a lot of time to follow the old decommissioned US Routes, if you know what to look for...

Florida... I've taken the A1A down the coast as much as possible.. which is old Florida in a lot of places..
I love driving down the old US Hwy down the Keys to Key West....I love seeing the remains of the old Key's Hwy ( US 1)... I remember it as a kid... I started grade school in Key West in 1958, when my dad was part of the Air Force liaison at Key West Naval Air Station back in 58...

In travels, I've driven US 1, from Key West to where it ends in Northern Maine on the Canadian border also..

I've followed old US 20....from here on the coast in Oregon... to where it ends in Boston...
US 30 cross country... US 40, US 50, and US 60... sure there are places decommissioned, so you take the interstate in those parts.. and pick it up when you can and where you can...

US 6 from Provincetown MA on the Cape, to where it ends in California...

done a lot of these routes east to west and then north and south, border to border...

we live in a beautiful nation and a lot of small town Americana is still out there....

folks ought to try and experience it while its still here...

My next planned trip like that is to take US 91 from Arizona to the Canadian border, its on my bucket list for this summer...

Great Ocean Coast Road in Australia. Absolutely stunning! Think California coast line with no people and no buildings from the water to the road. For hundreds of miles.

Lots of great suggestions on this thread. And if I wasn't a married man with young kids I'd save it and start checking them off with the motorcycle.

My favorite drive is the 140 mile haul from North East Ohio to my camp in Pennsylvania.

The drive isn't particularly special, but I always feel good making it.

-Jake

Another good, but short one is crossing the Bay Bridge from Annapolis to Kent Island, especially the return trip at Christmas time when they have the lights up at Sandy Point State Park, which was "the beach" to us growing up in the 50s.

Up my driveway after I’ve been gone for a while........Seriously? The highway 240 loop thru the Badlands of S. Dakota and the drive from Red Lodge thru Yellowstone by way of Beartooth Pass.

Too many to choose from in too many countries, BUT my two least favorite drives are:

1. The drive up Mt. Capulin in New Mexico. Going up to the peak of this old volcano was all in the outside lane with no guard rails. Going down was easy in the lane next to the mountain.

2. The drive south through Red Mountain pass and succeeding passes down to flatter country in western Colorado. Beautiful scenery for passengers, but not the driver.

I've watched a documentary on this. It looks fun as hell on a bike!

Jeff,

I can agree with this. I worked out in Brookville for a week. I stayed in Clarion and drove a rented Mustang back and forth and around the area after work. Beautiful country!

watch some videos on youtube of guys on fully dressed Harleys driving them off the side of a mountain

Yeah I think that happens a lot.

I listed the Million Dollar Highway as one of my favorites! I like driving it.

The drive from Canaan valley WV thru Davis and Thomas and Philipi.....on a fall day in an old Porsche 911.

I have to say hwy 2 from Seattle to mt. Baker.

Montana.

Driving to whistler.

Driving through Yellowstone.

Yosemite.

N. Cali. Tahoe

Doesn't matter, as long as it's taking me to the cabin or the dock

I95 south with NYC in the review !!! N C 12 from Nags Head to Morehead City in the winter , watch the geese at Bodie Island and Pea Island , take the ferry to Ocracoke the other ferry to Cedar Island an on to Morehead.

Some great drives. I like the big red rocks in Utah and 4 corners country; over Deception Pass bridge to Whidbey Island in WA State; Highway 1 from San Simeon to Carmel; Lake Louise north through the Canadian Rockies to Jasper, or south from Golden BC down the Trench to Radium on a sunny Fall day with fresh powder on the mountains on both sides and colors on the leaves; Jackson Hole north to Yellowstone, Going to the Sky in Montana; Blue Ridge in Virginia or Maine coast in Fall.. all good.

Favorite long drive is the 1500 mile loop from Prince George to Prince George via Hazelton, Dease, Watson Lake, Yukon and back to Prince George on the Alaska Highway, with the Liard to Summit Lake section the best of the best. Favorite short drive, impossible to choose but will pick the South rim of Canyon de Chelly in an inch of fresh snow.

Nice ride, but be careful. GPS is sending 18 wheelers across the mountain on 129, even though it's posted "No trucks / Semi-trailers". Last couple of times I've been across have been a nightmare, waiting on wreckers to drag trailers around the curves.
Another nice ride in that same area, if you don't mind gravel, in Tatum Gap ( look up the 'Gravel Dragon') road from Robbinsville across the mountain to Andrew's, N.C.

a harley dude dumped his bike on the dragon's tail last year; my dad rolled up on it just a few mins after it happened.

His buds were having to do thei own traffic control so no one else would run him over while he laid in the road. No cell service verizon or at&t. Someone else had to ride on and go get help. Took almost an hour for rescue to get there.


I am so glad that cell phone networks continue to upgrade their infrastructure so jiggaboos can have 5 bars of service in the projects b

This is fun.
Another for the Beartooth, and I really should do the Chief Joseph now that it's paved. But the Beartooth is unique. My Dad got to check it off his bucket list last fall, day before winter closed it, so traffic was light and he got to run the wheels off. Until he couldn't take any more, then I finished the job.
CA 1 from Mill Valley all the way to the top is impressive.
One "drive" I am still fond of is Colorado 9 from Kremmling to Muddy Pass, then over Rabbit Ears on 40 into Steamboat. The sight lines on it are excellent for the most part, best going south, a good sports car drive. Not so great on a motorcycle.
A Glacier loop over the Sun Road, 89 and Looking Glass Road is right up there.
Mount Evans highway in Colorado. Pikes Peak toll road is also interesting.
395 in Eastern Oregon is good. So is 3 in Eastern Oregon/Washington. From Spokane to Wenatchee, I like 28 better than 2. One thing nobody should miss in eastern Washington is going from Soap Lake up to Dry Falls and on to Grand Coulee. 14 in the Columbia Gorge is mo bettah than the interstate on the other side, although both are spectacular.

Well that doesn't sound like much fun.

I would think riding a bike such as a Harley or similar on the Dragons Tail would be more of a tedious PITA then fun.

Oregon coast

Sailed that..... beautiful

The drive in the summer to the cabin in MN.

128 from Cloverdale to the Sea was a favorite once upon a time.

Now it's 60 east from Show Low through the Datil Mountains, then across the Plains of San Agustin to Sirocco, then onward to Carrizozo.

America!

Where abouts is your cabin, Dan?

North cascades highway in Washington state. It opens for traffic around the end of May and is closed from snow fall in Oct.

thats more than 12 to get to MH

UT 12 Panguitch (close) to Torrey is good

Kayenta, Az to Moab , UT good

Million Dollar Highway from Durango, CO to Ouray, CO is tops for me.

Cortez to Telluride is good also

I’ll ride with him if there’s room

Lordy but we live in a beautiful country !