IMADreamer wrote:I'd like to add that the driftless area up near Galena has some great driving roads. Now I am sure you guys definition of great and mine are different. I think you are looking for views and scenery which there are certainly some of those up there but there are some twisties on the fun factor scale that rival anything I've ever been on. The best thing is they aren't very heavily traveled which means that cops aren't too thick which makes for a good time.
Some of the twists and turns on the two-lane highways up in the Adirondacks are just freaking awesome. Especially at high speeds.
Definitely. We explored that area a bit in 2006 when we went to Cooperstown. We kind of took a backroad tour of NY from east to west. It was great.
I live close to so many great drives that it's hard to single out just one as overall favorite.
Right up there is Old Fall River Road in RMNP. A narrow, one-way drive up to the Alpine Visitors Center. Stunning. It has been closed since the 2013 floods but hopefully will re-open next year. My preferred route to top of park over Trail Ridge Road.
The People's Republic is on my list, places to reside.
Colorado is one of those places where I feel it's almost too beautiful for me to live there. So many places where you can go and turn in any direction and be blown away that I feel eventually getting used to it and taking it for granted would be some kind of spiritual loss. The last time I was there I was doing a lot of driving through some incredible country at night and it really bummed me out. I'd go over some 11,000 foot pass in the dark and know that beyond my vision was something mind blowing.
thrill wrote:Colorado is one of those places where I feel it's almost too beautiful for me to live there. So many places where you can go and turn in any direction and be blown away that I feel eventually getting used to it and taking it for granted would be some kind of spiritual loss.
Sadly there is some truth here. However it's hard to get used to seeing this every time I drive into Boulder.
These are all great suggestions. Another one is driving west from Reno/Tahoe to Sacramento/San Francisco you encounter mountains and a lake near Truckee, Ca. and beyond.
