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Start local - stretch of Great River Road (hwy 100) from Alton past Grafton IL to Pere Marquette SP.
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I don't normally go for a 4-laner. This road is scenic, any time of year. Good in both directions. You pass interesting looking side roads and towns. Mainly it's the close proximity to the Mississippi - you feel it's Might. Cruise along road not very high above it, so there is sensation of skimming on the river. Road is smooth and not congested.

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There's also a pretty good bike trail along a decent stretch of it, and it's usually underwater in the spring, but yeah...that's a pretty good one.

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Jocephus wrote:
Yeah, every time out there - Eastern Colo is such a letdown, it makes you almost wish you were back in Kansas.

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Chief Joseph Memorial Highway in Wyoming:

http://www.wyomingtourism.org/thingstod ... Byway/2721

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I'll wait until you cover the local area before contributing.

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mikechamp wrote:I'll wait until you cover the local area before contributing.
He said "Start local", and then he posted something local. So it started local. Now, time to expand.

Here is another drive I did:

http://www.govisithawaii.com/2007/06/01 ... west-maui/

Got tricked into it. Long story short - we got roped into a timeshare talk that we didn't realize was a that, and cut that short. The women seemed nice, wrapped up by telling us a few things to do and see, and recommended this drive rather than the drive to Hana as it was shorter and more scenic. It was both, however, I thought I was going to die. I think she told us this because we cut her short on her sales pitch. The straightaways were one car width wide (two lanes of traffic), you had to use the frequent switchbacks which were wide enough for two cars (barely) to get around. Well I ended up meeting a local in a pickup in one of the straightaways, I had about 50 feet to backup and he had about 150. Of course he waited for me, but I couldn't do it. I [expletive] froze. There was no way in hell I was going to drive that car backward on that road. It was wide enough for my car, and that was it. Veer off a little and it's 200 feet down to the ocean.

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Anything through the Boston Mountain Range in north/western arkansas is awesome.

I-49 (old 540), Hwy 21 and 23, Hwy 65. All those drives produce some spectacular views.

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Highway 79 between Louisianna, and Hannibal, Missouri is a nice drive. It's got some nice elevation changes, some scenic views, and it's kind of a fun drive too.

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Driving down lake Shore Drive at night is pretty impressive.

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