Favorite Famous Highway?

[Radical Activist]

Any favorite classic American Highway or biway you enjoy? Tell us your "other" if you have one.

[LeftyMom]

1. Highway 1

Anybody who says otherwise hasn't wound through cliffs overlooking the Pacific as the setting sun sets the sky on fire and the water lights up to match. I could drive that road every day of my life and it would never get old.

[Radical Activist]

4. Ok, I'll add that.

[jpgray]

2. I'm thrilled to not see "hershey" on this thread.

[Richardo]

49. Word.

:thumbsup:

[shanti]

3. U.S. 1 aka PCH

hairpin curves and all, it's be-youtiful! :)

[scoey1953]

16. America sang a song "Ventura Highway"...must mean HWY101

This near Malibu..I love that area.

click here to hear the song:
http://wworks.com/~dperson/America%20-%20Ventura%20Highway.mp3

Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, joe?
Some people say this town dont look good in snow
You dont care, I know

Ventura highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
Youre gonna go I know

cause the free wind is blowin through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

Wishin on a falling star
Waitin for the early train
Sorry boy, but Ive been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on, joe, you can always
Change your name
Thanks a lot, son, just the same

Ventura highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
Youre gonna go I know

cause the free wind is blowin through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

[Gormy Cuss]

37. That's Highway 1 (state road.) U.S. 1 is an East Coast road and

I don't think it has any hairpin turns.

CA 1, on the other hand, is like the rollercoaster that Walt Disney wishes he built.:hi:

[shanti]

53. ok

you knew what i meant tho :hi:

[Radical Activist]

5. I grew up on Route 66

But I'm partial to both the Lincoln Highway and starting or ending Southern Road trips on Highway 61.

[Nicole]

6. The Mother Road aka Route 66

Get Your Kicks on Route 66!

[mark414]

7. Hwy 1 cause the hitchhiking's unbeatable

and the views ain't bad either...

[swag]

8. PCH, because of the PCH and because of Sonic Youth.

[KitchenWitch]

9. I love Highway 61 - AKA the Great River Road!

Gorgeous sights along the way.

[Radical Activist]

33. Parts of it are reeeaaaally boring, in the delta.

But I love it too.

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. Extremely boring...dead straight between Memphis and Clarksdale.

IIRC it only varies off of the centreline by four inches for nearly eighty miles. (Last time I drove it, I was taking a road trip in a borrowed Corvette, and it was all I could do not to push it up to 180 mph....few other roads I've driven beg for a top-speed run the way that one does.)

[Radical Activist]

51. True.

But that's part of the character of the South and I've grown to even like those parts of the drive.

[XemaSab]

10. What's the Sierra highway?

:shrug:

[argyl]

29. I'm thinking it's Hwy. 395. Follows the eastern slope of the Sierras from

Susanville,Ca. in the north to south of Lone Pine,Ca.The views are quite stunning.

Hwy. 550, or the "Million Dollar Highway",from Durango,Co. to Ouray,Co.,also deserves a mention.

[XemaSab]

31. 395 DEFINITELY gets my vote then!

[Rhiannon12866]

11. The Blue Ridge Parkway in Western NC. Beautiful country!

But it can be a really scary ride, with those sheer drop-offs, especially if you're riding with my grandmother, LOL!:scared:

[KitchenWitch]

12. Sounds beautiful

I remember a very harrowing trip with my parents when I was a kid on Needles Drive in the Black Hills of South Dakota. My dad was driving (it was a two lane road with no shoulders and severe dropoffs), and he was spending more time with his eyes on the scenery than on the road. I am surprised we did not go tumbling down in the Needles.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. It really is. And I should have thought to post a pic...:-)

It's most beautiful in the spring and summer when the flowers are blooming...:D

And I can totally identify with your experience with your Dad. My grandmother would be too busy talking and pull over to show me the view and would just get too damn close to the edge! I'm afraid that I didn't much appreciate the spectacular scenery, since I was trying not to wet my pants, LOL! I'm afraid of heights and my nightmares are comprised of moments like these...:scared:

[Radical Activist]

45. I love that drive.

Have you taken it all the way up through Virginia? Amazing.

[Rhiannon12866]

58. No, I only took it in Western NC, near Asheville.

My grandmother lived in Black Mountain, and loved to visit the Folk Arts Center that located on the Parkway. I've driven it myself, though not far. I remember getting lost...:blush:

But you're right, it's spectacular country. I've driven through Virginia, on my way to NC, and was always particularly impressed.:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. PCH

[Ptah]

14. The Going to the Sun Road.

http://www.nps.gov/applications/glac/roadstatus/roadstatus.cfm

[fishwax]

19. d'oh! you beat me to it

It's been quite a while since I've taken that drive, but I can still conjure some of the images in my mind. :D

[Ptah]

20. One of my favorite memories from childhood is the

Weeping Wall.




:hi:

[fishwax]

22. wow!

cool picture :bounce:

(there's nothing like those mountains in late spring for great runoff :))

:hi:

[Ptah]

23. I grew up on the Montana Prairie.

For a weekend break, my parents would take u7s to
'The Park.'

We would sometimes drive through WetzleBill's home town.

Back in the day.

:hi:

[fishwax]

27. hey, that's cool ... i used to live in billings, but

mostly grew up in northern wyoming (sheridan, just south of the MT border), so "the park" for us was Yellowstone :) (from which descends my other favorite Montana highway--Beartooth Pass)

It's been years since I've been back in that part of the world, but still very dear to my heart :)

[Ptah]

28. One of the best times of my life was taking my children

(9 and 10) to Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is marvelous!

The changing earth, rihgt before their eyes!



:hi:

[Radical Activist]

41. Glacier says that's only 52 miles

It sounds more like a scenic drive than a classic highway.

But now you've got me conviced that I need to go someday.

[fishwax]

15. The going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park

Perhaps you should add an "other" :)



Of those listed, I'd have a hard time deciding between Highway 1 and Route 66 (for very different reasons) ...

[Radical Activist]

40. I've come to hate "other" on most of my polls.

People choose other and make some obscure choice that doesn't fit the definition of the poll. My "Favorite Labor Film" had an other option. People chose other and listed a bunch of films that had almost nothing to do with unions. Annoying.

I didn't have an other for this because I knew many people would pick their favorite little scenic drive that isn't really a classic highway, and then "other" would be the most popular choice.

[fishwax]

56. I can see that logic

makes sense to me, and I noticed that on the labor movie thread as well :thumbsup:

Of course, with respect to the Going to the Sun Road, it probably wouldn't meet the strictest definition of highway (though strict definitions of classic american highway might be difficult to pin down from person to person), but it certainly fits the "classic American highway or biway" category outlined in the message :)

[WoodyTobiasJr]

52. Totally agree on Logan's Pass - what a drive that one is!

[deadparrot]

18. Route 66.

I drive it everyday. :hi:

[mykpart]

21. Route 66 had its own TV show and song.

[bumblebee1]

24. I also have to go with PCH.

[enigmatic]

25. HWY 666

http://www.prairieghosts.com/highway666.html

[unsavedtrash]

26. just the one that gets me to my baby every evening. n/t

[blindpig]

30. US Rt 17 inS. Carolina

Through the swamps, pinewoods and plantation country south of Charleston. The "tunnels" of over-arching live oaks are serene and surreal. Sadly, development and over-zealous road engineers are ruining it. Fuck progress.

[noonwitch]

32. Route 66, because it has the best song.

Although anyone in Detroit knows that the best highway is I-696. It is the closest thing to the Autobahn there is outside of Montana. The speed limit is 65 (they're going to raise it to 70, soon), but really, it's just a suggestion.

[anarch]

34. US Rte 50...is that famous?

Ocean City, MD all the way to Sacramento.

[argyl]

55. The Nevada stretch is called "The loneliest road in America" for good

reason. From Ely to Carson City there's a lot of Great Basin high desert,mountain ranges and sagebrush. US 50 from Ely to Sacramento follows the old Pony Express route.

[JVS]

35. Lincoln in the Hizzy!

[XNASA]

36. We live about 2 miles north of the intersection of....

The Lincoln Highway and Dixie Highway. Which at one time was considered the crossroads of America.

So I went with Lincoln.

[Radical Activist]

43. Cool

I'm guessing Route 66 intersects at about the same place.

[XNASA]

48. I think that Lincoln Hwy (Rt 30) and Rt 66 intersect near Joliet.

Which is about 20 miles west of the intersection of Lincoln & Dixie.

[txwhitedove]

38. Voted Hwy 66, great trips as kid and it ran along my

Grandpa's farm in OK.

Most recently, loved driving Hwy 90 the Mississippi Riviera to work in Gulfport, but it's gone.

[RebelOne]

39. Natchez Trace Parkway.

Plenty of history there.

[Radical Activist]

42. You know, I almost included that.

I wanted to put Natchez Trace with a joke about those who remember using it to trade pelts.

[AlCzervik]

44. the PCH, The pukey coast heaveway, Love the scenery but bring a barf bag

[Deep13]

46. Highway to Hell

[Spider Jerusalem]

50. US Route 1...

From the rocky shores and pine forests of Maine, south through Portland and Boston, down through Manhattan, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and all the way south to the sandy beaches of Key West...there's no other highway in the country that has such varied scenery. And I doubt there's one that passes through so many major cities, either.

[maveric]

54. Pics from HWY 1.

The most beautiful coastal drive in the US.

[dysfunctional press]

57. us 41 miami-copper harbour.