Scenic drives to know, state by state
Federally designated byways and park roads, each checked against official sources: a map, stops, drive time, fees and the road-conditions link, plus farmers markets near the route.
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- Alabama 2
- Alaska 2
- Arizona 2
- Arkansas 2
- California 2
- Colorado 2
- Connecticut 2
- Delaware 2
- Florida 2
- Georgia 1
- Hawaii 2
- Idaho 2
- Illinois 3
- Indiana 2
- Iowa 2
- Kansas 2
- Kentucky 2
- Louisiana 2
- Maine 2
- Maryland 2
- Massachusetts 2
- Michigan 2
- Minnesota 2
- Mississippi 1
- Missouri 1
- Montana 1
- Nebraska 2
- Nevada 2
- New Hampshire 2
- New Jersey 2
- New Mexico 2
- New York 3
- North Carolina 3
- North Dakota 2
- Ohio 2
- Oklahoma 3
- Oregon 2
- Pennsylvania 3
- Rhode Island 1
- South Carolina 2
- South Dakota 2
- Tennessee 3
- Texas 2
- Utah 2
- Vermont 1
- Virginia 4
- Washington 3
- West Virginia 2
- Wisconsin 2
- Wyoming 2
We're adding drives state by state, only after checking them against official federal and state sources. The lists are drives to know, not rankings.
All drives
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All-American Road
A1A Scenic & Historic Coastal Byway
72 miles of A1A along northeast Florida's Atlantic coast, through Ponte Vedra Beach and St. Augustine to Flagler Beach.- Coast
- Beaches
- History
- Marshes
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All-American Road
Acadia All-American Road
A drive around Mount Desert Island's granite mountains, rocky shore and lakes in Acadia National Park, including Sand Beach, Thunder Hole and Cadillac Mountain.- Coast
- Mountains
- Lakes
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Baltimore's Historic Charles Street
A 12-mile city byway up Charles Street from Baltimore's Inner Harbor through Mount Vernon, Charles Village and Roland Park to Lutherville.- City
- History
- Museums
- Gardens
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National Scenic Byway
The Battle Road Scenic Byway
16 miles through Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln and Concord on the route of April 19, 1775, through Minute Man National Historical Park.- History
- Woods
- Fields
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National Scenic Byway
Bayou Teche Scenic Byway
A drive along Bayou Teche through Cajun country in St. Martin, Iberia and St. Mary parishes, past live oaks and old towns.- Bayou
- Live oaks
- Historic towns
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All-American Road
Beartooth Highway
US 212 from Red Lodge, Montana, over 10,947-foot Beartooth Pass into Wyoming and back to Cooke City near Yellowstone, open late May to mid-October.- Mountains
- Alpine
- Lakes
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All-American Road
Big Sur Coast Highway
72 miles of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast: cliffs, coastal canyons and redwoods, with Bixby Creek Bridge and McWay Falls along the way.- Coast
- Cliffs
- Redwoods
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National Scenic Byway
Billy the Kid Trail
An 84-mile Old West loop through New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest, from Ruidoso to the preserved frontier town of Lincoln and Fort Stanton.- Mountains
- Forest
- Old West towns
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All-American Road
Blue Ridge Parkway
469 miles along the crest of the Blue Ridge from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains, with mileposts from 0 in Virginia to 469 in North Carolina.- Mountains
- Overlooks
- Fall color
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway
Kennett Pike and Montchanin Road out of Wilmington into Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley, past Hagley, Winterthur and Longwood Gardens.- Gardens
- Woods
- History
- Museums
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National Scenic Byway
Cascade Loop
A 440-mile loop through the North Cascades, the Methow Valley and Puget Sound, with the North Cascades Highway open roughly May to late fall.- Mountains
- Lakes
- Puget Sound
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Cherohala Skyway
A 43-mile mountain skyway between Tellico Plains, Tennessee, and Robbinsville, North Carolina, with mile-high views.- Mountains
- Forest
- Fall color
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National Scenic Byway
Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway
SC 11 along the base of the Blue Ridge escarpment, past peach orchards, state parks and Lake Keowee, from Gaffney toward the Georgia line.- Foothills
- Orchards
- Lakes
- Waterfalls
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National Scenic Byway
Cherokee Hills Byway
84 miles through the Ozark foothills of eastern Oklahoma, through Cherokee Nation lands and Tahlequah to the Arkansas line.- Ozark foothills
- Lakes
- Rivers
- Culture
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All-American Road
Chinook Scenic Byway
SR 410 from Enumclaw up the White River, over Chinook Pass beside Mount Rainier, and down to the Naches valley; summer to fall only at the pass.- Mountains
- Volcano views
- Forest
- River canyons
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All-American Road
Colonial Parkway
A 23-mile parkway linking Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, the Historic Triangle of colonial Virginia, along the James and York rivers.- Rivers
- Woods
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Connecticut River Byway
Both banks of New England's longest river through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont: farms, river towns and the Upper Valley.- River
- Farmland
- Villages
- Mountains
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National Scenic Byway
Connecticut State Route 169
32 miles of Route 169 through the villages, stone walls and farms of northeastern Connecticut, from Woodstock south to Canterbury and beyond.- Villages
- Farmland
- Fall color
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Coronado Trail Scenic Byway
US 191 winds 460 curves from the copper mines of Clifton-Morenci up to 9,000-foot forests and mountain meadows.- Mountains
- Forest
- High desert
- Meadows
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All-American Road
Creole Nature Trail
"Louisiana's Outback": 180 miles of marsh, coastal prairie and Gulf beach in southwest Louisiana, with alligators, birds and four wildlife refuges.- Marshes
- Coast
- Wildlife
- Prairie
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National Scenic Byway
Crowley's Ridge Parkway
A 212-mile drive along Crowley's Ridge, a narrow band of hills that rises above the flat Mississippi Delta from Missouri to Helena, Arkansas.- Hills
- Forest
- Wildflowers
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Delaware Bayshore Byway
Delaware's bay coast from historic New Castle south past marsh refuges and small river towns toward Lewes.- Coast
- Marshes
- Wildlife
- Historic towns
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National Scenic Byway
Delaware River Scenic Byway
Route 29 up the New Jersey bank of the Delaware River from Trenton to Frenchtown, through Lambertville, Stockton and Washington Crossing.- River
- Canal
- River towns
- History
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All-American Road
Door County Coastal Byway
A 67-mile loop around Wisconsin's Door Peninsula on WIS 42 and 57, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, past state parks, lighthouses and harbor villages.- Lakeshore
- Bluffs
- Villages
- Lighthouses
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National Scenic Byway
East Tennessee Crossing
83 miles of US 25E from Cumberland Gap across Clinch Mountain and the Great Valley of Tennessee to Newport, on the old Wilderness Road.- Mountains
- Valleys
- Lakes
- History
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All-American Road
Flaming Gorge - Green River Basin Scenic Byway
Red-rock high desert around the Wyoming end of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, starting on US 191 just west of Rock Springs.- Red rock
- Reservoir
- High desert
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National Scenic Byway
Flint Hills Scenic Byway
47 miles of K-177 through the Flint Hills, the largest stretch of tallgrass prairie left, from Council Grove past the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.- Prairie
- Small towns
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All-American Road
Florida Keys Scenic Highway
US 1 from Key Largo to Key West: 110 miles and 43 keys of bridges, mangroves and open water, Florida's only All-American Road.- Islands
- Ocean
- Bridges
- Wildlife
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All-American Road
George Washington Memorial Parkway
A Potomac River parkway from Mount Vernon past Alexandria and the Washington monuments to the Potomac Gorge.- River
- Monuments
- Woods
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National Scenic Byway
Geronimo Trail Scenic Byway
Black Range mining towns and Emory Pass on the Geronimo Trail, based in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.- Mountains
- Ghost towns
- Desert
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National Scenic Byway
Glenn Highway
135 miles from Anchorage up the Matanuska River valley past Palmer's colony farms and the Matanuska Glacier to Eureka Summit.- Mountains
- Glaciers
- Rivers
- Farmland
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National Scenic Byway
Great Lakes Seaway Trail
518 miles along Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence in Pennsylvania and New York, from Presque Isle to the 1000 Islands.- Lakeshore
- Lighthouses
- Waterfalls
- Islands
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All-American Road
Hells Canyon Scenic Byway
A loop from Baker City through ranch country, over the Wallowa Mountains to Joseph, with a side road to the Hells Canyon Overlook; summer only on Forest Road 39.- Canyon
- Mountains
- Ranchland
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National Scenic Byway
Highland Scenic Highway
43 miles through a wild part of the Monongahela National Forest, past the Cranberry Glades bog, Summit Lake and the Falls of Hills Creek.- Mountains
- Forest
- Wetlands
- Waterfalls
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National Scenic Byway
Historic Bluff Country Scenic Byway
88 miles of Highway 16 through southeast Minnesota's Root River valley, past dolomite bluffs and small historic towns.- River valley
- Bluffs
- Small towns
- Farmland
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National Scenic Byway
Lincoln Highway (Illinois)
Illinois' 179 miles of the first U.S. transcontinental highway, from Lynwood across prairie towns to the Mississippi at Fulton.- Prairie
- River towns
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Indiana's Historic Pathways
US 50 and US 150 across southern Indiana, from Vincennes on the Wabash to the Ohio River at Lawrenceburg, through hills, forests and old towns.- Hills
- Forest
- Farmland
- History
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All-American Road
International Selkirk Loop
A loop around the Selkirk Mountains through north Idaho, northeast Washington and British Columbia, with lakes, rivers and a free ferry.- Mountains
- Lakes
- Rivers
- Small towns
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National Scenic Byway
Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway
180 miles from Gettysburg through Maryland and Virginia's Piedmont to Monticello, on a corridor packed with Revolutionary and Civil War history.- History
- Farmland
- Mountains
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Scenic byway, Island of Hawaiʻi
Kaʻū Scenic Byway - The Slopes of Maunaloa
54 miles of Highway 11 around the slopes of Maunaloa through Kaʻū, past lava fields and Punaluʻu's black sand beach to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.- Lava fields
- Coast
- Black sand beach
- Volcano
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National Scenic Byway
Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail
Ohio's whole Lake Erie shore: islands, marshes, lighthouses and maritime towns from Toledo east toward Conneaut.- Lakeshore
- Islands
- Marshes
- Lighthouses
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National Scenic Byway
Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive
28 miles along Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore on US 50 and Route 28, from Stateline past Cave Rock and Sand Harbor to Crystal Bay.- Lake
- Mountains
- Beaches
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All-American Road
Lakes to Locks Passage
New York's only All-American Road, following the Hudson, the Champlain Canal, Lake George and Lake Champlain from Waterford to Rouses Point.- Lakes
- Canals
- Mountains
- History
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All-American Road
Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Boulevard from the STRAT to the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign, a scenic byway best driven at night.- City lights
- Night drive
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National Scenic Byway
Lincoln Heritage Scenic Highway
71 miles through Kentucky's knobs from Abraham Lincoln's birthplace and boyhood home past Hodgenville to Bardstown.- Knobs
- Farmland
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway
The historic Lincoln Highway across Iowa, from Clinton on the Mississippi to Council Bluffs on the Missouri, through dozens of main streets.- Farmland
- Main streets
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Loess Hills National Scenic Byway
220 miles through Iowa's Loess Hills, steep ridges of wind-blown soil above the Missouri River valley, from near Hamburg north to Akron.- Prairie hills
- Prairie
- Small towns
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National Scenic Byway
Logan Canyon Scenic Byway
41 miles up Logan Canyon beside the Logan River, through forest and meadows, to Garden City on Bear Lake.- Canyon
- River
- Lake
- Fall color
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National Scenic Byway
Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route
33 miles of the Great River Road under limestone bluffs where the Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois rivers meet, from Hartford through Alton to Grafton.- Rivers
- Bluffs
- River towns
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National Scenic Byway
Merritt Parkway
Connecticut's first parkway: a wooded, passenger-car-only drive from the New York line to Milford, under 69 bridges, many in Art Deco style.- Parkway
- Woods
- Historic bridges
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National Scenic Byway
Midland Trail
116 miles from the West Virginia Capitol through the New River country past Hawks Nest to historic Lewisburg.- Mountains
- River gorge
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Millstone Valley Scenic Byway
25 miles along the Millstone River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal in central New Jersey, past canal villages and 1700s houses.- Canal
- River
- Farmland
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Mohawk Towpath Byway
25 miles along the Mohawk River and the old Erie Canal route from Waterford to Schenectady's Stockade District, past Cohoes Falls.- River
- Canal
- Waterfalls
- History
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All-American Road
Natchez Trace Parkway
444 miles from Natchez, Mississippi, to near Nashville along the old Natchez Trace, through Alabama, with no trucks and a 50 mph limit.- Forest
- Swamps
- Farmland
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Native American Scenic Byway
350 miles along the Missouri River through the lands of the Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Lakota Sioux.- Missouri River
- Prairie
- Tribal lands
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All-American Road
Lincoln Highway Scenic & Historic Byway (Nebraska)
The historic Lincoln Highway across all of Nebraska on US 30, following the Platte River valley about 450 miles west to Kimball.- Platte River valley
- Prairie
- History
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All-American Road
North Shore Scenic Drive
154 miles of Highway 61 along Lake Superior from Duluth's Canal Park to the Canadian border, past waterfalls, cliffs and lighthouses.- Lakeshore
- Waterfalls
- Forest
- Lighthouses
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All-American Road
Northwest Passage Scenic Byway
US 12 up the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers from Lewiston to Lolo Pass, through Nez Perce homeland on the route of Lewis and Clark.- Rivers
- Canyons
- Mountains
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Ohio River Scenic Byway
943 miles along the Ohio River through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, with near-constant river views and old river towns.- River
- River towns
- Hills
- History
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National Scenic Byway
Old Canada Road Scenic Byway
78 miles of US 201 along the Kennebec and Dead rivers through Maine's North Woods, from Solon to the Quebec border.- Rivers
- Forest
- Mountains
- Villages
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National Scenic Byway
Outer Banks Scenic Byway
NC 12 down the Outer Banks barrier islands past Cape Hatteras, with state ferries linking Hatteras, Ocracoke and the mainland.- Barrier islands
- Beaches
- Lighthouses
- Ferries
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All-American Road
Pacific Coast Scenic Byway (Oregon)
US 101 down the whole Oregon coast, 363 miles from Astoria to Brookings past headlands, dunes and coastal forest.- Coast
- Headlands
- Dunes
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway
A double loop through Custer State Park and the Black Hills on the Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Road: granite spires, one-lane tunnels and pigtail bridges.- Mountains
- Granite spires
- Forest
- Wildlife
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National Scenic Byway
Red River Gorge Scenic Byway
46 miles through Kentucky's Red River Gorge: sandstone arches, cliffs and a one-lane logging tunnel in the Daniel Boone National Forest.- Gorge
- Stone arches
- Forest
- River
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All-American Road
Red Rock Scenic Byway
A short, slow drive through Sedona's red rock country on State Route 179, with Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte right beside the road.- Red rock
- High desert
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Revolutionary Heritage Byway
A 6-mile drive through Bristol, Rhode Island: historic houses, waterfront parks and views of Bristol Harbor and Narragansett Bay.- Harbor
- Historic town
- Waterfront parks
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Scenic drive along Big Bend Ranch State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife)
River Road (FM 170)
FM 170 along the Rio Grande between Presidio and Lajitas, beside Big Bend Ranch State Park, through canyons and river bends.- River
- Canyons
- Desert
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National Scenic Byway
River Road Scenic Byway
22 miles from Oscoda on Lake Huron along the Au Sable River into the Huron National Forest, with river overlooks and logging history.- River
- Forest
- Fall color
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Park scenic drive, Big Bend National Park
Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive
About 30 miles across Big Bend's Chihuahuan Desert, past old ranches and volcanic peaks, to Castolon and Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande.- Desert
- Mountains
- Canyon
- River
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Scenic byway, Island of Hawaiʻi
Royal Footsteps Along the Kona Coast
Seven miles of Aliʻi Drive on the Kona Coast, from Kailua Village to Keauhou, past Huliheʻe Palace, royal surf spots and heiau.- Coast
- History
- Surf
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National Scenic Byway
Russell-Brasstown National Scenic Byway
A 41-mile mountain loop from Helen through the Chattahoochee National Forest, with a spur up to Brasstown Bald, Georgia's highest peak.- Mountains
- Forest
- Waterfalls
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All-American Road
San Juan Skyway
A 233-mile mountain loop from Durango through Silverton, Ouray, Telluride and Cortez, including the Million Dollar Highway over Red Mountain Pass.- Mountains
- Historic towns
- Forest
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All-American Road
San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway
57 miles of Highway 1 from San Luis Obispo past Morro Bay and Cambria to Hearst Castle and the quiet coast beyond.- Coast
- Ranchland
- Estuary
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National Scenic Byway
Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway
272 miles of Nebraska Highway 2 across the Sandhills, North America's largest grass-covered dune field, from Grand Island to Alliance.- Sandhills
- Grassland
- Ranches
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National Scenic Byway
Savannah River Scenic Byway
110 miles up South Carolina's side of the Savannah River lakes on SC 28, SC 81 and SC 24, from the Georgia line to the foothills.- Lakes
- Rural South
- History
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All-American Road
Scenic Byway 12
Utah's All-American Road through red-rock canyon country, from Panguitch past Bryce Canyon and over the Hogback ridge to Torrey near Capitol Reef.- Red rock
- Canyons
- Mountains
- Desert
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All-American Road
Selma to Montgomery March Byway
US 80 from Selma to Montgomery along the route of the 1965 voting rights march, from Brown Chapel and the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the State Capitol.- History
- Countryside
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All-American Road
Seward Highway
127 miles from Anchorage to Seward: first along Turnagain Arm under the Chugach Mountains, then up through lakes and passes of the Kenai Peninsula.- Coast
- Mountains
- Glaciers
- Wildlife
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National Scenic Byway
Sheyenne River Valley Scenic Byway
63 miles down the wooded Sheyenne River valley, North Dakota's first national scenic byway, from Lake Ashtabula and Valley City to Lisbon.- River valley
- Bridges
- Prairie
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National Scenic Byway
Talimena Scenic Drive
54 miles along the crests of Rich and Winding Stair mountains in the Ouachita National Forest, between Mena, Arkansas, and Talihina, Oklahoma.- Mountains
- Forest
- Fall color
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All-American Road
Trail Ridge Road
US 34 across Rocky Mountain National Park: 48 miles from Estes Park to Grand Lake, with 11 miles above treeline and a high point of 12,183 feet.- Mountains
- Alpine tundra
- Forest
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National Scenic Byway
Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway
A 77-mile drive linking Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, two big wetlands on the Central Flyway in central Kansas.- Wetlands
- Wildlife
- Prairie
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National Scenic Byway
White Mountain Trail
A 100-mile loop through New Hampshire's White Mountains: the Kancamagus Highway, Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch.- Mountains
- Notches
- Waterfalls
- Fall color
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National Scenic Byway
Wichita Mountains Byway
A drive through the ancient Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma and its wildlife refuge, with bison, prairie and the road up Mount Scott.- Mountains
- Prairie
- Wildlife
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National Scenic Byway
Wisconsin Lake Superior Scenic Byway
WIS 13 around the Bayfield Peninsula on Lake Superior's south shore, through Washburn and Bayfield, the gateway to the Apostle Islands.- Lakeshore
- Islands
- Forest
- Rivers
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All-American Road
Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail
Woodward Avenue from downtown Detroit to Pontiac: Michigan's first surveyed road and the main street of the auto industry.- City
- Cars
- History
How we check: each drive's name, designation, length and time come from the Federal Highway Administration's America's Byways program or the managing agency; route lines come from the U.S. DOT scenic byways map service; stops come from official park, forest and state pages. Facts we couldn't confirm say "Not verified".
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