Page 53 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - USA

BEST SCENIC ROUTES  51

Route 100 winds from north to south
in the valleys between the ridges of
Vermont’s green mountains. This
country road attracts “leaf peepers,”
who come here to enjoy the state’s
famous fall foliage.

Key
Columbia River Scenic Highway
70 miles (113 km), 3–5 hours
Blue Ridge Parkway 469 miles
(755 km), 2 days
Natchez Trace Parkway 425 miles
(684 km), 2 days
Going-to-the-Sun Road 50 miles
(80 km), 2–3 hours
Pacific Coast Highway 930 miles
(1,497 km), 4 days
Seattle Route 66 2,400 miles (3,864 km),
WA
11 days
Missouri ME
Columbia 90 Great River Road 2,069 miles
Portland MN 3,331 km), 10 days
MT ND Lowell Route 100 200 miles (322 km), 1 day
WI
5 OR 94 Minneapolis 87 VT NH
ID NY 93
MA
Eureka 15 SD La Crescent 94 MI Wilmington CT
WY La Crosse RI
29 IA 80 PA New York
80 NE Davenport Chicago NJ
80 OH 81
San NV IL IN Washington, DC DE
Francisco UT Missi s sippi 70 MD
CO 70 65 75 WV Warren
Big Sur CA 15 MO St. Louis Roanoke VA
Colorado KS 35 KY
5 Nashville NC
40 OK 95
Los 40 TN Asheville
Angeles 8 AZ Oklahoma AR SC
NM City Mississippi
25 55 Tupelo
10 59 GA
20 25
AL 75
TX Natchez MS 10
LA New
Orleans 95
Natchez Trace Parkway FL Blue Ridge Parkway (see pp222 & 251)
(see p362), between links Shenandoah National Park, VA and the
Nashville, TN and Natchez, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NC. Over
MS, cuts across the densely 20 million visitors travel along the road as it
wooded trail taken by tra verses the crest of the southern Appalachians.
frontier traders more than
a century earlier.
Great River Road follows most
of the course of the Mississippi,
from its source in Minnesota to
the Gulf of Mexico. Running
along both banks of the river,
the route takes in areas of great
scenic beauty and many historic
sites as well as large towns, such
as St. Louis and New Orleans.

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