Clinton News-Record, 1969-05-15, Page 16The News -Record, .May 15, 1969 — Car Care Supplement — Page 4
Travel -Wise Motorist Lists Ten Great Drives
All Now Easily Accessible to Those
On Two -Weeks Vacation Schedule,
Thanks'to Better Highways
By LEN BARNES
Getting there to a vacation, that is — can be more than.
Half the fun, If you go by car. And if you include one of a hand-
ful of America's great drives in your route.
Once accessible to only a few who had unlimited time, all
these drives are now easy to reach for most Americans and
.Canadians on a two-week vacation, thanks to distance -whit-
tling limited access, divided Interstate highways.
The writer has not driven every mile of North America roads,
or even every route that has some fame or is beautiful. But I
will recommend the following 10 as outstanding on anyone's
list of great motoring experiences,
CALIFORNIA'S OCEAN
ROAD --Numbered US 101 with
frequent cuts west on Califor-
nia 1, this road curves through
a variety of spectacular scen-
ery from sea level to 2,000 feet
and down again on the way
from Los Angeles to San Fran-
cisco.
It goes through or past sand,
mountains, cliffs, arroyos,
ocean, fishing villages, onion
fields, grape arbors, remote
and beautiful Big Sur country,
rock coves, crooked cypress
trees (among the world's old-
est living things) and plenty
of palms.
* * *
CANADA'S BANFF -JASPER
DRIVE — This road seems to
have been built over animal
trails, it turns so often as it
follows five great river valleys
through a virgin wilderness
along the most spectacular
portion of America's grandest
mountain chain — the Cana-
dian Rockies.
Banti -Jasper has been Balled
the most scenic highway in
the world, and hundreds of
vari-shaped mountain peaks,
from needled spires and in-
verted ice cream cones to saw-
toothed piles and razorback
edges give this claim credence
as they stand watch on both
sides.
COLORADO'S MILLION
DOLLAR HIGHWAY — Any-
one who picks just one Colo-
rado highway will get argu-
ments, there are so many great
ones. But US 550 from Duran-
go to Ouray has got to make
even the most sophisticated
motorist catch his breath at
least once a minute.
Blasted out of sheer rock,
this road offers fust enough
room for two cars to pass in
places, and a scarcity of guard
rails. In places top of the cliff
cannot be seen from one side,
or bottom of the canyon on
the other, Its spectacular
switchbacks keep one con-
stantly- in view of soaring
peaks.
* * *
FLORIDA'S OVERSEAS
HIGHWAY --- One can go over
the Atlantic Ocean in his car
for most of the way from Mi-
ami to Key West on US 1,
Taking off on a series of
hurdles sometimes skipping at
water level, sometimes vault-
ing '75 feet above the ocean,
this concrete thread holds to-
gether a necklace of 750 keys,
or small, low, narrow spits of
limestone, coral and sand that
poke their heads a few feet
above salt water in the high-
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