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The 'News -Record, May 15, 1969 Car Care Supplement — Page 6
ravel -Wise Motorist Lists Ten Great Drives
Continued from Page 4
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There are 49 bridges totalling
nearly 18 miles.
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GREAT LAKES STATES,
ONTARIO'S LAKE SUPERIOR
DRIVE — The essential appeal
of this drive is it makes wil-
derness easily. accessible. It
meanders through muskeg,
rifles through rock, snakes
through .swamps, curves
through rock canyons, roars
through rock gorges, is some-
times smooth as a billiard
table, sometimes bumpier than
a chuckhole -filled street in
spring.
From it one sees magnificent
sweeps' of Lake Superior, vast,
vistas of mountain and valley,
gliznpses of gem -like lake hid-
den :in the trees, many of
which have never been fished,
and which are visited by moose
and bears regularly.
This is a drive of such varie-
ty that everyone will bring
home a different impression.
• * .* *
HAWAII'S CIRCLE OF
OAHU ISLAND. DRIVE —
Toughest job I had was decid-
ing which to describe of many
drives the Hawaiian Islands
offer. For they are all lovely,
and •most feature essentially
the same things; breathtaking
vistas of the ocean in its many
colors, accessibility to beaches
which` are little -used, roads
edged with everything from
stately cocoanut palm trees to'
flowers ranging in color from.
white to red seemingly grow-
ing wild, roads which cut
through lush green sugar cane
fields higher than one's car,
or which edge sugar pineapple
fields rich and red. Volcano
country with black rock along-
shore, rock crumbling to red
and.' turning into rich earth
inland; * * *`
MONTANA'S GOING -TO-
THE -SUN HIGHWAY — Of all
the roads I've ever driven, this
one bisecting Glacier National
Park is my personal favorite.
I have driven it both ways
something new. The late Ste-
•
phen T. Mather, first director
of the National Park Service,
wrote of it:
"It is doubtful if in any oth-
er road in America can in the
same distance unfold . , . Such
a grand array of beautiful for-
ests, dashing torrents, wonder-
ful gorges and valleys, tower-
ing cirques, and a vista of bold,
needle -peaked mountains and
.serrated escarpments . , ." It's
probably_3he only road in the
world so engineered that one
can climb 4,000'feet with nu-
merous. switchbacks in less.
than 25'miles, cross the Con
tinental Divide,, descend 4,000
feet in 25 miles. and never
hav e to change driving ranges
once.
NORTH CAROLINA'S OUT-
ER BANKS HIGHWAY—Many
call this drive on State 12
the "road that beat the sand
dunes," for it makes accessible
a remote, 150 -mile stretch of
pencil -thin sand islands con-
stantly moved about by the
wind from the Atlantic Ocean
on the east. To the west is
Pamlico sound, which sepa-
rates the islands from the
mainland by eight to 30 miles
of water. From its inland
end at Elizabeth. City it goes
through towns with salty
names like Nags Head, Hatter-
as, Ocracoke.
There are 70 miles of clean,
white, uncrowded sand beach
for surf and boat fishing, bath-
ing and just beachcombing in
this National Seashore park.
There are two free and one
-toll ferry rides of 45 minutes
each. One can explore quaint
fishing villages, hear Bankers
converse in Elizabethan -flav-
ored English, cast for a variety
of ocean fish at Gamefish
Junction, where massive warm
and cold ocean currents col-
lide, see the shipwreck -stud-
ded beach along the "Grave-
yard of the Atlantic" and,.five
t f America's lighthouses, in-
eluding its tallest.
NORTH CAROLINA -TEN-
NESSEE -VIRGINIA'S BLUE
'RIDGE PARKWAY Some of
the most graceful mountain.
scenery in the world is un -
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folded from a car window on
this motoring thrill ride which
often takes one through or
above the clouds. When com-
pleted, it will be a 470 -mile
scenic drive connecting Shen-
andoah National Park in Vir-
ginia and Great Smoky Mour-
tains National Park in North
Carolina and Tennessee. State
and U.S. highways connect the
few portions not finished.
The road twists and turns
like a garter :;Hake in follow-
ing the crest of theBlue Ridge
Mountains at elevations from
2,000 to 6,050 feet. It is un-
doubtedly driven, at least in
part, by more persons than
any of the other drives listed
here.
* * *
WASHINGTON STATE'S
OLYMPIC PENINSULA DRIVE
— Choosing one amoi7g the
"iany great drives in this area
is not easy. But the one which
circles Olympic National Park
offers possibly more variety
than the others. The park's
888;000 acres are sprawled over
the extreme northwestern
point on the Continental
United States, bordered by
Canada to the north and the
Pacific . Ocean to the west.
Much of this drive follows the
ocean, and to get to know
much about the park one must
detour inland in a number of
places.
It is a land of contrasts,
with the' northeast section of
the park having one • of the •
west coast's driest climates:
Yet a scant 50 Miles west, ever
the Olympic peaks upwards of
150 inches of rain falls annu-
ally, making this the greatest
rain forest area in the U.S.
Only a few miles inland from.
the coastal road are walls of
timber and fern with moss
hanging from trees.
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