HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-05-08, Page 11Sights to Re Seen from... $. and Canadian Highways
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Just look out the car window to see sights such as (top
row, left to right) Lone Cypress at Midway Pitt along
Monterey Bay drive; Bear Grass on the "Going to the
Sun" Highway in Montana; Elmer the Elk in Jasper
National Park, Alberta, Canada; and the Appalachian
Trail in Great Smokies Park, North Carolina. Bottom,
row, left to right; snow-capped mountains in Canada's
Banff-Jasper National Park; Lake Angeles in Olympic •
National Park in Washington State; San Juan moun-
tains in Colorado; or Hawaiian huts in Honolulu Park
on Oahu. These are only a few of the beautiful views
to be seen in North America as you travel along.
Travel-Wise Motorist Lists Ten Great Drives
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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.
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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.
Banff-Jasper has been called
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 just 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-
way's path or alongside it.
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, rears
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,
glimpses of gem-like lakes hid-
den in the trees, many of
Which have never been fished,
and whieh are visited by moose
and bears regularly.
This is a drive of such varie-
ty that everyone will bring
home a different impression,
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HAWAII'S CIRCLE Or'
OAHU ISLAND DPAVE
'Doughest f ob 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 hi Its Many
More eye-filling vistas include
the Upper Tahquamenon Falls
Michigan's Upper Peninsula'
(top) and the necklace of 750.
keys linked by Florida's Over-
seas Highway (bottom).
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
eight times and always see
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 beauthul 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 the 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 milea, and never
have to change driving ranges
once, Even those who fear
mountain driving should have
no trouble here.
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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 ate /0 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 tides Of 45 minutes
each, One can explore quaint,
fishing villages, hear Bankers
converse in Elizabethan-flay-
Bred English, cast for &variety
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-
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
of America's lighthouses, in-
cluding its tallest,
NORTH CAROLINA-TEN-
NESSEE-VIRGINIA'S BLUE
RIDGE PARKWAY — Some of
the most graceful mountain
scenery in the world is un-
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- Opnecting Shen-
andoah National Park in Vir-
ginia and Great Smoky Moun-
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 snake in follow-
ing the crest of the Blue Ridge
Mountains at elevations from
2,000 to 8,050 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 among the
many 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 over
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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