A road just for driving - Blue Ridge Parkway, Eastern USA
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All I can say is wow
On holiday in the NC mountains - and have been driving sections of this road. It doesn’t allow commercial traffic, doesn’t really go anywhere, it is a road just for the joy of driving and beautiful scenery. Very well maintained, almost no traffic. Downside is a speed limit of 45 MPH, and due to the nature of the road, double yellow lines (no overtaking) for 99% of it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Parkway
Even with a poxy rental car, (Nissan Verso) it was wonderful. I can imagine best driven with a MX5 or a big touring bike. Did come across a fair number of Harley groups. Most exotic car seen was a KTM X-bow.
10/10 would recommend. And 12 Bones Smokehouse in Asheville for ribs and craft beer.
On holiday in the NC mountains - and have been driving sections of this road. It doesn’t allow commercial traffic, doesn’t really go anywhere, it is a road just for the joy of driving and beautiful scenery. Very well maintained, almost no traffic. Downside is a speed limit of 45 MPH, and due to the nature of the road, double yellow lines (no overtaking) for 99% of it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Parkway
Even with a poxy rental car, (Nissan Verso) it was wonderful. I can imagine best driven with a MX5 or a big touring bike. Did come across a fair number of Harley groups. Most exotic car seen was a KTM X-bow.
10/10 would recommend. And 12 Bones Smokehouse in Asheville for ribs and craft beer.
I keep looking at the wiggly lines on Google Maps in that area.
Looks like you can join up the Blue Ridge Parkway with the Skyline Drive to the north and then there's the Tail of the Dragon and a couple of other scenic routes to the south.
So you can go from around the Washington DC area down to Atlanta all on 'good' roads, plus (as mentioned) Asheville seems a hub of small breweries.
And you can do a return loop on dull roads via places such as Huntsville AL (NASA stuff), the Corvette factory and museum in Bowing Green KY, the USAF museum in Dayton OH, perhaps a side quest to Cleveland for the R'n'R Hall of Fame and to see the Browns lose in person rather than just on tv and back to Dulles for a flight home stopping off at the Smithsonian Flight Centre there.
Looks like you can join up the Blue Ridge Parkway with the Skyline Drive to the north and then there's the Tail of the Dragon and a couple of other scenic routes to the south.
So you can go from around the Washington DC area down to Atlanta all on 'good' roads, plus (as mentioned) Asheville seems a hub of small breweries.
And you can do a return loop on dull roads via places such as Huntsville AL (NASA stuff), the Corvette factory and museum in Bowing Green KY, the USAF museum in Dayton OH, perhaps a side quest to Cleveland for the R'n'R Hall of Fame and to see the Browns lose in person rather than just on tv and back to Dulles for a flight home stopping off at the Smithsonian Flight Centre there.
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