The solar’s out, rain is within the rear view and it’s road-trip season in America.
However the place to move? There are a number of fabulous choices — together with a biggie in California — if driving is supposed to be half the enjoyable.
After soliciting journey specialists and its readership, USA At the moment has put out a rating for its annual Readers’ Alternative Awards of Finest Scenic Drives for 2025. These embody at tenth place Montana’s Going-to-the-Solar Street via Glacier Nationwide Park, which the paper deems an “architectural marvel” with grizzly bear and bighorn-sheep sightings. And at first place is the Nice River Street that follows the Mississippi River for 3,000 miles — a contemporary way of life like Huckleberry Finn.
Sixth place? That’d be California’s beautiful Pacific Coast Freeway, stretching alongside mist-shrouded cliffs and mysterious redwood forests from San Francisco to San Diego. Listed below are the opposite scenic drives that USA At the moment’s readers cherished:
Finest Scenic Drives (USA At the moment Readers’ Alternative Awards)
1 Nice River Street, Minnesota to the Gulf Coast
2 Natchez Hint Parkway, Mississippi-Alabama-Tennessee
3 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia to North Carolina
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4 Schoodic Nationwide Scenic Byway, Maine
5 U.S. Route 66, Los Angeles to Chicago
6 Pacific Coast Freeway, California
7 Minnesota North Shore Scenic Drive, Minnesota
8 Door County Coastal Byway, Lake Michigan and northern Wisconsin
9 Midland Path Nationwide Scenic Byway, West Virginia
10 Going-to-the-Solar Street, Montana
Supply: https://10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-scenic-drive