Roadtrips-What's your favorite stretch of road to drive?

[LordKAT]

Usually, ones I haven't traveled before.

[Cindy]

Yea to that
Cindy

[SandraJane]

Usually, ones I haven't traveled before.

That figures!

[justmeinoz]

I have found a better one than the Great Ocean Road, which has been stuffed up for the first bit by ridiculous speed limits. I have ridden and driven on a large fraction of the roads in SE Australia, and this is the best I have ever ridden.  I put it in the same class as the roads in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands.

It is the Channel Highway in Tasmania.  I rode it last Sunday, and it was almost literally orgasmic.  South out of Hobart on the Southern Outlet or Sandy Bay Rd, then onto the Channel Hwy at Kingston. The road follows the coast for 70 km to Cygnet with tight and sweeping bends, and fantastic views all the way.  The road surface is generally good and there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic.  If you get stuck behind a campervan there are lots of places to pull over and enjoy the views while the road clears a bit.

Once I got to Cygnet I turned around and 3 km out of town turned left towards Nicholls Rivulet and Oyster Cove.  The road through the hills is just as brilliant, with lush rainforest and fern gullies. You end up on the road south out of Hobart, about 30 km south of where you started.
 
If I had had time I would have just done it all again. 

Karen.

[varelse]

I'd have to say my favorite road would be PCH(Pacific Coast Highway), a section of California Route 1 that passes the mountains in the socal area. I love the ocean, and I love the mountains, so I get a glorious view on all sides, for miles and miles. The only bad part is the traffic during peak hours.

[gennee]

Been on a lot of roads in my time. Highway 45 in Colorado comes to mind.

[Joelene9]

Been on a lot of roads in my time. Highway 45 in Colorado comes to mind.

No highway 45, but do you mean US 40 through Berthod and Rabbitears passes!
  Joelene

[Cindy Stephens]

Rt 100 in Vermont, kancamagus hgwy in New Hampshire. Both during the fall.

[JessicaH]

HWY 101 in Western Washington from Anacortes (West of Seattle) to Neah Bay and down the coast.  PCH in SoCal was also pretty cool last August in a new Mustang convertible.

[Gravity Girl]

I like my roads to be steep, winding, whith buttery smooth surfaces and completely free of motorised vehicles

[Amazon D]

I spent 2000 to 2004 traveling the USA in a minnie winnie RV and traveled every back road and went to every state except hiawia and alaska. I went to northern maines most northern tip to key west to vancover BC to san diego and all in between and well the places i loved the most had the poorest people in appalachia In eastern kentucky. I had come across the lonesome pine trail into SE Ky and followed so many hollars into valleys and into NE Tenn. Back in the 60's and early 70's i hitched hiked around the USA and saw 42 states in 8 months time, before they had interstates and that was fun. It took forever to get anywhere and people were so kind back then. I would stay in peoples homes which were listed as salvation army shelters for travelers. Oh i wish we never created interstates. Oh well so is life. Oh i always detoured big cities unless i had to go thru them. Gas was only a 1.00 a gallon then too. sheesh how things have changed ..

UPDATE:
NOTE: I WAS DOING TRANS SAFE HOUSING BACK THEN = 2000 TO 2003 AND HAD TO TRAVEL TO PICK UP MANY OF THEM AND DELIVER THEM TO THE SAFE HOUSING PLACES

[Padma]

I like driving through tree tunnels - it's like being stroked by the trees...

[SandraJane]

Love this drive

Where is "this drive"?

[Cindy]

I like driving through tree tunnels - it's like being stroked by the trees...

You should get to the Valley of the Giants in West Australia. Tree heaven

Cindy

[tekla]

You'd love the Natchez Trace Parkway then.

[Padma]

You should get to the Valley of the Giants in West Australia. Tree heaven

Nearly made it there when I went to Perth, ended up near Dwellingup instead, which was okay - but was also up near Dorrigo, some fine trees there. Very few things make me happier than being in a forest (though I'd rather be walking than driving) .

[tekla]

Well the Redwood forests of Northern California a so soft, so deep and so quite, the Quaking Aspen forests of Colorado are way trippy (the leaves are green on one side, silver on the other and in a breeze it just shimmers), and the White Birch Forests of N. Minnesota are very pretty too.

[SandraJane]

And the Blue Ridge Parkway...anywhere...Quaking Aspen...2 sided leaves...I want to see now!

Natchez Trace...and East Texas-The Big Thicket...solid Pine!

[SandraJane]

I like Iowa.  The endless cornfields, whether flat or in them rolling hills.

I also like the backwoods of Appalachia, M2.  One time I was working in southern WV and a local took us up the holla in his pickup, all the way up the mountain and back.  Little dirt road carved out of the trees with raspberries everywhere and deer, black bears, the road so rough we drove across four creeks each way.  It was amazing.  Now I'm afraid I won't be able to go back there because of being out trans now, I love it but it isn't always the safest place.

Hey Brother Hillbilly, Sister Hillbilly sez it ain't because of that...its them sumbit*#in Coal Companies, strip mining and destroying West "by God" Virginia! That place you went to was probably destroyed, so don't worry 'bout being Trans! You think you be safer on the streets of D.C. or Baltimore? Up some Holler in WV? Used to be the other way around

[tekla]

There are parts of West Virginia that have that Deliverance "if you hear banjo music paddle faster' feel about them.