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Grand Ridge Road

The Grand Ridge Road, partially designated route C484, is a long tourist drive through Gippsland, in Victoria, Australia.


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Arnspitze Group

The most scenic route to the Große Arnspitze runs from the Leutasch over the Riedbergscharte and the Achterköpfe.

British Columbia Highway 30

Highway 30, also known as Port Alice Road, is a 30 km (19 mi) long northeast-to-southwest scenic route in the Regional District of Mount Waddington on Vancouver Island, connecting Port Alice with a location on Highway 19 known as Keogh, between Port Hardy and Port McNeill.

Levittown, Puerto Rico

It is a scenic route that provides a nice coastal view in which Punta Salinas' radar domes and El Morro can be seen.

Manitoba Highway 26

PTH 26 serves as an alternative scenic route between Portage La Prairie and Winnipeg as it closely follows the Assiniboine River which flows south of the highway.

Niagara Gorge Railroad

This service was jointly with the IRC "Canadian Scenic Route" on the Canadian side of the River from Niagara Falls, Ontario to Queenston, Ontario.

North Carolina Highway 694

From here, visitors can travel back to Asheville along the scenic route or take a right onto Ox Creek Road for a curvy four miles, then right onto Reems Creek Road to Vance Birthplace State Historic Site.

Olympian Hiawatha

While the Milwaukee Road promoted the Olympian Hiawatha and its scenic route through Idaho and Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the Cascade range in Washington, the railroad competed with the Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific Railway's North Coast Limited and the growing airlines.

Redfield, Bristol

The nearby Lawrence Hill railway station serves the Redfield population and provides an easy access point to the Severn Beach Line running from Bristol Temple Meads railway station out to Severn Beach, the line has been listed among Thomas Cook's most favoured attractions for its scenic route along the River Avon and River Severn.

Sheridan Lake

Sheridan Lake is accessible via U.S. Route 385 north from Hill City, South Dakota and Three Forks or south from Lead and Deadwood, or a scenic route via Sheridan Lake Drive (a paved county highway) from Rapid City.

Southern Scenic Route

The next section of rugged coastline with poor roading through Kaitangata is avoided as the Southern Scenic Route follows SH1 to Milton and Lake Waihola.

U.S. Route 290

West of Austin, U.S. 290 is a rather scenic route through the Texas Hill Country, passing through the towns of Fredericksburg and Johnson City, and hence close to the historical sites connected with Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, a top commander during the War in the Pacific (1941–45) and the deceased President from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson.