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Top 10 RT drives

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Top 10 RT drives

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ROF= Ring of fire Odyssey  MEF-H = Marine Expeditionary Force- Hargus 

RT= Road Trip journey           

October 26, 2017         

Top 10 RT drives…. It’s like Top 50 RT drives


Tracks of the StoneBear lives for a RT - Road Trip. The view from the edge suits me fine!

Having  been fortunate to take some amazing RT= Road Trips. Of the RT Road Trips taken this is my list of the top 10 roads to drive. … not necessarily in this order.   

1. Chief Joseph Highway, Cody, Wyoming

2.  Beartooth Highway 212  to Red Lodge Montana

3.  White Pass, Yukon Territory  Skagway, ALaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

4. Highway 12 Utah, Hanksville Utah to Bryce Canyon

5. Bighorn Canyon, Lovell, Wyoming

6.  Wind River Canyon, Thermopolis Wyoming

7. Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Vernal, Utah to Rock Springs Wyoming

8. Highway 89. Zion National Park to Grand Canyon National Park

9. Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Kalispell Montana

10. Icefields Parkway, Lake Louise  to Jasper, ALberta Canada

11. The Grand Tetons to/ and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

12. Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway

13. Highway 24, Leadville, Independence Pass to Buena Vista, Colorado

14.  Highway 14 Yellowstone to Cody, Wyoming

15. Mirror Lake Hwy/ scenic byway Kamas, Utah to Evanston, WY- and on to Yellowstone
     (Salt Lake City to Yellowstone, go west of Bear Lake)  

16, Columbia River, I-84  Portland, OR to Umatilla, and Pendleton, OR

17. Canyon de Chelley, Chinle, AZ  pronounced… Canyon de Shey-ly

18. Moki Dugway, Kayenta, AZ hwy 163 to Monument Valley, AZ , hwy 261 to hwy 95 to Hanksville, Utah

19. Moab, UT hwy 128 to Fruita, Colorado

20. Fruita, Colorado hwy 139, 64, 40 ,191 to Flaming Gorge, Utah

21. Rock Springs, Wyoming hwy 191, 28, 287, 789, 26, 20 to Thermoplolis, Wyoming

22. Sheridan, Wy hwy 14 to Lovell, Wyoming  

23. Big Timber, Montana 298 to Box Canyon

24. Missoula , Montana hwy 93 to Kalispell

25. Kalispell, MT hwy 2 west to St Marys, MT

26.  Ft Collins, CO hwy 14 to Walden, hwy 125 to Laramie, Wy

27. Laramie, WY hwy 130 thru The Snowy Range Mtns to Saratoga, WY - and stop to soak in the Hot Springs at Saratoga, WY

28.  Lewiston, Idaho hwy 12 to Kennewick, Washington I-82 to Umatilla

29. Umatilla I-84 Columbia river Gorge to Biggs/ The Dalles/ Hood River to Portland

30. Vancouver, Canada Hwy 1 to Hope, hwy 5 to Merritt, to Kamloops, to Revelstoke, Golden, Field and Lake Louise, Alberta… to Banff

31.  Dawson, Yukon hwy 9 to TOK, ALaska

32. Anchorage hwy 1 to Homer, AK

33. Fairbanks, AK hwy 3 to Denali, AK

34. TOK, AK hwy 1 to Haines, AK  

35. Dawson Creek, British Columbia hwy 97 to Watson Lake, hwy ALCAN 1 to Whitehorse, Yukon Canada

36. Whitehorse, Yukon hwy 2 to Dawson City, Yukon Canada

37. Portland, Maine hwy 1 to Camden, MA to Lubec, Maine

38. St Stephen NB to Moncton, to North Sydney. NS, Ferry to Port au Basques Newfoundland.

39.  Port Au Basque to Corner Brook,  to Deer Lake, to Rocky Harbor, to Norris Point, to Cow Head, to Trout River, Newfoundland Canada

40. Cape Breton island Nova Scotia. Port Hawkesbury hwy 4 to St Peters to North Sydney, Ferry to Port au Basques Newfoundland Canada

41. London UK Russell Square tube to all of London... Stop, go up top and walk a half mile circle around the Tube station

42. Ride ferry boat on the Thames river out to Greenwich,Royal Naval College barracks, Greenwich royal observatory/ Greenwich prime meridian,  Walk on deck of The Cutty Sark ship in dry dock

43.  Hwy 1 Brunswick, to Camden,Maine to Lubec Maine- Easternmost city USA. At Camden Maine drive up to Mt Battie… to the rock tower…. This is the site that inspiered Edna St Vincent Millay to write “Renaissance”    

44. Cape Breton Loop hwy 312 Nova Scotia, Canada   

45.  Hwy 2 Maine by the White Mtns, to Burlington, Hwy 7s to Middlebury, Rutland to Whitehall NY

46. Rochester, NY I-390s thru Finger Lakes region down to Pottsville, PA  

47.    Statesville, NC hwy 421n to Boone, Blowing Rock, Lenoir NC

48. Asheville, NC to Mt Mitchell, NC highest point east of MS river

49. Mentone, ALa hwy 157n on Lookout Mtn to Chattanooga, TN CSA battlefield

50. Tupelo, MS hwy 278w to Clarksdale, MS, hwy 61n to Helena/ Marvelle Ark, home of Levon Helm,  to Brinkley, ARK

51. Eufaula, AK hwy 9w to hwy 48n to Bristow, OK, old route 66west to Stroud, Chandler, OK, to Arcadia, OK

52.   Oklahoma City, OK hwy 270 to Woodward, OK, hwy 412 to Guymon/ Boise City, OK, hwy 325 to Kenton, OK, hwy to Folsom, NM hwy 72 to Raton, NM

53. Raton, NM I-25n to Trinidad, CO, hwy12 to LaVeta, CO. hwy 160w to Alamosa, to Pagosa Springs, hwy to Chimney Rock, hwy 511 to hwy 64 Bloomfield, to Aztec, to Farmington, hwy 64 to Shiprock, NM to Teec Nos Pos, AZ hwy 160 to Kayenta, AZ         

54.  Hanksville, UT hwy 24 to Torrey, UT , hwy 12 to Bryce Canyon, UT -- this is my #1 drive!!!   

55. Bryce Canyon hwy 89s to Kanab, UT,  south to Lees Ferry, to Page, to Cameron, hwy 64w to THE Grand Canyon  

56. The Grand Canyon, hwy 64s to Williams, AZ, R&R, I-40west/ old route 66 west to Seligman/ Kingman AZ, hwy 93n to Boulder City/ Boulder dam, to Henderson & Las Vegas-- Vegas, What a shithole… really!!!  

Get out there ,.... Drive it,  camp it…. You will have fun doing it !!!    Uncle Hargus The view from the edge suited me fine!  Drive Hard !


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