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I am really excited to be crossing off one of my bucket list items by finally buying my dream car with the order of a 2017 Grand Sport and having Museum delivery.
Another item on my bucket list is touring all 50 states. While I'm not sure I'll get to do all in my new C7, I would like your input in identifying the must experience "bucket list drives" in each state. You know... those back road, windy, scenic drives that were just made for a corvette.
Please provide: State, City, Road, Start/End Points, Scenic Stops, Thrill Sections and what you enjoyed most.
Welcome to the forum Joel, and congrats on the order of that GS.
Without a doubt Route 66 is my favorite, plus that's eight states you can mark off your list. Plus the ones you drive through to get to Chicago, or California depending on where you're starting from.
BTW, there are some good scenic road web sites out there.
Last edited by Rebel Yell; 08-05-2016 at 06:35 PM.
I cast my vote for the Pacific Coast Highway... a Bucket List road if there ever was one.
1 and 101 (whichever is closer to the Ocean) Los Angeles clear up through Washington State around Crescent Lake to Port Angeles before you head back south, maybe stop in Seattle--or contact me and we'll put you up. Curves and scenery galore and lots to do: Monterey, San Simeon Castle, Oregon beaches. Getting behind a motor home is a bitch, but that's now a joke on t-shirts there. Over 1,000 miles long, too. A lot of the curves are on hills, almost three-dimensional.
Or you could go straight up I-5. We call it, "The Grinder."*
Tail of the dragon(Deals Gap, North Carolina and Tennessee border) if you like the curves on your ride! Not as scenic as the others listed but perhaps more fun? 318 curves in 11 miles!
It's hard to pick just one such drive in California since the terrain is quite diverse and there are many. PCH from Monterey to LA is very scenic and lots of turns. Here's another one I did which I liked
Just checked out Tail of the Dragon. Looks awesome.
Be sure to drive the tail during the middle of the week. It gets crowded on the weekends.
In GA, drive GA 60 in the Chattahoochee National Forest.
In FL, drive US1 to the Keys, but time it for sunset on the way in, spend a day in the keys relaxing and then drive out for sunrise. Sunset on the 7 mile bridge is pretty incredible.
Just did a Bucket List trip from La Jolla to Monterey, CA on the Coast Hwy. Lunch at the Rock & Roll Diner in Oceano is a must. Then to Jamestown, CA to see and ride old steam trains and on to Yosemite Valley on SR 120 (lots of twists). The return was the Napa Valley, Muir Woods, and San Francisco. It was great fun even though I was driving a new Mustang GT convert. No Corvette, but not a bad car.
The Pacific coast highway is very high on my list.
If you ever get to Utah, don't miss Utah Rt 128 along the Colorado River, in the vicinity of Arches N.P. The 14 miles from Moab to the Red Cliffs Lodge are pretty spectacular.
I'm planning a trip next summer to Wyoming/Montana to experience the Beartooth Highway to Yellowstone NP and the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier NP.
For a scenic drive, M-22 in the northwestern lower peninsula, on the shores of Lake Michigan. Benzie and Leelanau Counties. lakemichigancircletour.com Expand the drive a little longer up through Harbor Springs, Lake Shore Drive (M-119).
For fun, Woodward Avenue the third week of August . . . the week of the Woodward Dream Cruise
08-05-2016, 02:51 PM
Bucket List Drives
1 and 101 (whichever is closer to the Ocean) Los Angeles clear up through Washington State around Crescent Lake to Port Angeles before you head back south, maybe stop in Seattle--or contact me and we'll put you up. Curves and scenery galore and lots to do: Monterey, San Simeon Castle, Oregon beaches. Getting behind a motor home is a bitch, but that's now a joke on t-shirts there. Over 1,000 miles long, too. A lot of the curves are on hills, almost three-dimensional.
