#20: Scenic Drives Through Public Lands

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Brilliant, breathtaking, and magnificent are just some of the words we would use to describe the scenic drives we discuss in this episode. That is if we had consulted a thesaurus before recording our discussion about these spectacular drives. But spectacular they are, regardless of how many times we used the word. One of the great things about visiting our public lands is the roads to and through them make the journey worth the trip even if you don’t get out of your vehicle. Here, we talk about a few of our favorite drives that we’ve discovered during our travels and give some tips and history for each. The drives we cover in this episode: Going-to-the-Sun-Road (Glacier NP) Beartooth Highway (Northeast of Yellowstone NP) Lamar Valley (Yellowstone NP) Needles Highway (Custer State Park) Badlands Loop (Badlands NP) Trail Ridge Road (Rocky Mountain NP) Million Dollar Highway (between Ouray and Silverton Colorado) Highway 24 through Capitol Reef NP Capitol Reef Scenic Drive The Burr Trail (Escalante NM, Capitol Reef NP, and Glen Canyon NRA) Skyline Drive (Shenandoah NP) Links to more information: To see photos from our travels, visit our Instagram account, or TikTok account Video of engineers clearing snow from Going-to-the-Sun-Road Info about the Beartooth Highway Info about roads in Capitol Reef National Park More about the Scenic Drive in Capitol Reef National Park Info about the Burr Trail in Utah Info about the Needles Highway Info about the Badlands Loop Scenic Byway Info about Skyline Drive Where to learn more about our books and travels Join the conversation on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I know a lot of people call Yellowstone, particularly Lamar Valley, the American Serengeti.
0:07.0	I wonder if people in Africa call the Serengeti the African Lamar Valley.
0:12.0	I'm sure they do, Matt.
0:29.0	This is the Dear Bob and Sue Podcast.
0:31.0	Our stories of adventures and misadventures as we travel to all the U.S. national parks and other public lands.
0:37.0	I'm Karen Smith.
0:39.0	And I'm Matt Smith.
0:40.0	We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
0:43.0	In today's episode we're talking about some beautiful scenic drives throughout various national parks
0:48.0	and a couple of national forests and even one of our favorite state parks.
0:52.0	That's right.
0:53.0	And besides the scenery, these drives are notable in other ways.
0:57.0	We'll take you to the highest paved road in the United States.
1:01.0	A few roads that are considered engineering marvels
1:04.0	and also one that's been called the most dangerous road in the lower 48, according to USA Today.
1:11.0	We'll share everything from our favorite place to buy pie to the best hikes that we discovered as we road trip through these public lands.
1:18.0	And to kick things off, we discuss our new truck and a few of its new gadgets.
1:22.0	At the end of the episode, we'll answer a question from a listener in our mailbag segment.
1:33.0	We got back from Utah a few weeks ago where we had the chance to break in our new truck that we bought over the summer.
1:40.0	We got it nice and dirty and took it on some back roads and tested it out.
1:45.0	And so overall, I think we're pretty happy with the change that we made.
1:50.0	We had a Ford F-150 and it was a good truck, but we kind of got to the point where it had a lot of miles.
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