Pick Your Scenic Drive
Scenic Drives
Name of Drive
Description
Highlights
Where It Begins and Ends
Length In Miles
Website
Historic National Road
rolling hills,charming small towns and historic sites
Lincolns cabin in Lerna
Collinsville to Marshall
165
800/226-6632
Ohio River Scenic Byway
history, great fall color, rock formations
Garden of the Gods (Herod)
Metropolis
New Haven to Cairo (partial section)
66
800/833-9928
Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Byway
Beautiful river bluff drive w/great fall color
Alton
National Great Rivers Museum
Pere Marquette State Park (Grafton) to Hartford
33
800/258-6645
Lake Shore Drive
one of America’s great urban drives
Lake Michigan
downtown Chicago north along US 41
15
312/791-7000
Shawnee Hills Scenic Byway
through scenic Shawnee National Forest between Ohio & Mississippi rivers
great fall colors
beautiful Rim Rock Trail in Karbers Ridge
Giant City State Park
Ponama Natural Bridge
Bad Knob Cross
south from Mitchellsville on Rte 34 to New Liberty
70
800/699-7114 (or 618/253-7114)