Pick Your Scenic Drive
Scenic Drives
Name of Drive
Description
Highlights
Where It Begins and Ends
Length In Miles
Website
Loess Hills Scenic Byway
Follows unique terrain along Missouri Valley
Traverses four internationally distinctive land forms
Akron to Hamburg on Missouri border
220
712/482-3029
Driftless Area Scenic Byway
Zigzagging drive on Hwy 9 through Lansing and A26 to Dorchester
limestone bluffs
forested valleys carved by rivers
Lansing to Dorchester
144
563/864-7112
Iowa Valley Scenic Byway
Drive along Iowa River
Historic Amana Colonies
Meskwaki Tribal Museum
Meskwaki Indian settlement near Montour to Amana Colonies
70
319/622-3264
Great River Road-Iowa Section
Scenic river bluff overlooks
Pikes Peak State Park
Effigy Mounds National Monument (south of Harpers Ferry)
National Mississippi River Museum
Lansing to Keokuk
326
515/242-4705
Delaware Crossing Scenic Byway
rolling hills and limestone bluffs along Hwy 38
Maquoketa River Valley
Manchester to Hopkinton
36
563/864-7112