Ladies and Gentlemen:
I'd like to mention a famous Canadian highway in my own province of
Alberta. This is the Banff-Jasper Highway which provides a glorious trip
through some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the world.
Imagine 180 miles of mountain peaks reaching as much as 11,000 feet, high
passes and waterfalls, several major glaciers, The Columbia Icefields, Lake
Louise and several other fantastic alpine lakes.
The road travels near the Continental Divide through Banff and Jasper
National Parks and their world-renowned scenery. Yes there are RVs but
there are passing lanes and wide shoulders. The road intersects with the
Trans-Canada Highway which allows you to make short side trips to Yoho,
Kootenay and Glacier National Parks.From Banff, Waterton-Glacier
International Peace Park is just a few hours drive through equally
impressive foothills with great vistas of prairie in the background.
If you like mountains and all the scenery imaginable, good roads,
manageable altitude (under 5500 feet so the old LBC doesn't starve for air)
and full tourist facilities come on over an visit us. Remember that your
dollar buys a lot more in Canada than you'd expect.
John
>I hate to differ, but while the road is pretty good, it is well
>short of the greatest drives in an LBC.
>
>The scenery is good, but there is too much traffic (esp. RVs),
>too many police, and the road doesn't quite have the variation
>that the greatest roads have.
>
>My vote? Well, somewhat parochially I vote for "The Great Ocean Road"
>here in my homestate of Victoria, Australia. Similar in the sense that it is
>cut out of hills dropping down into the ocean. It has wonderful rises,
>falls,
>tight and fast sections, little traffic most of the time and the highway
>patrol
>is rarely seen. Even better there are sections that you can go absolutely
>flat out and still be going at legal speeds!!!
>
>Some other more memorable drives include the Black Spur (Maroondah Hwy
>on the way to Marysville (Vic, Australia), the road west to Oban (Scotland)
>on a beautiful sunny day in a Mini 1100S, the drive over the alps from
>France
>into Italy (and vica versa), the road to Grenoble, Skyline Drive (Bay Area),
>the road to Mt Tamborine (sp?) north of SF, The Blue Ridge Parkway (and its
>extension) [although the speed limits are too low and too many police].
>
>I could go on......
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George (Pete) Tolleson <gtoll@worldnet.att.net>
>To: John J. Peloquin <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
>Cc: Dan Ray <danray@bluegrass.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 12:59 PM
>Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC was Re: Paint Fumes or What? Now a flame El Nino
>
>
>>John J. Peloquin wrote:
>>
>>> ...the PCH is possibly the BEST drive there is in an LBC. The stretch
>>> from BIG SUR to just past Pacifica is absolutely AWESOME and is
>>> something everyone should experience in their LBC at least once in >
>their life. <
>>
>>I agree! Even though the LBC I drove it in was a ' 58 or '59 Ford
>>Prefect, it was still awesome! (Too bad that trip was before the
>>Morgan!)
>>
>>Pete
>>'68 BGT
>>
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