Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #57
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   From: Jim Dobbins 
Subject: _America's_50_Best_Touring_Roads
   Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 18:31:08 -0500

	by
	Harley-Davidson
	1987 Rand McNally & Company
	64 pages
Sometime in the past few weeks someone asked about this 
book. I saw it mentioned in the national club mag and ordered
it through a local bookstore. Here's a paragraph extracted from
the foreward for the book:

"_America's_50_Best_Touring_Roads by Harley-Davidson is a consensus.
This collection came about after Harley-Davidson asked its dealers to
pick favored cycling roads in their states. From those nominated, a 
list of the country's fifty best touruing roads, one per state, was
compiled. Then Harley riders all over America voted on those at the 
various Harley-Davidson dealerships and at the 1987 Bike Week in Daytona.
The results determined the Ten Best out of the fifty possibilites."

The book covers the 10 winners along with the 40 other contenders and has good
descriptions, maps and color photos.

The top 10 are: Penn-US Highway 6: Fla-US Highway 1: NC-Blue Ridge Pkwy:
Ill-Great River Rd: Oh-Ohio Highway 424: Wis- Wis Highway 35: 
SD-US Highway 385: Co-US Highway 34:Or-Or Highway 38: 
Ca-Ca Highway 1 (who'da thunk it):

Since the Miata is about as close to a motorcycle as any car I've owned
(a Mega-Hog?) a motorcycle focused great driving roads list seems real
appropriate. A mighty fine goal would be to drive all 50 roads in the book.
Cheers,
Jim