Favorite Non-Interstate Highway(s)

[KEVIN_224]

For me, it'd likely be US Route 20 from between Pittsfield, MA and into Columbia County, NY, to the southeast of Albany.

[amroad17]

OH 32 from Cincinnati to Belpre, OH.  Low traffic volumes and scenery variety with a 60 mph speed limit.

US 35 from Dayton, OH to I-64 in WV.  Again, low traffic volumes (even with the two-lane section in WV) plus nary a traffic light after Beavercreek, OH going east/southbound.

US 20 from Buffalo to Albany, NY.  Varying scenery and a pleasant drive through many of the villages along the way.

US 17 from I-64 in Chesapeake, VA to US 64 in Williamston, NC.  A nice semi-coastal drive through and/or around small towns in eastern NC.

[pianocello]

Mine is US-61 and 151 from the Quad Cities to Madison (except the Verona Rd bit in Madison).

[Zeffy]

NJ 29 is my favorite - great view of the Delaware River for most of it's length to the view of the Downtown Trenton skyline is very nice, and relaxing (until you realize what kind of state Trenton is in ).

[TEG24601]

US 24, as Telegraph Rd. in Michigan.  I have never been on such an awesome roadway in any other state, and that is largely due to Michigan Lefts.


M-21, M-24, and M-59 are all close contenders as well, and while they are each unique (Standard Highway, Michigan Expressway, and Freeway/Expressway Combo) they are all awesome to drive and I have a lot of good memories associated with them.


SR-526 (WA) is also a favorite due to the confines in which it was built, and it is a modern road with a left-hand exit (I love Left Exits) to I-5 North.


US 24, as the Hoosier Heartland Highway.  I love the improvements made to this road.  It shows what a modern expressway can be.  It doesn't plow through the land, it glides over and through it, and aside from some dumb mistakes, like stop signs on the main route and having to turn at traffic lights and stop signs to follow the route, it is a great drive.

[hm insulators]

Arizona 89A between Flagstaff and Wickenburg.

[NE2]

The Francis Scott Key Bridge.

[Janko Dialnice]

US 11 from Scranton to Binghamton, with its view of the viaducts
US 19/460 in Mercer County, WV and Tazewell County, VA, the first divided highway that I had ridden on as a kid
The super-2 section of NH 101 between Bedford and Milford.

[oscar]

HI 360 on Maui.  But I might feel differently about the ~600 hairpin curves, 42 one-lane bridges, and 15 mph speed limit on most of the highway, if I lived in the Hana area and had to regularly travel the highway to and from the rest of Maui. 

For less curvaceous highways, US 50 in Nevada east of Fallon is really fast and a lot of fun. 

For non-U.S. highways, there's Nova Scotia's Cabot Trail.

[Henry]

Route 66 and its descendants, especially the same-numbered state routes in OK, AZ and CA.

Also, Route 99 and its descendants in CA, OR and WA.

[Brandon]

HI 360 on Maui.  But I might feel differently about the ~600 hairpin curves, 42 one-lane bridges, and 15 mph speed limit on most of the highway, if I lived in the Hana area and had to regularly travel the highway to and from the rest of Maui. 

Nice road.  I took that back in 2007, and I wound up getting caught in a pack of locals (pickup trucks) on the way back from Hana.  The 15 mph limit is just a suggestion to them.  We wound up doing about 40 on most of the highway on the way back.

[agentsteel53]

holy zombie thread. 

I'm pretty sure I still love Maryland state route 810G the best out of everything that has ever existed.

[Takumi]

For driving, I'd say VA 153 and VA 183, along with countless low-traffic back roads.

[cpzilliacus]

Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Both are "secret" Va. 48. 

Never been able to figure out if the Blue Ridge Parkway has a route number in North Carolina or not.

[Occidental Tourist]

In California - 166 between Santa Maria and 33.  Beautiful winding river road and bereft of car and cycle traffic compared to similar surrounding roads, like 33.

In Arizona - State route 89 between Wickenburg and Prescott.  Before the fire, this was a beautiful travelogue from the desert floor up through various vegetation ranges into the Bradshaw Mountains.  Very green in the Spring.  Another great motorcycle route.

[dgolub]

Nicolls Road (Suffolk CR 97)
Sunrise Highway/Montauk Highway (NY 27)
Robert Moses Causeway
Taconic Parkway
Mount Carmel Connector (CT 40)
CT 154 in Old Saybrook
CT 82 in the vicinity of East Haddam
Haverstraw Road (Rockland CR 90)

The two county routes that I mention are both in New York.

[SD Mapman]

US 16A south of Keystone. The pigtails are fun.

[TCN7JM]

Back when I lived in Easton I loved PA 33, but I haven't been there for a few years now.

Over the years I've come to really like ND 23 in western North Dakota, if only because I drive it all the time when visiting relatives in that part of the state. It's pretty, like most of the western half of the state, especially near the Missouri River. My only complaint is that the speed limit from the ND 37 corner near Parshall to New Town is only 55 mph .

An honorable mention is the Badlands Loop (SD 240).

[theline]

Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Yes and yes!

An honorable mention is the Badlands Loop (SD 240).

Absolutely.

Another favorite is the Big Thompson Canyon Road in Colorado, scenic with sweeping curves that are fun to drive.

[US 41]

US 83 north of Amararillo.

[Tom895]

State highway 60 freeway in SoCal.

[mjb2002]

The secondary highway known as US 278. Between SC 39 and Beech Island.

[OCGuy81]

Ah, there are a ton!

CA-1

US 101 in Oregon and northern California.  I feel Washington's segment is a little lackluster.

CA-96, the Klamath River Highway

WA-14.  I actually like driving on this side of the Gorge vs. the Oregon side because I feel you're going too fast and miss a lot of the great scenery on I-84. Wasn't this historic US 830?

HI 11-19 (Big Island Loop) - Great scenery throughout, and very diverse.

CA-120

AZ-89A through Sedona

[mapman1071]

Arizona 89A between Flagstaff and Wickenburg.

AZ 89A does not reach Wickenburg the route ends in Prescott at AZ89