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The Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways are roads that have been designated by the Bureau of Land Management as scenic byways. Some are also National Scenic Byways or National Forest Scenic Byways. The program was initiated in 1989 and 54 byways have since been designated in the Western United States. [1]
The Lake Koocanusa Scenic Byway is a 67-mile (108 km) scenic highway in Lincoln County, Montana, USA, following the Kootenai River and the eastern shore of Lake Koocanusa on Highway 37. The road starts in Libby and proceeds north to Eureka. Lake Koocanusa is formed behind Libby Dam and has a visitors center nearby.
The Beartooth Highway is the section of U.S. Route 212 between Red Lodge and Cooke City, Montana.It traces a series of steep zigzags and switchbacks, along the Montana–Wyoming border (45th parallel) to the 10,947-foot-high (3,337 m) Beartooth Pass in Wyoming.
With warm weather just around the corner, it is the perfect time of year to pull out those trusty roadmaps and plot out adventures on some of the nation's most scenic byways. In many cases it ...
Illinois contains only 188 miles of the nearly 1,000-mile Ohio River Scenic Byway, but the route passes through a beautiful region of southern Illinois, full of natural scenery and historical ...
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The National Scenic Byways Program (NSBP) is administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Some scenic byways are designated All-American Roads, which must meet two out of the six intrinsic qualities. The designation means they have features that do not exist elsewhere in the United States and are unique and important enough to be ...
National Forest Scenic Byways, initiated by the United States Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture) [5] National Scenic Byways, managed by the Federal Highway Administration (U.S. Department of Transportation) [6] Some National Scenic Byways are further classified as "All-American Roads", a higher status reserved for especially ...