Multistate Byways

• Look for lightning bugs lighting up the night sky in the Firefly Capital of the World, otherwise known as Boone, on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
• Satisfy your sweet tooth on the Connecticut River Byway in New Hampshire and Vermont. With 111 feet of counter space and three tiers of candy shelves displaying upwards of 700 jars of treats such as licorice, taffy, jawbreakers and mints, Chutters Store in Littleton, New Hampshire, claims to be the largest candy counter in the world — and has a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records to prove it.(www.miketheheadlesschicken.org)
• Ride the shortest and steepest scenic railway in the world on Iowa's Great River Road. First built in 1882, the Fenelon Place Elevator, also known as the Fourth Street Elevator, is 296 long and takes riders just 189 feet up the side of a cliff from Fourth Street to Fenelon Place in the business district of Dubuque.
• The B&O Railroad Museum on Maryland's Historic National Road in Baltimore might be one of the few museums you can actually "buy" (if you play Monopoly®.)
• The International Selkirk Loop is proud of being the last wild place where no mammal has gone extinct in the last 10,000 years.
• Fort Ontario along the Seaway Trail in New York was the only refugee center in North America for victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
• The Seaway Trail contains the only US Naval Station ever managed by a woman, Mrs. Albert Metcalf, who managed it from 1906-1915.
• What do the Talimena Scenic Drive in Arkansas and Oklahoma, and the Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Drive in Utah have in common? They both run along or through mountain ranges that go east-west rather than north-south as do nearly all the mountain ranges in the world. These are the ancient Ouachitas in Arkansas and Oklahoma, and the towering Uintas in Utah.
• Don't recoil in horror as you drive the Talimena Scenic Drive in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In spring and fall, the high water table may make iron-rich water seep through the asphalt, causing the byway to "bleed" red water.
• Straddle four states at once at the only spot in the US where four states converge — Four Corners National Monument on the Trail of the Ancients. The four states are Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
• With over 5,000 archaeological sites recorded (and many more awaiting study), Canyon of the Ancients National Monument near Trail of the Ancients in Colorado has the highest known archaeological site density in the United States. Humans have lived in this area for at least 10,000 years, from the early basketmakers through today's residents.
• One of the best places to encounter a peculiar river phenomenon called 'sand waves' is on the San Juan River through Trail of the Ancients country in Colorado and Utah. Sand waves surface out of nowhere and may build to as much as 8 feet, making a seemingly flat stretch of water into a wild boating adventure.
• Ski in a volcano at the Mt. Shasta Ski Park on the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway in California.
• They say lightning never hits the same spot twice, but the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness on the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway begs to differ. This "lightning rod of the Cascades" attracts bolts of electricity to its peaks.

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