Visit flat plains, mountains, the grave of the Apache Indian leader, Geronimo, open land with grazing buffalo and Texas longhorn, and a prairie dog town.
For a panoramic view of the Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, travel I-44 to Route 49 west just outside Medicine Park. Six miles down the lane you will go through the 59,000-acre Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge. The turn-off for Mount Scott is several miles past the entrance. Here you can drive up the mountain and watch the flat plains. Read more . . .
This is indeed a picturesque byway that rings through the Chattahoochee National Forest, heading up to the highest peak in Georgia. The drive departs from the village of Helen, a former sawmill town that’s been reinvented as a Bavarian village with German-style shops, inns, and restaurants. From Helen, head north on Rte. 17/75 which hugs the shores of the Chattahoochee River at the southern end of the forest.