European settlers who came to California’s Central Coast in the 1800s were most certainly homesick. But come spring when the brown hills between San Luis Obispo and Avila Beach burst into a bright emerald green, they again found home and named the area The Irish Hills.
Many areas of California have changed, blanketed by housing developments, fast food stops and widened roadways. But See Canyon and Prefumo Canyon Roads, and their trek acr...[continued]
Treads | Drive - Old Pony Express stations line Nevada US 50. [more]
Treads | Drive - Driving deep into the state's history and legends. [more]
Treads | Drive - This highway winds thru a National Scenic Area. [more]
Telluride, in a box canyon off Colorado 145, is a boomtown on its second time around. Outside Magazine recently called it "without question the most scenic mountain town in the west".
The first boom, in the late 1800s, centered around the gold and silver veins high in the granite mountainsides. Much of it was found in the gold-bearing element tellurium, for which the town is named. Telluride was one of the richest mining towns in Colorad...[continued]
Treads | Jeep - Broken Arrow is Sedona's sand and slickrock trail. [more]
Treads | Drive - Cinder cone remains of an eruption 600 years ago. [more]
Treads | Drive - A colony established in 1911 by Danish educators. [more]
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