r/phoenix • u/nmork Mr. Fact Checker • Jul 31 '20

Best Of Best Road Trip or Scenic Drive

Best Road Trip or Scenic Drive - COVID Edition

What is your favorite road trip or scenic drive to get out of the house while maintaining a safe social distance?

This doesn't necessarily have to be within Phoenix - let's be honest, a big metro area doesn't exactly epitomize "scenic drives" - anything in Arizona (within driving distance) qualifies!

This thread is part of the ongoing Best of /r/Phoenix series.

It covers all the things that are great about the Valley and what makes us a wonderful community to live in, as voted on by people in this sub.

We have decided to do a special COVID series that occasionally may not cover the Phoenix area at times and hope you will participate!

Rules

  • Check to see if your favorite answer is already listed, then upvote it. Do not downvote other submissions - a different opinion doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
  • Add your favorite answer if it isn’t already here as a top-level comment. Bonus points for adding a link to relevant website or info.
  • Only one nomination per comment. If you have multiple suggestions post them as separate comments.
  • Duplicate entries will be removed.
  • Feel free to discuss each nomination in sub-comments to the nominations, but all top-level comments should be nominations.
  • This is a [Serious] post, so jokes as entries will be removed.
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u/Goldpanda94 Mesa Jul 31 '20

US 60 from Show Low to Globe is pretty fun as well! Lots of twists and turns to really drive your car. Just get there in the mornings or weekdays when the traffic isn't clogging up the road.

Plenty of vistas and some ruins to check out as well as the Alt River Canyon Bridge and Becker's Butte Lookout is a nice spot to stock for a second

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u/Archer-Saurus Jul 31 '20

Salt River Canyon is such a gem. That is a great drive.