Category Proposal: Scenic Overlooks

[+Thorny1]

Name: "Scenic Overlooks" or "What Do I See?" or "Enjoy the View!"

Description: Roadside overlooks offering a scenic view

Directory: Places

 

We've all seen them and stopped there. Now here's your chance to show them to everyone else.

 

Many times I've been driving along and stopped to rest at a regular rest area then driven on and found a Scenic Overlook xx amount of miles down the road and been disappointed because I had already stopped and now didn't have the time to stop again. Here's a way to help with that for your next trip or to showoff the view to those driving through.

 

Pictures of the view, a description of the facilities (if any) like picnic tables, restrooms, etc... and the general location (I-75 @ Mile Marker 275) to help with mapping along with the gps waypoint.

 

T1

[+Bear Paughs]

I love this idea -- there are so many of these that I see that I wish I had the time to stop at and always wonder about. Including descriptions of the facilities is very useful, I like it. This would be something I'd look at when planning a big road trip and try to pick out places to stop along the way.

[+NomadVW]

I'm in for it. I've got lots of these nearby me in Japan, and what a great way to send people to places in the states too where they might not have stopped otherwise. Just another reason to "stop and look" for a little.

 

VW

[+graveyard mom]

I like this idea too. It would give me another excuse to go and travel the Tennessee section of the Natchez Trace, and then remember for the next time which stops are worth stopping at!

[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

I like this one.

[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

double post, sorry

Edited August 16, 2005 by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking

[+GA Cacher]

I like this one.

Here is a GA view close to home.

 

The road now enters the poles of the shed. Cohutta is from the Cherokee expression Ga-hu-ta-yi, which means, "place of shed roof on poles." The poles of the shed are the mountains on the southern outer rim of the wilderness and they "hold up" the sky, or the roof of the shed.

Almost 70 square miles of North Georgia wilderness is surrounded by a drive many refer to as the Cohutta Loop.

[+The Forester]

Yes please.

 

How do I vote for these things anyway? I gotta go and read the FAQ again!

[+catcher24]

Great idea, and I would like to see locations OFF the interstates included, or perhaps listed as a subcategory (Non-Interstate scenic overlooks?). There are two in my own county that I would immediately enter, as they have tremendous views and are two of my most favorite spots where I live.

[+Team Neos]

I like it also--and it would help us avoid those scenic overlooks that aren't so scenic also!

 

I once pulled off to visit an advertised "scenic overlook" --we followed all the signs only to be taken to a delapidated picnic table and empty trash can next to two sorry-looking pine trees next to a recently harvested farm field. I thought perhaps the scenic view was hidden by the trees or something, so I actually got out and walked about a quarter mile in each direction to look for the attraction. Nothing scenic there that I could see.

 

Two miles further down the road was another advertised scenic view. We tried it also and found a lovely gazebo and three picnic tables next to a field of wildflowers along a river with a tremendous view of the river valley.

 

With Waymarking, spot one could be warned against --along with a suggestion to visit spot two.

[+Faith the Aquariaqueen]

YES

[+Happy Landins]

I like it a lot.

 

This is the WOW factor again - I think WOW should be an element of whatever categories are finally decided on.

 

But maybe some people do say "WOW" when they see a distant McD's!!!

[+halffast]

I wouldnt know which one to log.I hate major desissions

[+civilwarranger]

Yes to this.