Popular Culture Review Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2002 | Page 133

The Theodore Roosevelt Highway

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New York, especially the Thousand Islands section, is impressive. Niagara Falls
— even to the blase — remains one of nature’s true wonders. There is spectacular
Great Lakes scenery in parts of New York and Ontario, much of Michigan, some
of Wisconsin, and most dramatically in Duluth, Minnesota. Forests, plains, and
Badlands provide a visual feast between the Lakes and the Rocky Mountains,
and the Highway goes along the south edge of Glacier National Park, which
provides some of the world’s most stunning mountain views. Those who prefer
desert or semi-desert scenery will find it in Washington and western Oregon. For
most of its final section, the TRIH follows the Columbia River. The Columbia
Gorge, near Portland, provides extraordinarily dramatic scenery as the journey
nears its end.
The cities along the way offer equal variety to connoisseurs of things
urban. They range from quite small to the enormity of Detroit. Portland, Littleton,