30 roadside attractions

[DonTom]

See here. Most of these places I have never been to.


-Don- Reno, NV

 

[Isaac-1]

I have only seen 5 of them including the first one, The Corn Palace

 

[DonTom]

I have only seen 5 of them including the first one, The Corn Palace

Five for me also. Tom & I have seen 6, Bodie; 8, Wall Drug Store; 29; Route 66 ; 30, the Sherman Tree. I am not sure if we saw the Hole N Rock but we have been to Moab, Utah several times but all so long ago, I cannot remember much of it.

Perhaps we have been somewhat close to perhaps all those places without knowing they existed. I recall signs on the roads for the Wall Drug Store for several hundreds of miles, so anybody driving far in SD will probably see the sign for the wall Drug Store.

For the Sheman Tree, the info there is only correct for being the "tallest" living oldest at 2,100 years old. It is far from the oldest living tree. But that too is in CA, the Bristlecone Pine is still alive today at somewhere between 4,800 to 5,066 years old. and we saw it too. More than double the age of the Sherman tree. The oldest living thing in the world.

White Mountains, CA. Elevation of the oldest living tree is above 14,000'.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[jymbee]

See here. Most of these places I have never been to.


-Don- Reno, NV

Way too much advertising and click bait for me to endure. I have VERY low tolerance...

 

[DonTom]

Way too much advertising and click bait for me to endure. I have VERY low tolerance...

What ads? Use Brave or an ad blocker.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[Wasillaguy]

Way too much advertising and click bait for me to endure. I have VERY low tolerance...

Most of these attractions are click bait in the physical form. Wife loves them. I have the low tolerance but stop when she wants and participate patiently.
We've been to Wall Drug, Sherman Tree, Cadillac Ranch and the Corn Palace. Lots of others like Uranus, MO. which isn't really a town, just a hilarious tourist trap.

 

[jymbee]

What ads? Use Brave or an ad blocker.

-Don- Reno, NV

I use both. The ads are embedded in the "slides".

 

[jymbee]

Most of these attractions are click bait in the physical form. Wife loves them. I have the low tolerance but stop when she wants and participate patiently.

You obviously are a better man than I.

 

[Wasillaguy]

You obviously are a better man than I.

Don't give me too much credit. She would not agree that I'm patient in my participation.
I guess I gave myself too much credit on that one!

 

[TheBar]

I've seen 9 but I'm surprised the 3 giant redwood trees you can drive a car through aren't listed. I have a picture somewhere of my dad's 1953 Nash in the tree. I was only 2 but that really made an impression on me. And the tour guide saying 17 log cabins could be made from one lower branch of the tree. That and the memories of going to Disneyland in 1955, the first year it opened. And remembering my dad had to stop once an hour to put a fresh grapefruit half over the fuel pump to stop the Nash from vapor locking

 

[DonTom]

I use both. The ads are embedded in the "slides".

Not a single ad when I use Brave. It somehow detects the difference, even when embedded in the slides.

Try it!

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[DonTom]

I use both. The ads are embedded in the "slides".

If you're using Brave, you have something setup incorrectly.

With Brave, I see ZERO ads in the 30. No ads anywhere at all. Not even when I am looking for them.

I went to Edge, with no ad blocker, to see the difference, nine ads in addition to the 30 pics, and several repeats of the same ad, plus more ads on the side. Yeah,, a little annoying but even those ads were very easy for me to pass up.

But with Brave no ads anywhere at all in that link.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[DonTom]

I've seen 9 but I'm surprised the 3 giant redwood trees you can drive a car through aren't listed. I have a picture somewhere of my dad's 1953 Nash in the tree. I was only 2 but that really made an impression on me. And the tour guide saying 17 log cabins could be made from one lower branch of the tree. That and the memories of going to Disneyland in 1955, the first year it opened. And remembering my dad had to stop once an hour to put a fresh grapefruit half over the fuel pump to stop the Nash from vapor locking

The Tree you linked to is on private property and it costs money to see.

I was at the Ave of the Giants last summer, but I have seen trees with large holes in them before, so I didn't bother with that one. But I rode by the area several times on my motorcycle.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[Arch Hoagland]

I've stood on the corner in Winslow Arizona. How about you?

 

[Wasillaguy]

I've stood on the corner in Winslow Arizona. How about you?

September 22, 2023. My sweet wife's birthday. Pictures, hamburgers, beer, then off to Homolovi SP.
I remember thinking the town would have died long ago if not for the song.

 

[DonTom]

I've stood on the corner in Winslow Arizona. How about you?

Yep, been there done that, with Tom perhaps around 40 years ago. It was his idea to visit there because of the song.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[Chef Duane]

Been to or seen 6 of those mentioned. Also Winslow, Arizona. "See Rock City!"

 

[jymbee]

I went to Edge, with no ad blocker, to see the difference, nine ads in addition to the 30 pics, and several repeats of the same ad, plus more ads on the side. Yeah,, a little annoying but even those ads were very easy for me to pass up.

But with Brave no ads anywhere at all in that link.

-Don- Reno, NV

I use Brave exclusively to access this forum, Chrome on notebook(s) with Win 11 for most everything else.

Chrome with the Ad Blocker plugin does a pretty good job of blocking all ads. But for whatever reason, conniving evil marketers more than likely, Ad Block doesn't block the ads in the this slide "show".

I don't see any way Brave can block ads contained within something like this, but...

Ok, hang on. How 'bout that! Brave does indeed kill even these ads. Programmatically I assume the offensive (too me) ads are called automatically when a viewer clicks to view the next slide. They are more or less random given that if you refresh the page and run again, different ads appear at different points.

But alas, I've given way too much thought re. this stuff. Back to my day job.

 

[ziplock]

I've been past the shoe in PA.

And I lived in a town where you could throw a rock from end to end.

 

[ButchW1]

I've seen 9 but I'm surprised the 3 giant redwood trees you can drive a car through aren't listed. I have a picture somewhere of my dad's 1953 Nash in the tree. I was only 2 but that really made an impression on me. And the tour guide saying 17 log cabins could be made from one lower branch of the tree. That and the memories of going to Disneyland in 1955, the first year it opened. And remembering my dad had to stop once an hour to put a fresh grapefruit half over the fuel pump to stop the Nash from vapor locking

This is my stepdads old Caddy in early/mid '60s... We were driving from LA to Glendale OR. That big ol' thing fit thru just fine...
Butch