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45 Midwest Places Your Friends Don't Know About
Drives and Outdoors
Drives
6. Smoky Valley, Kansas A new, 60-mile scenic route through gentle, morning mist-veiled central Kansas hills (800/684-6966; www.ksbyways.org).
7. Historic hills, Iowa Following the Des Moines River through sleepy onetime riverboat stops known as the Villages of Van Buren in southeast Iowa (800/868-7822; www.historichills.com).
8. Land of the Cross-tipped Churches, Ohio Grand churches built by German and other settlers along a 38-mile western Ohio route (800/860-4726; www.ohiobyways.com).
Outdoors
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Morning sun shines through the
Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area
in Indiana.
9. Rustic roads, Wisconsin Little-traveled byways ideal for cycling, hiking or driving slowly (800/432-8747; www.dot.wisconsin.gov).
10. Matthiessen State Park Utica, Illinois Next to the ravines and waterfalls of Starved Rock State Park, with some of the same terrain but less crowded (815/667-4868; www.dnr.state.il.us).
11. Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area, Indiana Trails through deep woods in Hoosier National Forest, 70 miles south of Indianapolis (866/302-4173; www.fs.fed.us/r9/hoosier).
12. Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area, Manistee, Michigan A Lake Michigan beach you could very easily have to yourself (231/723-2211; www.fs.fed.us/r9/hmnf).
