Decades ago, the late CBS News correspondent Charles Kuralt crisscrossed the United States filing a series of On The Road with Charles Kuralt reports. After driving his RV over Beartooth Pass, a 64-mile section of U.S. 212 on the Montana/Wyoming border between Cooke City and Red Lodge, he decided to call it the most beautiful drive in America.
A lot of people have already heard that, but I want to point out that he did not say North America. If he had driven his RV on the route between Banff and Jasper, Alberta, the famed Icefields Parkway, he would have ranked the Beartooth Highway no better than second place.
And if Charles had ridden a 20-pound bicycle instead of a multi-ton RV, he'd enjoyed both roads even more.
