{"id":499,"date":"2018-03-22T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scenicmichigan.wpengine.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:55:00","slug":"developing-a-scenic-roadmap-for-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenic.dorsay.io\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/developing-a-scenic-roadmap-for-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a Scenic Roadmap for Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1521755419025{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]As you may recall from our last newsletter, thanks to the help of a generous donor, Scenic Michigan partnered with the Land Information Access Association in 2017 to produce a report outlining Michigan\u2019s scenic roadway designations and the physical locations of these corridors. We are pleased to report back on some of our interesting findings in this newsletter and direct you to the Resources page on our website to access the <a href=\"http:\/\/scenicmichigan.wpengine.com\/resources\/\">full report\/map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We discovered there are approximately 1,450 miles of designated \u201cbyways\u201d in Michigan organized in six road categories. The six categories are National Forest Scenic Byway (47 miles), National Scenic Byway (97 miles), Pure Michigan Byway\u2014Historic (413 miles), Pure Michigan Byway\u2014Recreation (438 miles), Pure Michigan Byway\u2014Scenic (223 miles), and Natural Beauty Road (229 miles). The majority of these roads are found in counties bordering the Great Lakes, but there are still hundreds of miles of roads that are inland. Of the 83 counties in Michigan, 43 have one or more road segments classified as National or State Byways, and 30 counties have one or more road segments classified as Natural Beauty Roads. 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