Scenic Driving Indiana
Including Brown County, Bloomington, and the Whitewater Valley
2nd Edition
Published on 21. October 2025
206 pages
978-1-4930-8904-8 (ISBN)
Description
Take a drive down the scenic route with this fully revised and updated indispensable highway companion.
Pack up the car and enjoy over 25 different drives through the broad valleys, lush forests, and covered bridges of Indiana. This all-in-one trip planner maps out short drives for exploring the state's scenic highways and backroads, from Lake Wawasee and the Lake Michigan shoreline to the hills and hamlets of Brown County. Whether you're looking to explore the wonders of Indiana's history, ecological, and topographical diversity, or simply take a drive through the state's magnificent beauty, Scenic Driving Indiana is ready for the ride.
Pack up the car and enjoy over 25 different drives through the broad valleys, lush forests, and covered bridges of Indiana. This all-in-one trip planner maps out short drives for exploring the state's scenic highways and backroads, from Lake Wawasee and the Lake Michigan shoreline to the hills and hamlets of Brown County. Whether you're looking to explore the wonders of Indiana's history, ecological, and topographical diversity, or simply take a drive through the state's magnificent beauty, Scenic Driving Indiana is ready for the ride.
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Person
Phil Bloom is a lifelong resident of Indiana. He enjoyed two careers before retiring from both-thirty-three years as a newspaper reporter and editor (the last eighteen as an award-winning outdoors editor at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) and ten years as communications director for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. During that time, he logged thousands of miles crisscrossing Indiana on everything from interstates to gravel roads. Bloom is an active member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and served as the group's president in 2008 and 2018. He is an Eagle Scout, an Indiana Certified Master Naturalist, and lives in Fort Wayne where volunteers with the American Red Cross.
Content
- Intro
- Overview
- Map Legend
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- SOUTHERN INDIANA
- 1 River to River
- 2 Whiskey and Wine
- 3 The Haunts of Young Abe Lincoln
- 4 Land of theIndiana Germans
- 5 Hoosier Forest Loop
- 6 The Road to Utopia
- 7 Brown County Loop
- 8 Sweet Owen
- 9 Culture to Culture
- 10 Autumn Loop I
- 11 Autumn Loop II
- CENTRAL INDIANA
- 1 2Early Indiana
- 13 The Old National Road
- 14 The Old National Road II
- 15 Underground Railroad
- 16 Mansions to Barns
- 17 Crossing the Hoosier Prairie
- 18 Economic Meditation
- 19 Parke County
- 20 Sugar Creek
- NORTHERN INDIANA
- 21 Boilermakers to Indiana Beach
- 22 Dance of the Cranes
- 23 The Wild Life: Indians and Circuses
- 24 Indiana Lakeland
- 25 Wintertime Cheer to the Austere Life
- 26 Indiana Amish Heartland
- 27 Lake Maxinkuckee Loop
- 28 Dunes and the Big Lake
- Index
