London ON to Mandeville (New Orleans) LA

Enjoy. I used to live in Mandeville. Great place. Lots of good food. Was prettier before Katrina - lot of trees blown down.

Covington. Heading out tomorrow morning unless something comes up.

Another vote for Natchez Trace. And as previously asked, I'm not sure how time sensitive you are but driving through the Great Smokey Mountain National Park in Tennessee is amazingly beautiful. The traffic will be bad between Memorial Day and Labor Day though.

And not sure your destination in Mandeville but there are two nice State Parks there. Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville (East of town) and Fairview-Riverside in Madisonville (West of Mandeville). I like Fontainebleau better as a park but Madisonville is a great little town with good restaurants on the Tchefuncte River. Fontainebleau is on Lake Pontchartrain.

Bandit,

It doesn't begin to matter how bad the Blue Water Bridge is, it will still beat the Ambassador Bridge as both a crossing and POE.

How mileage sensitive are you??
If you come down I-75 get the GPS to direct you to the Henry Ford Museum. If you are FMCA members, remember that there is a free FHU campground in Cincinnati.
Then target Nashville and find head of the Natchez Trace. That is 404 miles of no cross traffic. It is hard to see much when the trees fill out, but buy the guide book at the Merriwether Lewis Memorial.

Do you know what the Trace is??
Back when Europeans settled the Ohio river valley, that farmed and collected stuff to sell. The only market was down in the south like New Orleans. So, they sawed up trees (had lots of those) and built a flat boat. Then they loaded what they had to sell on the flat boat and let the river take them to Natchez or where ever. When they go there, the sold what they brought, then they knocked the boat apart and sold the lumber and walked home with money, a rifle and their cloths. The Trace is the route that took them north.

Matt

Jaxom wrote:
FYI, you do know that the Blue Water Bridge is down to a single span? They closed the original, older bridge to refurbish it. Both directions now share the new span. One lane in each direction. No Nexxus or FAST lanes until you get to the other side. It is scheduled to reopen the end of July, this year.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/blue-water-bridge-construction-begins-sunday-to-last-3-months/32075888

No I didnt, thanks!

Check out Natchez Trace.

Depending on how you define "scenic," it all is. But some pretty, hilly scenery is all through Kentucky & Tennessee, as well as southern Indiana & Illinois.

FYI, you do know that the Blue Water Bridge is down to a single span? They closed the original, older bridge to refurbish it. Both directions now share the new span. One lane in each direction. No Nexxus or FAST lanes until you get to the other side. It is scheduled to reopen the end of July, this year.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/blue-water-bridge-construction-begins-sunday-to-last-3-months/32075888