Scenic Byway 12 Utah Complete Drive - Most Beautiful Drive in America?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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A relaxing drive on one of the most beautiful roads in America, Utah's Scenic Byway 12. The video includes the entire 122 mile length of the byway, starting at the Hogback section and heading west. Once we hit the far west end of the Byway at U.S. Route 89, we jump back to the east end in Torrey, Utah and head west back to the Hogback section. This drive was made in late June 2019 over 2 days. Video speed alternates between normal speed and 2X normal and can be adjusted in the video settings.
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Approaching Escalante, Utah 24:08
Approaching Tropic, Utah 54:13
Entering Bryce Canyon National Park 57:48
Entering Red Canyon (Dixie Natl' Forest) 1:06:44
Junction with U.S. 89 (west end of Scenic Byway 12) 1:14:40
East end start of Scenic Byway 12 1:15:26
Entering Dixie Natl' Forest 1:21:08
Entering Grand Staircase-Escalante Natl' Monument 1:46:58
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Check out our new video of Utah Scenic Byway 12 in 4K with ambient road noise: ua-cam.com/video/uNNA9yaN_B0/v-deo.html
Utah has the most beautiful mix of landscapes I've ever seen.
It never ceases to amaze each time we drive in Utah how the landscape can dramatically change about 4 times over 50 or so miles. It’s definitely our favorite state for natural beauty. Thanks for watching!
Agreed
Fave state to explore for sure! I loved revisiting byway 12 with your beautiful video. Thanks!
Absolutely agree on that
This drive changed my life, it's beyond humbling to remember you're just a tiny speck in the midst of a vast landscape of incomprehensible beauty. This is where you go to be glad you're alive.
I drove this road about 25 years ago,....late in the afternoon in the winter with no idea what I was getting into. It was still one of the most white-knuckle drives I had ever been on. Even in the moonlight, I could tell if I went off the road and down a cliff I wouldn't be found for months.
@@Tonymanero1960 How many other cars did you see after sunset? I did Bryce to Escalante after dark and maybe saw three cars. That park is lower elevation, but I was still afraid I was gonna hit a black cow.
@@whitneyryan-ng1cq I did it in reverse because when we arrived late at night we stayed outside Bryce Canyon. I distinctly remember that there was NOBODY on that road except my girlfriend and I. Remember this was pre-internet/cell phone (not that we would have gotten a signal) so you really didn't have a clue about what the road was like. Also,...I swear most of the guardrails that are shown in this video were NOT there when we drove that road. I just remember the complete and eerie silence while driving.
Discovered this on a motorcycle trip over 40 years ago, took my breath away...
I don’t doubt it, must’ve been amazing from your motorcycle!
Some parts make me cry it’s so beautiful. God is such an artist and wonderful Creator! 🙋🏻♀️♥️
And that sky is so bright and the clouds are so perfect! ☀️
Thanks for not speeding this one up. Gives the viewer a chance to really take in the detail and splendor!
The music is perfect choice!
He certainly adorned the west with remarkable breathtaking beauty! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
I bicycled this as part of a larger tour in 2013. Whenever I'm having a bad day I make tea and watch this. Thank you for sharing.
Bet you had a blast cycling this route! Glad to hear you enjoy our drive! Thanks for watching!
This was one of the road trips I did way back in 1993. I"d driven up from Phoenix in a rental vehicle (sedan). On this part of my tour, I came across from Hite to Hanksville and onto this road shown here. So much of that trip I'd forgotten about. Now, thanks to AdverntureEveryDay, it's all come back to me. Thank you so much for taking me back to these marvellous places. It's much appreciated.
It’s such a gorgeous road. Glad we were able to help you relive those memories, thanks for sharing!
Es sind ganz neue Landschaften, die ich noch nicht kannte. Gottes Schöpfung ist wunderbar!
Danke für die Aufnahmen.
Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen! Schön, dass Sie die schöne Landschaft genießen! Gottes Schöpfung ist in der Tat wunderbar!
I swear, the most beautiful mid-day to sunset sky I’ve ever seen is in Utah
This video is why I went there last July. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool to hear, glad we could help with your trip planning! Thanks for watching!
My husband and I did this drive in 2019. We went all over Utah in our Corvette. Beautiful state. We want to go back!
Oh my
Thank you for sharing 🙏☀️
Can’t wait to take this drive
Hope you enjoy it, it’s truly amazing!
Beautiful! Thank you! Such drop-offs with NO guardrails...gulp.
Road motorcycle on this road a couple of times, We like to keep going onto route 89 to 9 through Zion and into St. George also. Love this road!
A motorcycle would be the perfect way to drive this road! Plan on doing it ourselves on bikes soon. And continuing on to Zion from Route 89 is gorgeous! Thanks for watching!
I've watched it several times as I exercise. It is so insanely beautiful!!!! So well done.
Oh, how wonderful. I've been there just 3 month after you filmed this and stayed for 5 days in the region. It's an outstanding area with so many things to explore.
Thx for bringing back the memories.
Stay healthy
It’s definitely one of the most gorgeous places we’ve been so far. Thanks for watching!
Great video! In these hard times, it's really beatiful and helpful to (virtually) drive again this wonderful road.
Utah roads are so beautiful
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! It is a beautiful video about a beautiful place. I had plans to visit it in June, but the border closure due to the pandemic has put my plans on hold. I'll go someday. I love the routes of the USA. Greetings wish Uruguay.
Picture perfect. The sky and land are one. Really, a most beautiful drive. Bonus points for the music soundtrack. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the music too!
Most amazing road i ever road...stop for coffee high on the hill!!!
Thanks for watching!
The Kiva Coffee House that's kind of built into the hill.
I drove this back in the 1990s. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
I rode my bike through this road on my bicycle ride around the usa and it was a highlight of my trip for sure legendary road
That had to be a ton of fun to ride a bike on the byway! Thanks for watching!
This road is absolutely beatiful. I experienced it in July 22.
Glad you got to see it in person!
Thank you for bringing me back there !
Thanks for watching!
its so relaxing
Glad you enjoyed the drive! Thanks for watching!
Done this five times for Euro and Asian friends. Always unforgettable!
Thanks for watching!
I did it this July . Ad it to your bucket list.
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Great video, amazing views. And it brings back so many memories from 2016 for me.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
ridiculous beauty. thank you for making and sharing
💚 Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for the ride; MOST enjoyable !
💜 Thanks for watching!
Never knew about this road until today . I am adding this to my bucket list 👍
It’s definitely one of the ultimate scenic drives to do in the U.S. Thanks for watching!
The Bryce and Red Canyon areas are gorgeous. We hiked the trails down in Bryce Canyon and did a horseback ride thru Red Canyon back in 2008. This should be on everyone's bucket list. We've done the Moab area four times now. But, this year we're doing Goblin Valley SP, Capitol Reef NP, Peek-a-boo or Spooky slot canyon down Hole-in-the-Rock road, Coyote Gulch and maybe head over to Kodachrome Basin SP and back up Smoky Mountain Road to Escalante. Can't wait.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching!
I finally know the name of this section of the road: Hogback! I was amazed by the place when I was driving there winter 2019, I never drove road like that, that's thrilling to drive that road and stunning at the same time.
Glad our video helped out! Thanks for watching!
Maybe it was the music with the scenic drive, but this truly brought tears to my eyes admiring the beauty of God’s creation 🙏☀️
Happy to hear that! ❤️
Amazing, I like it
Thanks so much!
Very relaxing this kinda helped my anxiety 😢. watching this made me be more thankful for the beautiful land we have that we need to explore more the city has taken us away from the real world we came from.
Thank you for sharing this awesome video. BeUTAHful has it all. This make me homesick. A swede who used to live there. I miss it so much. Beautiful view scenic, scenery and landscape 🧡 amazing state 👌
We hope you get to come back again soon! Thanks for watching!
Obrigada por nós proporcionar a felicidade de podermos ver esses lugares lindos e encantadores !, Parabéns .,um grande abraço aqui do Brasil.
Que bom que você pode pedalar conosco e curtir a paisagem! Obrigado por assistir!
Been there! It really is this gorgeous and more!
Yep, cameras can never do that kind of beauty justice. Our mission is to hopefully inspire more people to go out and see these breathtaking places for themselves with their own eyes. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic video - very well thought-out and done, We drove UT 12 in September 2019, from Bryce to Capitol Reef: inverse route. Our dash cam was not as good and we stopped every 5 to 10 minutes to take pictures. Thank you very much for your great production. .
We’re glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Been living in this country my entire life. Financial, and time barriers kept me from places like this. I'm glad you shared this so I can experience it in some way. Thank you! Liked and Subscribed.
Well we definitely hope you get the opportunity to take a trip out this way at some point and see the beauty our country has to offer in person. We grew up in the Chicago area and for most of our lives never had the chance to travel anywhere and never knew what was really out here until we finally had the chance to visit for the first time a few years ago. Now we live out west and it feels like we’re where we belong. Thanks for watching and for your comment, it definitely means a lot to us. Be sure to let us know when you see this area in person one day!
Drove highway 12, incredible
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful.. Thank you from Europe : )
Thanks for such a nice video.
💚 Thanks for watching!
Essa paisagem vasta ê bela com esse lindo fundo musical mostra a grandeza de Deus amém
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Looks like another fun road trip. I've never visited Utah.
Scenic Byway 12 is a blast to cruise, ridiculously beautiful!
working hard...and one day it would be a great real experience here.
this is a beautiful drive.
my favorite is still state route 40 between Colorado and Utah
Don't think we're familiar with the route you're talking about.
Thank you. Other videos of this are on UA-cam, but I was looking for the complete drive today.
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I'm so glad I saw this... now I know not to go there.. I can hardly drive with drop off on one side and this road is insane.. thanks for sharing.. I'm glad I got to see it without the panic attacks I would have had in person
I am totally afraid of heights but I drove this a few times. That drop off part lasts only 20 seconds and before you know it it is finished. We drove it all the way from Tropic, Utah going to the end which is in Torrey Utah. Beautiful long drive but after passing the town of Boulder views are gone..all curves with forest on both sides until you reach Torrey (boring part Boulder to Torrey about 50 miles )
@@joemanpjg I drove this a cpl of years ago seemed to be like forever are you sure its only like 20 seconds? I am thinking of going back this summer is why I am asking.
so nice. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
schöne landschaft
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Хорошие видио, чувства путешествия на автопилоте
Спасибо за просмотр!
Beautiful drive
Thanks for watching!
This’s relaxing 😌
Imagens incríveis, lugar muito legal👍
Obrigado! 💙
Wow! so clear video
Thanks for watching!
Its so Nice! Thank you!!
Thank you for watching!
Drove it last week. It's a bit of a white-knuckle experience.
Certain areas definitely have some tight curves and steep drop offs!
Every location on this planet is beautiful. It just depends on our angle of view.
Definitely true! Thanks for watching!
Drove this back in 2003 or so. I remember pulling off to an overlook that had several markers/pointers pointing to various landmarks way in the distance. Wish I could find that location.
Lovely
I want to drive that now!!!!
Keep safe
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beautiful !
Thanks for watching!
Thank you Adam, Great Video, I am a new subcriber
Hey AdventureEveryday. Cool video! Heading west in both filmed legs - real beautiful. Was not even of aware of this route before your video. Missed it when I was out there.
I am heading back and bringing family who have never seen the region, and after your video, I HAVE TO add byway 12 in there somehow. (trip is denver start/vegas end)
So after your video, thinking this reworked order: Denver, arches/Canyonlands, monument valley, south rim of Grand canyon, antelope, zion, then byway 12 for bryce and capital reef, then vegas.
So hopefully starting @ 89 junction and finishing in Torrey is just as beautiful as your westward trip. Thanks for the inspiration!
We did the exact same thing the 1st time we went out west too, we were even on Scenic Byway 12 by Bryce Canyon but had no idea what was right down the road. We also did the same thing the 1st time we went to Moab, we didn't even know about Scenic Byway 128 along the Colorado River which is much more stunning than taking 191 south from I-70 into town. Sounds like you have a pretty sweet itinerary planned! Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching!
@@AdventureEveryDay Awesome, sounds good. And yeah I did similar the first time out, but could have done more. So this time bringing the whole family, and some of them may not be able to return, want to hit as much as we can. Should be great! Thanks again for the content.
@@AdventureEveryDay Byway 128 as scenic as could be.....Gorgeous drive great videos
@@joemanpjg Glad you enjoy our work! Thanks for watching!
Awesome chill out forget everything road. Focus on the road, gas gauge and staying on the road
You’re absolutely right, scenic driving is definitely one of the best ways to relax and clear your head of stress. Thanks for watching!
cool
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Certainly up there with Mt Carmel Jct to Zion and Road to Hanna.
Thanks for watching!
Planning to drive through there in May to get from bryce to the arches!
It's a beautiful way to go, just don't forget to stop and see Capitol Reef National Park on your way to Moab!
Make sure you have reservations to get into the Arches. Cause unaware of this we did not have any. We drove from Minnesota to see them and after waiting for 45 minutes to get through the gate we were told to turn around and come back later in the day or with a reservation. I was not a happy camper as that was the only time we had to see them. Totally frustrated that they did not have warnings before entering waiting lanes and sitting there so long.
Sorry to hear about that. We hate the reservation system too, I get what they’re going for with it, but it just seems to be nothing but frustration.
We drove this o our 2009 cross country trip. I tell everyone about it.
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I’ve done this drive, had better views than some of the National parks
Glad you enjoyed the views! Thanks for watching!
Thats so pretty
Thanks for watching!
Very relaxing video full of awesomeness!! May I ask what kind of cam was used?
É fantástico ao fechar os olhos sinto como se tivesse do seu lada minha anceia por sua presencia meu coração te ama muito amor boa viagem Maria José lira Brasil
can you drive somewhere in Algeria?, the scenery there is amazing!
Hopefully someday soon! Thanks for watching!
How can you say Complete drive? You missed the first part of the road which starts in Torrey at the intersection with highway 24.
Jump to 1:15:08 - Nothing was missed. We chose to start the video at the Hogback, then ran the byway all the way west before jumping all the way back to the eastern end of the byway in Torrey and heading back towards where we started (per the video description and time stamps).
That is the least scenic part of scenic byway 12, the portion from Torrey to Boulder. All mountainous,up and down and around curves...for about 37.5 miles...
The music was hard for me to listen to. The drive is beautiful!
i want to drive on this road.
Hope you get to drive on it! Thanks for watching!
Any gas stations on or near this road?
Yes, there are several gas stations along the scenic byway in towns such as Escalante and Tropic to name a couple. Thanks for watching!
@@AdventureEveryDay Sweet thank you for the quick reply!!!
It's crazy on these long rides you never see any wildlife...
Pretty sure wildlife doesn’t drive on this road, they know shortcuts.
We saw cows today😂
oh ja, ich war da, Hammer!
I took this route pre pandemic and the hogback section scared the crap out of me I have a major fear of heights. I am going back again on my motorcycle this time to conquer this demon. It is hard for me by the video to tell how many miles is the if you go off the road on either side certain death zone. Can you give me an idea so I can steel myself to be ready for it?
The most dangerous section of the Hogback with the steepest drop offs on both sides of the road only lasts for a few minutes, and is maybe a mile or 2 long. You can stop along the way at the pullouts and take some time to acclimate to the heights too which should hopefully help.
@@AdventureEveryDay Thank you for the reply that makes me feel better sort of :)
Scared the life out of my hubby also when we were at the top and with very little protection on side of road and steep drop off. He liked it but was glad to be off of the top too and back down on more even surfaces. I was driving.
I miss so much roadtrip in America, I hate so much that f....ing virus !
Hopefully things get back to normal soon. Thanks for watching!
I did long haul for 8 years....Now you know why you wont see a professional driver behind a desk
I’m not a truck driver, but I can certainly understand the appeal, particularly in the west with the big skies, mountains and deserts. Nothing better than hitting the open road and cranking up “Roll On Big Mama” by Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley like my grandfather did when he was a trucker. John Denver is fantastic cruising music too. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Mexico
just curious what's your average watch time on this?
Maybe if people start seeing these kind of videos they will start reflecting on what they have done to this earth. All we do is pollute and destroy, we create things that are not helpful to nature at all. We need to start thinking of ways to recycle better and we need to stop not caring anymore and stop worrying about politics and stop rioting. We need to love the earth and everything it has to offer us. We barely do anything for it so why should it do anything for us? Soon the earth is just going to give up and maybe our lord will not be there to save us, because of all that we have done to his creations. I hope you all take the time to read this message and actually understand what I am trying to say. If possible, spread the word and make sure that they understand what you are telling them. I hope god will always be with you all and have a blessed day. Thanks for reading this message.❤🙏
0:57 14% downhill
PLEASE take me with you next time ☹🙁
Wish we could! Thanks for watching!
Woow name of the melody🙏
If you’re looking for information on the music in the video, it’s listed in the description. Thanks for watching!
Amazing scenery. Just wondering, what camera do you use for your dashboard and is there any rules in Utah about using a dash cam?
Do you take requests for new videos?
@@AdventureEveryDay Of course. First of all, I would like to see this same drive from the other direction. Then, I would like to see the other four drives on this following list. I have searched UA-cam, but I can't find any complete drives. And if you make it out here to Virginia, I have some good ideas for drives. Thank you. utah.com/top-5-scenic-drives
@@AdventureEveryDay Sounds great! I'm down near the coast here in Yorktown, Virginia. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.
@@AdventureEveryDay If you get a chance, you would love filming the drive from Virginia Beach down through the Outer Banks in North Carolina and then back again.
@@AdventureEveryDay You would probably enjoy this 12-part video series by 'roadwaywiz' of US 163 that runs through Arizona and Utah too: ua-cam.com/video/N2jnXdkzDho/v-deo.html
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This little safe section on the left here is where I boondocked to hike the beautiful Lower Calf Creek Falls trail which you can see the entrance to (easy to miss) on the right @ 7:35
You can camp at the lower calf creek falls trailhead for $15, & day park for $5
How hot is it in summer? Is there snow in winter?
The byway is more than 120 miles long with many drastic elevation changes. As such, the weather varies from very hot to very cold and snowy.