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Originally Posted by Scotts8826
My wife and I pick up the keys to our house in a week and our golf cart gets delivered a couple days later. We are looking forward to driving around The Villages and getting a lay of the land. Which multi-model paths are scenic and worth taking a drive just for the enjoyment?
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If you are driving on local streets without cart lanes, seeing all the lovely homes with the range of landscaping is scenic. Even driving on Morse north of 466 is scenic and often shady. It’s just a bit more crowded (much better now that the snowbirds have migrated north for the summer). As for the cart paths along lower Morse and all of Buena Vista and the miles of multi-modal paths, they are all scenic. Beautiful. A pleasure to drive. Take a picnic lunch and dine at the picnic tables under the huge trees just southeast of 466A and Morse. Or stop at the stopping areas on the Lake Sumter bridge and enjoy a sunset or sunrise. For an adventure underground, there are tunnels! No, we don’t have spectacular views like Yosemite or the Grand Tetons or Banff or Skyline Drive, but what we have is relaxing and a delight.
By the way, did you know that the argument has been made that until the Romantic Period in Art and literature, there’s not much evidence that humans found spectacular views of mountain peaks to be anything but frightening and daunting. The term used in England in the 1820s for sights such as the Alps was not lovely or beautiful but “sublime.” It wasn’t. Best seen from a distance. It wasn’t until trains and later cars could travel among those mountains that tourists began flocking to see them and finding them “pretty.” The vehicles sort of tamed them. In 18th century England and America, beautiful and lovely was more for land that was cultivated, under control. Given that, I consider our cart path views scenic and pleasant. Below is a photo of the Cotswolds in England. Beautiful. Not sublime.