What is an obscure tourist location you think is underrated?

[Хahar 🤔]

This may be cheating since I was there just a week and a half ago, but I hadn't heard of it before last month, so I assume that most people haven't either. The most scenic drive I've ever experienced is the Mattole Road in the Lost Coast of Humboldt County, California, which runs from Ferndale out by the ocean through Petrolia and thence to Humboldt Redwoods State Park. On one end you have some of the very tallest trees in the world, and on the other you have the prettiest town in all of California. In between you get bucolic views of cows grazing on the slopes of lush green valleys that open out to the endless Pacific Ocean.

The photos you see online are all picturesque, but none of them can really capture the whole experience. The road quality is often poor (in places it's an unfinished road only really wide enough to let one car go at a time) and the location is remote, but even in an exceptionally beautiful part of the country this road stands out.

[Хahar 🤔]

This may be cheating since I was there just a week and a half ago, but I hadn't heard of it before last month, so I assume that most people haven't either. The most scenic drive I've ever experienced is the Mattole Road in the Lost Coast of Humboldt County, California, which runs from Ferndale out by the ocean through Petrolia and thence to Humboldt Redwoods State Park. On one end you have some of the very tallest trees in the world, and on the other you have the prettiest town in all of California. In between you get bucolic views of cows grazing on the slopes of lush green valleys that open out to the endless Pacific Ocean.

The photos you see online are all picturesque, but none of them can really capture the whole experience. The road quality is often poor (in places it's an unfinished road only really wide enough to let one car go at a time) and the location is remote, but even in an exceptionally beautiful part of the country this road stands out.

I never made it out to Humboldt, but during my sole sojourn to date to the West Coast (to visit my brother in Ashland, OR), I drove all the way along US Route 199 through the Klamath Mountains (road was pretty scary at times) and the redwoods, and then down the coastline to the mouth of the Klamath River. Crescent City was pretty dumpy, especially given that it was April, but the rest of the scenery was gorgeous and pristine, and other people were admirably scarce. A picture that I took at a hill overlooking the Klamath spilling out into the Pacific is still my phone background, although I unfortunately couldn't quite capture the seals that were hanging out on the sand below.

Yeah, I was out that way for the first time a couple weeks ago. My brother took some pictures of morning on the Smith River at the end of Walker Road in Jedediah Smith State Park: