Our driver takes on more than he bargained for after picking up a hitchhiking hobo outside of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Big Rock Candy Mountains

Scenic Byways is a mythic fiction audio drama, told in the form of an episodic road trip. Join us as we follow one truck driver on his journey across a fractured America. We’ll hear tales of struggling communities and risen legends once thought long asleep, all set in the beauty of America’s rugged landscapes and national parks. Be sure to buckle up, though. We could be in for a bumpy ride.

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How long have we been drivin’ these roads, Old Stars? Even I’m startin’ to lose track. We’re due a rest, ain’t we? Just a little bit further. I’ll get ya there in one piece.

Rocky Mountain High

No, no, no, no…. Not now. Not like this. Not after all this time. I've come this far. It can’t end here. I won’t let it.

Echoes in the Canyons

To the town of Cold Water drove a stranger one fine day, hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say. No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip, for the stranger there among them drove a Big Rig.

Big Rig

“Commercial trucking prohibited through Yosemite Valley?” Well, there’s no one left to enforce that particular rule, is there.

Conquerors of the Useful

Our driver finds himself stuck in a strange fog on the old Oregon coast.

Big Rock Candy Mountains

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