World’s Most Beautiful Drive
World’s Most Beautiful Drive
Then President Teddy Roosevelt described his 1910 visit to Grand View Drive inPeoria Heights as the "World’s Most Beautiful Drive". The vistas gazed upon by the former President still sit upon bluffs unchanged from when the Indians first settled in the area centuries ago. Drive along the two-and-one-half mile drive to see the expansive panoramic view of Woodford, Tazewell, and Marshall counties, where on a clear day, visitors can see more than thirty miles of the scenic Illinois River valley.
The call letters for the Peoria radio station WMBD-AM and television station WMBD-TV got their name from the name given to Grand View Drive, so the history of that name lives on even in Peoria area media.
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