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template: byway.jade
id: "76130"
name: "Indiana's Historic Pathways"
distance: "250"
duration: One day to enjoy the byway
description: "Drive Indiana’s Historic Pathways and you'll fall in line with a route that stretches from antiquity to the present. The Pathway joins the lower Ohio Valley and the Mississippi Valley providing access to memorable historic districts, elegant forests, and to a fuller understanding of Indiana's past."
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=31531"
    name: Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge
  - url: "http://usi.edu/ihp/index.aspx"
    name: "Indiana's Historic Pathways"
  - url: "http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=31530"
    name: Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge
  - url: "http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=31560"
    name: Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge
designations: 
  - National Scenic Byway
  - Indiana State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - IN
ll: 
  - -87.51915699979571
  - 38.70716899974951
bounds: 
  - - -87.51915699979571
    - 38.27373900035457
  - - -84.82026699972226
    - 39.14911999998799

---

First tread by the hoofs of bison, Indiana's Historic Pathways has since become a route for pioneer exploration, stagecoach travel, and finally, modern highways. Drive along the Pathways, joining the lower Ohio Valley to the Mississippi Valley, and you'll be treated to rural countryside, rolling hills, memorable historic districts, peaceful forests, and a fuller understanding of Indiana's past.