The national organization, Scenic America, identified the Red Hills canopy roads as one of the ten most scenic corridors in the United States in 1997. More than 300 miles of paved and unpaved public roads wind their way through the plantation lands of the Red Hills, providing travelers with a close-up glimpse of an American landscape that has remained virtually unchanged since the late 1800s. It is by way of these winding roads that the landscape unfolds as a sequence of visual experiences, from wildflower-laden pine parklands to vast open fields, from tobacco barns to historic cemeteries, and from marshes to groves of live oaks.
Today, many of these roads are protected by local ordinances in Thomas County, Georgia and Leon County, Florida.