This tourist court is on Route 11, just North of Harrisonburg, Virginia. I-81 has replaced Route 11 as the main artery up and down the Shenandoah Valley, but much of the infrastructure of the old road can still be found. Route 11 begins in New York State near the Canadian border and ends in New Orleans. A person driving its length would see marvelous regional diversity: the evergreen forests of the Adirondack Mountains; the orchards of New York's Finger Lake district; the dairy farms and coal fields of Pennsylvania; Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the bread basket of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia; the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee; the red dirt hills of Alabama; the piney woods of Mississippi; the delta and finally the Crescent City. Not only would the topography change, but the people, food, and architecture would change as well. Most all of Route 11 has been supplanted by one interstate or another where the people, food, and architecture remain constant from exit to exit.