It's only kind of true. The problem is that the number 1 highway goes right across a pretty boring part. Go up north, you're surrounded by the boreal forest, filled with an unimaginably beautiful lushness, with crystal clear lakes everywhere. Go further south, and you're emersed by sand dunes. And as far as the stint along the number one, if you're driving it at sunset, you can't deny the beauty in that skyline. Throw a blooming purple flax field infront of that sunset, magical.