Curviest Highways...
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May not be the curviest, like rt 1, but the combination curves, elevation change, traffic, narrow lanes, construction, snow, and speed make it one hairy drive (daily)
Taconic Pkwy in NY, from Westchester northwards, especially the part where there's a sheer rock wall 6" from your bumper to the right and the SUV to your left inches over into your lane.
I'd love to drive it some day on a closed highway in a sports car.
Taconic Pkwy in NY, from Westchester northwards, especially the part where there's a sheer rock wall 6" from your bumper to the right and the SUV to your left inches over into your lane.
I'd love to drive it some day on a closed highway in a sports car.
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There is a section of 128 between 101 and 1, in Northern California that is incredibly curvy. I had an interesting race with a BMW along there once.
My favorite narrow, curvy, HIGH road is Independence Pass, between Aspen and Twin Lakes.
My favorite narrow, curvy, HIGH road is Independence Pass, between Aspen and Twin Lakes.
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Let me amend my comment.
There is another road in California that is just wretched: California 36 from Fortuna to Red Bluff.
When I drove it not only was the road curvey, but none of the curves were banked and the drops were quick and unmarked.
I was driving an Olds 98 that had the road hugging ability of an elephant.
Before the new road was opened, the road over Tioga Pass in Yosemite was pretty bad, also. But that is history.
There is another road in California that is just wretched: California 36 from Fortuna to Red Bluff.
When I drove it not only was the road curvey, but none of the curves were banked and the drops were quick and unmarked.
I was driving an Olds 98 that had the road hugging ability of an elephant.
Before the new road was opened, the road over Tioga Pass in Yosemite was pretty bad, also. But that is history.
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My vote is for route 6A, the Old Kings Highway on Cape Cod, which winds its way along the bayside shore of the Cape and was laid out following an old Indian trail many moons ago.
There is an old straight track of the Cape Cod railroad that runs alongside of it and crosses route 6A three times just from Sandwich to Hyannis a distance of less than 20 miles.
There is an old straight track of the Cape Cod railroad that runs alongside of it and crosses route 6A three times just from Sandwich to Hyannis a distance of less than 20 miles.
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The Old Blewett Pass road in the Washington Cascades outstrips any of these new-fangled highways. The pavement is starting to break up, leaving some gravelly patches, but the 1920s-era series of switchbacks is hard to beat. Pretty, too.
How about the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier NP?
How about the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier NP?

