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Your favorite bit of road near your house for your 718?
I am lucky to live in NH. Low traffic and wonderful twisty roads for entertainment. (How I drive is related to my aftermarket exhaust experience and why I need good sound).
My favorite is route 107. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Route_107
I catch it in Raymond NH after a 15 mile drive from home in Manchester on another nice backroad, 27E. Route 107 once it crosses a couple of small towns and across route 4, becomes really twisty in hilly terrain, sharp curves and frost-fractured pavement. I drive north to Gilmanton NH or after Pittsfield NH on 129 west to Loudon. Plenty of passing opportunities so getting stuck behind a slow car or tractor is no problem.
It is a remarkably wonderful drive in the spring, summers and fall with speed limits mostly in the 45-55 mph range. Rural with lake & tree-lined roads. Gives my SPASM-equipped manual Boxster 25 an extremely good workout. Sharp curves with lumpy pavement are handled with finesse (most of the time) by this wonderful car. It gets unsettled now then but I never feel I am going to lose control. I am mostly in 2nd through 4th with engine speeds from 3000-7000. My drives are usually about 100 miles. Best part is, no highway.
I think this is why I bought this sweet car. No shakes, no vibration, no rattles that I can hear because it is always top down. Miss a good soundtrack to complete the experience.
In So Cal - LA in particular we probably have the best canyon roads in the country that are all within 30 minutes of the metropolitan area. There is Angeles Crest Highway (ACH) and all the adjacent roads like Upper/Lower Tujunga, HWY 39 in Glendora aka Glendora Mountain Road GMR, and of course Pacific Coast Highway PCH thru to Malibu and all the canyon roads there like Mulholland, Yerba Buena, Little Sycamore, Decker, Stunt, Piuma, Latigo, etc... too many to mention. Drive north you have Ojai and Santa Barbara or drive south to Laguna in about an hour or go east to the dessert near PalmSprings or Joshu Tree in about 2 hours. So Cal really is the best driving near to a big city with an insane car culture with a long long history. Major players like Singer, Gunther Werks just to name two along with many many top end race shops like BBi, E Motion, True Performance and many others are all based here. Its truly a drivers paradise.
Yeah Florida. I have my winter home there in southeast Florida and while beautiful, clean and warm, it has the dullest roads imaginable for a sports car. Track has to be it then.
I am lucky to live in NH. Low traffic and wonderful twisty roads for entertainment. (How I drive is related to my aftermarket exhaust experience and why I need good sound).
My favorite is route 107. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Route_107
I catch it in Raymond NH after a 15 mile drive from home in Manchester on another nice backroad, 27E. Route 107 once it crosses a couple of small towns and across route 4, becomes really twisty in hilly terrain, sharp curves and frost-fractured pavement. I drive north to Gilmanton NH or after Pittsfield NH on 129 west to Loudon. Plenty of passing opportunities so getting stuck behind a slow car or tractor is no problem.
It is a remarkably wonderful drive in the spring, summers and fall with speed limits mostly in the 45-55 mph range. Rural with lake & tree-lined roads. Gives my SPASM-equipped manual Boxster 25 an extremely good workout. Sharp curves with lumpy pavement are handled with finesse (most of the time) by this wonderful car. It gets unsettled now then but I never feel I am going to lose control. I am mostly in 2nd through 4th with engine speeds from 3000-7000. My drives are usually about 100 miles. Best part is, no highway.
I think this is why I bought this sweet car. No shakes, no vibration, no rattles that I can hear because it is always top down. Miss a good soundtrack to complete the experience.
I'm on Long Island, NY, where all roads SUCK plus are do damned crowded you can't even drive on them. So the best road near my house just might be YOUR road in NH! LOL
(We get up very early to try to enjoy some roads without traffic. It rarely works. But upstate NY has some decent roads. They're at least 90 minutes away though.)
Funnily enough, this popped up on a BAT auction yesterday and is my favorite stretch of road in Austin. There are some other great roads out of town, but this is close in. In the 27 years I've lived here, I've driven it many hundreds of times.
Franklin, TN. to Huntsville, Alabama.
That's relaxing 2-lane roads going through small communities with varying speed-limits.
Round trip is approximately 235-240 miles.
I have passed the point in my life at soon to be 79-years old June 2024 to be interested in driving like a "Race-Driver".
Highway 9 in the Bay Area. Recently learnt it's also called 9burgring.
There's also Skyline, LaHonda and Pescadero roads, all around there.
These are all great. Theres also Mines Rd and whatever road leads up to the observatory.
The main downside of NorCal however is that as good as some of these roads are, they are also susceptible to traffic and therefor are not ideal to drive at all hours or just on a whim which sucks. Early morning is usually the best for weekends or mid-day during a work day. Other than those the traffic sucks so much in the Bay Area that its hard to enjoy the car just around town which is a shame.
Essentially nothing in Chicago. Second flattest state of the nation.
Drive a few hours to Galena or near 3 to Road America. All else is just sadness.
That sucks. Didn't know it was so flat there. And the winters too are rough. I don't think we have a single flat or straight road where I live in southern NH. And the White Mountains are an hour's drive and full of crazy roads. Kancamagus highway is nice but in poor shape. Good workout for the suspension of my Boxster. Lots of bikers and tourists in the summers. Fall is better on weekdays. Even the drive up on I-93 once I am past Concord NH is also nice. I-89 is also nice to Burlington VT. Lots of state troopers but one can carry lots of speed on that beautiful scenic highway.
The Cherohala Skyway is about an hour from my home . . . the picture is better than any description I could write
Damn. Lucky.
I enjoy sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on Highway 1 from Huntington Beach to Dana Point in a manual transmission car that never gets past third gear.
05-30-2024, 08:45 PM
Your favorite bit of road near your house for your 718?
