Best/Worst Roads
12-23-2003, 11:11 AM
#16
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12-23-2003, 11:48 AM
#17
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Originally posted by iloveporsches
Worst= Just about anywhere in the midwest, particularly states like Illinois or Iowa where it's just flat fields for miles and miles on straight, level roads.
Worst= Just about anywhere in the midwest, particularly states like Illinois or Iowa where it's just flat fields for miles and miles on straight, level roads.
The worst scenic:
Illinois.. I55 and I57 are about the most boring out there. You could easily fall asleep for an hour and miss nothing. I80 and I70 from Ohio to Iowa, ho hum. I-80 does get hilly thru most of Iowa but there is NOTHING to look at and nowhere to stop.
Worst trafffic:
Harrisburg PA at 5 pm. gridlock. 1 mph at best. Cincinnati 275, 75 and 71 are all real slow. DONT bother in rain or snow. Las Vegas strip- anytime.
The best short runs:
Illinois Rt71 throught Starved rock state park. Very twisty and hilly. St Rt 36 (?) thru northern W. Va is very pretty but not very technical. A1A from Jax Beach to Ft. Lauderdale. Again, very pretty but not very technical.
The best long runs:
Rocky Mountain national park in Colorado. Southern Utah and NW Arizona. Lovely vistas that go on for hundreds of miles.
Oh yeah.. retracing route 66.
12-23-2003, 12:06 PM
#18
Three Wheelin'
Great road near my house....Allison Road to Devault Bridge Road (changes while you're driving on it) onto Muddy Creek Road. Exactly 10 miles from my house to the airport. In my more carefree youth days I have done that road in 8 minutes, which includes 3 complete stops at stop signs, no rolling stops. The road has a couple of good straights, lots of hills, decreasing radius turns, increasing radius turns, a couple of sets of esses, etc. If you need to test drive a car and want to see how it runs, that is where you can do it and really find out if you are pushing, which I don't anymore....more people building in subdivisions off the roads and now more deer and more animals out in the roads.....plus more idiots (I saw a guy in golf cart after dark driving on it once....no lights, almost no reflectors....).
I agree with the roads going over into NC and down here in TN near the Smokey Mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway. Some fabulous roads with few houses in many places and if you can get out there without lots of slow gawkers, very fun roads to drive.
Worst....anyplace where you are driving and it's jammed packed and you are constantly watching people about to run into each other. Flat and straight roads when you want some hills and curves, 2 lane roads with slow people ahead of you and no places to pass, roads crawling with cops.
I agree with the roads going over into NC and down here in TN near the Smokey Mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway. Some fabulous roads with few houses in many places and if you can get out there without lots of slow gawkers, very fun roads to drive.
Worst....anyplace where you are driving and it's jammed packed and you are constantly watching people about to run into each other. Flat and straight roads when you want some hills and curves, 2 lane roads with slow people ahead of you and no places to pass, roads crawling with cops.
12-23-2003, 12:27 PM
#19
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Jay. This is where you want to ride.
Much closer than the coast.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X205511E6
Much closer than the coast.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X205511E6
