Scariest roads?

[Kali]

The scariest trail thread got me thinking about my trip to Chihuahua this past spring. What is the scariest road you've ever driven? I drove down and back up THIS in a ford 350 15 passenger van with 7 other people and a crapload of luggage:



Its a 35 mile single lane dirt road that descends 6000 feet.

[Kali]

1. nobody?

geez, that picture gave me an ulcer for two weeks before we left

[TZ]

3. Thats pretty scary...

The one I can think of (a friend drove, I was too chicken) is one in Colorado past Estes Park that takes you up into Rocky Mountain National Park its windy and narrow and very high up...We drove it up to about 12,000 ft.

[Arugula Latte]

2. We drove on the Million Dollar Highway in southern Colorado

Cliffs plunging down to ... death. Not much of a shoulder. My hands were sweating.

[ogneopasno]

4. For me, it's not the road, it's the conditions. I've driven in some blizzards I shouldn't have been

driving in. Driving by memory is not recommended.

[Kali]

8. no kidding

I would do that one again, but would sure hate to get caught in the rain!

[FloridaJudy]

5. "El camino de la muerte"

Unanimously considered the world's most dangerous: http://video.google.com/videosearch?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=most+dangerous+road+in+the+world&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

[Kali]

9. Have you driven it?

On slow dial-up so can't do video, but know of it :scared:

[FloridaJudy]

15. No way!

I have acrophobia so bad I can't even use a step ladder. Just looking at those pictures of 1000 drops with no guard rails gives me the willies. It'd take a hell of a lot of strong drugs to get me on that thing.

[skygazer]

6. It wasn't so much the road as the fact that my brakes gave out coming down it

About 4 or 5 miles downhill. In the snow. I did some fancy downshifting that day. :scared:

That is one gnarly ass road you have pictured there. I'd hate to lose my brakes on that one!

[Kali]

12. yeah, my brakes were pretty warm going down

had to stop a few times and let them cool off

[Aristus]

7. Washington State Highway 18 used to be called the 'highway of death'.

Lots and lots of head-ons, rollovers and black-ice accidents.

It's not that bad anymore, though.

[flvegan]

10. I4 across the spine of Florida. It's not the road that's scary

it's the moron shitcock drivers on it.

[Kali]

13. I wondered if somebody was going to mention Florida drivers

world famous - Boston too, I have heard, for US locations.

[flvegan]

14. I drove in Boston a lot

and Florida/I4 drivers make them look like the Amish in carriages.

[nuxvomica]

11. In Taormina, Sicily, there's this zig-zaggy road going up...

...the mountainside. I don't know what it's called but it scared the crap out of me.

[SoxFan]

16. Highway 23, aka, "The Pig Trail", NW Arkansas

It has several hairpin turns and steep drop-offs. It's a beautiful ride, but it's murder on your brakes.

[leftyclimber]

17. Well, I was going to suggest the 35 miles of US 33 east of Elkins, WV

but after seeing that picture I think I've decided I don't mind it so much any more.

:scared:

[YankeyMCC]

18. Much shorter than yours but still pretty scary to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Auto_Road