I just took a trip from Atlanta to Jamestown, KY using US-127 through all of TN. This is a great roadster road, lots of twisties and some breaks with straight farm country. Too bad I was in my Lumina, but I still managed to earn a speeding ticket on one of the straight stretches
My poor Lumina did a fine job of handling the corners, thanks to 235/55/16 tires and Performance Friction pads. Not as bad as you'd think...
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Originally Posted by Fformula88
We do not have many good roads around here. Certainly nothing I can get to in a short time period and cruise around on. Western NY is fairly flat. There are some curvy and hilly roads, but most are heavily traveled with lots of housing and traffic on them which makes it hard to truly enjoy them. I can find a few ok places, but I am sure its nothing like some of the roads you guys like to drive!
You'll just have to zip on over to the Finger Lakes.
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I was working in SW Virginia some years ago, and drove to and from Michigan several times. This was also when the first map / routing software came out. I let the program pick the 'shortest' route and hit the road (without double checking the route on a real map ).
Fortunately, I was driving our '89 Gran Prix SE - alone (the wife would have totally killed the fun).
If you're ever passing through West Virginia and planning to use I-64, east of Charleston - try US-60. If you try to push it, this will be one of the most punishing roads you'll ever drive. The switchbacks and elevation changes are endless and brutal. If heading east, you can catch route 311 down to the Blue Ridge Parkway for some more civilized driving enjoyment
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PCH Santa Barbara to Montery Peninsula. This will probably be our first Solstice road trip!
Locally in Arizona, Highway 89A from Wickenburg to Flagstaff, going through Prescott, Jerome and Sedona. About 150 miles of twisty scenic mountain passes from endless desert vistas to Sedona red rocks to tall cool Ponderosa Pine forests. Lots of hairpins!
In PHX area the Bartlett Dam Raod from Carefree to Bartlett Lake has the most spectacular desert scenery in the world along with twisty mountainous roads.
Picture Rocks Road, Gates Pass, Kenny --> nothing but mountain views, Saguaro Cactus, and lots of curves with steep elevation changes.
Catalina Highway up Mt Lemmon.
Of course I'm doing this in a coope, but still excellent roads. Just watch for the tourist with there RVs stoping in the middel of the road to take pictures in the winter time.
I like highway 1 on both coasts. Highway 1 from Los Angeles to Monterey and then from Montego Bay to Eureka is incredible. Winding roads, ocean views, forests all come together for a drive that is unparalleled.
On the east coast, you have to try Highway 1 from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine. Eating lobster rolls for lunch and 2lbs lobsters for dinner. Fall is the best when the leaves are just turning. Again great winding road, ocean views, quaint homes and outstanding vistas.
If you have never driven these I would highly recommend them.
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There are so many roads in the West to choose from that it is hard to pick one. Highway 1 up the coast has been mentioned already. A couple of years ago on a vacation trip to Angel's Camp, I jumped off the freeway at Fresno and went to Coarse Gold on Highway 41 where I caught Highway 49 from the beginning and drove it to Angel's Camp. From Angel's Camp we explored all sorts of back roads to various gold rush towns in the Sierra foothills. Another year we went to Lake Tahoe up 395 through Bishop. Just before 395 was going to enter Nevada, we turned off onto Highway 89 over Monitor Pass and down into Lake Tahoe. A couple of short drives that are neat is the Ortega Highway from San Juan Capistrano over the coast hills to Lake Elsinor here in So. Cal. A little bit North of the Los Angeles area you can get off Highway 99 near Bakersfield and take Highway 178 to Lake Isabella through the Kern Canyon. I remember a rock sticking out of the cliff in the Kern Canyon and it was painted dayglo orange. I wondered why until I realised that it was situated where an rv cutting too tight in the corner would catch that rock. I think the rock stuck out right to the edge of the road. You wind up a narrow canyon with a road and the river next to it and two shear cliffs going straight up on either side! Another fun road we took a few months ago with the f-body club I belong to, we met in Banning, Ca for breakfast on the edge of the dessert just North of Palm Springs. We left Banning going West on Highway 243. The highway literally climbs up what seems to be a shear cliff in a series of switch backs then dropped down into Idyllwild where we caught Highway 74 South past Hemet lake to the junction with Highway 371 down to Interstate 15. Then North to Lake Elsinor where we took the Ortega Highway(another part of 74) West to San Juan Capistrano. I guess I'd better stop now, I've gone on long enough.
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