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America's Scariest Highways
YAHOO Travel ^ | By Tim Kiladze

Posted on 05/26/2010 7:26:55 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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To: Moose4

US 2 West from Duluth to Grand Rapids (MN). It is flat and straight, but the forest comes right up to the side of the road. The 65 mile and hour speed limit assures no adequate braking time when the moose pops out in front of you. There are skid and road kill marks that look like something from CSI..


41 posted on 05/26/2010 8:06:24 AM PDT by cardinal4 (In Obama Land, it is racist to be white..)
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To: Illuminatas

Well, after all Colorado is Spanish for ‘Land without guardrails.’


42 posted on 05/26/2010 8:08:26 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: RobRoy
As a "kid", we (I) passed the snowplow out of Green Springs, WY heading to Jackson Hole in a hurry.

We had installed the studded rear tires (on a 1965 Mustang 6 cyl 3 spd with three >6 ft guys) in Medicine Bow, WY (prior to I-70 and right next to the RR tracks - a train came through in the middle of a snowstorm and scared the **** out of us) during the preceding night and lived to tell the tale. It's not recommended to pass a plow on a two lane when the viz is zer0. I realize that now.

43 posted on 05/26/2010 8:09:11 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: cardinal4

Don’t drive from Fairbanks to Delta in the dark in anything less than an F-250. Just sayin’.


44 posted on 05/26/2010 8:11:23 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: notdownwidems

I’ve coasted from the Tunnel to Denver many times in all sorts of weather and traffic. Not lately though.


45 posted on 05/26/2010 8:13:31 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Tunnel ——> now Tunnels.


46 posted on 05/26/2010 8:14:08 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: RobRoy
I'd slow down going over that bridge.

YouTube videos of this winter to follow.

47 posted on 05/26/2010 8:16:42 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: notdownwidems

US6 over Vail Pass (back in the day), in traffic, caused me the most close calls. Loveland Pass looks scary though and certainly freaks out my wife.


48 posted on 05/26/2010 8:19:26 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2; Vigilanteman
"US-30 in PA during the Winter."

I concur. While I attended Gettysburg College I drove the stretch between Bedford and Gettysburg during semester breaks and holidays. My knuckles still turn white when I think about some of the icy patches I hit.

49 posted on 05/26/2010 8:22:39 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Be careful out there, you can still get hurt. ;-)


50 posted on 05/26/2010 8:25:54 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Illuminatas

I’ll stipulate that that road certainly qualifies as “exciting”.


51 posted on 05/26/2010 8:27:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
LOL...not so much ice here in Louisiana...although every now and then you have to swerve to avoid one of these..


52 posted on 05/26/2010 8:29:49 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Paladin2

>>I’d slow down going over that bridge.<<

We did. :) The wind got really scary at that point. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but the wind was horizontal.


53 posted on 05/26/2010 8:32:09 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: US Navy Vet

Actually US 20 from West Yellowstone, MT to Ashton, ID in the winter is among my least favorite drives.


54 posted on 05/26/2010 8:33:49 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

89a from Sedona to Flagstaff is a hoot of a ride. 70 west of Denver also.

but the missed the scariest road I can recall ever having been on ...

The Beartooth highway, coming out of Red Lodge to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone was about a pretty interesting ride.

Schnebley Hill Road, from Route 17 south of Flagstaff, down into Sedona is a pretty interesting ride as well.


55 posted on 05/26/2010 8:34:55 AM PDT by dmz
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To: US Navy Vet

NM State Road 47... more drunks per mile than a Boston pub crawl, except they're going 75 miles an hour in a 1972 Dodge Power Wagon.

56 posted on 05/26/2010 8:36:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
If one is in a vehicle, not a big problem.

Walking one's dog along the local ditch is a whole nother issue. ;-)

I've been to FL and seen same/similar in ponds in front of facilities I wuz visiting. Walked fast.

57 posted on 05/26/2010 8:37:38 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"1972 Dodge Power Wagon. "

Cool. I want a couple of those in 4x4.

58 posted on 05/26/2010 8:38:26 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Joe 6-pack

The Baton Rouge I-10/I-110 merge westbound ain’t exactly child’s play...


59 posted on 05/26/2010 8:40:00 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Make that EASTBOUND off the bridge.


60 posted on 05/26/2010 8:40:48 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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