Back Roads Edition

"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave) 07/01/2016 at 08:09 • Filed to: None

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Do you have a back road you love to drive? This is just one of mine. The old National Pike Rte 40. There are some interesting sections because in 1811 when it was first constructed they didn’t make cuts through mountains. So many twisties, curves, ups and downs.

Tripper > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:19

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Rt. 6 N.E. PA. Two lane w/ frequent passing zones. It’s a scenic route on it’s own, but its got huge hills, long turns, and plenty of space. Unfortunately within the last 5-10 years there has been a lot of natural gas development in that area. Which means more traffic and thus more patrol cars. When I first started driving you could go miles without seeing another car, and I rarely saw police.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:25

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Along my commute, there is a 2-mile back road called Antonio Drive that I can detour onto that’s all hills and curves. It adds about 3 minutes, but about once a week it is totally worth it as long as it is clear.

Dave the car guy , still here > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/01/2016 at 08:33

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I like the looks of that rising turn.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:36

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Not really a back road, but the A68 mountain pass to Edinburgh is about an hour away from me and it’s a wonderful road with a great, well-maintained surface. When I fancy a drive and have time to kill, this is where I go.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:39

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https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/44.15…

Street view for full effect.

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:43

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Best road within 50 kms! *cries*

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/43.81…

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 08:45

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It’s fun, but you do need to hold back a little - I almost hit a guy on a riding mower doing the grass along the edge of the road as I came around it one time.

hike > Tripper 07/01/2016 at 08:46

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Like between Honesdale and Milford?

Dave the car guy , still here > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 07/01/2016 at 08:52

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OMG, would love to drive that. I’m wondering if that’s one of the roads the new Top Gear has been filming on lately?

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 09:01

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It’s a possibilty, the winding hairpin sections through the mountains are so far untouched by the digital eyes of the British Road Traffic Police, but the rest of the road was nerfed about 10 years ago with A LOT of speed cameras. I know where they all are, but when I drive it I see a lot of people getting flashed. I suppose it depends how much TG wants to spend on spending fines.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 09:10

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None of the above are back roads... they all have pavement on them.

Tripper > hike 07/01/2016 at 09:13

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West of there about 100 miles or so. Wyalusing is where I normally pick it up. It’s near our family vacation spot.

Dave the car guy , still here > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 07/01/2016 at 09:29

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Back roads can be paved or dirt. And what you show is a graded dirt road. When I lived in NC we used to have those, gravel roads, and a step lower the washboard road. If you drove fast enough you would just skim over the tops of the humps.

yitznewton > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 11:24

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There’s a bunch of decent stuff in the north corner of Passaic County; that’s where I usually go.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 11:30

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It it about a 1 hour drive to get there, but it is so worth it. It is 33km’s of “OH, SHIT” corners. The pavement is mixed, some parts are smooth as a fresh sheet of paper, some are awful. There are some train tracks that are not marked well, and if you hit them too fast you’ll have a yee-haaaa moment and ruin your suspension.

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Torra…

Once it ends there are some many good roads in that area you could spend all day exploring them.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Dave the car guy , still here 07/01/2016 at 11:37

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100% gravel road. Sorry. Dirt roads are more fun. Better driving surface and less dust, but the trouble is they like to turn into swamp every spring when the ground thaws so there aren’t many up here.

Also, back roads are the roads that don’t go anywhere, like, maybe they go to somewhere that doesn’t exist any more, or just allow access to homesteads or something. If the road has pavement on it, it’s because it’s worth maintaining because it’s a busy, well-travelled road, and not a back road. Although I’ll admit it’s probably a case of local perspective. We have reasonably busy highways here that aren’t paved...

Dave the car guy , still here > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 07/01/2016 at 12:30

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Sorry, couldn’t tell . Gravel roads around here have a coarser stone than that. We used to drive some in the south paved with Eocene age limestone marl that could be very rough when the surface was new.

hike > Tripper 07/01/2016 at 12:46

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So out past Tunkhannock then. I think I've been out there once before. Took the back way from Tunkhannock to Williamsport.