Your Greatest Driving Road?

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My favorite

Well traveled (as one might guess) but at the right time you can get a good run. Speed limit is 35 so pick your points carefully. From C to B and F to E are quite exhilarating.

C to B is a series of quick string of left to right hand corners, going up and down. It's somewhere between a string of chicanes and s-curves. Coming out of the final right hander there is just enough straight road to get on the brakes for the huge uphill hairpin.

F to E is all downhill. Turns are more defined with a few quick left-rights. Brakes a must. Scary.


One day... Follow the road south.

And also
 
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Bones Brigade
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I just stumbled upon that road earlier this week. It was an absolute blast to drive. I was also lucky enough to not get stuck behind anybody the whole way. I might be headed down there again tonight or something as a farewell to my car that I won't be seeing for another month (maybe two.)

I've also got a few drives that I like to do depending on the mood and how full my gas tank is:

The Alki loop. It's a great little cruise through a taste of California in Washington.

I-405 is also great if you just want a nice smooth and relaxing freeway trip. It runs through the nice part of town so the road is very smooth and you get to see a lot of nice cars. Plus traffic flows about 80 if you hit it at the right time of day. Or it also goes 20 if you hit it at the wrong time of day.

The Burien Raceway. It's 25 the whole way but I have never seen a cop on the road. Plus it's quite twisty and only a minute and a half from my house. So it's a pretty natural place to take the GTI when I want to stretch it's legs out a bit.
 
The Spiral Highway, also called the Old Lewiston Grade

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This happens to be a series of backroads on my way home from work from Spangdahlem to Bitburg in westen Germany
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The drive is around 20min
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^Tons of fun!

My car is a W201 2.3 16v (cosworth)
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Mulholland drive for the absolute win. I've never driven it (wasn't old enough to drive in the US) but I was with my parents and it's such a beautiful road with fantastic corners.
 
Highway 219 from Buffalo to VA. We drove on it with our Sienna. Beautiful and cool.
 
Walcha Mountain

I've heard is described as the worst road in New South Wales (I actually think the much shorter Waterfall Way is worse). I have to drive it every few weeks to get between home and university. It's roughly seventy kilometres of bends and it's of varying quality in different places. It's actually a pretty obscure road and it's falling apart in some places; the shoulder was washed away about this time last year and hasn't been replaced and reducing the road to one lane (with a set of traffic lights that never seem to change), while falling rocks have blocked one lane entirely elsewhere. It probably doesn't help that the road itself is right in the far corners or two council shires; one very rural and the other just as urbanised, so the road never takes priority. The surface itself is terrible in some sections (there's one climb on the eastern side that feels like Belgian cobblestones), but the last twenty kilometres or so in particular (once you're in the rural shire) is really well-maintained, and mostly consists of long, sweeping corners that feel like they could go on forever. It's actually pretty dangerous because even in the height of summer, Walcha Mountain is square in the middle of two major river catchments and it's surrounded by subtropical rainforest, so the surface is usually slick. It's loaded with blind corners that all look the same after a while, and cars coming the other way have the disturbing habit of driving down the middle of the road (particularly through the corners) because it's a very lonely stretch of blacktop.
 
I wish someone would post some of these roads from north Texas. I've only come across one and it was by accident. I cannot find it again using google maps. It was near Argyle TX and it was a deserted Farm-to-Market road with some sharp corners (45º) and some good sweeping curves with a few long scary straights. :(
 
Have any fun driving roads in your area? Post them here! I'm compiling a list of fun driving roads all across the world. Anything from a twisting mountain pass, to your local B-roads. If it's fun to drive, and it's in your area, post it here!

Here's an example:

Here's a stretch of road not far from me. It's about 3 miles long, and it's almost always empty. No guardrails, white lines, or houses. Just an old piece of tarmac that twists through the forest. A great drive.

Google maps and street view: (Using screen capture)

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(I checked to see if there was a thread like this already, but I couldn't find any. My apologies then if there already is)
 
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The A542 - Llangollen - Llandegla

Your classic Welsh country road. The highlighted part is superb, as the picture taken from the side of the hill just above the road shows.

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It's a popular driving road in the summer, but the lack of guard rail does lead to fatalities. And sheep on the road.

Basically anywhere in rural Flint- or Denbighshire and you'll find some fantastic drives.
 
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The most fun local road is probably this one. Nice view, looks straight, but has some nice turns. During summertime it's only one-way, so there's no oncoming traffic, though then it's open for cyclists.
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Found a video. On a sunny spring day it looks 100 times better.

The turn at 2:30 is awesome.

It's not the best road in the world, but it's the nearest good one.
 

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