America's Scariest Highways

[terry78]

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-34359779

I confess driving that Route 50 would scare the **** out of me. I'd keep thinking my crap is gonna break down and I'll die slowly in the desert.

 

[redmarvel]

I see all your U.S. highways and raise you,

Highway 11

http://www.highway11.com/

 

[Majic Walrus]

I hate interstate 81 in Virginia heading towards Roanoke. 65 MPH speed limit and all traffic goes 90-100. Also there's a ton of tractor and trailer trucks that drive on it.

 

[Kelly]

I 10 between Ft. Stockton, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.

 

[Wolfwood]

I've always wanted to drive on Highway 1.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I 10 between Ft. Stockton, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.

Or: Suicide Highway.

 

[Anita18]

Pffft, how timely. The part of the Angeles Crest Highway they're referring to is closed because of the Station Fire.

I've driven on I-5 in the Central Valley many times and have not hit fog yet. Well, this is probably also because my dad refuses to let me drive it (I go to visit my parents) late at night when the fog would come in.

PCH is the most beautiful drive I've ever done, although I went north on it, which meant I wasn't right next to the cliffs.

Anything involving snow and ice is automatically scary to me!

 

[ObakeTora]

My dad drove his big old van along Angel's Crest going towards my sister's pageant in Santa Cruz, mom and I were worried we were going to fall off because we were so high and so steep. I think dad was Han Solo in another life as he didn't say a word about the danger except for the occasional "shut up dammit."

[Edit] my goal in life is to drive south through all of Latin America before I die.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

The drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles was a nightmare.. specifically right when we hit LA. **** that town.

 

[Wolfwood]

I agree, I freakin hate driving to LA. It has to have the ****tiest traffic in the country.

 

[Anita18]

I agree, I freakin hate driving to LA. It has to have the ****tiest traffic in the country.

At least people follow the rules of the road most of the time. I drive comfortably in LA no problem (although I definitely avoid rush hour because I hate hate hate sitting in gridlock) but I would not DARE drive in Taipei, Taiwan. That's a surefire recipe for suicide. Over there, the white lines that separate lanes are outright ignored. People on scooters regularly miss hitting buses by inches and nobody blinks an eye.

 

[ObakeTora]

The drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles was a nightmare.. specifically right when we hit LA. **** that town.

Hell yea **** LA!

 

[KevanG]

[Edit] my goal in life is to drive south through all of Latin America before I die.

Or when you die

 

[El_Citrus]

I hate interstate 81 in Virginia heading towards Roanoke. 65 MPH speed limit and all traffic goes 90-100. Also there's a ton of tractor and trailer trucks that drive on it.

Between Harrisonburg and Winchestor isn't too bad, though those damn trailer trucks are horrifying if you get caught in a caravan of them and surrounded.

 

[Prison Mike]

Oh. I thought this thread would be about highway hauntings.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Come drive I-75 through Atlanta. Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder designed it like they would drive it.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Between Harrisonburg and Winchestor isn't too bad, though those damn trailer trucks are horrifying if you get caught in a caravan of them and surrounded.

I hate when I get surrounded and they all want to take a curve at 90.

 

[redmarvel]

If you want to compare it to other roads in the world:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html

1. Bolivia's "Road of Death"

North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. If other roads could be considered impassable, this one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses.

A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route "the world's most dangerous road."

2. Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk

This is the official federal-government highway to Yakutsk, and it is also the only one to get there. As there are no other roads, the intrepid motorists are doomed to wallow in this dirt, or wait in week-long 100 km car line-ups (they say women even gave birth there while waiting).

This can turn into a major humanitarian disaster during rainy spells, when the usual clay covering of the road turns into impassable mud blanket, swallowing trucks and tractors alike.

 

[El_Citrus]

I hate when I get surrounded and they all want to take a curve at 90.

Especially with that draft and the wind off the back of the trucks whipping around. Nothing beats the day I missed an exit and had to use an emergency lane to turn around. Took a 96 Caravan from 0-60 with trailers hauling ass towards El Ghetto Van.