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The million dollar highway from Silverton to Ouray is a great drive. we do it every few years. A nearby excellent drive drive is 491 from Cortez to 141 north to Gateway (and the Gateway Auto Museum.
I would also vote for Mattole Road, south from Ferndale CA, along the Pacific, through the fog and then up into the Redwoods.
Any road in Florida that has I- as part of its name competes for the worst road, except the Sunshine Skyway Bridge that is part of I-275 over Tampa Bay.
I really don't get the appeal of the Tail of the Dragon. It looks like most any generic mountain road in the West. Okay maybe it has more curves per mile, but I'm not sure that makes it better, and it sure doesn't make it more scenic. I can think of a half dozen Oregon Forest Roads near me that are paved but more challenging then the Tail of the Dragon. I can guarantee you they would not take that race car on any of those. If they did they would have to drive it at 15 mph.
Highway 1 & PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) from Los Angeles to The Bay Area, scenic and beautiful.
Sunset Boulevard going west (Los Angeles) from the gritty part of Hollywood through West Hollywood, Beverly Hills & Pacific Palisades to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). You’ll pass the famed Sunset Strip on this route and many beautiful homes.
Great drives
Arkansas Route 7 from Russellville Arkansas to Harrison, AR. Beautiful views of the Ozark St Francis National Forest. 've done that drive three times, once in an SUV headed North on our way to Branson, and missed a turn somewhere and the GPS took us that way, and both directions going to the Buffalo River for Scout camp, in the same SUV towing a trailer. I really need to do it in a vehicle that's not an SUV.
Hwy 90A from Shiner to Seguin, TX. You get some great views of the escarpment that leads up to the Edwards Plateau, and it's very pretty. Not really curvy.
Skyline Drive n Colorado, but that's a memory from childhood in the 60's
Mulholland Drive in LA Great views into LA and the San Fernando Valley.
Not so great drives
I-15 to Las Vegas from Barstow. Not a lot to see and people drive really fast. I was keeping up with traffic on that drive in 1998 in my Jetta, and looked down and was going 105mph.
California 33 from Taft to Coalinga. Pretty boring, and California state highways suck. Narrow, no shoulders.
California 99 from Bakersfield headed North. It's pretty flat and almost entirely farm land.
I really don't get the appeal of the Tail of the Dragon. It looks like most any generic mountain road in the West. Okay maybe it has more curves per mile, but I'm not sure that makes it better, and it sure doesn't make it more scenic. I can think of a half dozen Oregon Forest Roads near me that are paved but more challenging then the Tail of the Dragon. I can guarantee you they would not take that race car on any of those. If they did they would have to drive it at 15 mph.
Its a "once in a lifetime" bucket list road - once but not twice. It also has the benefit of being on the east coast, where there are just fewer great 'mountain' roads (IMO). I don't think it would have the same prestige if it was in the CA foothills (an example is angeles crest highway, glendora mtn road, stunt, latigo, etc), which are much better driving roads, but not really a bucket lists for most people because they're readily accessible.
Its a "once in a lifetime" bucket list road - once but not twice. It also has the benefit of being on the east coast, where there are just fewer great 'mountain' roads (IMO). I don't think it would have the same prestige if it was in the CA foothills (an example is angeles crest highway, glendora mtn road, stunt, latigo, etc), which are much better driving roads, but not really a bucket lists for most people because they're readily accessible.
What’s the road the Smoking Tire guy Matt Farah always uses outside of LA? He tests every single car on it…
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