The Scariest Roads in the United States

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cool. theres a road going up to lockett meadow up here thats pretty scary. i think the elevation is over 9,000 ft that this road is on

There is a road that goes up Mount Washington in New Hampshire that would have to be scary. That mountain is listed in the top ten deadliest mountains in the world. My wife and took the Cog Railway up it in 1995---quite a ride. If you aren't familiar with it, you ought to research it on the internet.

I've driven that entire highway 1 stretch by big sur, it's pretty hairy but it's also just about the most beautiful scenic stretch of road I've ever been on.

One that is much much worse than that is I-90 between Coeur D'Alene, ID and Missoula, MT. It's pretty much a constant 10% grade with wild switchbacks for like 70 miles. Despite the fact that my car seems in danger of flipping on the curves if I approach 60 mph, the speed limit is 75 and it's a major trucking route and somehow the trucks go significantly faster than that both up and down the grade. The trucks hold pretty close to the speed limit when there's snow on the ground.

if i lived in the east i'd call new hampshire my home. mt washington rules

I've driven on it. I once had to drive 35 miles per hour on it on the way from and it took me five hours to get from Spokane to my hometown in Montana when I still lived there because of the snow. I don't think the route through there is scary.

I can drive through there when it's dry real fast it's like I'm in a video game and I slow down around the curves and go back to the normal speed limit. At night it's real dark, pitch black.


The first road in the link, I think I have been on it. I can remember going to Monterey Bay with my family when I was 16 and it was on the way back to Oakland to get on the train to get home to Montana. I was cranky then because my parents had decided to take a different route back to Oakland when we left our condo to head back home. I hated different routes.

I'm not sure if I have been on the Aspen to Leadville via Independence Pass also. I remember being in Aspen for my cousin's wedding in 2005.

I can add something of my own that might very very scary. Driving through the Columbia River Gorge where the Columbia River flows through, Washington and Oregon. It's very windy through there and in the winter, careful, sometimes they close it because of the snow so you could be stranded or stuck in one of the towns that is in the gorge until it opens again.

Yea I've driven through the gorge in both Oregon and Washington. It gets pretty nasty with the wind, never had a problem with the snow but I've heard about that.