Take your FJR on a Roller Coaster... (road)

[Graham Downunder]

Yep another few roads to add to the list .

 

[Bounce]

I have not been on this road (yet) but for some reason I wanna be. Not the traditional horizontal twister like we're use to, but ya sure could get your roller coaster fix here! Can you say "AIR" Jordan off the apex?

County Road NS 366. A mile west of Old Highway 56, and about 1.5 miles west of SH56, just North of Wewoka, Oklahoma.

BTDT. It can be fun if you're not group riding with a buncha Wingster.

 

[user 34603]

Route 42, Door County, WI

 

[user 34603]

 

[ShawnKing]

My biggest regret of moving away from this area is that I never got to go to this road and take the above picture.

 

[wheatonFJR]

My biggest regret of moving away from this area is that I never got to go to this road and take the above picture.

Hwy 36 is a lot closer to OR than to Wheaton...

Places are closer than you think...all you need is determination and a little gas money.

 

[RaYzerman19]

I'm sure there's more and better, but try this one. Up in FredW country, try 145 from Colebrooke NH to Pittsburg..... bit of a two-lane farmer highway, watch for tractors on the roller coasters. I doubt cops go there as it's a bit off the beaten path. The way to do this is go moderately (your definition) north on a scouting mission, turn around in Pittsburg and come back. Nothing to see in Pittsburg. Back in Colebrooke, take 26 east to 16 around Rangely Lakes and blast down 17.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Roller+Coaster+Road,+Strafford,+NH&hl=en&ll=43.256706,-71.135788&spn=0.051258,0.110378&sll=43.255705,-71.127033&sspn=0.051259,0.110378&oq=Roller,+Strafford,+NH&hnear=Roller+Coaster+Rd,+Strafford,+New+Hampshire&t=m&z=13

 

[TomInPA]

My biggest regret of moving away from this area is that I never got to go to this road and take the above picture.

the ironic part is, as great as a Hwy 36 ride is, that picture is taken within sight of I-5 in Red Bluff before the good stuff starts. Ever notice all pictures look West from there?

 

[Bugnatr]

My biggest regret of moving away from this area is that I never got to go to this road and take the above picture.

Hwy 36 is a lot closer to OR than to Wheaton...

Places are closer than you think...all you need is determination and a little gas money.

Wheatie speaks the truth.

 

[a.droid]

The wife was reading this with me. She is from Weaverville ( just north on 299) and it looks like we have just made our anniversary plans to do this Hwy 36. We also spent our honeymoon @ Benbow Inn https://www.benbowinn.com/ so it will have lots of fond memories

this year.

 

[Fred W]

I'm sure there's more and better, but try this one. Up in FredW country, try 145 from Colebrooke NH to Pittsburg..... bit of a two-lane farmer highway, watch for tractors on the roller coasters. I doubt cops go there as it's a bit off the beaten path. The way to do this is go moderately (your definition) north on a scouting mission, turn around in Pittsburg and come back. Nothing to see in Pittsburg. Back in Colebrooke, take 26 east to 16 around Rangely Lakes and blast down 17.

Not sure when the last time you were up and over Route 17, Ray, but they actually repaved it (it really needed it) about a year ago according to bbdig. They have a place up at Rangeley and use 17 as their access road from Eastern Mass. Of course it was just the rural Maine class of repaving, meaning they only laid a top coat over the old road surface, not a real repavement where they dig down and relay the bed, so it probably is already frost heaved back to its former glory after this winter. But the views from "Height of Land" are worth the bumps.

Been out on a few favorite back roads in NH and VT already this spring, and the winter seems to have been particularly cruel to them this time around. I wonder how they will have fared up in Ontario (for CFR)?

 

[RaYzerman19]

I'm sure there's more and better, but try this one. Up in FredW country, try 145 from Colebrooke NH to Pittsburg..... bit of a two-lane farmer highway, watch for tractors on the roller coasters. I doubt cops go there as it's a bit off the beaten path. The way to do this is go moderately (your definition) north on a scouting mission, turn around in Pittsburg and come back. Nothing to see in Pittsburg. Back in Colebrooke, take 26 east to 16 around Rangely Lakes and blast down 17.

Not sure when the last time you were up and over Route 17, Ray, but they actually repaved it (it really needed it) about a year ago according to bbdig. They have a place up at Rangeley and use 17 as their access road from Eastern Mass. Of course it was just the rural Maine class of repaving, meaning they only laid a top coat over the old road surface, not a real repavement where they dig down and relay the bed, so it probably is already frost heaved back to its former glory after this winter. But the views from "Height of Land" are worth the bumps.

Been out on a few favorite back roads in NH and VT already this spring, and the winter seems to have been particularly cruel to them this time around. I wonder how they will have fared up in Ontario (for CFR)?

I was there in September 2011, and they had just finished paving it the day or two before. Woo hoo. Speed limit was just a suggestion. Yep they went right over the little moguls and everything existing. I can imagine the frost heaves have done their thing again.

I imagine some of us are going on a scouting mission for CFR at some point. Most of Ontario roads are built to a good standard, the key being a good road bed to start (think drainage). Frost heaves are inevitable, but we don't get them nearly to the degree you see there or in Quebec.... except maybe on a remote back road going through a swamp.

Worst frost heave road I've ever been on is VT 232 stretch between Groton and Marshfield. A close second is that Duplessi going east out of Mt. Tremblant. Both would take the kidneys out of ya.

 

[Fred W]

Wow, 232 was that bad? How long ago was that? They did repave it about 2-3 years ago and it has been great for the last couple of NERDS. It's is a nice little up and down roller coaster through the Groton State Forest, but with some nice twisty turns mixed in too.

Really badly beat up roads around here right now are 113 through Evans Notch, Rte 118 between Warren and Woodstock, the part of Rte 123 through Stoddard, Marlow and East Alstead, and the usually wonderful Rte 100 over the hill from Jamaica to Dover VT.

I'm sure that there are plenty of other bad ones I'm forgetting. Those roads are better suited to ride a dual sport bike on right now.

 

[Bounce]

Of course it was just the rural Maine class of repaving, meaning they only laid a top coat over the old road surface, not a real repavement where they dig down and relay the bed

I can tell you a story about living next to a bed-replacement repave. The connector street between major secondary roads is being repaved "like it outta be". That means for the last 6 months, our block (that abuts the connector) has been dead ended with the end we typically use most of the time being blocked. Every trip out of the house is now a major one. To even get to the convenience store/gas station around the corner requires a trip of 8 to 10 blocks because of the impact. Everything in the neighborhood is covered in dust/mud and our block seems to be the path of choice of all the dump trucks loading out the old material. I used to live like this when I lived in the country and down 5 miles of gravel road but I had the benefit of living in the country on an acerage.

I'm begining to rethink my conviction that this is the approach to a proper resurfacing. At least when it affects my conveniences, because we all know it's about me.

 

[Fred W]

6 months?

Must be a union job...

 

[Auron]

168 just south of Bishop in CA is also insane, same landscape as 120 with all dips ans undulations. REALLY fun road.

 

[wheatonFJR]

6 months?
Must be a union job...

Nope...that seems to be typical from my experience. Back when I was in my 20s, I was part of a road reconstruction job...and that kind of project is hell for the residents along that project. No way around it...just hell.

 

[Fred W]

6 months?
Must be a union job...

Nope...that seems to be typical from my experience. Back when I was in my 20s, I was part of a road reconstruction job...and that kind of project is hell for the residents along that project. No way around it...just hell.

Yabbut... You live in the middle-north-western-industrial-complex United States (now). I don't think there is anything approaching a non-union job in that area of the world these days.

So... why exactly did people settle the middle of the country anyway?

 

[wheatonFJR]

So... why exactly did people settle the middle of the country anyway?

I could provide an answer to that...but it might be long winded, boring, and slightly off-topic.

 

[Fred W]

So... why exactly did people settle the middle of the country anyway?

I could provide an answer to that...but it might be long winded, boring, and slightly off-topic.

How can you be "off topic" when the forum is called "Completely Off-Topic Discussion" ?

I'll concede that it may become long winded and/or boring, but that is entirely up to the writer.