This is a little backroad out of Port Angeles that provides an interesting diversion if you’re in town for a few days and already tired of seeing the industrial wasteland on the way out of town on US101. The road is unusually narrow through here and only about 1-1/2 lanes wide. The curves are of… Continue reading Black Diamond Road / Little River Road
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Washington State Route 107
Doing the Coast? Plenty of fuel and don’t want to slog through downtown Aberdeen? Have we got a road for you. SR107 runs right along the Willapa River and gives you a very nice shortcut between US101 and US12. The road is chock full of sweepers and a very reasonable 50mph speed limit. I don’t… Continue reading Washington State Route 107
Green Valley Road (Auburn, WA)
The Green Valley Road is a twisting rural, two-lane through the Green River Valley. The old wagon trail winds between fields, stables, and active farms between lush hills. Sited on the eastern end of this road is Flaming Geyser State Park. Heading into the bends east of Flaming Geyser The geyser apparently isn’t as spectacular… Continue reading Green Valley Road (Auburn, WA)
Gifford-Pinchot Forest Service 23
Just about everyone in the Pacific Northwest is familiar with Forest Service Road 25, the road that goes around the east side of Mt. St. Helens and provides a way to get to FS99 and Windy Ridge. Where FS25 is a twisty, curvy work of art done in asphalt, FS23 is another matter. FS23 splits… Continue reading Gifford-Pinchot Forest Service 23
Oregon / Idaho State Route 71
This highway runs along the Snake River south of the Hells Canyon Recreation Area for some 15 miles, after which it heads southeast to Cambridge. Before the road splits away from the river, you get to experience a few miles of complete twisty bliss south of the Brownlee Dam where the impounded waters of the… Continue reading Oregon / Idaho State Route 71