Exploring the Asphalt Ribbons of the Pacific Northwest
This is another member of the Grangeville Gang. And no, this road is not named after a mountain, at least not directly, but after a town that at one time was more important than Grangeville. This road is very sparsely travelled as Mount Idaho isn’t exactly a bustling metropolis. The road has a few new …
This is another of the Clearwater River Valley grade roads. Like Greer Grade Road, this one starts down at the bottom of the valley quite near the village of Greer goes up to the top of the plateau and comes back down near Pardee. I have no other information on this road, including its condition. …
This road is one of the of lovely twisty bits along the Clearwater River valley. On either side of the river valley are wonderful roads such as this one, on roads that are nearly untraveled compared to what one sees even in the more “remote” areas of the Washington Cascades. Road Name: Greer Grade (Weippe, …
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 …
Some maps show that the upper half of Whitebird Grade Road is open. It’s not really, and it looks to be a gated-off gravel road now. The lower half is a fantastic road, and I give it a two-thumbs up rating as a destination road. This road has history behind it, as it’s a National …