Washington State Route 153 starts at a Y-branch a few miles southeast of Twisp and follows the Methow River Valley down to US 97. The highway winds across the valley floor, crossing and re-crossing the river in between farms and fruit stands. The curves are primarily wide sweepers at or near the 55mph speed on… Continue reading Washington State Route 153 ‘Methow Valley Highway’
Category: Sweepers
US Interstate 5 (Medford, OR – Green, OR)
The passes north of Grants Pass, Oregon are an absolute delight. You’re probably thinking, “But it’s a four-lane freeway, it must have been horribly boring.” Not so, not so. The sweeper were all marked at 50-55 which could easily be taken at 75 and as it was a rural Oregon freeway, the tractor-trailers would not… Continue reading US Interstate 5 (Medford, OR – Green, OR)
Black Diamond Road / Little River Road
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
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
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