US Route 197 is a rather odd high desert highway. When you’re on this highway riding up on top of the bluffs, it’s quite dull. Seriously, it’s flat, dead-straight, and boring as all get out. Then you get to the edge of the bluff and there’s a suddenly a sign telling you about a hairpin… Continue reading US Route 197 (Central Oregon – The Dalles)
Category: Twisties
Road has choice twisty bits, or sharp corners that may catch you out.
Cow Creek Road
This narrow little riverine road is a welcome diversion from the high-pressure freeway slog of Interstate 5. It hops out around circles around to the west in the north end of the Siskiyou Range. It’s reputed to be a narrow and twisty little thing that zips around next to the creek with very little traffic… Continue reading Cow Creek Road
Oregon State Route 224 (‘Clackamas Highway’) & FS 46 “Clackamas River Road”
Note: During the autumn of 2020, this area suffered severely from the wildfires. I have not revisited this area, and as of October 2020 some of these areas are still closed to travel. This road is somewhat “schizophrenic” in the modern parlance. Every few miles you’ve suddenly got a completely different kind of road in… Continue reading Oregon State Route 224 (‘Clackamas Highway’) & FS 46 “Clackamas River Road”
Woodland Grade Road
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.… Continue reading Woodland Grade Road
Greer Grade Road
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,… Continue reading Greer Grade Road