Any "Must Ride" roads?
Leaving from Michigan and ending in Moneta, VA at the end of July (yeah, yeah, planning early...a friend is getting married there).
It's 12 hrs straight though, but we plan on breaking it into two days each way as we will have a wife in the minivan and 6 kids.
The idea of taking a day trip to Deals Gap is floating around my mind as well.
I hear route 555 in southern Ohio is really good, I haven't ridden it yet.
Route 37 in same area, a couple of good watering holes around McConnelsville.
We Ohioans should really do this drive, it was a failed attempt in 2011.
lemme know closer to when you go. i would tag along for part of it
Google "The Crooked Road", it is down this way.
US 50 east of Parkersburg to Winchester is a good road. I have driven it twice, once in a Miata and once in a G37. 250 west of Wheeling is good too.
In Southern Ohio, rent a cabin in the Hocking Hills area for the break. (Google It) There are some great places to hike with the kids to burn off some energy.
Skyline Drive is kinda out of the way for you, but you could catch the tail end of it perhaps. Stop at the New River Gorge then into the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Sadly, you won't be passing through NE Ohio where a secret Autobahn is located.
pinchvalve wrote:Sadly, you won't be passing through NE Ohio where a secret Autobahn is located.
Where might that be?
If I told you, then it wouldn't be secret would it?
(Some say, it is Route 11 and at certain times, all the cops are in donut shops)
Pop out of Ohio south of Pittsburgh, drop past Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater for a tour. Head south from there tdown thru the Deep Creek Lake area in western MD, past Yellow Falls (bring a suit and hike the falls to cool off). Dip into WV south of the lake and slip on the knee pucks. Rip hard for a few hours. Head east to Summit Point out thru Charlestown and into the Shenandoah National Park. Take Skyline Drive south. Rip around the RVs and enjoy the view.
Skyline drive (looking back down):
there are some really cool roads in the butler and warren county areas in SW Ohio, north of Cincinnati. Most of the fun roads are out in the rural/wayout burbs areas, so johnny law is typically scarce. If you think youll be out this way, I could prepare a fun map that might take you a good hour or 2 to run.
My wife and I did 5 or 6 trips to southern ohio from the Cleveland area last summer. Usually staying in Parkersburg WV. There are some awesome roads down there. We found a few in the Hocking Hills area that were just re-paved and to die for.
My wife can name them, I just follow her routes.
