top 5 dangerouse mountains in usa vote

How about U.S. 191 south out of Rock Springs WY. Going thru Flaming Gorge into Utah. Curvy S.O.B.

 

Donner isnt anything special, its a piece of cake as long as you pay attention to the signage. Been up an down it many times and 9th gear full jake with 78k on an never touched the brakes. As long as you follow the signs and pay attention to what your doing its easy. Ive done short grades in my town here in S.E. mn that are worse than donner. Donner sucks in the winter and sucked last year for me due to all the construction up there. But yes donner can bite you tail if you dont pay attention, im sure we've all seen the video of the dashcam in the walmart truck recording the truck wipeout and flip over the guarrail killing him and his co-driver. Worst one for me now is the 9% grade on wi-95 coming into fountain city WI. 9% with 20 mph curves and a T intersection at the bottom.

 

This is my day three times a week. Leave Klamath Falls, OR with a cabover truck and trailer loaded up with hay. Go to Grants Pass and then head down 199 to Crecent City, CA. Then head down 101 just south of Eureka, CA. Unload hay and reload lumber for Redding, CA. Take 299 across from Arcata to Redding. Just shy of 500 miles in a spring ride cabover across some of the narrowest, twistiest, and steepest grades around this country. First time I rolled off 299 above Redding was at night in a flippin blizard. Chained up, pulled to the top and thought to myself that this isn't too bad, lol. Then when I rolled off the back side my ### about ate my seat cushion for dinner, I'll never forget that night.

I'm happy to get the chance to truck like this when I'm young so that someday when I'm old and cranky I can tell the newbies how easy they have it these days.

 

I've never done it, my Dad did in his pickup, ended up hitting a guardrail when several deer ran across the road in front of him.

 

Theres like 5 or 6 9% grades about 4-6 miles each until you make it to Helper UT where 191 runs with U.S.6. One section is 9 miles with 8-9% grades with 10 swicthbacks, did it today with 46,000 on the box, not the best route to go when your 80,000, lost my 4 cycle jakebrake half way down. Made the rest of the day, all the way to Holbrook AZ on U.S.191 fun.

 

My trainer had me all worried about Cabbage. He told me it was the worst one. I thought it was a piece of cake. Ended up going down it way too slow. Coming back from Seattle was worse. Got up it andd hit some thick fog all the way to Idaho..at night.

 

Any dang hill anywheres that you're sitting on with your heart in your mouth, your right foot dancing a jig on the brake pedal and yer butthole biting little do-nuts outa the seat cushion. Especially if it's winter and the whole slope before you is glittering like a diamond.

In short, there are bad hills/ mountains everywhere. It's usually the "easy" ones that'll getcha because you aren't "looking out" for them. It's much better to learn to react to situations rather than specific locations.

One of the worst wrecks I've ever seen happened on a hill down east that was an "easy" 8% grade but the bottom 1/4 mile dropped into a 14% with a curve at the bottom.

 

I'm pretty sure the place was called "Green Mountain", but that may have just been the township name. It was actually about 5 miles north of Burnsville on NC 197, just off US 19, not US 11 like I originally thought. I remember when I finally got to scale the load it grossed out at about 79,400, not a fun trip in a truck with no jakes.

 

Yes, good old Wisconsin Highway 95. I've seen cars and pickups get the brakes cookin down this hill. Elmer's Auto Salvage at the top and The Golden Frog Bar at the bottom. Technically it isn't a T intersection at the bottom, I think it ends in a boat landing right on the Mississippi river.

Minnesota 16 (Former US 16) was legendary for being nasty between Houston and Preston, before it was redone a few decades ago. As in TRUCK drivers had to wait for oncoming traffic to take turns around curves, and if there was snow it made even less clearance, and trees fell just about every time it rained. There is still today a nasty little 8-9% grade switchback just to the west of Lanesboro.

MN 250 to the north of Lanesboro has no right to be marked as a truck route. It Floods frequently and one of the bridges over the Root river has a tight 90 degree turn that is right against a rock cut. Wouldn't be fun with a 53' trailer. When I was very young I remember a truck had hooked the spans on one of these bridges and ripped it down.

MN 43 south of Rushford and MN 76 south of Houston are also curly Q's and no place for 53' or even 48' trailers in my opinion, even though Rand McNally marks them as truck routes.

The sharp curve on Stockton Hill (US 14) just west of Winona, MN used to be known as "devil's elbow", and with good reason:

http://www.deadpioneer.com/blog/?p=11

US 14/61 between La Crosse, WI and Coon Valley is pretty steep.

WI 93 just south of Arcadia is like a "mini- Monteagle" in my opinion

US 18 just west of Marquette, IA actually has a runaway truck ramp:

http://homepage.mac.com/jeffmorrison/lacrosse/Runawayramp.jpg

As does US 8 in St. Croix Falls, WI if I remember right

US 52 Between Decorah, IA and Dubuque looks like a nice shortcut from dubuque, IA to Rochester, MN on paper, but I found out the hard way reality bites.

 

Yeah true technically not a T at the bottom but easier to explain that way to people who've never been on it. The one in arcadia is nasty and some of them back county roads are even worse been all over that area in the mixer. 14 by stockton and even at the bottom by winona is bad especially with the 30mph corner, along with subdivision roads on both sides with tons of traffic trying to get on the road. All the grain trucks leaving town take a big run up 14 and actually watched a car try an come out in front of a truck going up and ended up being killed cause the truck rammed him and swerved left dropping both of them of the side and pinning the car under a fully loaded grain truck.(Nasty nasty wreck) The ones you talk about by rushford area are pretty nasty to wouldnt want to be on any of these in a big truck.

Oh and cool link about hwy 14 by winona never knew that about it even though ive lived in winona for 27 years...