Most dangerous routes.

LaVeta
Lizardhead
I-17 SB out of Flagg I see plenty on hot brakes on that one.

Biggest pucker for me was Wolf Creek in I wanna say 2003, it was all tore up and gravel for the most part, all iced up hauling a load of Spuds to Phoenix out of Center.

I don't know the HWY# but in Utah there is a little road that goes from US89 over to I-15 near Cedar City that I swear has more Deer and Mountain Lions than anywhere on earth, that sucked at night.

 

Don't know if you are talking Hwy 20 that comes into the 15 south of Beaver, or Hwy 14 that comes right in to Cedar City.

If you are talking 20, that is not a bad road at all, you just need to be a bit careful, as you should with ANY mountain driving. However, if you are talking Hwy 14, while that is a beautiful drive, it can get a bit hairy. Particularly in the winter time.

 

Donner Pass is freaking sick in the winter!!!!!!!!!! and Vail Colorado scary roads!!!!!!!! ALOT of death on those two for truckers!!!!!

 

I have three favorites:

US 89 south from I-70 in Utah...especially in Arizona just after the scale, over the dam and down to the bottom of the hill....I love that area going through the Vermillion Cliffs...gorgeous but definitely a challenge.

Another is northbound in Idaho, take I-15 exit 143...ID 33 west, ID 28 north to US 93. It'll take you right into Missoula. The border area of that highway has a few 25 mph cutbacks that are a little fun. I took that as a real newbie in the dead of winter at night....and will not make that mistake again.

And last, I-40 in Arkansas exit 81...AR 7 north to Harrison. Gorgeous drive, but there are places you have no choice but to take both lanes to keep from scraping your trailer on the rocks on the inside of the corner that you can't see around and pray there's nobody coming the other direction. When you get to the top of the Ozarks, you can almost see forever...

 

CA SR 299 from redding to arcata. never again.

 

That's not 666 any more. About five years ago, they renamed it 491 between Gallup and Monticello, UT. Too many superstitious people...or getting tired of people stealing the highway number signs. It's not a bad road....just have to watch what the tourists are doing. I've been on it lots and have never seen a wreck yet. I'm sure they happen, but I haven't seen them.

Try Hwy 58 in Oregon between Eugene and US 97. That's a fun one...and has earned the rank of number 1 deadliest highway in the state of Oregon.

 

Looks like some hands have covered all the well-known grades: Eisenhower, Loveland, Vail, Donner, Cabbage Hill, Wolf Creek, Eagle Pass, and a few others over there in the Volunteer, the Bluegrass, the Hillbilly, wherever... those hills in PA and points Northeast get all iced up in the winter, and they're steep too, so even though they're not long grades they are mighty dangerous. Here in San Diego County, we have our own death roads: CA67, CA78, CA94 (Old Highway 94, not the newer freeway section), S-22 (Montezuma Grade, solid 8% plus, with heller hairpins and nasty drops to one side). Every week, people die on these roads, mainly due to loss of control and head-on collisions. Certain roads take their toll without ever collecting a dime, 10? This San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge on CA75 has claimed well over 100 lives since it was opened in '69, mostly suicides but quite a few nasty wrecks as well... one night, three sailors in a hot rod 4-wheeler flying up the grade from the Coronado side lost control near midspan, hopped up onto the outside barrier and did a full-on double grinder (like skateboarding, with both axles grinding and throwing out sparks), took out a lamp standard and did a slow death-roll drop-in to the bay (at least 150 feet below 'em at that point on the bridge). Their bodies were later recovered by divers... I guess my point is that ANY ROAD CAN BE DANGEROUS IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL. There's a time and a place for everything---when I want to do triple digits, I head out to the desert, where I can fly down empty highways, tires sticking like glue to sun-warmed pavement, and not a revenue collector in sight. These freeways right here in Dago claim the lives of motorcyclists every week, the way these 4-wheel fools drive nowadays... so do surface streets, where cyclists get whacked by oncoming 4-wheelers who make sudden left turns with no signals whatsoever. That's why I love big trucks... if some clown pulls that number on me, he'll be sent to the next world and never do it to another cyclist.

 

I'm very familiar with those roads. I used to live just off the S-22 in Salton City. I can attest that Montezuma is FUN on a motorcycle.

And that is one of my favorite bridges. There is no reason it should be dangerous. People are just plain nuts.

Please don't stake your life on that. I lost count of the fatals I worked over on SR 86, SR 78 and the surrounding roads.

AMEN! When I lived in the desert out there, San Diego was our "get away" place. Usually out on Coronado. We would come out of the desert in mid summer on our bikes and #### near freeze our butts off over there. I'm sure the locals all thought we were nuts, riding with full leathers in the coastal "heat."

 

I-90 in Montana in the winter is dangerous, but then again that is a suicide mission for the daring. I can't think of the highway that goes through Dinosaur, CO. When I was hauling large blue targets from a major carrier based out of Omaha, they ran me through that area. Two-lane highway from hell, unmaintained, and no shoulder for the majority of the route. Let your trailer tandems cross the line and down you go.

 

US 40. And I really never was that concerned with it. Of course I grew up in Colorado and mountain passes are something I LOVE. Most of the time. I'd much rather drive Berthod than Vail and the tunnel. But that is just me.

I used to run loads of liquid acid in Gaylords from Denver to Vernal. Not nearly as much "sloshing" as a tank, but enough to take some getting used to.