# Weirdest road you’ve ever been on **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098 "2024-09-11T00:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/183 "2025-10-10T17:39:36Z")
Heh, just avoided having to navigate that last weekend - visiting family in Springfield and went to dinner at CSG, just north of that circle. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/184 "2025-10-10T17:47:40Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Not the weirdest, but getting ugly fast: In northern New Mexico the Rio Grande Gorge cuts off easy travel between Taos to the east and parts west. These days US-64 is carried over the bridge that was built in the 1960s. As I was vacationing in the area one year, I saw on the map that it was possible to go further down the river, past a lot of campgrounds in the state park, cross the river on a small bridge at basically grade, then up the other side and west to where I was headed. So I gave it a shot. The climb out of the canyon quickly became basically one and a half lane dirt road with quite a drop into the river on one side and no guards of any kind. A rather nerve-wracking drive and one I have no intention of ever doing again. That must be the Taos Junction Bridge, on NM 570 / 567. I did that in a rental car one trip to Taos - wasn’t expecting the dirt road on the west side of the bridge! Thankfully it was a perfectly clear and dry day and the drive wasn’t too bad. Beautiful country. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/185 "2025-10-10T18:00:40Z")
I’ve never been on it but just looked at it from Google Street View. That looks like a perfectly acceptable rural mountain road - for a one way street. It would be quite nerve wracking to do having to watch for traffic both ways in addition to conditions if it were wet or snowy. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/186 "2025-10-10T19:14:38Z")
Oh, I’m used to driving dirt roads of various quality: Forest Service, BLM, NPS, you name it. And having to find places to let people pass. Just most of those times you don’t have a deadly drop to your right and the only way out is through. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/187 "2025-10-11T08:03:12Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > That looks like a plate of spaghetti, not a road map. Fun fact: If you go just about a quarter mile south on the right, you can see the [GSA warehouse](https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7692143,-77.1786465,3a,75y,208.3h,87.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDXmcveSSmz31AU1XWVR6SQ!2e0!6shttps:%252F%252Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%252Fv1%252Fthumbnail%253Fcb_client%253Dmaps_sv.tactile%2526w%253D900%2526h%253D600%2526pitch%253D2.0403250767962504%2526panoid%253DDXmcveSSmz31AU1XWVR6SQ%2526yaw%253D208.29605913504955!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D) where Indy hid the Arc of the Covenant. (1.3million sq.ft.) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098/188 "2025-10-11T08:10:57Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > As the street was approaching the water, they realized that they had to make a decision about whether or not they wanted to go to all the time and effort needed to build a bridge. My thought was, that the funds to build the bridge dried up somehow. Or there was a political fight about which neighborhood would have all the traffic. Either way, what they saved wasn’t worth what they ended up with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098.md?page=9)