Weirdest road you’ve ever been on

[Wilson]

Heh, just avoided having to navigate that last weekend - visiting family in Springfield and went to dinner at CSG, just north of that circle.

[Wilson]

@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.

[Ludovic]

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.

[asterion]

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.

[TruCelt]

@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 where Indy hid the Arc of the Covenant. (1.3million sq.ft.)

[TruCelt]

@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.