Cmon, I know we all have them. Usually, just a less traveled corner/straightaway here or there, on your way to work, errands or wherever, that you can't help but let the subie perform like she was built to...WOT Heading westbound towards work, downshifting to 2nd into and wide open on the way out. Nice, straight, usually pretty empty: http://www.maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rgxns576yp72&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6177397&encType=1 Coming from Pierce Butler Route, on-ramp to Snelling Ave N, not always empty, but once in a while it's prime: http://www.maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rgvd6p772h80&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6193826&encType=1 If you're ever out in the Burbs by EP mall, an empty little industrial area with new freshly paved roads: http://www.maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rg8dqq76bw8c&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6324052&encType=1
Skyline drive in Duluth. Lake 26 road in Danbury-webb lake, WI Deep woods gravel roads in Douglas county, WI, sorry the names elude me at this time!
I know this is just a short stretch but one of my all time favorites, Highway 3 between the north end of Rosemount all the way up to into W. St. Paul by 494. Awesome twisties!
If you go through there, you owe it to yourself to try this one about a half-mile south on Rich Valley... http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=105051429958561680000.000436d048919aa95838f The houses there are mostly demos and there aren't too many people back there. Brand new road, soft shoulders, some great elevation changes and twisties.
I know right where that is my cousin lives within the map confines you posted. I see the cops back there every now and then though watching those demos. That makes me a little nervous not that I would be speeding or anything :laugh:
my gravel road short cut on the way home. IF the road has been graded lately - the wash board tends to get bad http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=82nd+St+W+%4044.856150,+-93.598540&daddr=82nd+St+W+%4044.850530,+-93.611890+to:44.856477,-93.634157&mrcr=1&mrsp=2&sz=14&mra=mi&sll=44.849723,-93.61845&sspn=0.044238,0.058279&ie=UTF8&ll=44.851244,-93.611841&spn=0.044237,0.058279&z=14&om=1 Let me see if I can do this from memory off of 41 heading WEST.... 150 straight Gravel into 2 left caution bumps into 6 right over crest, into six right, 100 slight right over crest into turn 3 RIGHT short stay in (bad camber) 150 slight left at house 20 4 right 20 into long 4 left 5 right over crest 50 and dip 200 to finish.
I've been playing A LOT of Colin McRae Rally 2005 lately. :biggrin: Being a co-driver helps a little, but I've never read notes to a driver - just tulips: And a little tast of us early on...
47 is bomb, also go north on lexington until it ends in ham lake, take a right where it tees off and follow that road until you get to carlos avery and head right down the dirt road for some rally turns....the blacktop curves on the way here rule, especially the banked 20 mph corners...
I used to do shakedowns on the gravel roads in Carlos Avery but in the past few years it's always been full of wackos hunting who knows what. The worst part is they park their cars halfway on the road near curves. What idiot parks their car around curves when there's a perfectly good straight section to put it on! Some of the best roads to get lost on are in the moraine over in Wisconsin. Just be sure to know your way around or have a GPS because the roads start to look the same. My folks still have 80 acres of ex-farmland in Isanti that has miles and miles of dirt roads I've turned into rally stages. That's the only place I felt safe enough to push the limits of my car. Unfortunately I haven't been there in over a year and it's probably pretty overgrown by now.
Few miles down south of I-94 and 95(stillwater). Few miles South from I-94, 95 will be turning right but keep on going straight. Dont follow 95 when it turns. when it the road gets away from the little town there, there will be alot of quick twisties. I think its 35mph there, forgot. Too bad I was in my Honda Odyssey van when I went through there. Dammit...
