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Most Dangerous Roads in America
People all around the world go on road trips during their vacations in order to enrich their leisure experience. There’s a turn of phrase, that “life is a journey, not a destination.” Well, if you’re keeping this phrase in your mind during your road trip, it doesn’t mean that while you’re on the road that you should already feel the safety and satisfaction of already having reached your destination. Some road trips can be quite dangerous and require an immense amount of focus to complete safely – and intactly. Here’s the the five most dangerous roads to take a trip on in the United States.
Arizona’s Interstate 10
The I-10 offers the possibility to get from one side of the coast to the other, but carries an incredibly dangerous stretch of road between Phoenix, Arizona and California. It’s an isolated, arid, dry desert, with very few populated areas, much less solitary gas stations along the roadway. It’s somewhere where you definitely don’t want to run out of gas or battery power, or find that you don’t have a spare tire. Make sure to bring a spare tire and freshly refuel before attempting this scenic, dangerous – and beautiful stretch of lonely highway.
Montana’s Highway 2
Country and rural roads are usually even more dangerous to drive on than city highways. This is an incredibly dangerous patch of road that has insanely beautiful views. The driving is wild and unpredictable, and vast hilly and flat plains make most drivers want to drive as fast as they possibly can- never a good idea if you’re trying to avoid an accident. One of the reasons this road is so dangerous is that if you find yourself in the unfortunate occurrence of an accident, you’re far away from any help; it would take around an hour and twenty minutes for an ambulance to arrive and take you to the hospital – compared to the fifteen minute average on a city highway.
Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway
This incredibly scenic and beautiful drive along winding mountain roads traverses between traveler towns of Silverton and Ouray, and drives right between the Red Mountain Pass in the San Juan Mountains – at over 11,000 feet above the ocean line. Since there’s none of the usual safety barriers like shoulders and guardrails along the perimeter of this steep mountain road, you’ll have to do without these preventative accoutrements and drive very, very slowly in order to be safe and avoid any swerving.
South Carolina’s Highway 17
This long stretch of road boasts beautiful trees along both sides of its perimeter, with rolling peaks and valleys giving an almost cartoonish visual element. However, constant blind turns, sharp curves, tight lanes, and tons of natural wandering wildlife makes it a very difficult and challenging highway to traverse.
Alaska’s James Dalton Highway
This highway, made famous in the show ‘Ice Road Truckers’ boasts amazing scenery, and carries the risks of tons of pot holes, wind-thrown rocks, bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures, and an isolated location far from any sense of civilization. Rental car companies won’t even let you drive their vehicles down this road- it goes as a solid rule that if you don’t have excellent driving skills as well as many extra supplies (water, food, first aid, tires, fuel) don’t even attempt making a road trip on this road. Just stay in bed and watch the reality show instead.
