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Most Dangerous Roads In The World

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Have you ever driven through some mountains or on a terrifying road, or even under extreme weather conditions and breathed a breath of fresh air once the situation at hand was over? Well, I’m about to help bring that terrified, intense tingle back that you experienced during your trials. Some of these are seriously freaky, others just instill a sense of dread, and still, others make you afraid of some of the people out there preying on others in our world. Here we go—get ready for Most Dangerous Roads in the World.
4. Skippers Canyon Road
Alright, so the road you see in this picture is already looking like a big nope for me if I’m ever in New Zealand. This road was created for need during the gold rush, and initially, it was more like tracks instead of a road. The tracks were deemed extremely unsafe after many who tried to take their pack-horses on it often lost their supplies along with the horses. In able to expand the road and make it a little safer for access by gold miners and their heavy machinery, the need for a real road grey. The road got built by four contractors over seven years, and it was done in stages. The enormous costs of making it and the cost of maintaining it is overwhelming, and it falls into unsafe territory quite often. The areas rock is so soft that under the traffic it quickly goes from being stable to becoming a greasy mud in wet weather and to dust in dry, and in many places, it’s wide enough for a single car as you can see in this picture. All motor vehicles were banned from driving on Skippers Canyon Road in the early years of the 1900’s. The road, once the gold rush was over, was pitched as a tourist attraction by some locals thinking of the future, and courts ruled that cars could drive on the road, which opened it up for tourism. If you wished to visit you had to get a permit, and time limits for usage were even set, so it was very regulated. Today it’s registered number 7684 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, under which it is protected, and it’s a very popular tourist attraction.
3. Roads in the Himalayas
Alrighty, so as we move down this list, the nope factor just keeps getting stronger and stronger. There are various roads that lead up different sections of the Himalayas, and they’re all super dangerous (as you can see in this picture) and are among some of the most treacherous roads in the world. Take Zojila Pass for example, which is a road that sits 11,578 feet high that is actually more like a dirt trail that’s completely falling apart that winds its way through some crazy terrain at extremely high altitudes (as you can see here), waiting to claim those who show up unprepared. The driver can’t look away even for a second, otherwise it can mean certain death, and you’d better hope that the vehicle you choose to take on this perilous journey is reliable; otherwise, you could find yourself in some trouble if something goes wrong. Like what do you do about all these sheep? Or can you imagine breaking down up there with hundreds of cars behind you with no way to move? I wouldn’t be surprised if all the drivers just got together and pushed your jalopy off the cliff and then proceeded onward.
2. James Dalton Highway
So this road may not be the most treacherous or most broken down on this list, but it is definitely the loneliest. It runs for 414 miles between Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Elliot Highway, which is located just north of Fairbanks. It’s a gravel highway that was first built in 1974 to be used by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System as a supply route. It’s very, very isolated and remote and is only driven by roughly 250 trucks in the winter and only 150 in the summer. The chances of you running across another driver are pretty slim, and it could be weeks before you saw anyone else (as you can kinda understand by looking at this picture). There are only three villages along the entire route so make sure you have plenty of supplies. It sits farther north than almost any other road in the world, and it’s really primitive in some places and can get a bit sketchy. There are only three places to get gas in the entire 414 miles, so make sure you keep filling up! Headlights are a must, and they have to be on at all times, and the road itself can get quite steep at times (at times reaching up to 16% grade), and visibility can become very limited. I’m just going to say that you should probably be a pretty brave soul if you wish to drive this thing… sounds a bit lonely to me.
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4. Skippers Canyon Road
Alright, so the road you see in this picture is already looking like a big nope for me if I’m ever in New Zealand. This road was created for need during the gold rush, and initially, it was more like tracks instead of a road. The tracks were deemed extremely unsafe after many who tried to take their pack-horses on it often lost their supplies along with the horses. In able to expand the road and make it a little safer for access by gold miners and their heavy machinery, the need for a real road grey. The road got built by four contractors over seven years, and it was done in stages. The enormous costs of making it and the cost of maintaining it is overwhelming, and it falls into unsafe territory quite often. The areas rock is so soft that under the traffic it quickly goes from being stable to becoming a greasy mud in wet weather and to dust in dry, and in many places, it’s wide enough for a single car as you can see in this picture. All motor vehicles were banned from driving on Skippers Canyon Road in the early years of the 1900’s. The road, once the gold rush was over, was pitched as a tourist attraction by some locals thinking of the future, and courts ruled that cars could drive on the road, which opened it up for tourism. If you wished to visit you had to get a permit, and time limits for usage were even set, so it was very regulated. Today it’s registered number 7684 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, under which it is protected, and it’s a very popular tourist attraction.
3. Roads in the Himalayas
Alrighty, so as we move down this list, the nope factor just keeps getting stronger and stronger. There are various roads that lead up different sections of the Himalayas, and they’re all super dangerous (as you can see in this picture) and are among some of the most treacherous roads in the world. Take Zojila Pass for example, which is a road that sits 11,578 feet high that is actually more like a dirt trail that’s completely falling apart that winds its way through some crazy terrain at extremely high altitudes (as you can see here), waiting to claim those who show up unprepared. The driver can’t look away even for a second, otherwise it can mean certain death, and you’d better hope that the vehicle you choose to take on this perilous journey is reliable; otherwise, you could find yourself in some trouble if something goes wrong. Like what do you do about all these sheep? Or can you imagine breaking down up there with hundreds of cars behind you with no way to move? I wouldn’t be surprised if all the drivers just got together and pushed your jalopy off the cliff and then proceeded onward.
2. James Dalton Highway
So this road may not be the most treacherous or most broken down on this list, but it is definitely the loneliest. It runs for 414 miles between Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Elliot Highway, which is located just north of Fairbanks. It’s a gravel highway that was first built in 1974 to be used by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System as a supply route. It’s very, very isolated and remote and is only driven by roughly 250 trucks in the winter and only 150 in the summer. The chances of you running across another driver are pretty slim, and it could be weeks before you saw anyone else (as you can kinda understand by looking at this picture). There are only three villages along the entire route so make sure you have plenty of supplies. It sits farther north than almost any other road in the world, and it’s really primitive in some places and can get a bit sketchy. There are only three places to get gas in the entire 414 miles, so make sure you keep filling up! Headlights are a must, and they have to be on at all times, and the road itself can get quite steep at times (at times reaching up to 16% grade), and visibility can become very limited. I’m just going to say that you should probably be a pretty brave soul if you wish to drive this thing… sounds a bit lonely to me.
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