Oppenheimer
06-12-2013, 01:08 PM
In the July R&T that has the 818 article, there is another article called 'America, a two-lane owners manual', that covers some cool drives in various parts of the country. At the bottom of each page for each area, they list some other fun drives in that same region. So looking at the one for my neck of the woods, the North East, they feature Nantucket (yeah, I heard about the guy from there already, no need to discuss that here). At the bottom of the page (pg 56) it lists, among a few others, another fun drive:
NEW YORK Kingston to Johnsburg/SR 38 - A local byway that becomes 200 miles of sudden drops and off-camber, decreasing-radius corners from the Catskills to the Adirondacks.
Sounds like my kind of fun, and Kingston is not that far from me. So I go looking for route 38 on Google maps, and its like 100 miles West of where they are talking, and while it looks like its scenic, from the map its no drivers mecca of a road. It runs along side one of the Finger Lakes. No where near Kingston or Johnsburg or the Catskills or the Adirondacks. So now I want to know what this 200 miles of awesome road that starts about 2 hours from my house is actually called.
So looking at Google maps I try to figure out what route they really meant. Maybe they meant route 30, which at times overlaps route 8? Maybe they meant 30A (which could sound like 38 if they were dictating it)? Maybe they meant 28, which is also nearby?
Anyone familiar with the area know what route they were actually talking about?
NEW YORK Kingston to Johnsburg/SR 38 - A local byway that becomes 200 miles of sudden drops and off-camber, decreasing-radius corners from the Catskills to the Adirondacks.
Sounds like my kind of fun, and Kingston is not that far from me. So I go looking for route 38 on Google maps, and its like 100 miles West of where they are talking, and while it looks like its scenic, from the map its no drivers mecca of a road. It runs along side one of the Finger Lakes. No where near Kingston or Johnsburg or the Catskills or the Adirondacks. So now I want to know what this 200 miles of awesome road that starts about 2 hours from my house is actually called.
So looking at Google maps I try to figure out what route they really meant. Maybe they meant route 30, which at times overlaps route 8? Maybe they meant 30A (which could sound like 38 if they were dictating it)? Maybe they meant 28, which is also nearby?
Anyone familiar with the area know what route they were actually talking about?