s/o Scary roads ontop of cliffs and shear drops!

Absolutely terrifying!

Scared looking at the road and my stomach is in knots thinking about some of the drives we've been on and how petrified I was. HATE HEIGHTS.

I love Trail Ridge, Pikes Peak, Independence Pass, and Mt. Evan's roads.

There is one I can't remember the name of. It might be the Peak to Peak, but for some reason that isn't ringing. It drops to one lane at different points and the lanes aren't exactly wide.

In February DH and I drove Higway 1 from San Francisco to San Diego - well that was the plan. I was okay until about two hours north of Cambria when the roads get really windy, the MPH goes down to 25 and you're driving along the outward edge of the cliffs. I had two full-on crying/can't breath panic attacks. It was absolutely awful. We didn't continue on Highway 1 from Cambria as planned, but on something not on the ocean and flat. Very flat.

Yup here in Washington too. We have a lot of dirt logging roads that are literally just make by pushing dirt and tree stumps off the edge until the road is wide enough for one logging truck. Stevens pass coming down has always scared the hell outta me too.

Here's what I want to know about that crazy hike that was several posts back...the whole point of making the climb is because there's a tearoom built at the very top, right? Well, who the heck works at the tearoom? Do they have to make that dangerous trip every day just to get to work? Because if they do, they'd better get hazard pay or something!

Just Googled Going-to-the-sun, never heard of it before. What an amazing looking place!

DH loves all the "thrilling" roads; I hate them but as a non-driver I don't get much say in the matter.   We've been on the Stelvio Pass in Italy a couple of times.  It's not like sheer drops at the side but it's very steep and winding.  It's a very popular route with cyclists and motor cyclists.   

The first time we went we got to the top and it was blocked by snow so we had to go back down the same way.  

Just spent ages looking at the website - what an amazing place....I can see from the pics how it would be terrifying and beautiful at the same time.  

This post makes me chuckle. I live in Colorado and remember as a child being frightened of the drive but not anymore - provided it isn't winter. Then again, the scariest drives aren't open or accessible in the snowy season.That being said, I do still prefer to be the driver. Cave of the Winds is absolutely gorgeous and I have been many times BUT I have never done a ropes but it isn't as bad as you would think. Kids do the ropes course and they are attached. I do the actual cave tours inside the mountain. My daughter really wants to do the more intensive cave tour that is dark and you need to carry lights.

We did that once and never, ever again!  I have a fear of heights and there are no guard rails -it was awful.  I have no idea what the view looked like because I could not look out the window!

The worse road on that trip was the drive from Silverton to Animas Forks ghost town. It is narrow dirt road where only one car can travel on it at a time in some places.  If you had to pass an on coming car, the car on the "inside" of the road had to back up to a wider spot in the road, or "climb" the mountain with 2 wheels (so the car was at an angle) to try to make room for the car on the outside and -well, just hope for the best.  When the one time the on coming vehicle was a full size Hummer, I was literally so terrified I was sick.