Drive through the mountains between Calistoga and Middletown!
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Drive through the mountains between Calistoga and Middletown!
I was up in Napa this weekend and I had a chance to drive through the mountains. Between Calistoga and Middletown, there is an incredible 15-20 minutes of hairpin turns with no guard rails. It will definitely get your adrenalin going and quite possible scare the heck out of your passenger.
Once I became the lead car, the S put MILES on the other cars trying to get thorugh the mountains. First time I have ever really pushed the car to 9/10s.
It was fun doing it in the dark, but I bet a day time run would be even better. Anyone else done this run before?
Also, where's this thing they call "The Dragon?"
Once I became the lead car, the S put MILES on the other cars trying to get thorugh the mountains. First time I have ever really pushed the car to 9/10s.
It was fun doing it in the dark, but I bet a day time run would be even better. Anyone else done this run before?
Also, where's this thing they call "The Dragon?"
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My parents used to live near Konocti Harbour Inn and I was in San Jose, and took that drive many times. Only it was in my old Porsche 914. Now I am closer to it, but have only driven it 1 or 2 times in the S, and wife was with me, which keeps me from pushing it like I want to. But it is a good drive, for sure!
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Another great drive in NorCal, quoted from Automobile (please excuse the Boxster reference...):
"So where do all these roadster rivals leave Porsche's entry-level
sports car? After spending a day in three examples of the all-new 2005
Boxster, romping around some of the most engaging roads I've ever
encountered in my writing career (from Quail Lodge in Monterey,
California, down Carmel Valley Road, along the G17, a short run on the
101, a quick dogleg on Front St. to the CA-146 and then left onto the
CA-25 to Pinnacles National Monument) and I'm more entrenched in the
German automaker's camp than ever before."
I drove this route last weekend, and it was awesome.
Some notes: the G17 is the same thing as Arroyo Secca road. It'd be
better to take 101 South from G17 down to the exit for Pinnacles
Monument West Entrance (the East one is a dead end). You can then
take the 25 up to Pinnacles, and continue on it past the Pinnacles
entrance all the way up to Hollister, which then connects to Gilroy.
This is seriously some of the best driving I've seen. Lots of
twisties and elevation changes, no driveways or traffic, generally
good visibility, no cops, and beautiful (quite varied) scenery.
"So where do all these roadster rivals leave Porsche's entry-level
sports car? After spending a day in three examples of the all-new 2005
Boxster, romping around some of the most engaging roads I've ever
encountered in my writing career (from Quail Lodge in Monterey,
California, down Carmel Valley Road, along the G17, a short run on the
101, a quick dogleg on Front St. to the CA-146 and then left onto the
CA-25 to Pinnacles National Monument) and I'm more entrenched in the
German automaker's camp than ever before."
I drove this route last weekend, and it was awesome.
Some notes: the G17 is the same thing as Arroyo Secca road. It'd be
better to take 101 South from G17 down to the exit for Pinnacles
Monument West Entrance (the East one is a dead end). You can then
take the 25 up to Pinnacles, and continue on it past the Pinnacles
entrance all the way up to Hollister, which then connects to Gilroy.
This is seriously some of the best driving I've seen. Lots of
twisties and elevation changes, no driveways or traffic, generally
good visibility, no cops, and beautiful (quite varied) scenery.
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