Wonderful Mountain Ride on US-33

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Yesterday I managed to take care of a troublesome errand and to visit a road that I've been meaning to try out. I live in Parkersburg WV near the western end of the state and needed to get funds to a Bank of America and the closest one was Harrisonburg, VA. This was for my daughter's rent in San Diego - but that's not the story. Anyway, I've been meaning to hit US-33 and have been on parts closer to home. But I've heard and can report that the very best of twisty goodness for this road is on the far eastern part where it crosses the last and highest of the ridges in this part of the Alleghenys then goes down into Virginia, or as we call it here from the western side, East Virginia.

I have some shots from the return trip, that I'll post later.

For now, here are some Google Map links.

Here's the map overview. Long valley sweepers, then HOLY COW!, then long valley, not many sweepers.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spruce+Knob,+Monongahela+National+Forest,+Western,+WV+26814/@38.5893874,-79.1735809,12.75z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x884b2fc3fd1b8e81:0xd97db2e63642ed2a


Here's a link to the street view along the side of the road in VA, heading up to the first set of curves.

I looked for this because the sign in this spot yesterday was a lot more EXPRESSIVE. It said something like "MOTORCYCLISTS! MANY CRASHES ON NEXT 4 1/2 MILES" The Use Caution" sign in the pic apparently wasn't doing it. I noticed that every curve seemed to have glittery bits of glass shards in the road and on the side.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.579036,-79.114281,3a,19.8y,342.61h,89.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdiLkpCnKYxEO9XLu61jnnQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Unfortunately, I had to ride 2 hours to get to the start of this stuff. The quickest way is on the US-50 slab then I-79, which is what I used yesterday. There are MANY other more interesting routes, but they would have taken too long - yesterday. I might have to move to Elkins. Blah
 
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Fantastic road. Went last year on my Ducati, haven't gotten out yet this year on the fz. I'm in the same boat, about 2.5 hours to get to Harrisonburg.
 
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