Going to Pigeon Forge this weekend to look at a few cars, and wanted to drive the Tail of the Dragon coming back home while I still had a semi-fun car to drive (other option is a Chevy Cobalt or my Tundra, likely more fun in my Jetta).

Anyone else ever driven it? Worth the drive?



[Edited on September 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM. Reason : Just searched and saw there is a giant thread about this, fail.]

9/8/2011 9:48:03 AM

watch out for the cops

9/8/2011 10:11:36 AM

Air has made many trips to the Dragon. I think he prefers to go late in the season (Thanksgiving) when the tourism has died down.

9/8/2011 10:20:07 AM

late in the season... and DO NOT CROSS THE CENTERLINE

its not a race track

9/8/2011 11:06:10 AM

obligatory

THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE







(didnt read the edit)

9/8/2011 11:21:47 AM

it was fun, but kinda slow. there were other roads in the area i liked better b/c you could go faster.

worth the drive if you've never been

9/8/2011 11:28:01 AM

just gonna be clogged with blub blub blub harley fags this time of year.

Gotta wait till after Nov 1 and before March 1 to have any fun up there

even when i go i usually see cops here and there, so be careful. Taps on the head mean slow up something is happening up ahead.

9/8/2011 11:57:50 AM

is there still a problem with truckers trying to fit through there?

9/8/2011 12:36:25 PM

Truckers see you idiots as the problem.

9/8/2011 1:12:57 PM

Quote :

"it was fun, but kinda slow. there were other roads in the area i liked better b/c you could go faster."

the drive up there is actually pretty fun because you do have twisty back roads that you can take at higher speeds.

I went once in 2006 (with Air)and I had a lot of fun. It was supposed to be a meet of Rx-7 guys but I didn't drive much with the big group. That's slow and lame. You have to go in small groups when there is little traffic.

9/8/2011 2:51:43 PM

My parents drove the dragon in their Buick Park Avenue when they were in TN and the rockslide closed I-40. My mom asked me if I had heard of it.

9/8/2011 2:52:43 PM

^^^

No, the truckers can't make the turning radius. They take up both lanes.

9/8/2011 3:38:40 PM

be careful on 74 in NC headed towards the dragon.. Cops like to hide on it. its a 4 lane divided highway so it is easy to speed down hills and such.

Happy valley rd was a fun drive for me. I also like the stretch between the dragon and fontana village.

9/8/2011 3:40:31 PM

Quote :

"the drive up there is actually pretty fun because you do have twisty back roads that you can take at higher speeds."

that's what i was getting at.. i really liked the drive from the store (with the tree of shame) to fontana dam..

9/8/2011 7:19:57 PM

Been twice

2007


2010


It's a blast. Will go back again.

[Edited on September 8, 2011 at 8:59 PM. Reason : .]

9/8/2011 8:57:39 PM

9/8/2011 9:13:35 PM

http://killboy.blogspot.com/

9/8/2011 9:16:48 PM

This reminds me of Devil's Backbone

9/8/2011 9:51:55 PM

^ so much win that post -- that 'hill' is like 5 miles from my place in cincinnati

[Edited on September 8, 2011 at 11:47 PM. Reason : cant type]

9/8/2011 11:47:02 PM

i came around a corner there one night (yes a corner, not a curve, thats how bad that road is)

and there was a damn bear in the road, i beeped the horn,

he gives me a FUCK YOU look and just sits there for like a min before he moves

9/9/2011 9:33:07 AM

from our honeymoon

9/9/2011 10:20:05 AM

do people sit on the side of the road and take pictures constantly to sell to ricers in their lexus's and acuras, or you you people station your passenger on the roadside to capture such douche-baggery? I'm really intrigued by this.

9/9/2011 12:09:27 PM

i dont have any friends and often put a video camera on the side of the road to do drive-bys and see what my exhaust sounds like.

9/9/2011 1:09:26 PM

yeah photographers sit there and take pics all day and then put them on their website. you look under the date you were there and find yourself. i didn't buy, that's why there's "PROOF" written all over the pic.

[Edited on September 9, 2011 at 3:10 PM. Reason : bone stock acura = ricer]

9/9/2011 3:09:26 PM

lols. I most certainly did not buy these pictures. Water marks are not that hard to remove...

You forgot to make fun of my Porsche. That hurts...



[Edited on September 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM. Reason : bone stock lexus = ricer , but this lexus has ceramic front brakes and non-oem tires so...]

9/9/2011 3:49:54 PM

yeah, Killboy was one of the original photogs there, cool dude, he's got the sexy evo and I think he has a scoobie too. There's like 5 other photos companies there now, pretty crazy, half of them are shitty. Although I like the guys at Photo129.com since the three dudes there race bikes and are actually pretty decent photos with good gear.

From last year, rigged the dlsr on the back for video.

9/9/2011 5:26:34 PM

^^^ ricer is a state of mind, my friend. has little to do with the set of wheels attached.

9/9/2011 5:39:22 PM

Get out there *early* to beat the cruisers parking it in every corner, keep yours between the lines, and watch out for fuckwits in 18-wheelers coming around the corner taking up the whole road.

9/10/2011 7:09:28 AM