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Author Topic: Condition of Hot Springs road?  (Read 909 times)  Share 

Offline Juke Box Hero

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Condition of Hot Springs road?
« on: April 05, 2010, 05:38:29 PM »
What kind of road are we talking about here?  Is it bike-able?  I've read "gravel".  Are we talking good gravel road or washboard or what?  Is it hilly?  Does it descend much?

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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 05:41:40 PM »
Have had my F-350 non duel, on it with no  problem.
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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 05:49:06 PM »
Absolutely any car can make it down the road, unless you drive some car that's been lowered to the point it can't get over a speed bump.  It's not paved, but passable to pretty much anything.

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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2010, 06:33:12 PM »
It's a very hard packed road with a few short stretches of washboard and rocks.

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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2010, 06:19:53 AM »
Yeah, we drove a Chevy Cavalier down the with no problems.
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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2010, 01:47:15 PM »
Drove a PT Cruiser down it last weekend. It's hard-packed, a little wash-boardy, dusty, not much of an elevation gain or loss.

It's short, about 2 miles, so it's not much of a challenge for someone accustomed to off-road biking. The only concern I would have is where it narrows. If someone comes up on you in a vehicle, there's not much room to get out of the way.

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Re: Condition of Hot Springs road?
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2010, 03:31:31 PM »
The road should be fine unless you own an abnormally wide vehicle like a H1 Hummer or a dually pickup.  Definitely wouldn't take a motor home down that road. :)

 

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