The user then enters a guess for the location of the image and then can see the right answer. Regardless of your approach, you’ll have to navigate steep hairpins like this on either side of the bridges. Description: This app shows a semi-random overhead image of a map, using MapQuest Static API. Consider this section of road a few miles to the south-east, which is full of steep hairpins. The actual road that goes to nowhere (image via Google maps). That would make sense if it were an isolated curve, but as I noted, it’s quite pleasant, and as straight as an arrow compared to other sections of the same road. Road to Nowhere NC: History of the Unfinished Road in Bryson City. Maybe the erosion issues at that point are such that the river is washing out the road slowly (or even regularly… there’s plenty of roads in my area that really *should* be diverted because - even if you can’t see it by looking at them - every winter like clockwork the spring thaws wash them away and they’re completely rebuilt year after year).ĭunno if that’s the case, but it at least might offer some explanation. It’s possible that it’s being done because that tight hairpin bend of the river becomes problematic during thaw season and such.
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