Best roller coaster roads.

I know this is prob. an offseason question, but I was just wondering if there are any spots on the roads that bring back roller-coaster like feelings? I have found one in the Chicagoland area that gives a nice pop of pseudo-air. On the Elgin-O'hare expressway, going westbond, both lanes, right about where the Flyers stadium is, there is a nice double-dip that always brings a little smile to my face. Was wondering if there are any others out there you have found?

Train tracks in chicago :)

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Belvedere

There's alot of back roads near me that are like that. Especially if you have a little bit of speed going over the dips.

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I know of a few where the road rises to cross over railroad tracks... they give some nice air. I know of one in particular that features a right-hand curve on one side and a left-hand curve on the other, so you get some laterals as well :)

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-Rob
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Literally speaking, there actually is a "Roller Coaster Road" in Colorado. :) We discovered it somewhere between Colorado Springs and Denver when we got off of I-25 to avoid traffic. I really wish we had taken a picture of the sign.

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Sue Barry
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The best single pop of air I've ever felt in a car is near Waynesville, Ohio, right outside the Renaissance Festival grounds.

Almost every road in Ohio's Amish country is like a roller coaster. My parents-in-law live up there so I get to drive them all the time. There's one part of state Route 571 that looks like the first hill of Colossus, with a little curve right at the top. But coming from the south, you don't know there's a curve there... no signs or any warnings at all. I've almost died there many times. :)

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West Virginia... Just pick any road in West Virginia...

*rolleyes*

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Any road? OK, Interstate 70 through Wheeling. I win! ;)

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

I know some back road towards Racine,WI had crazy air. I belive it was a railroad crossing and we hit it around 50mph. :)

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Where is it on the Elgin-Ohare? I take that road every day to work and never noticed a "double-dip" (though I do exit at Gary ave)

When I lived in Madison, WI there was this awesome bridge by Regent St and Grant that I always flew over. It was amazing. They have since redone the bridge and made it flat :-(

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NICK

Tha whistles go woooooooooo!

The road I live on is 4 miles of tight, sharp bunny hops . Even at 45 mph, you get plenty of suspension travel (and almost zilch sight-distance). It ends in a ski-jump type intersection. I can't imagine how it must be at 70, but have no desire to try. 6 people have died in the last 6 years on it... the last flew around 70 horizontal and 50 vertical ft before landing wrong and kissing a tree. :( That pretty well ended any inclination for me towards trying it off of a roller-coaster.

The Elgin-Ohare dip is right across from the Schaumburg Flyers stadium heading westbound (towards 20). Both lanes have it.

Before the 210 freeway was put up around my area, there was this nice little stretch of street that was just constant hills.

In Wisconsin, Hwy M (aka Country Aire) between Hwy 60 and the next road south of that (can't remember the name right now) has three hills in a row that can provide some very noticeable air. Also, a bit after that, not long before the road turns west (when approaching from the north), there is a double-down hill that also can provide noticeable air!

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Try to find a straight, flat patch of road anywhere in Southern Indiana. Just try. :)

--Ryan

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A man who lives in a glass house should change in the basement.

Ryan, you're being sarcastic, right? S. Indiana is hilly, but it's all rolling-type hills, as far as I've seen....

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

A couple of nice desert roads in Arizona provide some nice air. :)

I'd also like to state the airtime hill in the movie "A Guy Thing" because that just looked sweet.

There are some nice coaster roads out here where I live in Amish: Hartville Oh. Lots of train tracks and back roads that are hilly with plenty of turns.

There is cut-off road going into Branson from the south that pulls some big Gs at the bottom of a hill. I swear it pulled more Gs than Wildfire (this was going about the speed limit). Maybe Markey should start going after all of these roads that pull high Gs. Anyway, a lot of the roads up in that area remind me of a terrain-hugging mine train.

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I lied.

Ryan, you're being sarcastic, right? S. Indiana is hilly, but it's all rolling-type hills, as far as I've seen....

Well, I was exaggerating a bit, but the area where I live has awesome hills. Hell, the city itself is built on a large hill.

Say, did you ever get your free roll from Breen Park? ;)

--Ryan

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