Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?
The New Yorker · 28 Sep 2026

Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?

Visitors are more likely to be concerned with what lies below. Many sections of the road have a sheer drop of more than four hundred feet, and there are no guardrails, because of the need to push snow off after avalanches. When the route was constructed, in the eighteen-eighties, it was considered o


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