The End of the Road. One of the most epic drives we can never take.

10 miles up the twisty Highway 39 successful Southern California, a roadworthy fashionable with nighttime drifters and velocity junkies, a graffiti covered alloy obstruction blocks the way. Thats each you get, 10 miles. The End.

While the thrust up consists of immoderate of the champion canyon roads successful the area, 4 further miles of car enthusiasts eden has been inaccessible since 1978. Past The End, the 39 erstwhile connected to the legendary Angeles Crest Highway (CA2), a roadworthy possibly adjacent much legendary, iconic, and notorious to car enthusiasts.

The 39 was initially closed astir 47 years agone owed to an “emergency” which is rather honestly much ominously vague than it should be! Maybe an alien spacecraft clang landed determination and created an unmistakable scar connected the mountainside. Maybe a portal to an alternate magnitude was opened up by an experimentation gone awry, and the authorities has things tightly nether guard? Surely the conspiracies are retired there, but much apt it closed owed to a bid of landslides that deem the roadworthy impassable to thing but exigency vehicles. Over the decades, determination were plans to re-open it, but the outgo of fixing the 4 mile stretch, and the decay implicit the decades has made it progressively difficult.

Its a spot of a shame, arsenic what lines beyond The End connected the 39 was considered 1 of the astir beauteous drives successful Southern California. Thats precocious praise considering the institution it keeps. The CA2 itself and backroads of Malibu Canyon are rather beautiful, truthful the 39 indispensable beryllium utterly breathtaking!

One day, I would emotion to thrust it, due to the fact that little down the mountain, connected the mode up to The End, the 39 presently intersects with Glendora Mountain Road (GMR). GMR is fashionable for highly choky and method cuts up and down the canyon. Connecting not conscionable two, but 3 of the champion drives successful the area, starting with GMR, past up the 39, past cutting into ACH, would beryllium astir 80 miles of scenic, technically divers twisty canyon road. One could thrust astir each time provided they person capable fuel!

For now, this is arsenic acold arsenic it goes. I stopped, took a clump of photos of my M2 astatine the precise past spot of road, met immoderate chap car enthusiasts who stitchery present astatine each times of the time and night, and could lone ideate what could be. As I drove backmost down the 34 and the prima began to set, I comforted my aforesaid with the thought that possibly this tiny fraction of 4 miles roadworthy wasnt each that large and were simply romanticizing the unobtainable. Maybe its conscionable the forbidden effect of SoCal driving roads.

Or possibly Ill conscionable ne'er get to thrust 1 of the champion roads… successful the world.