Hi Cliff, Love this road. Found it when I was looking for Boxcar Rocks. Drove in from tower city side this past April when I started my channel missed the parking area and drove all the way down the mountain and thought what a beautiful road and thought I will need to come back in the fall. Thanks for sharing! Beautiful drive. Great first choice.
I like your videos. I grew up in Pennsylvania and been all over the forests up there in the most unpopulated counties. It's beautiful there. I miss it.
I grew up in Tower City and go back to visit family often. Seeing this video made me realize how lucky I am to drive that beautiful road on a regular basis.
a favored road by bikers, motorcyclists, and scooterists! you gotta hit 1) Waggoner's Gap in Cumberland & Perry Counties, 2) hill climb from 325 by Carsonville Hotel, and back mountain road up into Lykens, and 3) Rte 125 outta Hegins and up into Shamokin...
What a beautiful drive. The colors are changing and leaves dropping in central Eastern Nevada. We have had two snows. It's an early onset of winter. I really love the tall trees ☺️
Hands down, my favorite motorcycle road locally. I took my wife and son on the Gameland tour last weekend in 211 for the drive up the Rail Trail. We came home via Goldmine Road, down through Indiantown Gap and a stop at the Snitz Creek Brewery on 934. Thanks for taking us along.
I already have this marked as part of a future route, just haven't gotten to it yet. I have family in Benton and a while back I got tired of the trip up 15/11 from MD to Bloomsburg, so I started looking for alternate routes on the PA State roads, first few trips were up through Carlisle and along 74 and others, last couple trips were the first I'd ever gone into Harrisburg and then up the east side of the Susquehanna and into the hills on that side. Since I usually do it on a motorcycle, the hills and curves are an added attraction, I've turned a 240 mile route into nearly 400.
hi Woodsman tks for Kelly's brdge video really brightened me up just same as parts of my country that i trekd as i find these dark days i get down cud not get comments section tks again Brian
Really? We went to basketball camp in East Stroudsburg back in the 70's. A few years back my brother brought his boys up. That's exactly how he described it. A land lost in time. 😂
@@samanthab1923 one time on my way home from work a fast snow squall came through. Dumped a few inches of snow in quickly. It was sunny when I started up the Lebanon side. Right before the last hairpin turn the snow was deep and getting worse by the minute. There were about 10 cars in front of me. I got out to see what was going on up ahead. A few car tried to make their descent on the steep untreated road. They got snuck blocking the road. The line of traffic continued to grow behind me. We waited four hours until Penndot got trucks up there to clean things up. I was almost out of gas and pissing in a Gatorade bottle. What an experience. I tend to avoid Gold Mine Road these days. Lol.
Wayne Smith It's funny how different the weather is in PA. We moved out here about 25 years ago & I can't tell you how many times my mom got snow in Doylestown & I got nothing in Solebury. Also I love how people raid the stores if snow is in the forecast ❄️😂
@@samanthab1923 I'm originally from Massachusetts and that was one of the first things I noticed when I moved to PA years ago 😅. It can be an inch or two in the forecast, and the store are jammed!
Love the road videos, and the quiet music, too. She could have been harvesting quills. Washcloth on the quills, a quick pull, and you get a handful for craft work...
nice drive! I'm in MI. and you have more color than here. Trees started turning way early in the 1st part of Sept. then it stopped and don't seem to be turning much even now.
I live in Michigan also.Today my wife and I decided to drive from Brighton to Davison then into the thumb, taking only backroads. You are so right, the leaves just kinda stopped changing, I was expecting alot more color. It was a fun day with no kiddies and we got to watch some freighters as well!!
What a lovely drive. The colours were gorgeous. Are all hairpin bends like that? Ours here are really bad. Love the piano music it was fabulous . Thanks for the ride, please stay safe and take care
Nice ride Cliff, I hope to go to World End's State Park and then to Great Knob tomorrow ( Sunday} from there cut across country to Rt 44 and back home from there. Not sure if I'll take RT 414 north through Pine Creek Gourge or go north on 44 and take a MT road across country to Colton Pt St Park. Rt 414 is a beautiful ride from Morris to Rt 44 and a favorite of mine. Another scenic route is RT 144 from Renova to Snow Shoe, several vista s to stop at and might see an Elk.
i just love our great state of Pa. we used to go up to blackwell where our hunting cabin was. and also go to the Pa grand canyon and fin, fur, and feather during summer and fall to see the color of the fall.
I went on that road back in 2001 for training at the one end for the Fire department i was with back then. Love to go back on the road one day. Thanks for the video.
Great video!! It's so tough to decide which series I like best that you produce!! But I think I will thoroughly enjoy this new road series that you are doing. Can't wait for more!!!
I'm a man in my 60's. I originally was a mountain man from Dauphin County. I also, am a former agricultural truck driver. I did a lot of jobs in mostly all the counties of PA. In the past. I'm now a long distance bicycle rider, who has a lot to do with the history of some of your videos. Enjoy many of the takebacks.
looking at map i see Chinese Wall somewhat near Boxcar Rocks. Im know i have been there with driving buddies in the 60's/70's but cant imagine how or why
Is Goldmine Rd associated with a goldmine? Also the old town of Goldmine. Hopefully you can clarify this. I know I'm not the only one wondering. I couldn't find anything online about it.
Yes. The stoney valley rail trail follows an old railway that goes through two or three old abandoned mining villages. Just past the rail trail, if you're heading north, maybe a quarter mile on the left is an old road/ trail that leads back to the abandoned village of gold mine.
Sorry, not a gold mine, but coal mine. There are stories,of course, about gold mines. But I don't know of anything factual. Any gold deposits in Pennsylvania would be glacial push.
Thanks Cliff, Great idea, a quick way to enjoy backroads iin Autumn, especially now with teaching taking a lot of your time. We have a lot of old unpaved switchback logging roads to mountain tops. Anything like that around your neck of the woods? Cheers, Rik Spector
I gotta be real, didn't care for this. Tho I enjoy yr other videos. I'd appreciate you filming the abandoned coal towns as you mentioned you may do again.
