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Originally Posted by troutman
By rough, I mean not paved - depending on the year it can be washboard in places. And always dusty. If you camp off the Hwy (not in a campground) the access points can be rough.
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Ah ok, I getcha. Definitely agree on the dusty. We open the car doors after a trip and it's like the field of dust surrounding Pigpen from Peanuts lol. It can be pretty thick in the door frames after a trip. A colleague of my husband's does some vehicle cleaning for us a few times a year; he used to be a detailer and so he and my husband barter services back and forth - the first time he detailed my car after a recent trip down the trunk road, he was all "where the HELL were you driving?!"
My husband just says "we like to take the roads less traveled and they're usually gravel/dirt."
We tend to measure how rough the road is by our daughter - with her arthritis and chronic pain issues, she's often very tender and so if it's super rough, we will not take a route if she happens to be with us. That was one of the roads we thought she'd be fine on. We have a couple of workarounds if she wants to come, involving a lot of extra padding, which is what we did this past week up on the Smith-Dorrien and it seems to work.
We just really enjoyed that route. Quiet road, but well maintained and wide in most places, beautiful scenery - we could just meander without upsetting any other drivers, quickly pull over if we wanted to check something out without having someone up the tailpipe, freaking out.