Where is fancy gap

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I posted photos from the first two locations on earlier articles, and the latter 15 are posted here. US in the hill-climb area south of Fancy Gap is a fairly winding 3-lane highway with several truck escape ramps. I makes a six-mile hill-climb of over 1, feet, with a grade of not over 4. The top of the climb on I is a summit called Fancy Gap, and is over 3, feet elevation. The section from NC to the interchange a couple miles north of Fancy Gap was opened in The northern 6 miles of this section traverses heavily mountainous terrain, and involved over 18 million cubic yards of excavation, making it one of the largest excavation projects in the history of the Interstate system.

Southbound on the long grade, there are 3 emergency escape ramps for runaway trucks. A 70 mph Interstate design was built through a very mountainous area in the Fancy Gap area. The highway has fairly busy car and truck traffic. At Fancy Gap, the volume is 32, The rest of I in Virginia has 4 lanes. I drove I through the hill-climb area about 6 round trips; this is the Fancy Gap area from one mile north of the N.

It was interesting to see it at different times of the day and at night. I basically saw it in the morning, at mid-day, at dusk and at night.

It was quite interesting and is certainly one of the capstones of the national Interstate highway system. Going 65 or 70 mph you really have a feeling of speed as you pass through the mountainous terrain at Fancy Gap. Going uphill northbound there is a third lane for six miles, for slow trucks; and I also took the "slow scenic tour" on a couple of my trips, northbound traveling 40 to 45 mph with the trucks in the right lane.

The southbound downhill roadway is all two lanes, and there are three different runaway truck ramps. The highway is very impressive as it gradually curves on 70 mph curves along the side of the mountains, with huge cuts and fills, and the two roadways are up to feet apart horizontally and feet apart vertically.

I drove through there once before, in , but it was rather foggy and I could not see very much. This time the weather was crystal clear. I recommend it as an experience to be savored. Check out. Guests Select Guests Kids Free Pets No Pets. Pet Policy.

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