Name: Taming the Dragon: America's Most Dangerous Highway
Uploaded: 2020-01-01
Duration: 11 min 17 s
Description: With 318 hairpin curves packed into just 11 miles of twisting scenic highway, this stretch of U.S. Highway 129 continues to regularly claim the lives of motorcyclists drawn here by the riding challenge and vivid fall color, and we recount some of the most harrowing crashes on this stretch.

With 318 hairpin curves packed into just 11 miles of twisting scenic highway, this stretch of U.S. Highway 129 continues to regularly claim the lives of motorcyclists drawn here by the riding challenge and vivid fall color, and we recount some of the most harrowing crashes on this stretch.

Discover why a scenic stretch of U.S. Highway 129 became one of America’s most feared rides, drawing motorcyclists with vivid fall color and a brutal challenge. Through the road’s history and some of its most harrowing crashes, this film reveals what makes the Tail of the Dragon so seductive, and so deadly. Sign up to see the full story unfold.

318 curves, 11 miles, and the peril behind a legendary road.

Taming the Dragon: America's Most Dangerous Highway

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