Avoid Smuggler’s Notch on Vermont Route 108

Driver - " I saw the signs, but decided to ignore them" . State of Vermont - "oh really, the fine is now $10,000!"

 

I still am trying to figure out how that would be a shortcut to anywhere, even if you could make it.

 

Blindly following a GPS is a recipe for disaster. Even a trucking GPS. Those will generally keep you clear of low bridges and parkways but will still try to send you down roads you don't really have business being on in a commercial vehicle.

I've seen the signs for that road...it's clearly marked. Stupidity knows no bounds.

 

They need to install a zig zag at the very beginning , as a gatekeeper . If you can’t fit through the gatekeeper then you can’t fit through the road .

we did that at a popular jeep trail near us .
It had a very difficult spot to traverse , and folks were always getting stuck there and blocking the trail for hours .
So we installed some rocks at the entrance of the trail . If you can’t get over the rocks at the entrance , then you can’t get past the difficult section that’s miles in .

 

The ignorance of “new Americans/Canadians” on display.

I’ve bicycled through the notch. I don’t even comprehend being up there, in a semi.

 

I'm sorry it went down like this
But someone had to lose...

 

Wonder what the tow bill amounted to..

 

Great Miami Vice episode!

 

Join the club... makes absolutely no sense....
Bout 25 years or so ago....bunch of us were up at Laconia...2 of my ridin buddies were drivers...and one am at bkfst....the Notch came up
We’d all heard the stories...so off on a 400 mile or so round trip to ck it out....
Great motorcycle round...We got thru and turned right around and went back thru it....
After buddy mine....pulls coal buckets wagons...Ev-Ky-Pa...said I’ve been on some pretty sketchy roads...but ain’t No Way