Road to Pittsburgh Landing

Driving back to White Bird from Pittsburgh Landing

June 22, 2007.

We are staying at Angel's Nook RV-Park in White Bird, Idaho. $12.80 FHU no TV signal, no cell phone service, no wifi. Actually, there is no TV service or cell phone service in town. This is a small private RV-Park definitely mom & pop but close to town in the back yard of one of the oldest homes in town an an easy walk to everything in White Bird. It is a Passport America Park and we would stay here again.

We visited Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River out of White Bird, Idaho today. Oh what a ride!

This travel adventure documents the ride back to White Bird on Deer Creek Road.

Exciting descent to US-95 on Forest Service Road 493 through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

At long last we get a glimpse of US 95 way, way down there. We still have a long way to drop before we get to that highway, and as you can see it is going to be an exciting drop.

From where we are US-95 looks almost straight down.

Forest Service Road 493 through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River is relentlessly heading down

As we fall off the mountain the terrain becomes dryer and dryer. Notice the road as it drops along the far side of this picture.

Forest Service Road 493 through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

Our road continues to drop, as we head toward the Salmon River and US 95.

Forest Service Road 493 through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

Then we round another corner and get another glimpse of US 95. For a moment our goal is in sight, but as you can see we still have a long way to go.

Forest Service Road 493 through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

This is another glimpse of US 95 and our destination.

Steep narrow grade on through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

Then we see this sign. What a joke! Not that the road ahead of us is not steep and narrow but NOTHING like the road we have just driven over. This sign is on a state or county road. Obviously the Forest Service does not put up signs like this. I guess the Forest Service either doesn't have the funding to put up signs like this or they just assume everyone knows their roads are steep and narrow.

Gravel road through Hells Canyon NRA between White Bird and Pittsburgh Landing on the Snake River

Here we go down that steep, narrow road. At least this section has guard rails. The Forest Service does not believe in guard rails.

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