Distance
24.1 mi
Duration
40m
Checkpoints
2
Created
FEB 26, 2025
About
Gather the crew together and start the journey at Walker Mountain Overlook! 🤙🏻 Drive through the 438 curves that this amazing road has to offer and end your journey at Back of the Dragon Brewery for some food and drinks! 🙌🏻
The road
Back of the Dragon - 438 curves/32 miles in Marion, Virginia is graded at 258 corners, about 10.7 for every mile you drive. 92 of them are genuinely tight (36% of the road), and the sharpest turns in at a 14 m radius. The longest straight runs 1.1 miles, so there is room to breathe between the technical sections.
- Graded corners
- 258
- Tight (1–2)
- 92
- Tightest radius
- 14 m
- Corners per mile
- 10.7
Corners are graded from the route’s own geometry on the rally 1–6 scale, where 1 is a hairpin. Road & Rally calls them out as you drive.
Checkpoints
2
- #01
Walker Mountain Overlook
- #02
Back of the Dragon Brewery
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