Distance
103.9 mi
Duration
2h 46m
Checkpoints
4
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. As you drive by the Back of the Dragon Brewery, continue east across the mountain towards Big Walker Lookout. ⛰️ Finally, loop around and continue on to the Back of the Dragon Brewery for some lunch and drinks!
The road
Back of the Dragon - The Big loop in Marion, Virginia is graded at 980 corners, about 9.4 for every mile you drive. 248 of them are genuinely tight (25% of the road), and the sharpest turns in at an 8 m radius. The longest straight runs 1.8 miles, so there is room to breathe between the technical sections.
- Graded corners
- 980
- Tight (1–2)
- 248
- Tightest radius
- 8 m
- Corners per mile
- 9.4
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
4
- #01
Walker Mountain Overlook
- #02
Back of the Dragon Brewery
- #03
Big Walker Lookout
- #04
Back of the Dragon Brewery
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