Places you cruise around for fun/leisure?
 

I live in San Jose, anyone from around the area want to share some fun places to drive to/cruise around?

Whenever I have some free time I always enjoy taking a drive to:

Fremont Older Open Space Preserve in Saratoga, CA (pretty short drive, but driving around the mountains there are always fun)

For a little longer drive... Vista Point (highway 9 is always fun)

Santa Cruz (I enjoy the turns on highway 17)

Highway 9, then at the stop, turn right onto Skyline Blvd, and if you keep going on Skyline Blvd you'll see a Vista Point with an amazing view.

Stevens Canyon Rd

What else am I missing out on?

Hwy 130 is interesting, but narrow. I go drive up and down Metcalf Rd; it is really short, but only a few mins from where I live. I have been meaning to get out and drive the other side of the valley.

take a drive up mt. hamilton up to lick's observatory?

These are pretty short and tame, but they're perfect little traffic detours for my daily commute so I frequent them: Niles Canyon Rd, Palomares Rd, Crow Canyon Rd (between 580 and 680)

Hwy 130 up and over Mt. Hamilton is one of my favorites. Definitely have to use caution there though, there are spots where you can push it a little and spots where there is no room for error or you are going off the edge of a cliff. For a longer drive continue all the way up out into the middle of nowhere and back into the back of Livermore via Mines.

Sierra Rd and Felter Rd are fun but short run just above San Jose. We did that as a group a few weekends back and it connects back to Calaveras which in turn connects to Niles Canyon Rd and Palomares Rd. Which in turn can take you towards Redwood Rd... yeah lots of fun drives around here. :)

Highway 9 at night is my favorite. Generally don't run into others driving around. Only thing is deer are out and about...

Highway 92 going towards Half Moon Bay is always fun.

+1, but usually a lot of (or just that one :paddle:) slow moving cars on weekends :T

This thread is reading just like the first few pages of the DRIVE chat thread lol. My personal favorite is this little known road called Ridgecrest blvd that takes you to the peak of Mt. Tam, the scenery is just unreal. A very close second are my local twisty roads up in the Eastbay hills (Redwood, Pinehurst, Grizzly Peak, etc.)

http://86drive.com/roads/

List of roads we frequent plus a link to the speedstars interactive map. Im thinking ill toy around with making a marked map for us now that i think about it.

I've meant to do it for the site, but didn't have the time. I still have my pashnit roads subscription, so let me know if you need help.

Since I'm nearby, my favorite loop is Hwy 9 > 35 > 84 (or reverse), then take 280S back home.

Seriously! There is nothing worse than a slow poke ruining a nice set of twistes :mad0260:

Not just weekends. Here is a short clip of me trying to get along on Hwy 9 until I come upon a Prius driver who is afraid of corners apparently.
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