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Originally Posted by BPM
I use to run Berryessa all the time on the motorcycle and car. Definately a fantastic drive and worth the extra hour north east. Gets squiggly during the weekends. Definately a weekday road to hit!
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Originally Posted by Pwolf
I drove up there along highway 128 and back during the Fall. Didn't end up driving along the lake unfortunately but is was still a nice drive despite getting stuck behind a few dump trucks. Been thinking about going back and driving by the lake for some good photo ops. Future Spring drive perhaps?
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Yeah, years ago I went with a caravan of MR2s and we went up past Napa as far north as Lower Lake (near Clearlake) before taking Morgan Valley Rd down to Lake Berryessa. It was a phenomenal drive but parts of that road are rough and may even involve stream crossings at certain times of the year. It was so rough I broke loose some part of my struts there. I remember thinking man my MR2 is not cut out for this road, I should come back in a Subaru rally car. Well now I have a Subaru but it's not really the right kind either haha.
But the roads around Lake Berryessa, once you get there are pretty nice and as you say, great photo ops I think. That was indeed the plan, I wanted to scout the place out a little and see if we might want to do a drive/bbq out that way sometime. There are not a lot of amenities in the Berryessa area so we'd have to bring our own supplies, or pack a picnic lunch kind of thing. We'll see, I want to check the place out before we lead a larger group out there. And yeah I think going on a weekday will be better traffic-wise than a weekend.
