Man drives his Montana off the road in the mountains.

Yes that is the Iron Mountain Road Pigtail Bridges in the Black Hills, I've driven that road many times, never with my TT though. Feel kinda bad for the RV'er, although there are signs everywhere and notations on the maps of the area that talk about the tunnels & clearances. Looks like he lost his awning too. I bet they were pretty frazzled by the time they got off that road.

Its a very racist trailer "old man doesn't read signs" That is a stereotype to which I have been assigned by the wife too many times. Who is looking out for us...

pops

It wasn't the Tail of the Dragon. No tunnels on the Tail.

michers wrote:
I'm most interested in knowing if the winch on that Ram had any effect on pulling that Montana out. The Montano outweighs that Ram maybe 2 to 1. Would seem the Ram would just get dragged toward the Montana.

Even a slight pull to the uphill side can help keep get the trailer back up onto the pavement as the tow vehicle backs up. What didn't help is that nobody "helping" seemed to have much of a clue. They didn't bother to turn the tow vehicle to follow the trailer and ended up wadding it onto the guardrail. They also should have tossed a coat over the cable and moved all of the gawkers away in case it broke.

On the other end of the road, where it turns off of 36, there are some yellow advisory signs but they are blurred in the Google image so I can't read them. Looks like one is a vertical clearance sign and the other appears to be the same warning about a narrow windy road.

I just did some Google Earth checking of Iron Mountain Road in SD. The sign on that road when you turn off of 244 says, "Large Vehicle Advisory" "Narrow Road Sharp Curves Ahead." And then a sign under that says "No Trucks."

I don't know about the rest of you, but that sign may not scare me away from the road. It doesn't say no RV's and there is no mention of a vertical clearance issue. There are signs like this all over California that I've drive my motorhome on without issue. Most two-lane mountains roads in California have similar signs.

Wife's comments......posted with video

Mary Ellen Brogdon
3 months ago

WOW! This was us!! Thanks for getting us out of that disastrous situation! FYI we had come up from the other way, missed the low clearance signs, went thru those 2 tunnels and my husband was able to turn it around on a hiking path which was amazing...then he had to go thru those 2 tunnels again!!! FYI the 5th 'was' brand new 2012, and 38ft! Sorry we jammed up the rd, but thanks for the help!

Couple speculations were posted on where but nothing for sure.....

Iron Mountain Road, Black Hills, SD

Deals Gap, North Carolina The Dragons Tail

Bumpyroad wrote:

TexasShadow wrote:
this road is in the Black Hills. It's the Peter Norbeck scenic drive and there are signs telling you the limits etc. The guy can't read or didn't bother to read about the road.

I hope that wasn't that road that has the "cork screw" curve where it goes under itself in a very tight circle?
bumpy

That is what it looked like as it looked like when he finally gets out in the trailer and continues down the road that it was curving all the way back around to go through a tunnel back under the original road.

I'm most interested in knowing if the winch on that Ram had any effect on pulling that Montana out. The Montano outweighs that Ram maybe 2 to 1. Would seem the Ram would just get dragged toward the Montana.

TexasShadow wrote:
this road is in the Black Hills. It's the Peter Norbeck scenic drive and there are signs telling you the limits etc. The guy can't read or didn't bother to read about the road.

I hope that wasn't that road that has the "cork screw" curve where it goes under itself in a very tight circle?
bumpy