Yuma to Jamul - route 94 or I8

[26_2_2go]

Need recommendations on travel to Jamul (pio pico TT) from Yuma. Anyone pull a 5W over SR 94 the past year or two? Would love to take the route but I hear there are lots of sharp curves and high climbs, perhaps it's best to take I8. What is your experience?

Thx, TNP

[26_2_2go]

Thanks For the great replies, sar tracker and more to see, appreciate it, will flow your by-pass recommendations. Take care and travel safe.

[SAR_Tracker]

More To See wrote:
Taking 94 becomes a problem after about 25 miles when the route becomes hilly, winding and more heavily traveled (with a fair number of accidents all the time). The problem area begins at about the route 188 turnoff down to Tecate, Baja.

I'd stay on I-8 over to Japatul Road just beyond Pine Valley. Be careful there because you will be on a 6 percent Interstate down grade and then dropping onto a much steeper freeway ramp down to a stop sign.

Left turn onto Japatul Road from that stop sign.

South on Japatul for 5 miles to a left turn onto Lyons Valley road. It's a fairly wide turn but on a slight downgrade so be moving slow.

Go 8 miles to a very rural crossroad junction where you take a left turn onto Honey Spring Road.

South on Honey Springs 7 miles to Route 94.

Left turn for about 1/4 mile and then take the right turn onto Otay Lakes road.

Up there a few miles will be Pio Pico.

Good info there. There's actually a sign Eastbound just past the Tecate turnoff recommending against trucks and trailers over 40'. Distance-wise, it's a little shorter on 94, but I-8 is sooooooooooo much easier on equipment and nerves. There seems to be a motorcyclist killed or injured every weekend on 94, somewhere between Jamul and Campo.

Oh, and watch for Highway Patrol running radar on the downhill sections of I-8. 55-60 and you'll be OK.

[More_To_See]

Taking 94 becomes a problem after about 25 miles when the route becomes hilly, winding and more heavily traveled (with a fair number of accidents all the time). The problem area begins at about the route 188 turnoff down to Tecate, Baja.

I'd stay on I-8 over to Japatul Road just beyond Pine Valley. Be careful there because you will be on a 6 percent Interstate down grade and then dropping onto a much steeper freeway ramp down to a stop sign.

Left turn onto Japatul Road from that stop sign.

South on Japatul for 5 miles to a left turn onto Lyons Valley road. It's a fairly wide turn but on a slight downgrade so be moving slow.

Go 8 miles to a very rural crossroad junction where you take a left turn onto Honey Spring Road.

South on Honey Springs 7 miles to Route 94.

Left turn for about 1/4 mile and then take the right turn onto Otay Lakes road.

Up there a few miles will be Pio Pico.

[Desert_Captain]

Not sure where you are headed on 94 but for a fiver the size of yours I would not recommend it. I-8 is good road that will give you no grief but a lot of 94 is two lane (one each direction), with some pretty tight curves. I used to ride 94 on my motorcycle because it was such a fun ride, for a large fiver... not so much. :C