Now here comes another really fun drive. This road was constructed years ago, before automobiles had the engine power to climb up mountains. The only way to get through ranges like this one was to create long, winding switchbacks along the sides of the mountains, with speed limits of 25 or even 15 mph.
There's a town along the way called Oatman, which used to be a thriving goldmining town until the gold ran out in the 1940's. It's listed as a ghost town on some web sites...
...although it appears far from uninhabited, having become an ersatz tourist town -- with tame "wild" burros (feral descendents of burros left behind by miners) roaming the streets in search of handouts.
Careful about rolling your windows down, or else this might happen...
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