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Originally Posted by Tytlfamily
hey beacher, where exactly is that road? ...Can you tell me that route you drove?
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I was going to meet a great camping group, (the SCCAMPERS), at the Thousand Trails RV Resort called Yosemite Lakes. It's located at 31191 Hardin Flat Rd, Groveland, CA 95321.
I took the route that the iPhone's MAPs app GPS provided. It routed me from the city of Modesto we took the 132 to the 49, and then the 120. The road in the video is called "The Old Priest Grade", and it's located at the West end of the 120, after the town of Moccasin, and before Groveland.
The normal 120 route is very twisty and windy but not as steep, (and the Old Priest Grade bypasses that section), so perhaps the GPS thought it was doing me a favor?
Excerpt from the Moccasin Wikipedia page:
Immediately east of town,
State Route 120 climbs from about 910 feet (280 m) AMSL elevation to about 2,450 feet (750 m) at
Priest Station, California, over a distance of six miles (10 km).
Old Priest Grade, a narrower road and predecessor to the current route of SR120, covers the same change in elevation over about 2.7 miles (4.3 km). It is common to see vehicles with smoking brakes descending the old grade.
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