Lolly's Killer Curves Access

For the uninitiated, Lolly’s is a 10.7-mile section of Old Route 29, carved into the ridge between Parson’s Hollow and Blue Summit. It’s named after Lolly Taggart, a bootlegger’s wife who, in 1953, supposedly drove a modified Hudson Hornet through this pass at 90 miles an hour with a trunk full of moonshine—and a federal agent hanging off her rear bumper. She lost him in the third hairpin. Legend says she never spilled a drop.

Memorial crosses dot the roadside, weather-beaten and adorned with faded ribbons. One, near mile marker 14, is painted bright pink. That one’s for Lolly herself—she died in 2001, not in a crash, but in her rocking chair, facing the road she conquered. Her grandson still leaves a jar of white lightning on the marker every May 15. lolly's killer curves

The curves that made her famous are now a proving ground. From above, Lolly’s looks like a tangled rope thrown over a mountain. From the driver’s seat, it feels like a math problem you have to solve in real time—or die trying. For the uninitiated, Lolly’s is a 10