trainrider47 Wrote:
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>...From my recollection and looking
> at Google maps, the Williams Pass road ties in
> above the Sherrod Loop but below the Palisades...
Williams Pass connects just upgrade from the Palisades, and continues diagonally below the rock wall. The label for "The Palisades" on Google Maps is well upgrade from the actual location of the rock wall. If you zoom in on where the Williams Pass road crosses the grade, you can see the rock wall a bit farther down grade. The road that comes out above Sherrod Loop but below The Palisades is Hancock Pass. Both Williams Pass and Hancock Pass connect the Atlantic-side grade with the Pacific-side grade, but Williams Pass is much rougher and when it's open it's usually just for a month or two late in the season, while Hancock Pass is a much easier road, but still a real 4WD trail.