Magnetic Hill? ..... for real?

There are several noted "magnetic hills" or "gravity hills" around the country. Those are usually places where the surrounding terrain gives you the wrong visual clues as to where level really is.

If the road has a long fill area where you are really headed slightly downhill but the land alongside goes down steeper, it is easy to get fooled because you appear to be climbing with respect to the roadside scenery.

I've experienced the phenomenon - riding along thinking I was headed downhill until I noticed how hard the engine was working, and vice versa.

Ditto. There's a so called Gravity Hill road near where I grew up. About 20 years ago, I grabbed the level and ran a loop with the help of one of my curious buddies. Real gravity doesn't lie. The car does roll in the right direction-down hill. The more appropriate name for that road actually should be called the Optical Illusion road....

Ours locally is called Gravity Hill. I have ridden it, pretty funky. They say it is an optical illusion. I am going to measure it one day.

Our local version

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/600

The real reason to drive out there 😉

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I've been on New Brunswick's when I was a kid and found it very interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Hill_(Moncton)

Cheers,

Derek

Spook Hill, Lake Wales

Here is Central Florida's version: Spook Hill