SS185 — Acireale to Messina

Italy · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

1,292Corners

25Miles

51.7Per mile

SS185 runs 25 miles between Acireale and Messina. We counted 1,292 corners along it, which works out at 51.7 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, cliffs, a mountain pass and open water. That is busier than two thirds of the roads we have measured in Italy, where the median is 39.3 a mile.

Ridden together with SS185 and SS120 it makes about 17 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

0.8 mihistoricCastello di Novara di Sicilia
2.1 mibbqAlfa2
2.1 miwaterfallCascate Grascirone
2.3 miviewpointSedile con rotonda ed antico altare in pietra
2.4 mihistoricCuburro
2.4 mihistoricPiano ( nuovi scavi )
2.7 miwaterfallCascata Sentinella
2.7 miwaterfallSerie di Cascate
2.8 miwaterfallCascata Ruggirotto
2.8 miwaterfallCascata Sghiccio

Roads near here

SS1855 mi away · 620 corners
SS1206 mi away · 190 corners
SS1207 mi away · 330 corners
SS1169 mi away · 282 corners
SS11610 mi away · 502 corners
SPA15812 mi away · 291 corners

How we measured it

Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.