China's Wuxi County Features Terrifying Token Stone Road

Wuxi. China's infrastructure construction has been astonishing the world with suspension bridges that go through the middle of rivers and sky highways built on high mountain peaks. 

However, when it comes to challenging roads, perhaps no other road can be as terrifying as the Token Stone Road in Wuxi County, Southwest China. This winding road, squeezed between two large rocks, connects the small Tian Ping community to the outside world.

The total length of this road is only 3.7 kilometers, connecting Tian Ping village to provincial road number 201. Although the winding section of the road is only 453 meters long, it poses a tough challenge even to experienced drivers in the world. 

This road, which started construction in 2012 and was blacktopped in 2019, requires vehicles to be driven at a very slow speed and extreme caution must be exercised at every sharp turn. This road is so narrow that it is impossible to reverse a vehicle here. The gradient in some steep sections of the road reaches up to 36 percent.

Since only 137 people from 37 families live in the Tian Ping community, there is not much crowd on this road. Due to low traffic, it is somewhat easier for drivers to navigate the turns of the road. Trucks, buses, and large vans are banned from driving on this road as these vehicles cannot navigate the narrow winding pattern.

Even small vehicles have to use a specially designed open space to make turns. The winding section of this road is so steep that vehicles have to be driven in first gear only to navigate it.