Is it a good day to ride or drive the Snake Pass?
13 miles from the Royal Oak Inn, Glossop, where the 50 mph limit starts, over the 512 m (1,680 ft) summit and down to Ladybower. Updated …
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Speed limits on the route
- 30 mph through Glossop, to just past the Royal Oak Inn
- 50 mph from there over the top and all the way down to Ladybower
- 20 mph, temporary traffic lights at the Alport landslip
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Local knowledge
Put together in Glossop, a short walk from the foot of the pass, by a lifelong rider, on two wheels since the age of 14. “From here we hear the sirens, and now and then the air ambulance, when a day on the pass goes wrong.”
- Start at the Royal Oak Inn on Sheffield Road, Glossop. The 30 becomes 50 just past the pub, and the climb begins with the tightest bend on the route, under half a mile up.
- The tops make their own weather. The summit at 512 m (1,680 ft) is often in cloud, colder and gustier while Glossop is dry. Go by the summit reading, not the view from town.
- Nowhere to stop on the pass itself. The Old Snake Inn has closed; the next pub is the Ladybower Inn, 13 miles from the start.
- Landslips have narrowed and closed the road before. The council notes above say what is in place today.
- Glare: heading up from Glossop on a winter morning, the low sun sits right in your eyes on the open stretches.