Hyatt Prairie Road: The Shortcut Between Them
10 miles connecting Highway 66 near Green Springs Inn to Dead Indian Memorial Road, past Hyatt Lake. Narrow, mostly single-lane in character and rougher pavement than either road it connects — but it turns the two into a genuine loop instead of an out-and-back.
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Narrower and rougher than the two roads it connects; treat it as a deliberate, slower link between them rather than a road to carry speed on. Check current access · Reviewed 2026-09-23
Planning the drive
This is the link that turns Highway 66 and Dead Indian Memorial Road into an actual loop instead of two separate out-and-back drives: 10 miles past Hyatt Lake, climbing to 5,049 ft. 19 counted bends over that distance at a 2.0 per mile density — similar density to Highway 66 itself, but narrower and described by people who drive it regularly as mostly single-lane in character with rougher pavement than either road it connects.
Treat this as the deliberate, slower link in the loop rather than a road to carry speed on — the payoff is completing the loop, not the segment itself. It's the kind of road that rewards knowing it's there rather than one that shows up in general trip-planning searches.
Roads to connect
- Highway 66 · Green Springs HighwayMeets Highway 66 near Green Springs Inn.
- Dead Indian Memorial Road · CR 722Meets Dead Indian Memorial Road at its northern end.
Driving notes updated .
Road shape
- Length
- 9.6 mi
- Bends
- 19
- Switchbacks
- 1
- Bends per mile
- 2
- Turning per mile
- 182°
- Curviest rank
- 137of 168
Measured from the OpenStreetMap centreline at a 20 m sampling step — road shape only, not a safety or speed judgement. How bends are counted.
Elevation
- Total climb
- 929ft
- Climb per mile
- 97ft
- Highest point
- 5,049ft
- Steepest grade
- 6.7%
Sampled every 100 m from USGS 10 m elevation data, a public-domain federal dataset. Total climb counts vertical change in both directions, so it does not depend on which way you drive. How elevation is measured.
Speed limits
Varies
Unverified
Check posted signs along the road.
No reliable posted limit was found for this selected section. Follow current signs.
Posted signs always govern. How speed evidence is handled.
Sources
Difficulty 2/3 (Winding) is our editorial rating of width, bends and sightlines; “Technical” describes character, not a target speed. Full method. Identified from:
- OpenStreetMap: Hyatt Prairie Road
- OpenStreetMap road data (1 ways in this trace)
Reviewed 2026-09-23. The trace shows selected road sections, not a navigation route.
Roads nearby
Distances are approximate straight lines between road centers, not driving distances or direct connections.