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Spook Hill
2 reviews for Spook Hill
Spook Hill in Lake Wales has been touted as a GRAVITY DEFYING tourist attraction where you park your car in neutral and your CAR ROLLS UPHILL. There are signs throughout the city directing you to Spook Hill. There's a big black & white sign in the northbound direction North Wales Drive near the Spook Hill Elementary School that you can't miss (see photo) explaining the Legend of Spook Hill and instructions reading: STOP CAR ON WHITE LINE, PLACE IN NEUTRAL, AND LET IT ROLL BACK.
I pulled my car up to the white line located on a slight upgrade at the bottom of the hill, put it in neutral, and let it roll backwards. Well, duh!! The car rolls backwards on the downgrade gaining a very tiny bit of momentum to roll up a very short distance on an upgrade to a stop, for no more than 100 feet total from the white line to about the large tree on the right side of the street. I repeated the process a few more times stopping my car over the white line with a similar outcome. I would have thought my car would roll further uphill than that! BS! BS!
Overall, I was a bit disappointed, but I made the trek to Lake Wales to check out the buzz. Well, that's my 90 minute side trip to this "over-hyped" attraction between Tampa and Orlando, via SR 60 & US Hwy 27. I can now say to my friends that "I've been to Spook Hill." (Sigh)
NOTE: Spook Hill (North Wales Dr) has a one way traffic pattern northbound from the Spook Hill Elementary School to Burns Ave. Watch out for other cars behind you.
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If it were up to me, I would rename this tourist attraction "Spoof Hill". We put the car in neutral and what happened... the car rolled down, DUH! Don't waste your time...