The beautiful scenery on this course can be distracting, and disastrous if you take your eyes off the road too long to savour the sights. Originally a quiet coastal drive, this stretch of road has been transformed into a high-speed closed-circuit twister. Picking up speed in the back straight is tempting, but with perilous clifftop turns coming to greet you at a hundred plus miles per hours, you’d better have good reflexes.
— In-game description
Vertigo Ridge is a high altitude circuit track course featured in the MS-DOS, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn releases of The Need for Speed.
It follows a series of roads across rocky mountain and through highland forests.
It has a difficulty rating of "Advanced" and features 11 corners along its 3.0 mile (4.8 km) length. It also only permits the use of class A vehicles in Tournament mode.
Trivia[]
The Vertigo Ridge course has an alternative name in localisations of The Need for Speed:
- "North Track" in Over Drivin' GT-R and Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial
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Downhill
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Forest and Village
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| The Need for Speed - Courses | |
|---|---|
| Road | Alpine · City · Coastal |
| Track | Autumn Valley Speedway · Burnt Sienna(SE) · Lost Vegas · Rusty Springs Raceway · Transtropolis(SE) · Vertigo Ridge |