# Boring stretches of highways/x-ways **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272 "2016-08-28T13:54:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/1 "2016-08-28T13:54:48Z")
Course its in the eye of the beholder but man that interstate thro Ohio is soooooo boring! Nothing to see except maybe a few interesting silo’s but gahhhh! What “roads” are a big bore snooze fests for you?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/2 "2016-08-28T14:17:25Z")
I-5 through California. I-80 through Nebraska and Iowa is wrist-slittingly boring. Actually, most interstate highways are a big yawn. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/3 "2016-08-28T14:36:20Z")
I-70 through Kansas. In one stretch, I counted over 700 fence posts, no gates, openings, nothing. Just one long fence. See a cloud in the distance. Half an hour later, it’s still in the distance. Caught and passed a Toyota pickup very similar to mine. It was from Washington state, just like mine. Must have killed a few thousand bugs on my windshield. Same joke went through my head each time. What’s the last thing to go through the bugs mind as he hits the windshield. His butthole. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/4 "2016-08-28T14:43:06Z")
May I add I-70 thru Kansas in the winter. White, unblemished stretches of snow for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles. Also I-10 from Jacksonville to Pensacola. All I remember about that drive is I didn’t think it’d ever end. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/5 "2016-08-28T14:47:28Z")
Ohio?? Pffft, definitely I-70 through Kansas. Nothing but corn fields and power lines. And corn fields and power lines. What makes it even worse is that there are stretches though there you can’t get a station **at all** on the car radio. So you have dead silence, and corn fields and power lines. My father was in cross-country truck driver for over 40 years. Years ago, I was going to visit my brother in CO. Dad said to go I-80, because I-70 was so boring. Curious, I drove one on the way out, and the other on the way back. I should’ve listened to him. I-70 was worse. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/6 "2016-08-28T14:55:18Z")
I haven’t driven out west which I’m sure is even worse but that I-80 stretch through Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania is pretty dull stuff. Once you finally hit the hills & mountains in Pennsylvania it picks up though. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/7 "2016-08-28T14:59:22Z")
The worst I’ve been on is I-80 through Nebraska excluding the Omaha area. It just goes on and on and never changes. The Iowa and Wyoming sections of I-80 aren’t exciting but they’re nowhere near as bad as Nebraska. I-90 through South Dakota and I-94 through North Dakota are quite a bit more tolerable. I have never been on I-70 through Kansas. To judge by comments here, I hope I never have to. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/8 "2016-08-28T15:41:32Z")
Never driven it, but [U.S. 281](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_281) looks like a major snoozefest. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/9 "2016-08-28T16:16:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > \I-80 through Nebraska and Iowa is wrist-slittingly boring. This. Once you get past The World’s Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, IA there’s a whole lot of nothing until you hit Omaha. It’s like you’re stuck in a time loop driving the same section over and over and over and over and over… The worst was the time we made the drive in early winter. The ground was grey, the road was grey, the trees were grey, the sky was grey. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/10 "2016-08-28T16:46:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I-5 through California. I-80 through Nebraska and Iowa is wrist-slittingly boring. Actually, most interstate highways are a big yawn. This is the correct answer. I’ve driven I-5 between Sacramento and the greaterLos Angeles area more times than I can count, and there’s really nothing to say about it. A few years ago we drove to Tennessee and back, and experienced a lot of long, mostly lifeless stretches of interstate, but by far the least interesting of all was the day we spent driving across Nebraska. I have driven less appealing stretches of roadway, but only for an hour or so before getting to \*something \*worth looking at - Nebraska just seemed to go on, and on, and on… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/11 "2016-08-28T16:59:47Z")
Totally agree on I-5 and I-70 for boring. For sheer **ugly** I’d say Highway 95 from Winnemucca to Boise. _Especially_ the stretch from McDermitt to Jordan Valley. It’s if God decided that Oregon was too beautiful, so he counter-balanced it with ugly and put every single bit of it into the South-East corner of the state. ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/12 "2016-08-28T17:37:35Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > …man that interstate thro Ohio is soooooo boring! Nothing to see except maybe a few interesting silo’s but gahhhh! Ohio is a metropolis! Guess you haven’t crossed into Indiana yet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/13 "2016-08-28T18:00:14Z")
> [@Nefario](#): > > Ohio is a metropolis! Guess you haven’t crossed into Indiana yet? 😃 I was going to add Indiana but had to leave the house Illinois is a big bore too! They need an X way down south thru Indiana big time! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/14 "2016-08-28T18:52:26Z")
I-94 across North Dakota in late November was very not memorable. For which I’m actually grateful, given the fact that a blizzard would have made it memorable. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/15 "2016-08-28T19:16:00Z")
My wife always tries to be asleep when we’re driving I-55 through central Illinois. I love it for some reason. 70 through Kansas is my least favorite. Close second is I-49/71 in southwest Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/16 "2016-08-28T19:40:07Z")
Parts of Nevada are nothing but unending flat burned dirt. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/17 "2016-08-28T20:04:27Z")
Heh, I was going to comment that I expected Kansas to be extremely flat given its reputation but when I was on I-70 for the first time I was surprised by its relative hilliness compared to my expectations, and especially compared with the flatness of Florida. But I’ve only been on it three times so maybe it would become boring if I had to do it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/18 "2016-08-28T20:11:45Z")
Haven’t really been there myself but I have it on good authority that nothing can beat any part of Texas that is not densely populated. Mainly because it takes so long to get anywhere that is _not_ Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/19 "2016-08-28T20:21:23Z")
Come to think of it, in terms of boredom, Alaska is probably just Texas with much more snow. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/20 "2016-08-28T20:49:34Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Also I-10 from Jacksonville to Pensacola. All I remember about that drive is I didn’t think it’d ever end. I did that once. In the dark. In a downpour that wipers could not handle. I hope I never repeat that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272.md?page=2)