# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/41 "2016-08-29T16:19:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I-84 from where the Columbia Gorge ends all the way down through Idaho, Utah and Arizona. It must be so boring that you think you’ve driven all the way to Arizona, when the highway doesn’t even go as far south as Salt Lake City. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/42 "2016-08-29T16:43:57Z")
I guess I’m the first one to mention I-80 through Pennsylvania. 300+ miles on so little importance, that when you’re coming east from Cleveland, the mile signs tell you how far it is to New York City. (480 miles, in case you were wondering). The Trans-Canada Highway, between Winnipeg, MB and Thunder Bay, ON. About 500 miles of woods and nothing else. JohnT: > [@](#): > > I-81 from Knoxville to Harrisburg, PA. Boring and poor, nothing much to look at except hard-scrabble Appalachian towns. My wife and I drove most of that last year, and made a very pleasant stop in Natural Bridge, VA. The Safari Park there is fun. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/43 "2016-08-29T16:50:39Z")
My vote is I-10 from Lake City FL to Pecos TX. Nothing along the way I have an interest in doing, for over a thousand miles, and nothing to look at until you get to the Texas hill country. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/44 "2016-08-29T17:05:16Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Also I-10 from Jacksonville to Pensacola. All I remember about that drive is I didn’t think it’d ever end. I-10 gets worse heading across lower Mississippi and into Louisiana. Just an endless road through an endless swamp. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/45 "2016-08-29T17:59:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > My vote is I-10 from Lake City FL to Pecos TX. Nothing along the way I have an interest in doing, for over a thousand miles, and nothing to look at until you get to the Texas hill country. No New Orleans or San Antonio for you! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/46 "2016-08-29T18:00:04Z")
[This topic seems familiar.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499948) And I agree with those who said I-5 through the Central Valley–especially the stretch just south of the junction with I-580. I’ve only been on the southern part just once and that was enough. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/47 "2016-08-29T18:01:13Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > El Paso to San Antonio, TX - 800 miles of NOTHING! 530 miles, says a guy who lives off mile marker 550. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/48 "2016-08-29T18:30:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > No New Orleans or San Antonio for you! 😛 Forgot all of Houston, too. One may not like it, but it’s not nothing. :dubious: ---
**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 29, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/49 "2016-08-29T18:58:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It must be so boring that you think you’ve driven all the way to Arizona, when the highway doesn’t even go as far south as Salt Lake City. It’s all part and parcel. I-84 to I-15 to I-70 to you name it. We drove it both ways this summer and I was ready to open a vein after the first day of dust storms, crosswinds and nothing but dried out countryside. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/50 "2016-08-29T19:36:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > No New Orleans or San Antonio for you! 😛 Okay, I went to Houston and New Orleans, once apiece, and have no interest in going there again. I mean, I won’t avoid them or anything. Look-wise, I take the 12 bypass through Baton Rouge so the scenery doesn’t even change. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/51 "2016-08-29T20:18:46Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > El Paso to San Antonio, TX - 800 miles of NOTHING! No kidding. The only good thing about heading east on 10 is that your are \*leaving El Paso! \* ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/52 "2016-08-30T00:22:17Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I guess I’m the first one to mention I-80 through Pennsylvania. 300+ miles on so little importance, that when you’re coming east from Cleveland, the mile signs tell you how far it is to New York City. (480 miles, in case you were wondering). For the past 6 years I’ve driven that route both ways an average of once a week. I don’t find the road boring, there is some lovely scenery along it, but I do like going other places I haven’t been yet. Actually drove it last night to NYC, the 2 1/2 hours sitting & waiting for a wreck to get cleared were a bit boring, but I had podcasts to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![inscrutable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e4f/32.png) [@inscrutable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inscrutable)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/53 "2016-08-30T01:03:18Z")
I80 through Nebraska: Drove it back in the late 1980’s, and you could stop at the “Welcome Center” at one end of the State and pick up a cassette tape and booklet (IIRC) that prompted you to start/stop the tape for information whenever you were near a “point of interest”. Made it fun… ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/54 "2016-08-30T02:05:29Z")
Here’s an unusual one: \*\*Colorado! \*\* We were driving I-76 after a grueling stretch through Nebraska. We spent hour after hour waiting to see the beautiful Rockies. It just seemed like a more boring stretch of Nebraska. You don’t see mountains until you almost hit Denver. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/55 "2016-08-30T04:08:04Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > El Paso to San Antonio, TX - 800 miles of NOTHING! This is the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/56 "2016-08-30T10:30:08Z")
Paradoxically, this thread is quite entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/57 "2016-08-30T14:47:17Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [This topic seems familiar.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499948) Wow I guess so…almost word for word! I dont think I was here then-no I was not. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/58 "2016-08-31T06:03:58Z")
There’s a 30 mile section of M-28 in Michigan that’s referred to as the Seney Stretch. The locals claim it’s like driving across North Dakota, twice. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/59 "2016-08-31T16:27:55Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Never driven it, but [U.S. 281](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_281) looks like a major snoozefest. Depends on what part you are on. The where it crossed the Missouri River in South Dakota is kind of neat as you go across the Fort Randall Dam and can see where the actual Fort Randall was on the west side. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272/60 "2016-08-31T17:48:08Z")
I-80 through Iowa and Nebraska, hands down. Especially when you’ve done it dozens of times because your relatives lived in northern Kansas. I’ve been on I-70 through Kansas to Colorado but only once, and I don’t really remember it except that we could see the mountains coming forever and you just never got there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-stretches-of-highways-x-ways/764272.md?page=2)