The Eyre Highway in Australia, which features a 90 mile stretch of entirely straight road and traverses a 77000 sq mile plain named for not having any trees, would have to have a high boredom rating.
I concur with I-80 and I-70, but will also add I-40 through the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma. Endless flat nothingness. We had to switch drivers more frequently to avoid highway hypnosis. There was also an oddly grimy fog and an overpowering stench of urine approaching Amarillo that has stuck with me.
Bugs don’t have buttholes. As they don’t walk upright on their hind legs, most don’t even have buttocks.
Note that “I-70 through Kansas” actually means I-70 from about Salina KS to Limon CO. Eastern Kansas is actually kinda hilly, and eastern Colorado is just more of western Kansas.
You can always pass the time by looking for signs that are misspelled.
Not even close.
No kidding. The highways in Alaska are gorgeous, majestic and you never know when your car will get attacked by a ninja moose.
I agree with what everyone has said about I-70 from Washington PA to Colorado.
But I also have to add that my daily 30ish mile commute from Burbank to Westlake Village on the 101 for the past 3ish yrs is also pretty boring. Sure, there are some sight to see if you’ve never done it. But doing it 14 times a week for years is getting reeeeaaaaal old.
The East coast interstates are all getting those sound barrier walls. My feelings on the matter are:
- If you buy next to a highway, don’t complain about it being noisy.
- Putting up these walls means the drivers don’t even get to see fields &/or power lines. Mind-nummingly boring, & IMHO, dangerous because it’s so boring it’s hard to stay focused on driving when there’s nothing to look away to.
I-84 from where the Columbia Gorge ends all the way down through Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
90 through Montana/Wyoming/South Dakota. Nothing but dirt to the horizon, not even any grass. It’s called ‘big sky country’ cuz that’s all there is to look at. I’ve driven it twice, and it makes any highway in Ohio (which I have driven on many times) look positively exciting.
I-5 Central Valley California - dull
I-70 Across Missouri, Kansas and Colorado - very dull
I-80 Across Nevada - they have highway signs telling drivers not to play Pokemon Go. I can’t blame drivers for playing Pokemon Go. Or strip poker. Or anything, really.
I-81 from Knoxville to Harrisburg, PA. Boring and poor, nothing much to look at except hard-scrabble Appalachian towns.
There’s at least one place, somewhere, where the residents complained and had the wall taken down. They didn’t necessarily like the noise, but the traffic was more interesting to look at than a blank wall. IIRC it was also kind of a high-crime area and they liked that their houses had high visibility from the freeway.
Dozens and dozens of feedlots near Amarillo, from what I understand.
I’ve driven most of the interstates mentioned so far, haven’t found any of them particularly boring on any kind of consistent basis. I’ve never found any of them boring on the first run, just because it’s a new place and experience.
El Paso to San Antonio, TX - 800 miles of NOTHING!
Nothing at all interesting on the NJ Turnpike until you hit the Newark area and then you can see planes taking off and landing. And the NYC skyline and Metlife stadium. So about 100 miles of nothing. Not a lot compared to other roads but it’s a small state.