Boring stretches of highways/x-ways

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.

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:

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.

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.

I-10 gets worse heading across lower Mississippi and into Louisiana. Just an endless road through an endless swamp.

No New Orleans or San Antonio for you! :stuck_out_tongue:

This topic seems familiar.

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.

530 miles, says a guy who lives off mile marker 550. :wink:

Forgot all of Houston, too. One may not like it, but it’s not nothing. :dubious:

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.

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.

No kidding. The only good thing about heading east on 10 is that your are *leaving El Paso!
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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.

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…

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.

This is the correct answer.

Paradoxically, this thread is quite entertaining.

Wow I guess so…almost word for word!

I dont think I was here then-no I was not. :smack:

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.

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.

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.