# The most boring stretch of highway is ... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537 "2009-01-02T01:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537/141 "2010-08-20T00:01:18Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > I-85 from Petersburg, Va to the NC border. Like driving through a 80 mile pine tree tunnel. Yes, a pine tree tunnel with a pine tree center divider. And the VA Highway Patrol sure does take advantage of that. Add in all the potholes and you’ve got a boring, bumpy, headache-inducing ride. I drove I-5 once from LA to San Francisco. Got a late start from LA due to car trouble. Once nightfall hit I felt myself almost nodding off, so I stopped at a motel in Lost Hills and got a great night’s sleep. Woke up the next morning all refreshed and after realizing why they called it Lost Hills (there were none, geddit?) I got back on the road…only to find myself nodding off again less than ten minutes later. The drive was just that hypnotically boring. I returned to LA via the PCH. No drowsing on that trip! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537/142 "2010-08-20T01:58:27Z")
> [@kodabear](#): > > I-81 through Virginia. Man, that part of the state is boring! Oh god yes. I’ve driven from Texas to Massachusetts and back at least 3 times. This is the part that makes me wonder why I didn’t just sell all my shit and fly. When the highlights are Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, and they make you want to kill yourself, you know it’s a shit drive. The road is in horrible shape and the scenery is wrist-slittingly dull. Then you have to remember that people live there. I actually think the Virginia part is much better than Penna… But still, it’s horrible. Honorable mention: I-30 to I-20 to I-10 from Texarkana to El Paso. Especially when you don’t intend to stop anywhere in Texas. The Australian roads sound like shite but I’d be buzzed just being in Australia. And the UK boring roads… The country ain’t big enough to have boring drives! I’ve driven the M1, M4, M25 and M40. Pleasant enough (except the orbital). ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537/143 "2010-08-20T09:33:27Z")
I-80 between Salt Lake City and Wendover. There’s a good 50 miles where the highway’s so straight and flat you could set the cruise control and wedge the steering wheel, take a nap for an hour and you’ll be there! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537/144 "2010-08-20T09:51:35Z")
It probably doesn’t compete with some of the ones out west, but of the ones I’ve driven, the [Western Kentucky Parkway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Kentucky_Parkway) is pretty dreadful. If you read the Wiki, it looks like it has a lot of exits, but there isn’t much in the way of restaurants or gas stations. Or bathrooms. Found that out the hard way. My sister talked me into taking it, but I won’t take it again willingly. Shitty scenery as well: two ribbons of concrete surrounded by trees. Not trees that stretch off majestically into the distance over rolling hills, but trees rising up and blocking your view of everything. Occasionally, you’ll briefly glimpse the other concrete ribbon, then it’s trees again. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537/145 "2010-08-20T10:00:11Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Gotta mention I-71 between Columbus and Cincinnati (or at least to King’s Island, when there’s more to see). The farmer who put up the Ten Commandments signs at about mile marker 83 knew he had a captive audience. > > The western 2/3rds of Pennsylvania along I-80 has some nice views, but otherwise there’s nothing going on there. Ditto I-68 between Hagerstown, MD and Morgantown, WV. > > \*\*But the real winner might be the Western Kentucky Parkway. \*\* No scenery along the entire length of highway, unless you count the nuclear power plant on the Green River. Heh, I should’ve read the thread before posting. I-71’s pretty plain, but I vastly prefer it to W. Ky. parkway. At least I can get gas, food, and take a pee indoors, instead of hiding behind the car on the roadside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-boring-stretch-of-highway-is/479537.md?page=7)