Most boring highway to drive down

[tribar]

Thread title says it all. 

For me it is the Indiana Toll Road.  There is literally nothing along the road once you get outside of Gary.  You sometimes go 20+ miles without an exit. 

What about you?

[The Nature Boy]

My top 2:

New York Thruway from the Pennsylvania line to Albany
I-95 from Richmond, Virginia to Savannah, Georgia

I can't decide which is worse. Maybe the NY Thruway because I paid for the privilege of being bored.

[SSOWorld]

I-39 in Wisconsin - cause I drove it too much.

[SignGeek101]

Any highway in the Canadian prairies. Mostly Saskatchewan.

[Zeffy]

There was a conversation sparked recently about the road trips my family used to take. They mentioned driving down to Florida and back, and they mentioned how boring it was south of Richmond. After looking at it on street view - yeah, I actually am pretty confident that one sucks majorly, especially through rural North Carolina. But hey, I did manage to find out we stopped in Rocky Mount to relieve ourselves and whatnot, so at least I can say I was actually in North Carolina by foot! Too bad I was like 10 though... this 11 year stretch without any vacations has really killed me...

[Mdcastle]

I-29 in the North Dakota.

[Scott5114]

I-39 in Illinois. Once is enough.

[bulldog1979]

I-39 in Illinois. Once is enough.

I agree, and I've done it four times now. The northern end near Rockford isn't too bad, but south of there, it just gets very tedious very quickly, and that's saying something compared to how boring the Seney Stretch segment of M-28 is for me.

[1995hoo]

I-95 through the Carolinas used to offer some amusement southbound in North Carolina and northbound through South Carolina due to the old billboards for South of the Border. Ever since they went all PC, though, they're no longer entertaining. There's no scenic redemption along that road in the form of distant (much less nearby) mountains and there's just the one lake in South Carolina.

[iBallasticwolf2]

I-75 between Macon and Valdosta. It is a very tedious drive any time I go on vacation to Florida. There is nothing interesting to see between there. Tifton is bypassed and by I-75 and it the whole corridor is mostly a boring 6 lane with a 70 mph speed limit. Although the section around Warner Robins with 10 lanes is interesting but not anything else. Come to think of it the corridor between the Tennesse state line and Atlanta is shorter but still boring. Although everything in the Atlanta Metro area before the downtown connector is still interesting. Especially the express lane construction.

[Haeleus]

I-80 in Nebraska, nothing but flat and grass for hundreds of miles (except for that one monument that's a bridge over the highway).

[Brandon]

I guess "boring" is in the eye of the beholder.  As for those who consider the prairies "boring", you aren't looking far enough off the freeway.  There's plenty of buildings and fields to see, and they're never, IMHO, "boring".

[Zeffy]

I guess "boring" is in the eye of the beholder.  As for those who consider the prairies "boring", you aren't looking far enough off the freeway.  There's plenty of buildings and fields to see, and they're never, IMHO, "boring".

My favorite landscapes are mountainous areas and urban areas. Of course, when it comes to the west, a lot of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona looks beautiful with their rigid landforms. So different from over here...

[Gulol]

I-10 between El Paso and San Antonio 

[iBallasticwolf2]

I guess "boring" is in the eye of the beholder.  As for those who consider the prairies "boring", you aren't looking far enough off the freeway.  There's plenty of buildings and fields to see, and they're never, IMHO, "boring".

My favorite landscapes are mountainous areas and urban areas. Of course, when it comes to the west, a lot of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona looks beautiful with their rigid landforms. So different from over here...

I love mountainous and urban areas also. The midwest doesn't have that much to see inbetween cities but in cities (Which aren't that far apart compared to in the west) there is plenty to see.

[Darkchylde]

I-10 between Pensacola and Tallahassee. Nothing but trees, and often there's only one exit per county.

[Pete from Boston]

80 in Pennsylvania, 70 between Denver and Kansas City.

[The Nature Boy]

I-95 through the Carolinas used to offer some amusement southbound in North Carolina and northbound through South Carolina due to the old billboards for South of the Border. Ever since they went all PC, though, they're no longer entertaining. There's no scenic redemption along that road in the form of distant (much less nearby) mountains and there's just the one lake in South Carolina.

It's not so much that they've gone PC, it's that the new owner (descendant of the founder) has seemingly cut back expenses. I was there recently, it's still as un-PC as it ever has been.

[iBallasticwolf2]

I-74 between the Cincinnati and Indianapolis beltways. Nothing to see except the Honda plant in Greensburg. Harriston has a couple interesting overpasses but other then what I just mentioned I-74 between those two cities' beltways is just a boring 4 lane rural freeway.

[dmr37]

I-55 south of Joliet, all the way to St. Louis.  Except for the stretch thru Springfield

[Jim]

I guess "boring" is in the eye of the beholder.  As for those who consider the prairies "boring", you aren't looking far enough off the freeway.  There's plenty of buildings and fields to see, and they're never, IMHO, "boring".

Almost exactly what I was going to say.  I find that pretty much any ride can be interesting if you look.  So maybe I wouldn't want to drive straight, flat, rural interstates every day, but I found pretty much every one I've been on interesting to drive.  Especially in some of the flattest areas of the Midwest, I find the vastness and flatness interesting in itself.

[Jim]

I-95 through the Carolinas used to offer some amusement southbound in North Carolina and northbound through South Carolina due to the old billboards for South of the Border. Ever since they went all PC, though, they're no longer entertaining.

If I remember right, Hurricane Hugo took a huge toll on the old ones, and they were pretty slow to replace.  But it does seem to me that the quantity and variety of SotB signs in the last few years has been rising, probably best since the "old" days.

[1995hoo]

I-95 through the Carolinas used to offer some amusement southbound in North Carolina and northbound through South Carolina due to the old billboards for South of the Border. Ever since they went all PC, though, they're no longer entertaining. There's no scenic redemption along that road in the form of distant (much less nearby) mountains and there's just the one lake in South Carolina.

It's not so much that they've gone PC, it's that the new owner (descendant of the founder) has seemingly cut back expenses. I was there recently, it's still as un-PC as it ever has been.

I'm talking only about the billboards. I know the place itself is still un-PC, although I haven't stopped there in a long time. But the billboards based on "Spanglish" humor are mostly gone, as is the "Ah so!" billboard with the stereotypical "Chinaman" figure, and so are most of the Pedro references on the old billboards. The old billboards may have offended some people, but they were also unique (for better or worse). The new ones aren't.

I-95 through the Carolinas used to offer some amusement southbound in North Carolina and northbound through South Carolina due to the old billboards for South of the Border. Ever since they went all PC, though, they're no longer entertaining.

If I remember right, Hurricane Hugo took a huge toll on the old ones, and they were pretty slow to replace.  But it does seem to me that the quantity and variety of SotB signs in the last few years has been rising, probably best since the "old" days.

I believe Hugo was in 1989. Most of the old billboards were still there through 1995, as I drove the North Carolina portion fairly frequently during my college years. I'm not really sure what led to the change, though I recall an article somewhere in which the now-deceased owner grumbled about how people these days (meaning late 1990s, as I believe he died around 2001 or 2002) have no sense of humor.

Trivia: Ben Bernanke once was a waiter at South of the Border.

[02 Park Ave]

I find driving on highways which have four or more lanes in my direction to be the most boring.  It just seems like you are on some sort of conveyor belt.

[thefraze_1020]

I-90 from Vantage to Ritzville, Washington