Most boring highway to drive down

[ftballfan]

Ohio Turnpike
I-65 in Indiana (trucks passing trucks and the 55 mph stretch being too long through Indy)
I-75 from Macon to Wildwood
Florida's Turnpike from Kissimmee to FL-70
US-31 in Indiana (although I haven't been on it since the Kokomo and South Bend to Plymouth freeway stretches have opened)

[theline]

US-31 in Indiana (although I haven't been on it since the Kokomo and South Bend to Plymouth freeway stretches have opened)

For now, those sections have a little gee-whiz appeal to road geeks. Once that wears off, the drive between Indy and South Bend will be even more mind-numbing. Say what you want about Kokomo, at least the stop lights and businesses broke up the monotony.

[CapeCodder]

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

Agreed. 55 is tedious thru Illinois. You don't hit the STL metro until the 70-270 Exit. From there it's all suburbs.

[ModernDayWarrior]

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

Agreed. 55 is tedious thru Illinois. You don't hit the STL metro until the 70-270 Exit. From there it's all suburbs.

Agreed also... at least it's slightly more tolerable now that IL has raised the speed limit to 70. Trying to drive from STL to Chicago at 65 was torturous.

I-55 is just a pretty boring road in its entirety... I think the section through Mississippi is worse, but almost none of it is interesting.

[SteveG1988]

US 36 in MO, there is nothing along it until you hit i-35 going west, future i-72 will be boring.....

US 206/NJ72/NJ70 in the pinelands, due to ecological pressure there is no development, a lot of farm lands then trees on both.

I-81 between the MD state line and Carlisle, Very very flat in PA.

To me none of the PA turnpike is truly boring, the history of the road, trying to spot the original architecture of the road on spots, seeing what PA was doing right and wrong, etc.

I64 in IL is boring.

I71 in OH between Cincinatti and Columbus has some really boring stretches.

I-22...sorry, it is so new but, it goes near nothing, has very little traffic right now, and is boring. It is a needed road, and serves a grand purpose. but it is boring.

[Buffaboy]

Hwy 401 Buffalo to Detroit, nothing but farmland and no real cities. It's like watching paint dry.

[roadman65]

I said it before and I will say it again for new users, US 301 between Jesup and Folkston in GA.

More GA roads:
US 1 & 23 between Folkston and Waycross.
US 441 between Fargo and Homerville.

In Florida we have the Turnpike between St. Cloud and Yeehaw Jct.  It is 47 miles now without an interchange as there is nothing to interchange with.

[TravelingBethelite]

I-79 in West Virginia is positively snore-inducing.  It doesn't help when you're going through in the middle of the night and you can't see anything but the signs or the billboards/ (But that's most of what I'm looking at anyway.  )

[GaryV]

Hwy 401 Buffalo to Detroit, nothing but farmland and no real cities. It's like watching paint dry.

403 is worse.  Unless you consider that it is shorter, so the boringness doesn't last as long.

[SteveG1988]

I-79 in West Virginia is positively snore-inducing.  It doesn't help when you're going through in the middle of the night and you can't see anything but the signs or the billboards/ (But that's most of what I'm looking at anyway.  )

79 in WV between 68 and 77 is not bad.

[gilpdawg]

The southern Indiana leg of I-69 is mind numbing boring.

[TravelingBethelite]

I-79 in West Virginia is positively snore-inducing.  It doesn't help when you're going through in the middle of the night and you can't see anything but the signs or the billboards/ (But that's most of what I'm looking at anyway.  )

79 in WV between 68 and 77 is not bad.

It was likely that I was going through it in the middle of the night. I couldn't see any of the 'pretty' scenery. 

[Pete from Boston]

The southern Indiana leg of I-69 is mind numbing boring.

I assume you mean the part north of I-64.  I drove it just after it opened.  It lacked any but the most basic signs.  No advertising, no businesses, no visible towns.  Very peaceful, but not stimulating, to be sure.

[hbelkins]

I-79 in West Virginia was enjoyable the first few times I was on it. Now, it's just a chore that has to be done if I'm driving to the northeast.

[Rothman]

I-79 in West Virginia was enjoyable the first few times I was on it. Now, it's just a chore that has to be done if I'm driving to the northeast.

I'm with you on this.  My first trip down it was in the very early 1980s, when it was a lot less developed along the interstate than it is now.  But, after going down it time after time after time to go between Massachusetts and my grandparents' home in eastern KY, it is a real chore. 

My cousins have expressed a similar sentiment.  One of them, when his brother was driving and slowed down for a curve, said, "What are you doing?  Keep the cruise control on and just go."

[roadman65]

The southern Indiana leg of I-69 is mind numbing boring.

I assume you mean the part north of I-64.  I drove it just after it opened.  It lacked any but the most basic signs.  No advertising, no businesses, no visible towns.  Very peaceful, but not stimulating, to be sure.

Enjoy it while you can, I-75 was that way in Florida when it opened south of Tampa. Now it just sprawled out.  Now you wonder why Eastern Long Island does not want a Cross Sound Bridge across Long Island Sound into Rhode Island.  Its for fear of becoming like the rest of Long Island as once you get a major freeway, businesses like to set up around interchanges.

[Rothman]

The southern Indiana leg of I-69 is mind numbing boring.

I assume you mean the part north of I-64.  I drove it just after it opened.  It lacked any but the most basic signs.  No advertising, no businesses, no visible towns.  Very peaceful, but not stimulating, to be sure.

Enjoy it while you can, I-75 was that way in Florida when it opened south of Tampa. Now it just sprawled out. 

I remember those days.  My grandparents had a summer home in North Port and I-75 was just completed to somewhere around there.