Roads you're tired of driving

[ftballfan]

#1 by far is US 31 through Kokomo.  November can't get here soon enough!

#2 is the 2-lane stretches of I-65 in Indiana, but especially between Sellersburg and Greenwood. 

Agree with you on both of them!

[sipes23]

For me, I would say the WI 26/US 151 corridor between Oshkosh and Madison, WI and I-(41)/94 (et al) between Milwaukee and Chicago.

The only things that keep US 10 west of Appleton and US(I)-41 between Appleton and Milwaukee from the list is that they are interesting and scenic drives.

Mike

I'll go for every inch of I-90 and 94 in Wisconsin. Some of the northern bit of I-94 is scenic enough, but it's the only way my wife can tolerate when we go to her parents'. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. No deviation ever.

I'll also go for every bit of freeway/tollway that goes from the Chicago area around the bottom of Lake Michigan in Indiana. I-80, I-90, I-94. And the first few miles of I-65 for good measure. The whole lot of 'em.

[vtk]

I-74 and I-39 to get around Chicago.

I'd prefer to go through Chicago because it's shorter (though maybe not faster during the day).  But the last few times I've gone to Minnesota, it was with family, and they prefer the long way.

But it's so long and flat and boring. 

Much worse than I-71 in southwest Ohio – I've driven that six times in the last 36 hours and I'm not tired of it.  Maybe that's partly because there's no radio station gap, thanks to Dayton...

[thenetwork]

For me, it's definitely I-80/90 (the Ohio Turnpike) between Toledo and Cleveland. It seems like I have taken that particular stretch of I-80/90 a lot over the past 5 years that I'm so over it. Usually when I'm on the Ohio Turnpike, I'm headed to a road meet (Baltimore in '10, Akron/Canton in '10, Morgantown in '11, and Wheeling in '11). However, my significant other and I have friends who live outside New York City, so we've driven out there a few times since 2007 to see them.

I don't drive that stretch of I-80/90 too often, but I've definitely become sick of it because it's my primary "gateway to the East" so to speak. I wish I could be beamed from Toledo to Cleveland.

There are a lot of good off-turnpike road combinations you can take between Toledo and Cleveland that add 30-45 minutes to the drive.  Here are some of my favorites:

1) SR-2  (not bad once you get out of the Oregon City Limits).
2) US-20 between SR-420 and Elyria (most of the larger towns are bypassed -- Bellevue, Clyde and Monroeville are the only towns where there are more than a couple lights you can get hung up on.)
3) SR-163 between SR-420 and Port Clinton (less truck traffic than SR-2's non-freeway alignment, with Oak Harbor your only slow stretch).



Most of the roads in Colorado west of the Continental Divide can get tiring very quickly, if you take out the wow factor of the scenery!!!

Coming from Ohio, where there were many different nearby options for regional trips (like above), the "limited" highway system -- not including I-70 -- doesn't yield too many reasonable alternative routes nor enough little towns that make it feel like you're making progress on a multi-hour trip.

[oscar]

Most of the roads in Colorado west of the Continental Divide can get tiring very quickly, if you take out the wow factor of the scenery!!!

I never get tired of those roads, even the ones I travel most frequently (like US 50 between Montrose and Salida, US 550 between Montrose and Ridgway, and CO 145 via Telluride).

East of I-25 is a whole other story, though usually I manage to bypass eastern Colorado by routing through northern New Mexico.

[thenetwork]

Most of the roads in Colorado west of the Continental Divide can get tiring very quickly, if you take out the wow factor of the scenery!!!

I never get tired of those roads, even the ones I travel most frequently (like US 50 between Montrose and Salida, US 550 between Montrose and Ridgway, and CO 145 via Telluride).

I don't either (unless it's at night when you can't see anything anyway), but when you have only one route in a 50-mile radius, and you get stuck in Road Work, or the National Senior-Citizen Rolling RV Convention, the scenery does not exist anymore.

[InterstateNG]

There are a lot of good off-turnpike road combinations you can take between Toledo and Cleveland that add 30-45 minutes to the drive.  Here are some of my favorites:

1) SR-2  (not bad once you get out of the Oregon City Limits).

When I was doing a lot of frequent drives from Detroit to Cleveland, my route was 280->51->579->2.  After slogging through Oregon once, this was the preferred option.  Less traffic as well.

[Alps]

The Mass Pike from Sturbridge to Boston.  There really isn't a practical alternative (95 is even worse between New Haven and Providence) and it marks the annoying first leg to get out of Mass., or the endless last hour when I'm not quite home yet.  It tires me just thinking about it.

MA 24 is straight, boring, and soaked with spees traps.  Plus its northern end, which seems "almost home," is in fact still 20 miles from home for me.

Fortunately 84 east of Hartford is the only road in CT I truly tire of.  Pretty much the entire rest of the state is duplicate ways to NY, leaving a fresh road available at all time.

Since I used to frequently go that way:

I-84 isn't so bad until Exit 67 or so, because the exits are frequent enough that you have a lot going on to pay attention to. The last 20 miles or so are pretty bad, but then you get to think again in MA.
As for Mass Pike, I'd use US 20 east a few miles to I-290 if I need to get to the MA 2 corridor, or US 20 east to MA 9 if I'm heading to Boston. Yeah, it's slower than the Pike. I hate tolls.

[JMoses24]

I-75 from Lexington, KY south. That route can be quite boring when you do it once a year. I was happy to deviate at Corbin, KY last summer en route to Port Canaveral, FL via Brunswick, GA.

[AsphaltPlanet]

Probably the road that I am most tired of driving is the QEW through Niagara Region in Ontario.

In the US, I tire quickly of a lot of interstates in Michigan, as well as Interstates in northwestern Ohio.  I have only driven Chicago to Milwaukee once in my life, and that is probably sufficient.  Small town Wisconsin is probably pleasant, but from my experience their interstates are rather drab.

I also quickly tire of driving the New York State Thruway.  Typically when driving from Toronto to NYC, I take US-20 east from Buffalo to NY-63 and then down to I-390 to NY-17.  NY-17/I-86 is a fantastic drive through southern New York.

[yakra]

Tired of I-295 south of Exit 28.
Although, Exit 1 to the southern terminus, I'm only tired of the southbound direction.

Most of the Portland - New York corridor is rather old. 95, 495, 290, 90, 84, then whatever, usually CT15. Meh.
Like Pete from Boston said, "Pretty much the entire rest of the state (CT) is duplicate ways to NY, leaving a fresh road available at all time." I ponder fresh stuff I could clinch, but always end up leaving late enough in the day that I want some no-nonsense speed, and take the same old freeways.