Best route from Palo Duro State Park Texas to Galveston
We'll be traveling through and visiting Palo Duro State Park in Texas before heading down to Galveston. We'd like to avoid the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Best routes? Thanks.
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Don and Eileen wrote:
Still hoping to get some expert help here on my questions about San Antonio/Austin and bypassing Houston on the way east to LA.
Thanks!
IH-10 is the route preferred. The close-to coast route is slow, crowded and problems can’t be avoided.
Coastal Louisiana is interesting enough, so if a 35-MPH average trip speed (not posted speed limit) is okay, then try it.
Understand that Houston is really more like Louisiana in the first place.
I “might” choose the lower route, but for me it’d be because something about the season appealed.
10 thru LA is hard enough.
Lake Charles gets backed up at the bridge, and Baton Rouge is never easy (road split to New Orleans backup). The water table is too high so the roads available are few.
You can run the old highway north of 10 past BR, just expect a slow average speed. Takes you across the Huey P.
The worst congestion is in BR then east to where IH55 goes north. You’ll lose an hour or more, so plan that in advance
Thunderstorms along this coast are the most dangerous in the US. Any road.
Slidell area peak.
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