Best/Fastest route to Edmonton from Florida
Hi! We are driving to Alaska from Florida once again. We did this trip in 2013 and it was great. Last trip we had about 7 1/2 weeks total, this time we are doing it in one month! We camp out of ou...
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Most of the advice given is fine once you get to the US-Canadian border area, but getting out of Florida and the SE part of the US will be the real heavy traffic of the trip, most of the time. We on a couple of trips, have got up to Tallahassee, north to Montgomery, to Birmingham, west to Memphis to Little Rock, cut north to the Omaha area and then you have numerous choices to cross the border. Getting well west of the Mississippi River, we can usually count on having less traffic on the roads and a faster trip. Even going as far west as Tulsa and cutting up to Salina Kansas to pick up I 70 west to Denver, gets us out of much of the traffic mess down this way.
No matter how we go, it is about a 100 hour driving trip from here in south Florida to Fairbanks. We try to alternate years between spending the summers in western Colorado and Alaska. There are only so many ways to get out of the SE it seems, none terribly scenic so I like the OPs plan to drive 24 hours the fist day and get about 1,200 miles down the road.
The main factor in our route across the central section of the U.S. Is forecast weather. When we get to the Tallahassee area, we stop and get out the computers to check the longer, ten day or so forecast. As my wife and I are both pilots, we make use of some of the aviation weather forecasts. Weather developing in the mid west will determine if we run along the Gulf Coast as long as practical or cut straight across. I grew up on a ranch in southern Oklahoma and have a very healthy respect for the storms that develop in a Tornado Alley. I don't want any part of them. We make sure we have a good weather radio with us no matter which route we take till we reach the high country.
No matter how we go, it is about a 100 hour driving trip from here in south Florida to Fairbanks. We try to alternate years between spending the summers in western Colorado and Alaska. There are only so many ways to get out of the SE it seems, none terribly scenic so I like the OPs plan to drive 24 hours the fist day and get about 1,200 miles down the road.
The main factor in our route across the central section of the U.S. Is forecast weather. When we get to the Tallahassee area, we stop and get out the computers to check the longer, ten day or so forecast. As my wife and I are both pilots, we make use of some of the aviation weather forecasts. Weather developing in the mid west will determine if we run along the Gulf Coast as long as practical or cut straight across. I grew up on a ranch in southern Oklahoma and have a very healthy respect for the storms that develop in a Tornado Alley. I don't want any part of them. We make sure we have a good weather radio with us no matter which route we take till we reach the high country.
