Hwy 24 at Monticello, In.
I'm looking at using Hwy 24 to get from I57 to US31 in Indiana. On that route, just east of Monticello, IN there is railroad trestle over the road. I can't tell the height from Google Maps/Earth, etc....
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shadoow wrote:
thanks for the additional info. My vehicle GPS is a Garmin and I do mapping on the Basecamp software. When i was originally mapping the route the new bypass at Logansport didn't show up. That's when i came to find out there was a map update available. After updating, the new bypass at Logansport now shows up and it agrees with what I see on Mapquest. So it looks like if I just follow the GPS directions (and maybe ignore the signage) I should be Ok. What do you think?
Another thought I had was to take Rt. 421 North (before Monticello) to Hwy 30, go east to Hwy 31 and head north from there. Any thoughts on that route anyone??
One of my alternate routes when going to SW Michigan has been US-421 from 24 up to I-94 at Michigan City. The road in many places is rough, it is a bit more narrow than some of the other white shield highways. My experience is that most of the traffic is local but include farm equipment, grain trucks, and dump trucks. I think there's a sand pit or quarry in the area.
I started using 421 when 24 was closed between Reynolds and Monticello. I've not taken US-30 across to 31, have used SR-14 when we were detouring US-24. One time, I took it across, but then they closed 14 further east for bridge work and detoured the traffic south to Monticello to use 24.
It the places I've crossed US-30 it has been pretty busy with truck traffic, and of course local traffic around major junctions because it used to be the main E-W highway parallel to the railroads, thus getting market towns and small cities from the mid 19th century.
I've found that I really like driving the US and state highways on the old lake plainsbin Northern Indiana, when not in a hurry. This part of Indiana is full of market town 100-150 years old, bigger places where railroads crossed navigable rivers and canals, and then for many growth just stopped when the Interstate system bypassed everything. But much the same in northern Ohio. Rural southern Michigan is different, settlement had to adjust to topography left by the terminus of the last retreating glacier. Roads have to work their way around thousands of little lakes.
