Hwy 80 from Idaho to east coast?

lakeside013104 wrote:
Anyone have experience they would be willing to share about I-80 from Idaho to the east coast?
Lakeside

I-80 in Wyoming, headed east, is a breeze, in more ways than one. Mostly flat, with hardly any real climbs until a short one around Laramie that you find out is the high point on I-80. But it's nothing to worry about. Leaving the summit area, it's a slow downhiller pretty much all the way to Omaha. Then Iowa is fairly flat. As suggested, many people take I-74 out of the Quad Cities to slide south-east down towards Indianapolis, where they hitch up with I-70 eastwards for a bit. You can take I-70 all the way in to PA, where it connects with the PA turnpike around New Stanton. From there, the PA Turnpike is Not That Bad, unless it got severely damaged this winter, as I was just on it last August from there all the way east to Downingtown. Outside of Philly, you can slide up the northeast Extension of the Turnpike to I-80 again, or slide up I-81 to Binghampton, NY, then I-88 to Albany and you're almost home.

But overall, I-80 between Evanston and the Quad Cities is pretty much flat, straight and un-exciting. Great for making time, not so much for scenery and/or interest-keeping.

I-80, Wyoming

I-80 In Iowa & Nebraska