I-81 heavy traffic - Bristol area
Just a heads up for those of you traveling on I-81 in the Bristol area. Tonight the Battle at Bristol football game is being played at the speedway between Virginia Tech and Tennessee and they are...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
We'll be at the junction of I-81 and I-77 around 10:00 am tomorrow heading for Asheville, NC. Any thoughts on whether we would be better off taking I-77 to Statesville and I-40 to Asheville instead of I-81 to I-26 and up the hill past Bristol? The I-77/I-40 route is only about 17 miles longer, but we've never gone that way on I-40 before.
I expect that you may hit some of the heaviest traffic at that point at 10 am at the I-81/I 77 junction. I have traveled I-40 to Asheville a couple of times. You may be better to go that way. I only remember one long hill on I 40 east of Asheville but you won't have any problems on it. I don't think it is any worse than Fancy Gap mountain on I-77.
