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smlranger
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Jun 18, 2014

Iowa to Buffalo, WY route suggestions

We are on our first post-retirement road trip. We will be leaving the Des Moines area and plan to stay in Buffalo, WY for several days. My possible routes are I29 north to I90 or stay on I80 thru Nebraska and head north from Cheyenne.

We have driven the I90 route before but never been thru NE. The only thing we had planned to visit in NE was the arch/museum in Kearney.

So I am looking for suggestions for the better of the two options from folks who may have traveled both.
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  • hellbird503's avatar
    hellbird503
    Explorer
    Jun 22, 2014
    Avoided going up I29 because of the flooding issues. Just made the I80 trip across Iowa and Nebraska to Cheyenne. Is was a good trip, with the road surfaces good most of the way and traffic not that bad.
  • PotKorn's avatar
    PotKorn
    Explorer
    Jun 21, 2014
    Never mind how to get there. When you do get there, stop by the Winchester Steak House for a great meal, and the Rexall store downtown for a real old-fashioned chocolate malt. Your tongue will want to slap you in the face to make sure you get every drop.
  • Bumpyroad's avatar
    Bumpyroad
    Explorer
    Jun 20, 2014
    smlranger wrote:
    Got to Souix City and I-29 North was a closed due to flooding. Detours not well marked so we ended up using 75 North to Luverne, MN to connect with I90. Made for a long trip to Mitchell, SD.


    your route was probably not much longer than if you had gone up I-35. and you can now claim to be one of those frequent posters here that "I don't want to take the IS, I want a back roads trip so I can see the country". :) although all you got to see were corn fields and pig lots.
    bumpy
  • smlranger's avatar
    smlranger
    Explorer
    Jun 20, 2014
    Got to Souix City and I-29 North was a closed due to flooding. Detours not well marked so we ended up using 75 North to Luverne, MN to connect with I90. Made for a long trip to Mitchell, SD.
  • Skipper_Rod's avatar
    Skipper_Rod
    Explorer
    Jun 19, 2014
    Update on 29, the missouri river could flood this weekend so parts of 29 north of Omaha could be closed
  • Bumpyroad's avatar
    Bumpyroad
    Explorer
    Jun 18, 2014
    I'd run up 29 to 90 and over myself. 80 is a horrible truck route. probably cooler up North too. I thought parts of 29 had flooding damage but that was quite a while back.
    bumpy

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