Maine to Yellowstone
It's a long darn trip from here to there. What are the things I should stop and see and enjoy along the way?
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Maine-iacs wrote:older_fossil wrote:
Probably meaning US-2, a federal highway that runs east-west across the top of the US below the Canadian border. We took a part of it from North Dakota to Glacier NP last summer.
I see it on the map. Was it noticeably slower than the interstate? I'm interested in seeing the West but not at wagon train speed :B
US2 in the west is mostly straight and mostly 55mph speed limits, with the occasional slowdown for a town, if memory serves. It's a little slower going than the Interstates, but is not a super slow route and indeed is a major east-west highway through the region.
US2 is interesting in having a large discontinuity between the northern peninsula of Michigan and the northern bit of New York state. This was intentional from the start--the idea is that you'd go through Canada between those points, more or less following what is now a part of the Trans-Canada highway.
