Pine Mt. GA over to I-65 North - best route?

americanrascal wrote:
Not sure if this is too late but can offer this. I assume you are wanting to get through Nashville? We live right near Callaway Gardens and travel through Nashville to Clarksville several times each year in pour Class a and toad.

Take US 27 north to Rome. ( a small bit of stop lights around LaGrange and a bit at Carrolton but you'll get through it easily and fast) At Rome take GA 53 to Calhoun and enter I-75 north to I 24. The I- 24 to Chattanooga. All 4 lane.

After trying many different ways for the past 30 years this is the best 4 lane all the way from LaGrange to Nashville- 55-65mph all the way with just a few light in towns. Your only on 75 for a short time until I-24 in Chattanooga and you stay away from Atlanta. Fastest way and no traffic.Stay out of Atlanta unless you like wicked traffic, rough roads and congestion.

My experience is that I-65 in N Alabama is too rough, and 431 is just too slow mountainous and monotonous. US 280 isn't bad to Birmingham but 65 from Birmingham to the Tennessee border is a wee bit rough! I have sworn it off as a route for us to Nashville.

PS check out downtown LaGrange ( a few minutes north) while on Pine Mountain they have really spiffed it up -- nice restaurants, museum , Callaway Estate,Antiquities museum etc.Also worth visiting there is Warm Springs and Roosevelt's Little White house

(Its best to take 27 to I-185 north from Pine Mountain to its end then go about 1 mile southwest on I-85 to the LaGrange exit and follow GA 109 west to US 27. That avoids a lot of the southern part of LaGrange and gets you moving on the 4 lane 27 quickly)

Thanks. This looks like a good route. We are at the Pine Mt. RV Resort and just went into LaGrange this evening for dinner. US27 appears to be 4-lane all the way north from LaGrange.

I agree that I65 is rough around Birmingham, north and south. Getting to Nashville this way will make the best use of our time on the road. I appreciate the input.