San Antonio east or south toward Florida
Is there a good route,along the Gulf Coast that will bypass the traffic in Houston, or is it better to go north of Houston? Trying to avoid the interstates & large cities as much as possible. Thanki...
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If you are not talking about getting to Texas Gulf Coast, but just want to go east:
I-35 to San Marcos
TX-21 to US-190 north of Bryan
TX-30 to Huntsville
US-190 to Woodville
US-287 to get back to I=10 at Beaumont
I've used most of this route, it is all RV drivable, but a lot of it is on sections of state highway without the wide lanes and full size shoulders I've come to expect in Texas.
My preference, RV or car, is to just barrel on through Houston on I-10. Leave San Antonio at a decent hour (8-9 AM) and you will go through Houston at one of the relatively non-busy time. Traffic is usually light enough coming in as far as 610 that you wonder why they ever built all those lanes on the Interstate. It does compress into fewer lanes, but from 10 AM to about 2 PM it is not clogged.
Going through Houston on I-10 is not as bad as trying to get through Austin on I-35, and nothing like the mess you are likely to encounter at Baton Rouge.
There's a closer route using US-290 from Paige to Brenham, TX-90 to Navasota, TX-105 across through Conroe, but the northern suburbs are so far out that if you are going to go through Conroe on local roads, you might as well go through Houston on I-10.
I-35 to San Marcos
TX-21 to US-190 north of Bryan
TX-30 to Huntsville
US-190 to Woodville
US-287 to get back to I=10 at Beaumont
I've used most of this route, it is all RV drivable, but a lot of it is on sections of state highway without the wide lanes and full size shoulders I've come to expect in Texas.
My preference, RV or car, is to just barrel on through Houston on I-10. Leave San Antonio at a decent hour (8-9 AM) and you will go through Houston at one of the relatively non-busy time. Traffic is usually light enough coming in as far as 610 that you wonder why they ever built all those lanes on the Interstate. It does compress into fewer lanes, but from 10 AM to about 2 PM it is not clogged.
Going through Houston on I-10 is not as bad as trying to get through Austin on I-35, and nothing like the mess you are likely to encounter at Baton Rouge.
There's a closer route using US-290 from Paige to Brenham, TX-90 to Navasota, TX-105 across through Conroe, but the northern suburbs are so far out that if you are going to go through Conroe on local roads, you might as well go through Houston on I-10.
