St Louis I64 to I55 best RV route.
Will be heading south and skirting the west side of St. Louis. MS S&T is telling me to take 141 to get from I64 to I55. When I zoom in it really appears like it's a highly developed area with I'm gues...
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John&Joey wrote:
OK Tatest, I'll play along, mostly because I'm wondering what you will have up your sleeve. Let say we went from Minneapolis to Mobile. What would your route be that bypasses St. Louis. That's roughly 1,500 miles long. 70mph, no stoplights, big rig interstate roads.
I doesn't work that way. To avoid the big cities you sometimes have to get off the Interstates. Setting the no stoplights flag puts you in a trap. Even on the Interstates, you will have reduced speed limits in urban areas.
I-94 to Madison
I-39 to Normal
I-74 to Champaign
I-57 to I-55
I-55 to Jackson
US-49 to Hattiesburg
US-98 to Mobile
If you really must stay on the Interstates, I-55 all the way down to I-12, then I-10 across to Mobile. I've had to follow that one several times coming across from Houston, and because of the road condition and traffic across southern Louisiana, I now use US-49 instead. It is four-lane divided, 60-65 mph speed limits when rural, but it does go through a few towns.
Minneapolis to Mobile was a ringer, there is no reason to go anywhere near St Louis, that would be out of the way. The problem nexus on this route is where I-40 and I-55 run together west of Memphis, avoiding that on Interstates takes one toward Nashville, which can be much worse the going through St Louis.
My last time through St Louis (end of August) I went straight through the center of the city on I-44 to I-55. At 7 PM on a Friday night, that is a much better route than the loop expressways, clogged with suburban shopping and dinner traffic.
