Starting to Plan Our Western Trip
Leaving around the 1st of August for a trip to the PNW. We're not a big fan of interstates and I've done coast-to-coast on both I-80 and I-90 in an earlier life, so I'm thinking about picking up US2 i...
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I have only been on the ND and Montana sections of US2. Towns are a lot farther apart out in that section of the country. We had no cellphone signal on our phones away from the towns. The towns will all have a refueling station and usually a restaurant and a market of some sort. These are the commercial centers for the surrounding ranching and farming areas. Out west you can mainly assume that the densest cellphone signals will follow the Interstates. You can expect higher speed limits on highways out there, but it is best to keep the speeds down around 60 mph max for fuel saving reasons.
The Spokane area is the eastern edge of a very scenic section of Washington state, the Palouse. Highway 12 is our preferred route across ID into WA tho. It's much further south tho and I have not been across US 2 in that section.
Now that I think of it, the one time I was really worried about running out of fuel was in eastern Washington on local highways. The best practice is to fill up when the fuel gauge drops below 1/2. That gives you enough range for peace of mind.
The Spokane area is the eastern edge of a very scenic section of Washington state, the Palouse. Highway 12 is our preferred route across ID into WA tho. It's much further south tho and I have not been across US 2 in that section.
Now that I think of it, the one time I was really worried about running out of fuel was in eastern Washington on local highways. The best practice is to fill up when the fuel gauge drops below 1/2. That gives you enough range for peace of mind.
