Road Construction
Hi,what is the best place to find road construction for an upcoming trip. Will be traveling West on I90 from Rotchester Mn to Murdo South Dakota then to Elk Mountain Wyoming. Thanks!
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I haven't checked for those states, but I often use various state's DOT sites to find lists of construction projects or other road issues such as flooding.
One other thing I use quite a bit is google-maps with live traffic enabled on my smart-phone. This shows real-time traffic backups, (Since the road turns from green to red they can be seen at a glance.) including construction backups. By zooming out so I can see about 30 or 40 miles ahead, I have time to find a different route.
Not all construction projects make it to the DOT web sites and not all listed construction zones have backups all the time, so I find this even more useful than the state DOT web-sites. We use this even when going to town (30 mile trip) on our small rural roads to avoid the frequent but short lived one-lane-pilot-car backups around here.
Actually on long trips I use the allstays app which uses google-maps with live traffic as the base layer but I can also turn on campgrounds, fuel stations, low bridges, etc.
One other thing I use quite a bit is google-maps with live traffic enabled on my smart-phone. This shows real-time traffic backups, (Since the road turns from green to red they can be seen at a glance.) including construction backups. By zooming out so I can see about 30 or 40 miles ahead, I have time to find a different route.
Not all construction projects make it to the DOT web sites and not all listed construction zones have backups all the time, so I find this even more useful than the state DOT web-sites. We use this even when going to town (30 mile trip) on our small rural roads to avoid the frequent but short lived one-lane-pilot-car backups around here.
Actually on long trips I use the allstays app which uses google-maps with live traffic as the base layer but I can also turn on campgrounds, fuel stations, low bridges, etc.
