Alvarado, Texas

Good luck with your new ride.

Heisenberg wrote:
Uhhh??? What are you picking up? I am jealous.

Time to scale down from our 40' Monaco Diplomat to a Coachmen Concord C class 33'. Our Dip is 12 years old and becoming a cranky old lady, lol

Janet

Uhhh??? What are you picking up? I am jealous.

Thanks all !

Janet

JANETRUPP wrote:
Going from Bullhead City AZ to Alvarado, TX (south of Fort Worth) and want to avoid Dallas area completely.
Janet

If you check your maps you'll find you're going to have to go WAY out of your way to go thru Dallas going to Alvarado from Bullhead City.

Take US 287 from Amarillo to Wichita Falls. Easy road, plenty of services along the way. Take US -281 south from Wichita Falls to I-20 then over to FW. The south loop is fine to get to I-35. (Going from Amarillo to Lubbock adds too many unnecessary miles.).

If you want to avoid FW completely, take TX 171 from Weatherford to Cleburne. Then US 67 to Alvarado.

Do not take US 287 into the northern part of Fort Worth. There is massive construction along I-35 from near where US 287 joins I-35 to near downtown. It blocks easy access to Loop 820 from I-35, making either the west or east loop a bad trip.

US-67 is a great road for an RV from Dallas to Alpine. Yes, it goes through some small towns, but wide lanes, good shoulders and many sections are four lane. Be aware that the speed limit on most of US-67 is 75 mph, as it is on many two lane roads in Texas.

Note - the West Bound iron bridge over the Brazos River between Cleburne and Glen Rose was hit by a dump truck this week and is closed. Traffic is two way on the other bridge so there are some delays. Estimates for repair / reopening are mid-June. This would impact you if you plan to stop at Tres Rios Resort for you first couple days testing of your new rig.

I-40 to Santa Rosa, NM Then
US 84 thru Clovis, NM and Lubbock, TX to
I-20 near Sweetwater, TX

And if it were me, I would just stay on I-20 around the southwest corner of Ft Worth to I-35W south to Alvarado. And do it mid day. That short stretch of I-20 in the FT Worth area should not pose a problem for you.

I would agree with this. I-20 bypasses Fort Worth and Dallas around to the south. I have never had a slow down on this portion of I-20. Of course, a bad wreck could change that, but I have gone this way many times towing a 34' fifth-wheel and never had a slow down.

An alternative is to take Texas 171 at Weatherford down to Cleburne and pick up 67 there over to Alvarado.

You could take I-27 south at Amarillo to Lubbock and US 84 down to I-20. I believe US 84 is 4 lane divided all the way.

And if it were me, I would just stay on I-20 around the southwest corner of Ft Worth to I-35W south to Alvarado. And do it mid day. That short stretch of I-20 in the FT Worth area should not pose a problem for you. Texas, for the most part, has very good highways. And there are routes avoiding the Ft Worth area entirely. But for those few miles, I would just grin and bear it. You will not be close to Dallas.

What is it about big cities that scares people off?