Poll: Worst TH Roads, Seasonal, and Alternatives

[TallGrass]

I-70 is by far, the worst.Friday Westbound…Sunday Eastbound…Mid-Week

And then you lose wifi in your Prius.

Meanwhile on US-285, US-50, US-24...

[rijaca]

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[jonathanSKIS]

Right now I'm gonna go with Lily Lake TH for Lindsey as the toughest.

Agreed!

[nyker]

I70, hands down!

I second the movement.

agree! especially since while I've been on those other roads, it was hiking since my 2wd rental usually wouldn't have survived that trip

[aholle88]

I-70 is by far, the worst.Friday Westbound…Sunday Eastbound…Mid-Week

And then you lose wifi in your Prius.

Meanwhile on US-285, US-50, US-24...

Actually 285 isn’t any better than i70 these days really. Our family has a place in FairPlay and it’s regularly backed up from Jefferson to beyond CR-18 heading east bound on Sundays. 50 and 24/9 are still much better but getting worse over the years. Slow campers have become a PItA on 50 through the canyon until you hit one of the few passing lanes. And 24 was backed up from divide to lake George a couple of holiday weekends this past summer.

Definitely agree i70 is worst of all. I’d rather take my chances with my Impreza going up Lake Como road than attempt i70 west bound on a Saturday morning between 6-9.

[MountainHiker]

I really hate the road to Missouri / Huron as far as Winfield. It's just good enough that people go a speed to turn it into washboard. Then you have a choice of shaking the crap out of your vehicle or always being in someone's dust cloud or both. There's routinely enough traffic you won't be alone so there will be dust. After Winfield the road becomes 4WD so is a lot nicer to drive. I'd far rather go slow around holes and through obstacles than shake on washboard in a dust cloud. This is far from the only trailhead road with this issue.

[Scott P]

I-70 is only bad between Frisco and Denver and occasionally as far west as Vail , and even then only if you are going WB from Denver at the beginning of the weekend or EB to Denver at the end of the weekend.

Living in Grand Junction, I love I-70. You almost never have to slow down to below the speed limit (which is 80 on most of the Utah side and 75 on most of the Colorado side) all the way from Western Utah to Vail and even if you go east of that on the weekend you are travelling against the grain of traffic.

I love I-70. It's such a nice road.

[Gene913]

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So were you on your way to the Legends for shopping, or to Children's Mercy Park for a Sporting KC game, or to Kansas Speedway for some NASCAR action, or simply so bored all you could think to do was snap a picture of interstate highway signage?

[lordhelmut]

I-70 is by far, the worst.Friday Westbound…Sunday Eastbound…Mid-Week

And then you lose wifi in your Prius.

Meanwhile on US-285, US-50, US-24...

Actually 285 isn’t any better than i70 these days really. Our family has a place in FairPlay and it’s regularly backed up from Jefferson to beyond CR-18 heading east bound on Sundays. 50 and 24/9 are still much better but getting worse over the years. Slow campers have become a PItA on 50 through the canyon until you hit one of the few passing lanes. And 24 was backed up from divide to lake George a couple of holiday weekends this past summer.

Definitely agree i70 is worst of all. I’d rather take my chances with my Impreza going up Lake Como road than attempt i70 west bound on a Saturday morning between 6-9.

I started following that Instagram account "I-70 Things" for a little bit, thinking it would grant me some sort of enlightenment watching clips of apocalyptic traffic every weekend, but eventually it just made me depressed and anxious, so I had to unfollow. Chromosome deficiency and watching gridlock traffic 24/7 has its comedic limitations.