Get off of I-70.
What is it 90 on 90? 95?There is a two laner that you can blaze through if going to C Springs.
Quote from: Kat Kid on February 27, 2009, 03:55:12 PMWhat is it 90 on 90? 95?There is a two laner that you can blaze through if going to C Springs.94. Highway 40 thru Kit Carson then hop on 94 west to the Springs.
The stretch of I-70 between Limon and Salina is brutal. Does it get any worse? Esp when the wife is sleeping, and you get two radio stations to choose from...
Quote from: jeffy on February 27, 2009, 02:48:16 PMGet off of I-70. QFT. Put I-70 Right through the most boring stretch out there. Get off it and you can see some pretty amazing stuff (besides the worlds largest prairie dog).
Try leaving Manhattan after supper on a Friday night, drive over night to Ft Collins, Colorado for a workshop that starts around 9 am on Saturday. Oh, did I mention it is in February of 1977, the speed limit is 55 mph, and cruise control is your right foot holding the gas pedal steady ?You don't even get to see the mountains pop up and you are running on empty for the workshop. You crash that night and get up on Sunday and drive back. Yeah, it's boring as hell. I would say that I-80, I-90, I-94 and I-40 over the same longitude range is just as exciting. At least you can count the Wall Drug signs on I-90...
Wait till it snows.
Ugh get off I-70? Why prolong the agony? I've done it before and it adds 3 hours to the trip. Trying to find the damn arikaree breaks, which have poor signage.
Quote from: jbleinweber on February 27, 2009, 04:05:17 PMWait till it snows.oh man I got caught in a blizzard on this stretch of roadIt was so bad that I didn't know what state I was in
Quote from: Pike on February 28, 2009, 12:27:13 PMQuote from: jbleinweber on February 27, 2009, 04:05:17 PMWait till it snows.oh man I got caught in a blizzard on this stretch of roadIt was so bad that I didn't know what state I was inNovember 2006Mom and I are going to Salt Lake City for a little mini vacation (she goes on "business trips" to these conferences a lot and brings me along since her stuff is all paid for so its cheap). We stayed the first night in Colorado Springs since we have friends there. The next day the plan was to go up to I-80 and keep heading west. 30 miles outside of the town in Wyoming where we connect the radio said there was snow and that patch of I-80 was closed. It'd take us a couple hours to get back down to I-70 and so we saw this little squiggly line on the map called Highway 40; it squiggled west so it looked good. We soon realized what should have been obvious as we headed up into the mountains on a road with drop offs instead of a shoulder as we hugged the mountain. We headed up and it was snowing so we were going like 35 max and we eventually hit a "town" called Ghould or something. We stopped in at the bar and got some food b/c the restrooms weren't free (the informed us that I-70 had been closed due to avalanche or something and that the way we had taken was actually the only way west at the time, and offered to clean out a cabin for us...). That night we made it to Walden and stayed overnight (so 2 days of travel and we weren't more than halfway across Colorado, the starting point being Lansing, KS). The drive out of the mountains the next morning was pretty awesome, and we went through Steamboat Springs and eventually hit a highway that took us north to I-80 and finished the drive to Salt Lake City pretty uneventfully. Not really about I-70 in western KS but its kinda close I guess the point is if you have extra time the drive is kinda worth it if you like nature and mountains and junk.
Highlight of the drive in western Kansas.
