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I-5 is generally a forlorn freeway, but it does have it’s moments. San Diego and Los Angeles have major traffic counts. Doesn’t get busy again until Portland and Seattle.
I-95 below DC is one of the most boring drives in America. NOTHING to look at. The same view for hundreds of miles.
Northeastern cities are cool and West coast cities are cool, both best in America IMO. But the scenery does it for me, not close I-5 takes it.
When you drive I-95 south of DC, you learn to appreciate what very few things there are to see that are something other than trees. You pass right through Richmond, including passing mere feet from their old train station. Then . . . OK, there's nothing to do except look at the South of the Border billboards. If you can time passing SOTB (just below the NC-SC border) at night, so much the better, the lights are kind of pretty. Then after that, you get to pass over Lake Marion, near Santee, SC. Then, you've got a ways to go, but then you'll pass right through Jacksonville. And after there, a mere five hours or so later, you get to West Palm Beach, and from there on down to Miami, you actually have the cities of South Florida to look at.
My birthplace! Frustrating is a better description. It once took me 9 hours to drive from Southern NJ to Higham Massachusetts. This was about 20 years ago. There's no real clean way to get through that area. It's not for the faint of heart. Great pizza though.
I-95 can't hold a candle to this. Nor can I-85, I-75, or I-65.
There are many beautiful views along the highways out west. I’m not seeing anything all that interesting with these examples though. To someone back east these kinda look like scrubby wastelands, the Oregon shot notwithstanding. A barren clump of rocks and a lifeless reservoir is completely uninviting. The East Coast is lush, gracious and inviting. I64, I81, I70, I40 etc are all as beautiful as I 5, even more beautiful I’d argue.
I95 is pretty ugly but no other road in America comes close to offering the skyline views it offers.
There are many beautiful views along the highways out west. I’m not seeing anything all that interesting with these examples though. To someone back east these kinda look like scrubby wastelands, the Oregon shot notwithstanding. A barren clump of rocks and a lifeless reservoir is completely uninviting. The East Coast is lush, gracious and inviting. I64, I81, I70, I40 etc are all as beautiful as I 5, even more beautiful I’d argue.
I95 is pretty ugly but no other road in America comes close to offering the skyline views it offers.
One man's poison is another man's cure. I'd rather have terrain and sparse population density any day of the week. Many other interstates in the west are similar, because often times there aren't any other alternatives, due to massive terrain.
This is crazy, but true. Besides I-5, how many paved roads cross directly from California to Oregon, without hitting a few stateline roads running east-west? 7. That's the entire length of that border. Contrast that to the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, which is separated by a river, but nonetheless has multi-fold bridges runnning over it, including I-95 either at the end of the NJ Turnpike or at Scudders Mill in Trenton. Completely different world out here.
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I-5 scenic points
