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It's not the most boring but it's striking because it's in such a populated state yet is so desolate and empty: US-101 through California between the Bay Area and San Luis Obispo. It's just this view for several hours with very few towns of any size. An eerie drive at night.
BTW, a lot of US-2 in Washington is lame as well. Get away from Leavenworth and Spokane and you are in for a whole lot of this.
US 101 in Central CA fairly boring, but at least the coastal range hills/mountains are up close compared to I-5, which are only moderate close on one side, with plains on the other.
But I'd imagine US 281 is pretty dull, since it basically cuts across the middle of the entire "Frontier Strip" states right as the green prairies transition into treeless plains. Outside of San Antonio, there are no major cities along the way (it misses Fort Worth by about 30 miles), with Wichita Falls and Lawton in Oklahoma as well as Grand Island, NE being the biggest this route across the wheat belt has to offer. Once you leave the Texas Hill Country, it's pretty much ruler flat along the majority of the route, with no major bodies of water except for a couple lakes in North Dakota. Many of the towns feel like you've been transported back decades.
US 101 in Central CA fairly boring, but at least the coastal range hills/mountains are up close compared to I-5, which are only moderate close on one side, with plains on the other.
CA-99. Runs parallel to I5. But it at least goes through Modesto, Manteca, Merced, Madera, Turlock, Fresno, and Bakersfield.
US-50 in Nevada is a good choice. You can go 50 miles between cross streets through the barren high desert.
Nebraska-2 is probably pretty awful, I think I80 parallel is almost as bad as 80 across Nevada.
It's like this consistently from New York City right down to Trenton.
Nah, US-1 is anything but boring. Much of it lies along the old east coast postal route, and this leads to a lot of different development styles across the east coast. Not much different than US-1 through the rest of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with a lot of random development, cheap motels, gas stations, light industry, billboards, housing developments, diners, auto repair businesses, and fast food restaurants. Maryland's suburban portions of US-1 aren't much different:
And this is relatively tame compared to other parts closer to DC and Baltimore. In Baltimore itself, US 1 passes through some of the most dangerous and/or dilapidated neighborhoods in the city as well.
Cimmaron County, Oklahoma was the epicenter of the Dust Bowl. From what I understand, it's totally flat and very underpopulated. U.S. 64/U.S. 412 runs through it. I've never been there, but I imagine that it's one of the most boring highways this country has to offer. Certainly this view doesn't inspire a desire to go and visit:
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