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 Posted: Sun Aug 14th, 2011 01:22 pm
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Remember family trips when you were waiting in the back seat for mom or dad to finally pull off the Interstate for the night (and hoping for a motel with a pool).

Well, here are the stretches of Interstate and other limited-access highways in the U.S. with the longest gaps between exits from the road.


Surprisingly the list is NOT dominated by places like remote corners of the Nevada desert.


In fact, Florida -- not Nevada or California -- has five of the top 16. And Number One is Florida state route 91, the Florida Turnpike, which bills itself as "The Less Stressway." It's also the only non-Interstate route among the limited-access highways on the list.


Pennsylvania is second with three. And toll roads dominate the list.


According to TomTom, the portable GPS navigation system maker, here are the 16 longest distances between freeway exits in the USA:


(Note: Asterisk indicates exit gap exists in both directions)

1. Florida 91 (Fla. Turnpike), Exit 193 to Exit 242: 48.9 miles. *
2. Florida 91, Exit 193 to Exit 152: 40.5 miles. *
3. I-80 in Utah, Exit 4 to Exit 41: 37.4 miles. *\
4. I-70 East in Pennsylvania, Exit 110 to Exit 146: 35.5 miles.
5. I-75 in Florida, Exit 80 to Exit 49: 30.6 miles. *
6. I-335 in Kansas, Exit 147 to Exit 177: 30.3 miles. *
7. I-90 in Massachusetts, Exit 3 to Exit 2: 29.9 miles. *
8. I-44 West in Oklahoma, Exit 283 to Exit 255: 28.4 miles.
9. I-40 in California, Exit 78 to Exit 50: 28.4 miles. *
10. I-44 East in Oklahoma, Exit 53 to Exit 80: 27.6 miles.
11. I-70 West in Pennsylvania, Exit 146 to Brotherton Rd. Exit: 27.3 miles.
12. I-75 North in Florida, Exit 23 to Exit 49: 26.2 miles.
13. I-70 West in Colorado, Exit 75 to Exit 49: 26 miles.
14. I-75 South in Florida Exit 49 to Exit 23: 25.7 miles.
15. I-76 in Pennsylvania, Exit 226 to Exit 201: 25 miles. *
16. I-80 in Indiana, Exit 144 to Exit 121: 23.8 miles. *


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 Are those gaps between on the highway rest stop plaza's or exits?
Because I think there are exits with food and gas stations, and hotels between those rest stops..



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 Well.....I know here in Texas.....they have exits that lead to nowhere!!!  If you are leaving El Paso heading east on I-10...you make sure to stop for gas at Ft. Stockton.....because you're not seeing a town that doesn't charge $5 a gallon for gas until you come within 100 miles of San Antonio!!!!  And you're talking hundreds of miles of nothingness.....just desert that changes to rolling hills the closer you get to San Antonio. 

Dwight Yokem wrote a song called " A Thousand Miles from No Where"...and I'd bet he got his inspiration from driving out in West Texas!!!!

 
    
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 How about the one between the Wa border to Alaska?:%



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 Well let's see... I have driven #1,2,5,8,10,12,14 and I still agree with Larry...nothing more boring or never ending then driving to or from west Texas.



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 Bichondaddy wrote: Well.....I know here in Texas.....they have exits that lead to nowhere!!!  If you are leaving El Paso heading east on I-10...you make sure to stop for gas at Ft. Stockton.....because you're not seeing a town that doesn't charge $5 a gallon for gas until you come within 100 miles of San Antonio!!!!  And you're talking hundreds of miles of nothingness.....just desert that changes to rolling hills the closer you get to San Antonio. 

Dwight Yokem wrote a song called " A Thousand Miles from No Where"...and I'd bet he got his inspiration from driving out in West Texas!!!!

 





I've driven parts of that stretch more than a few times.  I always find myself driving very very fast on those long stretches (especially that section from El Paso to Van Horn).



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 When you leave El Paso....no matter which direction you head....it's just a long, long way to anywhere else!!!!  Hundreds and hundreds of miles of nothing but desert.............I've driven it way too many times!!!!

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