There’s a handle full of curves on that stretch, hell coming off the bluff into greenwood you have an s curve
I love the stretch of 16 from Holly Bluff back to 49. Not necessarily straight as an arrow, but flat and opportune for “how fast can this b!+ch really go?”
That’s a stretch of road I’m gonna say most Mississippians have never driven. It’s like another world over there
From Tunica to Clarksdale on 61 is nothing but cotton, rice, soybean, and corn fields.
Speaking of that route and just off of it a couple miles is/was Kathryn’s on Moon Lake.
Interesting Sunday morning brain teaser/Google exercise given the criteria. Tried to think of where the true flatlands are in the US given most of the country has at least some topography and where RoW considerations hasn't put a kink or two in it somewhere. A lot of straight stretches out west but even those have a "surprising" number of kinks in them and not sure about the hills. Several straight runs that I know are flat across South FL and as noted a lot of the total MS delta area.
It’s been a while since e I’ve been on that stretch. Was thinking there was a curve around Lula., but after looking at map, I see it’s straight.
Get on I-20 in Texas when you want to take a loooong ride. I-10 ain't a short jaunt either. They were kicking around, making 79 into an interstate between Austin and Shreveport.
Yes it has changed ownership a few times the last few years but it is open and very good under the new management. The best onion rings anywhere.
Good to know.
It's definitely worth a visit. I've been going since I was a kid and it hasn't changed much at all. It's like a step back in time when you walk in.
I hated that drive from Tunica to Clarksdale when I was a kid. We did it all the time to go to my grandmothers house.
Yep. Salina Kansas to Denver, there's absolutely nothing there. I thought tumbleweed was something used as a movie prop until I made that trek. As a kid from Mississippi I didn't know it was real
I made that drive from Salina, KS to Denver on I-70 several times in the late 80’s. It was my first thought when I saw this thread.
I can’t think of any curves on I-16 between Macon & Savannah…165 miles.
Nah....I experienced longer straight stretches in central South Dakota up into North Dakota toward Fargo than I ever have in W.Texas. Speed limit was 80 mph and the straight stretch crossed over the Continental Divide. I went up there in 2021 right after our NC in Omaha to go see the origin of the Miss. River at Lake Itasca in Minnesota. BTW.....my dog and I both waded across the Mississippi River as it flowed out of Lake Itasca. LOL.....about 30' wide and a foot deep. Really neat park up there and would highly recommend visiting there if you happen to be in the area. When we were there in Fargo, it was 95 degrees and humid. Felt a lot like our Mississippi.
For sure. Been that way a number of times but in recent years to avoid Denver we have started going on North from Kansas City and hanging a left at Nebraska City where it’s a short hop over to Lincoln where we pick up i80. It’s around 450 miles to Cheyenne and while it has rolling hills I don’t think there is a single curve anywhere. You can stay on i80 on across southern Wyoming all the way to Rock Springs which is another 350 miles and still no curves. We go north from Rock Springs torward Jackson Hole and points beyond.
