Do not trust Google maps. They always send you through the worst parts of town on your travels. If there are three or four exit ramps into a city, they always recommend the one that sends you through the Section 8 housing or the commercial industrial areas. These areas have ill-kept roads, one-hour hotels, dive bars, and dead-end streets that take you into crime-ridden communities, along with no road signs to help you escape.
These exits also often lack an on-ramp to get you back to the interstate so you are left driving on side streets trying to return to the major highway. Watch the road signs carefully for higher-end hotels and restaurants and take that exit instead or check your destination website for the recommended exit.
Been there and done that.
Colorado often closes I-70 that sits at the bottom of a huge, long cliff - where rock and mud slides, avalanches are common .. Pro-tip , should have built it on top of the cliff..
Then Google sends semi- trucks, Greyhound buses .. over unpaved forest roads, high mountain passes with very tight corners .. An older woman with heart problems was rescued first followed by passengers, the driver and luggage on other vehicles.
There was a mapping app some years ago that would route around high-crime areas. Of course it was attacked and got yanked from the app stores because RACISS’!
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Google is biased and intentionally misleading based on my observations and experience