[rktman]

Interesting. Originally published in March of last year. Probably some of these are best left for the warmer months of the year. In any case, food for thought if you want to get away. We've seen some mighty lonely stretches here in NV and did Hwy 50 a few years ago.

[rktman]

Interactive link:

https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/

[Vermont Lt]

There are some decent road trip books that detail some of these roads. I’ve driven cross country a few times using those guides. It’s a magnificent experience. I encourage EVERY person to spend time in the US before hitting the beaches of Mexico or the crowds of Europe.

[Don Corleone]

My street is pretty quiet. There is a dog sleeping on it right now.

[Red Badger]

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference...............

[Track9]

The least travelled road is the one Democrat’s use to get to common sense.

[null and void]

There is a considerable amount of nothing on CA SR 139. Watch for cows on the road...

[Dilbert San Diego]

Nice site.

I’ve been on one of those roads. I was on US 219 in western Maryland, on my way to visit the Fairfax Stone, which marks the headwaters of the Potomac River. As I recall, I saw very few other cars on the road. And I was the only visitor at the Fairfax Stone park in the middle of a summer day. I know it’s not a huge tourist attraction, but still I thought it odd, I was the only person there.

[laplata]

That is a poor map from my experience driving in the west.

[chrisinoc]

I have been on the Dalton Highway up to the Arctic Circle and while not busy there were a lot of trucks traveling the highway.

[Steely Tom]

America’s Loneliest Roads, Mapped

Serial killers will love this.

[bert]

I traveled both the Alaska Hiway and the Dalton Hiway. The Dalton hiway is improved dirt and a great drive. My van carries the “Arctic Circle” badge. The road actually crosses the Yukon river providing more than just a glimpse

[Fiji Hill]

One of the loneliest roads I have ever driven on, especially at night, was State Road 9, running east from Columbus, NM. However, among the few vehicles I saw, several belonged to the Border Patrol. With the Mexican border in some places only a few yards away, I might not have been as lonely as I felt.

When I crossed an intersection, the road seemed to quickly peter out—and then a vehicle flashed its headlights at me. I saw that it was a Border Patrol SUV and realized that if I had proceeded, I would have driven into Mexico.

[COBOL2Java]

Surprised they didn’t include US 50 in Nevada. Dubbed the “Lonliest Road in America”, it stretches over 300 miles from Sparks to Ely (going west to east).

My wife drove it and all along those 300 miles there are only 2 towns, Austin and Eureka. They tell you before driving this to make absolutely sure you have a full tank. And water.

At one point, we pulled over and looked both ways. The road went to vanishing points. We were the only ones on the highway.

[mad_as_he$$]

Nevada 360? Go there fairly often hunting. Not for city slickers.

[The Great RJ]

I would have added South Dakota Highway 34 between Ft. Pierre and Sturgis. This is probably one of the most remote drives in the state. The first time I drove this route it was winter and I was working for the state Department of Health and was driving a dilapidated state fleet car. At the time there were Minuteman missile silos along the highway about half way to Sturgis. Having not seen a single vehicle for hours nor any ranches I resolved if my vehicle broke down I would make my way to one of the silos and kick the fence hoping to set off an alarm so that someone would come to get me before I froze to death.

[Cuttnhorse]

I worked on a cattle ranch east of Austin in the early 1980’s. When we rode near Hiway 50 we always wore our finest cowboy costumes...big hats, wild rags, all the silver we could hang on our rigs.

The tourists expected this and I imagine a bunch of us are stuck away in photo slides and prints in old shoe boxes.
We used to get a kick out of people stopping on the Hiway to take pics.

[sean327]

CA 62 from the point it meets with CA 177 is another beautiful lonely road. There is little traffic, and no people until you hit Wonder Valley outside of Twentynine Palms.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I saw this today and did a street view trip on the KS highway they showed. Pretty isolated. Then I took a trip from Wray CO to Holyoke CO. Even more so.

Yep. The internet is how I travel now. Not much fun driving a noisy compact car over these road, or on any. (Need a good truck or touring car!) Mrs. Pete wants to go places in person. She wants to go places with Glitz and hotels and restaurants. I like open places where you can pull over and enjoy the horizon and the sky.

[Truthoverpower]

Lonely trails are better