I have a few options on this route heading south. Some of my friends have given suggestions about what to drive and what to avoid. We are not interested in stopping for more then a few hours to sleep, this is a short vacation of 10 days. We are just looking for the fastest route down and back !
95 is the quickest we've found. If you can travel at night down past Richmond you will not get much traffic as a rule. We leave from central Mass and it takes us about 5 hours to get to the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Total trip about 20 hours to Daytona. Less is a car.
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IMHO, the best route from where you are would be I-81 south to Fort Chiswell, VA; get on I-77 south from there to Columbia, SC; take I-26 south from Columbia to where it intersects I-95 outside of Charleston, SC; then take I-95 south to I-4 west to the Disney entrance to Fort Wilderness in Orlando.
It's a much nicer and more scenic drive, and you avoid all the big cities in the Northeast (New York-New Jersey area, Phithy, Baltimore, DC, Richmond), The only cities of any size you'll go through are Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Harrisburg, Charlotte, NC, and Columbia, SC, and they're no where near as bad as the NY - Richmond corridor. A lot easier on your nerves if you're in a hurry (cheaper too....there's no tolls along the route I'm describing.)
I just came down this route last week from Rochester to Georgia and made it here in about 12 hours driving time. I stopped for the night in Lexington, VA at the Natural Bridge KOA. (Only because I wasn't in a hurry and didn't feel like driving through.) Construction along the Interstates was minimal.
Whichever way you go, have a great trip!!
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81 to 95 and hammer down. We made several MH vacation trips with time limitations exactly the same number of days as you. This is the best route if all you want to do is get a little rest going to FW. BTW be sure and go in the old "secret route" mentioned above once you get to Disney.
bigdaddogg1 wrote: IMHO, the best route from where you are would be I-81 south to Fort Chiswell, VA; get on I-77 south from there to Columbia, SC; take I-26 south from Columbia to where it intersects I-95 outside of Charleston, SC; then take I-95 south to I-4 west to the Disney entrance to Fort Wilderness in Orlando.
It's a much nicer and more scenic drive, and you avoid all the big cities in the Northeast (New York-New Jersey area, Phithy, Baltimore, DC, Richmond), The only cities of any size you'll go through are Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Harrisburg, Charlotte, NC, and Columbia, SC, and they're no where near as bad as the NY - Richmond corridor. A lot easier on your nerves if you're in a hurry (cheaper too....there's no tolls along the route I'm describing.)
I just came down this route last week from Rochester to Georgia and made it here in about 12 hours driving time. I stopped for the night in Lexington, VA at the Natural Bridge KOA. (Only because I wasn't in a hurry and didn't feel like driving through.) Construction along the Interstates was minimal.
Whichever way you go, have a great trip!!
I agree. This is the route I always take, much better than I95 between NY and NC.
I was looking at that I-81 route on a map and it cuts through the Appalachian Mountains where as the I-95 route is flat. What kind of grades should I expect?
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