B MACK Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Took a little road trip to a state I enjoy driving in. Not snow capped, but mountains every way you look. Topped this hill and the highway is totally straight till it goes over the hill in the distance.... 11 miles. And not much traffic. It's not the loneliest highway in the US but close. Any guesses? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyGunner Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Somewhere in Nevada? I thought it might be the Arcos/craters of the moon cut across in ID but it doesn't look right. Quote The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by the people who vote for a living.The government can only "give" someone what they first take from another. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grayhair Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Utah? Or Arizona near Monument Valley? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 rt46 in North Dakota Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
B MACK Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 11 hours ago, HeavyGunner said: Somewhere in Nevada? I thought it might be the Arcos/craters of the moon cut across in ID but it doesn't look right. BINGO... Yes, Nevada. US hwy 6 a little east of Tonapah. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 lotta places here look like that lol.bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
B MACK Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 4 hours ago, mowerman said: lotta places here look like that lol.bob Yes, with the mountain views which what ever way you look and the long straight roads. I enjoy driving in your state in a big truck or just on a trip in my pickup. Good highways, nice scenery and very little traffic.. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Yup I hear ya....bob Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Seems they used that view in a movie or two? Maybe not. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Did you stop by Area 51 and say hello? Oh.....wait........that place doesn't exist. Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Went on motorcycle run out there one time with a bunch of other guys we had a blast it was 4th of July nice people along the way small towns old timers like to talk saw a nice fireworks display good good time I think they used it in vanishing point Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Vanishing Point. Ya, that was what I was thinking of first. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Run Forrest Run. You can do it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I know a part of 50 that I travel alot little town if haven't nevada was in a Clint Eastwood movie don't remember which one but I was watching and I recognized the section was pretty excited bob Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Damn cool autospell.....hazen nevada go though it alot with the rig bob Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 13 minutes ago, mowerman said: I know a part of 50 that I travel alot little town if haven't nevada was in a Clint Eastwood movie don't remember which one but I was watching and I recognized the section was pretty excited bob Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Is the "shoe" tree on route 50? Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 No it's on 95 somebody burned it down couple years ago Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 It was on an Indian reservation I'm thinking it was a drunkin board Indian Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 It (WAS) pretty interesting to see Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swishy Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 FWIW May B straight n long by yanky standards but here in Oz the Eyre hwy th@ is 90 miles ded straight other than slight elevation adjustment cya §wishy 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Wow thanks for sharing...bob Sent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Swishy I was thinking of the same road but didnt wanna rain on their 11 mile parade LOL your way off the Melways there mate Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-339841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swishy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Wot normally runs next to a road ................ iz a railway line not only but also next to the longest straightest road is the the longest straightest rail line The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It includes a 478 kilometre (297 miles)stretch of dead-straight track, the world'slongest, between the 797 km post west of Ooldea and the 1275 km post west of Loongana. LOL so there .......LOL cya §wishy Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-340017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 On 7/20/2016 at 4:19 PM, mrsmackpaul said: Swishy I was thinking of the same road but didnt wanna rain on their 11 mile parade LOL your way off the Melways there mate Paul Our longest is in North Dakota, Highway 46 from Hickerson to Streeter, is supposedly the straightest of them all -- plumb line straight -- the longest straight road in America. It stretches across 129 miles of north Dakota prairie from Hwy 30 in the west to a nameless county blacktop just past I-29 in the east. Route 10 in Saudi Arabia is dead straight for 165 miles 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-340020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 They say there's a straight stretch on some road in West Virginia that's almost half a mile long, i've never actually seen it though. This is on rt. 30 in Pa. though, somewhere between rt. 219 and Bedford. I don't know how far it is, but it's a pretty good ways. I was driving a Columbia when the red truck was broke down here. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46079-11-miles-of-straight-road/#findComment-340211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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