<p>Looking for driving tips. Google maps takes you kind of straight east, then down US-35. Total time says about 8.5 hours. I’m kind of a highway gal and if I drag the route to go straight south through Cincinnati to Lexington and then hop on I64 East, it says 9 hrs 20 min. Even if the second route is longer, it’d be all highway. Anybody familiar with this drive? With US35 through Ohio and WV?</p>
<p>Drove from Lynchburg Va through Cinci to Madison WI. I went through Wva to Lexington and up. --all freeway. Nice drive.</p>
<p>Thanks for this. It’s just those smaller roads through WV can be beautiful but kinda dicey!</p>
<p>I’ve taken I-64 a few times from Central Va into Ohio and then north. It’s a very pleasant, interesting drive, but best to be driving something with a little horsepower and torque – some of the inclines are pretty steep. First time I did it was in a little 4 banger and there were some areas where it was just barely up to the challenge. </p>
<p>Depending on time of day you might also encounter some heavy fog areas so be prepared for that as well.</p>
<p>I 64 E in WVA is a lovely road! It’s a freeway! Not a small road at all!</p>
<p>As part of my cross-country drives during my graduate school summers, I followed I-64 through Lexington, VA through WV and on through Cincinnati.</p>
<p>Beautiful WV scenery but yeah, when the freeway SUDDENLY narrowed down to a steep 2-lane road in WV, whoa!!!. Time your trip accordingly. There’s nothing more frustrating that being behind a tractor-trailer on a climbing, winding, 2-lane road.</p>
<p>I know 64 would be fine–I’ve driven it several times as far as Charleston. I was wondering how much smaller/windier/slower US35 might be. (Looking for an excuse to add the extra time but stay on the larger highway!) (There are similar options when heading up to Granville–kind of the smaller road that’s the hypotenuse vs. the larger road that’s the other two sides of the triangle. I was advised to go ahead and take the highway–the smaller-road-way is fewer miles, but lower speed limit and higher probability of speeding ticket.)</p>
<p>I PMed MyLB, but in case anyone else plans to take this route in the future, my team always took 35 into West Virginia when we drove from Oxford to Virginia Tech. 35 is faster than driving down to Lexington, but it can get very windy and hilly in southern and southeastern Ohio. It’s not an ideal route for someone who gets carsick easily, but I’m sure it would be a more pleasant drive when you aren’t in giant university vans. However, I don’t remember seeing that many police officers on 35, so I probably wouldn’t use that as my rationale for taking 64. :)</p>
<p>Well this is going to sound really stupid, but is 35 okay in terms of places to stop/eat/gas up/take a rest break? One reason I love interstates in this country is all of the readily available fast food and other stuff at the exits. (Come on! I get to eat junk food on the road!!) (And I really wasn’t asking about how junky the food is, more how frequent the opportunities on 35.)</p>
<p>It only takes about 4 hours to get from the 64/35 intersection in WV to Oxford, so you probably won’t need more than one stop on 35. We usually got gas and ate in Chillicothe, OH, and we took another break in Charleston (by then, I think you would be on 64). There are a few gas stations along the way, but I would use Chillicothe and Charleston as my main break areas.</p>