Safest route into Hyde Park

kaukauna
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:45:32 +0000

I’ve driven Lake Shore Drive and / or Stony off of I-90 about 10 times, round trips each, in the last 6 years. Mostly Stony Island. About half the trips were family type trips, a few with my wife, and a couple by myself.

All the times I’ve driven (never earlier than 10 am or later than 8 pm that I recall) I felt safe, had no problems, and the trip was quick from the exit, which as I wrote above was almost always the Stony Island exit. I never took the Garfield exit (is that 73rd street?). That seems a little out of the way. It will also take you through neighborhoods that I can’t vouch for.

The exit I’m talking about is the one which is marked for the University of Chicago as you are headed north. I believe that is Stony Island. It is a very short drive from the Stony Island exit to UChicago in Hyde Park. Stony Island itself is 4 lanes almost all the way from I-90 in to Hyde Park. It was always busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic (at least before dark).

Best of luck to your daughter. Is she starting as a student?