Salt Lake City traffic

coshoo · Sep 21, 2020

I have to make a trip from SW Washington to southern Colorado to pick up livestock, and the logical route is through Salt Lake City on I 15. But one of my coffee buddies says he was through there recently, and it was a nightmare- bumper to bumper, stop and go, for about 50 miles. I could cut off at Ogden and go east on I 80. Any recommendations?

mptaszynski · Sep 21, 2020

Depends which part of Southern Colorado you want to end up in. That is, which side of the Continental Divide. Southeast Colorado cut across on I80 but then you get to deal with Denver traffic. Southwest Colorado pretty much take a chill pill and crawl through Salt Lake traffic. If you need a place to stop in Cortez Co let me know!

Tgrasher · Sep 21, 2020

There is a big difference in traffic volume as to the time of day your passing through. Best time is between 9:30 and 3:30 not counting lunch hour. Wrecks are another matter, always a gamble.

Tgrasher · Sep 21, 2020

Failed to mention that night time is best time but construction is usually done then too. Once timed a trip to Denver that would take me through St. Louis at 8 pm and it took forever because of construction. Kansas City was no problem at 1:30 am and sped right through.

SVcummins · Sep 21, 2020

There is nothing logical about that hole . Salt lake is always like go around

Stephen Newell · Sep 21, 2020

Traffic is awful any direction you go. About all you can do is pick the time of day when you go through trouble spots. We recently went to a small town west of Denver. Going there you would have thought there was a bad wreck or construction but all it was was people heading to the mountains on the weekend. Then late on Sunday afternoon we thought we would see how far we could get down the road but changed our minds because of all the traffic with these people heading home. The rest of the time we were there traffic was flowing normally. Earlier this year we went from the Dallas area to southern I llinois and had to fight traffic both ways.

Case Nutty 1660 · Sep 21, 2020

I have went through salt lake HORRIBLE traffic,, you can take a detour I found I think it was through Provo canyon,, it makes it Really Nice

SVcummins · Sep 21, 2020

Basically the California of utah with worse drivers

IaLeo · Sep 21, 2020

Like others have said: miserable stop and go seems like forever. Came up I15 to get to a 'burb on the north side of SL. Never again. That was last March during the afternoon. Of course things got worse the next day heading east after getting back onto I80...got stuck in Wyoming for three days due to a road blockage snow storm!!
Leo

Robert (ID) · Sep 21, 2020

have to ask... pick up and stock trailer or semi and bull wagon?? what part of colorado?? are you trying to make time??

Dopp Creek · Sep 22, 2020

Treat yourself to lunch at Culver’s along the way. There’s one west of Boise, one in Twin Falls and another in Spanish Fork UT. Always a favorite for us when we head to visit friends on the Western Slope. Traffic is a drag in SLC.

caterpillar guy · Sep 22, 2020

I always just cut off at Provo and down through Helper and Price. Still have to deal with Salt lake though. I never thought SLC was that bad. Chicago and the eastern seaboard is times worse. Portland and Tacoma are too. To go around by way of Cheyenne is a lot more time and miles. Plus you have the LA Veta Pass on 160 from Walsenburg to Fort Garland. And all those extra scales to cross. Denver is worse than SLC to me.
Culver's is way over priced for the grade of feed bag it is.

Naylorbros · Sep 22, 2020

I agree with Tgasher. Living in the middle of the SLC mess you learn to choose the times you travel carefully. His times of 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM are usually good. If there is nothing going on at night in town after 7 PM is usually good. If there are games or a concert it can be bad past 11. There is a parking lot in the middle of SLC that goes down underground either 5 or 7 levels. A lot has change in the 173 years my family has been in this valley. A lot have changes in the last 50 years I have been alive. The town I live in had a population of about 4200 people in 1970 when I was born. It is now 116,000. We are one of the last small farms left.

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