Heading to the Mitty

Driving down I75. What is best way around the Alanta nightmare ?

I-285, unless it's between 3 and 7 p.m. (in which case it will take you ~2+ hours to get from 75@285 to 85@985.

A better bet might be to take GA-20 from Cartersville, but that's a surface street and you'll have lots of lights between there and I-85.

Why are you going anywhere near Atlanta? When we went to the Mitty we exited off I-75 in Tennessee some 20 miles short of the Georgia border and backroaded in. Easy and a great drive.

Early start mate?

Aaron can't leave till 8.30.

I'll be leaving Nashville on Thursday around 11cst if anyone wants to caravan down. Probably doing like crewperson said and gonna switch to B roads around the state line.

Woohoo! I'm all loaded up, and should be headed up there at about 9am tomorrow morning.

See you all at Turn 3!

Shawn_D wrote: I-285, unless it's between 3 and 7 p.m. (in which case it will take you ~2+ hours to get from 75@285 to 85@985. A better bet might be to take GA-20 from Cartersville, but that's a surface street and you'll have lots of lights between there and I-85.

I'd give the opposite advice. 285 is gridlock between the hours of 6am, to 8pm. Seriously. I look at it during the day just for amusement. Since the collapse, it is literally always red on Google maps.

We'll be coming in from the north on Thursday morning. I plan on the backroad approach, although it's a bit of a pain with 10,000 lb worth of trailer. Better than ATL traffic even without a missing bridge!

Every year I have to play Army on the Mitty weekend but I will be retired next month so next year is on the calendar.

Road Atlanta is on Highway 53, which crosses I-75 south of Dalton. I have done that drive, but I admit it was like 20 years ago. It's not the fastest route, but it's scenic and curvy.

En route, alas no Sampson but with a very full Expedition

53 sounds like a winner.

Coming up from the south this morning

I'm here and all set up. GRMers, feel free to camp around me, but leave me a way to get the van out please!

And yes, I totally cheated and set up camp before anybody was allowed in. All is fair in love and war and event setup.

I went in 2011. It was a great time and I need to make it back again. Have a blast and enjoy it.

Yeah, even without the ATL highway debacle, I'm not sure I'd bother traveling all the way down I-75 just to go back up I-85.

I'll see you all there tomorrow morning.