[T2] US Highway 50, going East

[John Anderson]

Bob I've driven US50 coast to coast twice, and the WV to DC section probably 50+ times, so I'll make a couple suggestions depending how/when/where you find yourself, I'd of course recc staying in WV (over OH, MD or VA ugg).  Both North Bend and Tygart Lake state parks are nice to camp, but both are a bit off the highway (Tygart Lake closer to the higway.)  For that matter if you got time, I'd probably initially take US 40 or whatever hits Dayton OH and hit the Wright Patterson aviation museum if you never had then come down to US 50.  In WV, Parkersburg to Clarksburg pretty boring 4 lane (be careful it is all non interstate style at grade intersections, and people do stupid things.)  Between Grafton and the MD border about halfway is Cool Springs Park, a real neat place where some guy in the 60's drug a bunch of old tractors, early trucks, etc, built a giftshop, unfortunately it gets a little more into disrepair every year, still neat just the rust takes
 over more every year.  After that Cathedral State Park in WV nice as well to see, some of the remaining first growth trees on the east coast, but not so much to camp, Mt Storm Lake nice to sail, don't think there is camping there either.  That area BTW can have unexpected bad weather passing over the eastern front.  Mount Storm (aptly named) area in MD can have snow/wind like you wouldn't believe.  The whole section east of Grafton in WV until you get well into VA is some of the worst/best road on US 50 in the whole country depending on perspective.  A good illustration is when I lived in Keryser WV (on the WV/MD border) and had a then new VW Corrado, if I drove balls to the wall on 50, vs doing the same drive via US48 (now I68) and I79 which was twice the miles, the time to get back to my parents in Clarksburg was the same.  In a bus, that 150 miles or so is a crawl, and will take nearly twice the time you think.  Get in snow or behind 1 coal truck and
 you are creeping not even crawling, I've even seen the road shut down totally several times.  Once you get into VA past Winchester it is pretty, becomes rolling hills, farmland with stone fences, and is actually as good a way into DC as I66 or anything else.  If you go all the way, of course you eventually go to Annapolis and then the eastern shore with a lot of nice stuff over there, Assateague at the very end.

John

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On Sun, 10/20/13, Bob Perring <perring at roadrunner.com> wrote:

 Subject: [T2] US Highway 50, going East
 To: "Type 2 List" <type2 at type2.com>
 Date: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 7:42 PM
 
 Thank you all for the information I
 am getting !!
 Keep it coming as you think of more.
 We are looking forward to our trip with great excitement.