I will be there later this week, one site indicates some detouring around St. Louis, another mapping service indicates east-west or west-east on I-70 is unaffected. I will be coming into St. Louis on I-70 and heading to Columbia. Can anyone local confirm for me whether I will have to detour in either direction, or is it a straight shot from 70 to 270 to 70 again? Thank you for any current information.
Driving through St. Louis....local input please
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My daughter was just there a couple of weeks ago. I talked to the manager of one of our branches in St Louis and was told that 70 is closed between 170 & 270. It looks like the stretch on the south side of airport. My daughter avoided that area, so I can't confirm for sure.
bigshovel
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Stay out of east St. Louis period. You may never be seen again. Or if your feeling adventurous be heavily armed and just pretend to be lost.
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bigshovel
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LMTC said:
Last time we were in east St louis and blisssfully unaware of big city problems
12 of us Appalachians were going elk hunting in Colorado. We stopped right off of I 70 for fuel and met a few unwelcome natives. Being a bunch of hillbilly's we didn't take kindly to being attempted to be robbed. When the cops showed up the natives were quietly seated on the curb with a long barrelled 338 win mag keeping them quiet. Those natives were'nt accustomed to being victims on the other end of the barrell. That is my experience with E st louis.
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If you're coming from toward Indy, there's no need to go through St. Louis, I-270 misses the city and is shorter to Columbia, also 70 to 270 to 370 to 70 will put you around the north side of and back on 70 west of the airport..
Erik_in_Hoyt
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I second this route - it's the one I always take when "passin through" - as opposed to stopping to visit friends in town. It lets you miss all the downtown mess with merging and splitting roads and it's a pretty decent roadbed with enough room not to have bad traffic unless you're there during rush hour.milkman said:
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Make it 3 for 3 for that route. As a bonus once you hit 370 there is a Cabella's. Also once in Columbia if you take 63 North from 70 and take the 1st exit you will find a Bass Pro. That route will let you avoid East St. Louis...which is in Illinois by the way.
I've hit my Cabelas limit for a while. Just bought 15 knives from them just because they were marked down too low not to buy them (well, it made sense to me at the time
) That was after outfitting the son I'm taking to Columbia who will spend 6 weeks in Wyoming. I am a sucker for a good buy on a knife, especially a lockback. Around 8 years ago I ran across a sporting goods sales guy with around 30 Gerber Gators he wanted to unload, most the same model. Not a great knife, but not a bad one either. When we got down to $6 per, I bought them. Made many friends very happy for very little expense, sold a handful for about $15 each pretty easily.
OK, thanks to all. Sounds like 70-270-370-70, and no detours. After poking around further it seems the detour is on some part of 64 closer to the city.
) That was after outfitting the son I'm taking to Columbia who will spend 6 weeks in Wyoming. I am a sucker for a good buy on a knife, especially a lockback. Around 8 years ago I ran across a sporting goods sales guy with around 30 Gerber Gators he wanted to unload, most the same model. Not a great knife, but not a bad one either. When we got down to $6 per, I bought them. Made many friends very happy for very little expense, sold a handful for about $15 each pretty easily.OK, thanks to all. Sounds like 70-270-370-70, and no detours. After poking around further it seems the detour is on some part of 64 closer to the city.
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Around here, Bass Pro Shop is the place to hang out and drool so I went to check it out, big let down since I was expecting something like the Cabelas in Sidney, Ne. not even close. I could spend a week in the Sidney store, awesome.
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milkman said:
You need to visit BP's original store in Springfield MO. It's the showplace with trout streams and waterfalls running thru the store.
Erik_in_Hoyt
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the springfield store is pretty big. The new one just east of KC, Mo (Independence) isn't bad, either.
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Ridgewalker said:
I used to run by there every week, right after they got it built, I quit running that way, would love to see it.
Ok, 370 is deserted...an easy drive. Only problem is I jumped off to gas up at the first exit with gas listed, end of ramp it says 3/4 mile to the gas, ok, I'm off already, ends up being up the hill around the curve through the light app. 1-1/2 miles.
On 70 & 74 everybody was running the limit. First time I have ever taken a drive of that length, cruise consistently set 2-3 over the posted limit (except around markers 98-99 in IL, a well known trap) and been passed by very, very little traffic and virtually no trucks...in 1100 miles. Now I get to do it again in 6 weeks. Thanks to all for the info.
On 70 & 74 everybody was running the limit. First time I have ever taken a drive of that length, cruise consistently set 2-3 over the posted limit (except around markers 98-99 in IL, a well known trap) and been passed by very, very little traffic and virtually no trucks...in 1100 miles. Now I get to do it again in 6 weeks. Thanks to all for the info.
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