Great Places To Get Passed on Interstate 84

Ever since I relocated to Twin Falls, Idaho I have been back to the Wasatch Front in Utah, which is still sort of my "home base." Practically everyone I know is there. Most important, my family is there as well.

But there are miles of road between Twin Falls, Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah. Along Interstate 84. Here are some great places to avoid unless you torture yourself with bordome.  Then be my guest and to each their own.


If Governor "Butch" Otter, yes his real name, wants to brag about "Idahome Road," I would suggest a new thing to brag about in branding your state. In the far southcentral Idaho, someone loved dust and isolation. The only problem is they could have used greater imagination than this name.  So if you get off the highway to visit here, maybe a visit to a psychiatrist is also in order.

 

 

There is not a Sweetzer place along the 80 MPH zone than Sweetzer Road. Near Sweetzer Pass, Idaho this exit should only be used to find a bush to relieve "nature's call."

 

 

 

Juniper Road, Idaho is just road with a freeway interchange. Celebrating one of the Great Basin's larger shrubs or tree the pinyon juniper managed to get a road named after it. Maybe that is because there are more choices to find a bush of your liking, or Idaho is ashamed they don't have more of these lovely trees.

Crossing over the state line into Utah, the Hansel Valley gets an exit. Is this where the famed "Hansel and Gretel" tale took place? Was a man by the name of Hansel passing through? Maybe its named after one of thousands of Germans? Who knows? Again see if you can find a toilet or the boredom may kill you.

The name "Rattesnake Pass"makes sense here because one can see rattlesnakes living here. But the other exits featured here also most likely have the venomous reptiles here as well. Maybe you should not stop here including for nature calls because nobody wants to get bit while taking a pee by a rattler. Utah does have some great gifts to the 8 million worst places of the world to have to go through.

Not to be confused with Pocatello, Idaho is Pocatello Valley, Utah. There are no services here except ones you can create. Pocatello, Idaho should sue the namers of this Utah valley for worst name and copyright infringement. You will be glad when you are through this maze of  well bleh.

Happy travels.