(01-12-2013 01:03 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  You guys have broadcast that secret route so much that there is going to be a log jam on that little two lane road and the other route will end up being shorter.

LOL. The secret got out last weekend amongst the Ole Miss fans. That was for sure judging by what Coalberg looked like Sunday morning.

(01-12-2013 03:07 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 12:33 PM)neillis Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  72 to 311 to 4 to 78.

That will save you about 10-15 minutes versus going down Byhalia to 78.

This is the route that I take when I come home.

Also, stay on 78 until you absolutely cannot go any longer (i.e. the road ends). Once you get off you will be on Coalburg Road. Take a right on Coalburg Road and a left at your first stop light (Daniel Payne Boulevard). That saves you from having to go through Adamsville and Pratt City. ~20 minutes.

Yep, Coalburg and Daniel Payne is the way I get to 65 as well. Anyone who hasn't been this way before should mapquest the directions if they dont have GPS, as it appears to lead to nowhere.

I just made the trip a few weeks ago for the first time in about a year, and I was glad to see that the speed limit on 78 in AL has been increased to 70mph.

The trip now is nice. I used to want to pound a nail in my face when the trip went through Carbon Hill.

Fortunately I never had to make that trip. I started doing the Birmingham-Memphis thing about the time Corridor X opened up in Jasper (2007).

(01-12-2013 03:13 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 03:07 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 12:33 PM)neillis Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 10:28 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  72 to 311 to 4 to 78.

That will save you about 10-15 minutes versus going down Byhalia to 78.

This is the route that I take when I come home.

Also, stay on 78 until you absolutely cannot go any longer (i.e. the road ends). Once you get off you will be on Coalburg Road. Take a right on Coalburg Road and a left at your first stop light (Daniel Payne Boulevard). That saves you from having to go through Adamsville and Pratt City. ~20 minutes.

Yep, Coalburg and Daniel Payne is the way I get to 65 as well. Anyone who hasn't been this way before should mapquest the directions if they dont have GPS, as it appears to lead to nowhere.

I just made the trip a few weeks ago for the first time in about a year, and I was glad to see that the speed limit on 78 in AL has been increased to 70mph.

The trip now is nice. I used to want to pound a nail in my face when the trip went through Carbon Hill.

Not when the Nut Hut was still standing.

Was that the place the 18 wheelers kept running off the road and directly into?