Seattle to Phoenix in January, Route Help needed

[Alectoris]

I would go with route #1 with the advise that Scrapr gave with tripcheck. The only worries should be with the southern Oregon passes unless stuff gets stupid.

 

[Happyras]

My 2 cents. I had a project in the Phoenix area when I w#@ked, but mostly flew there. For many years my wife has had a horse show south of Palm Springs in January/Feb. Each year we have driven our huge triple slide out camper on our dually trucks towing a 3 horse trailer and stayed there for several weeks. The route down I-5 has 2 passes, both have been clear every time but we always carried chains for all 4 axles required by CA. It is a short drive from there over to Phoenix on I-10.

As long as the weather is tracked, it is not an issue to drive these two passes towing. We most recently have stopped in Corning at the Rolling Hills Casino which has RV and horse layover, and nice rooms at their two hotels. Cheap eats too! Its about 13 hours south on I-5 from Seattle or about 700 miles. From there the trip to Phoenix via the 10 crossing the Grapevine is another 800 miles (rough guess). The other pass is the Tajachapi (spelling?) It can avoid LA traffic, but can be worse in snow.....

 

[Gumby]

Back in late January 1985, I was in the Navy and was transferred from Seattle to Groton CT. The young wife and I drove down I-5 South through Washington to Grant's Pass Oregon, where we took US-199 to Crescent City, California. Then we drove down to San Francisco on US-101. After two days in SF, we made our way over to Stockton, then took California 99 South down the middle of the Central Valley to Bakersfield. Then took California 58 over to Barstow, where we caught I-40 East into Arizona. We did go to Flagstaff, because we wanted to see the Grand Canyon, but I can verify that there was a whole lot of snow up that way. I did note that we could have turned off on US-93 South at Kingman and driven down to Phoenix instead.

We didn't have a tow, so I can't advise on that aspect, but I do recall that the road was clear and good the entire trip and we had no problems.

 

[Happyras]

Back in late January 1985, The young wife and I drove down I-5 South through Washington to Grant's Pass Oregon, where we took US-199 to Crescent City, California.

We didn't have a tow, so I can't advise on that aspect, but I do recall that the road was clear and good the entire trip and we had no problems.

Well, that is an awesome route to take, and it is the contingency route to go to the coast if you see the Siskiyou's is snowed up and not clear. It certainly is the long cut to go that way, the coast hwy is slow to go and gets traffic, but you at least can stop and see the Redwood forest!

 

[Born2BRetd]

My sister came to visit for Christmas and stayed in a hotel in San Diego. She had made the reservation back in September before we changed tiers. No one questioned her as to whether or not her stay was essential and she only stayed two days, not fourteen.