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ghfromaltonbay · 02-21-2008, 09:55 AM

Bigdog,

I'm glad to hear you liked the Merritt. We went up that way on Sat. and came back to NJ on it Tuesday. No traffic either time - we made it from Clifton NJ to Alton (305 miles) and return in 5 1/2 hours with 20 min. lunch stops each way. Yes, the Merritt can be terrible at rush hour if you are heading with the traffic, but if you are going north in the morning or south in the afternoon, you can usually do the speed limit while the other side is crawling. You could have taken the Merritt even if it was rainy, they don't have flooding problems and I've never had trouble in rain when I headed to NH in the summer. The road to avoid if it's raining is the Saw Mill River Parkway which is the road I used to take before we saw how great the Merritt was. The Saw Mill cuts about 8 miles off the 684/84 route, but when it rained it would flood in 3 sections going through Pleasantville and then you still had the boring ride on 84 from Danbury to Hartford.

02-21-2008, 09:55 AM	#10
ghfromaltonbay Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Clifton, NJ, Alton Bay Posts: 819 Thanks: 245 Thanked 224 Times in 130 Posts	Glad you made it! Bigdog, I'm glad to hear you liked the Merritt. We went up that way on Sat. and came back to NJ on it Tuesday. No traffic either time - we made it from Clifton NJ to Alton (305 miles) and return in 5 1/2 hours with 20 min. lunch stops each way. Yes, the Merritt can be terrible at rush hour if you are heading with the traffic, but if you are going north in the morning or south in the afternoon, you can usually do the speed limit while the other side is crawling. You could have taken the Merritt even if it was rainy, they don't have flooding problems and I've never had trouble in rain when I headed to NH in the summer. The road to avoid if it's raining is the Saw Mill River Parkway which is the road I used to take before we saw how great the Merritt was. The Saw Mill cuts about 8 miles off the 684/84 route, but when it rained it would flood in 3 sections going through Pleasantville and then you still had the boring ride on 84 from Danbury to Hartford.