I-85 South - Downtown Charlotte NC to Downtown Atlanta GA - 4K Highway Drive

[@annpayton]

I'm just 20 mins into this video and already like of how you edit/skip over those long waits in interstate traffic ... Noice bonus of that indeed, thanks! 👍🏾🙂

[@Aggie4life77]

I grew up in NC and spent 11 years in Atlanta. I know this drive like the back of my hand. I live in Texas now and hadn’t been to Atlanta in a while. They have really added infill between the downtown and Midtown areas! Nice!

[@pimpsquad27]

Yes indeed and there's also a 60-story skyscraper under construction in midtown right now.

[@Aggie4life77]

@@pimpsquad27 Cool!

[@ddki9094]

I enjoy seeing I-85 going towards Atlanta - There is this gradual buildup of anticipation, and then before you know it, the road is 12 lanes wide and then you know you are still 30 miles from downtown Atlanta.

[@miketv1823]

My exit is 107 in Gwinnett County, GA. Fun fact if you look to the right near that exit you can see downhill to the Atlanta skyline on clear days/nights. Starting around the 3:14:10 mark.

[@willp.8120]

From just before the Braselton Pendergrass exit where solid development picks up, the distance in miles: to I-985 Junction: 17.62 miles to 316 Junction: 24.59 miles to I-285 Junction: 35.15 miles to Georgia 400 Junction: 43 miles to I-75 Junction: 45.59 miles to Downtown by state capital where Mike got off I-75/I-85: 49.5 miles So nearly 50 miles of solid built-up area in one direction from downtown Atlanta. If you include the exurban patchy development that is quickly building up out to the Jefferson/Hoschton exit, you could add another 10 or so miles for a total of 60 miles in one direction from downtown. This expresses why the Atlanta area is underserved by the number of freeways we have. There should at least be an outer loop.

[@u.s.6909]

This is the only stretch of Interstate 85 I haven't driven or seen in person other than the Atlanta area. . Last year I crossed under it on Interstate 26. Your videos are perfect. 4K no music, no commentary, love the way you drive and I love how you place the proper shield at the point where the multiplexes physically begin and end.

[@BlackSymbioteSuitSupergirl]

Nice Drive From I-85 South - Downtown Charlotte North Carolina - Downtown Atlanta Georgia U.S.A. Great Video Mike!

[@willp.8120]

"Uptown"

[@kiwiinterstates3190]

Great video! I love the long distance city to city drives.

[@sharonrivers1347]

Not me.too long

[@ompandey6724]

This is definitely more than your entire I-85 South Carolina drive. Maybe I-85 southbound from Atlanta to Montgomery (JCT I-65) could be the next step/segment.

[@ajdgeospatialconcepts1014]

It’s why I call Charlotte Little Atlanta

[@Reversoul]

Charlotte is definitely growing, but it has a long way to catch up to major cities like Miami and ATL.

[@JakeBee8]

I used to work security near that 248 exit on MLK blvd in ATL. Graveyard shift. One winter sitting in my car at 3am it was about 21 degrees.

[@erinkstansell4246]

Good morning everyone near future am moving there❤

[@willp.8120]

Good job, Mike. You can see just how far Atlanta's sprawl has reached out to Jefferson. Another thing those clouds on I-85 on the west side of Charlotte at I-485 look like Jesus could appear out of those clouds.

[@mikioni]

Excellent camera angle.

[@Animegamespublishing]

Great drive from Charlotte to Atlanta via 77 and 85. Great shortcut to avoid 95. I kook forward to seeing interstate 65 in Montgomery as well

[@willp.8120]

Why would you ever use I-95 unless you are in a place like Wilmington, NC? From there you'd take 95 South to I-20 and head west. Taking 85 would be out of the way for the Southeast Coast of NC and the Midlands and low country of South Carolina. Anyone from Greenville, NC, maybe Fayetteville would be best to take back roads to I-85. Below that, I-20 by way of back roads or I-95 or I-26 in the Carolinas down to Charleston would make much more sense. Of course Hilton Head and Savannah and the Georgia Coast use I-95 and/or I-16 to I-75. If you are from Richmond up through the northeast, you either use I-85 or I-81 to either I-75, or I-81 to I-26 to I-85.

[@brianstample9227]

​@@willp.8120wow ikno he didn't just say 95 ! 🤦😭😭

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

Georgia spent a lot expanding I 85 towards the SC border!!

[@MileageMikeTravels]

That Atlanta area sprawl is crazy!

[@angelmalarkey7946]

I love going on the southbound on I-85 more than the Northbound on I-85.

[@SEBAS31077]

as a kid and still do love seeing the peach 1:00:28

[@PelicanGuy]

The last time I drove 85 from Atlanta to Charlotte, the multilanes ended at Hamilton Mill Road not far feom the 985 split. I see GDOT widened it to Jefferson with further widening to Commerce. That's some serious traffic.

[@Jayden3952yahoo]

Nice drive please do a drive from Atlanta to Charlotte

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Maybe one day

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

I miss going to Georgia

[@willp.8120]

Where are you from?

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

@@willp.8120 California I residentate in Texas Now as of July 2023 due to the high cost in California. But I've travelled to Georgia 2 few times mostly the Atlanta area mostly for tourism

[@willp.8120]

​@@TheBlackWrapperDude My neighbors just moved here from southern California. My wife also grew up in California in the High Desert of San Bernardino County.

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

@@willp.8120 interesting I'm from northern California

[@willp.8120]

@@TheBlackWrapperDude I've been to San Francisco, back in 2002. I went to Alcatraz, rode the Cable cars, Fisherman's wharf, a lot of the touristy stuff. Spent the night camping in the national forest in the Sierras close to South Lake Tahoe. The PCH up to Half Moon Bay from San Luis Obispo in Central Coast, was beautiful.

[@RazorJacket]

Do an Atlanta to Nashville. That should be a good one.

[@qthetroll]

don’t mind me just checking to see if i’m in the video 🤣 i’m a trucker and run this route everyday

[@marcbyrnes293]

Like Charlotte's downtown far more than Atlanta's

[@willp.8120]

That is because that part of downtown Atlanta between the Capitol building and Five Points is basically the rough part of downtown. Atlanta's Central Business District also has northern downtown and Midtown which are nicer that southern downtown, by far.

[@Reversoul]

Why? The ATL skyline is way more impressive. Downtown Charlotte is small .

[@KendrickJames-ly7rg]

@@Reversoul Personally, I feel like Atlanta’s skyline is quite impressive in terms of how far it stretches out, but the buildings in Charlotte’s skyline just stand out a little more; they’re more unique. Plus, there’s more buildings being built in the South End area

[@bruhman5716]

Bro built different to drive this far

[@MileageMikeTravels]

💯

[@willp.8120]

I live in the Atlanta suburbs, and in my younger days in the 90s, I used to drive down to Tampa and back within the same day, just to have a joy ride. Of course, I wouldn't do that these days, but I enjoyed it a lot then. I still enjoy traveling by road trip, but don't like going and coming back the same day, unless it's within a couple hours.

[@neox9369]

Yeah 4 hours is a very very very long trip😏. It’s nothing, and in 6-7 hours from Atlanta you’ll be near DC. Try California or Texas

[@willp.8120]

@@neox9369 6-7 hours is Raleigh. DC is about 9 hours from Atlanta.

[@tameikabrown]

On Average Time How Long Does It Take For Someone Traveling From Wilmington,NC Down To ATLANTA To Get Thurr Despite All Of The Traffic/RoadSide Construction Going On/Getting Gas If Not Electric As Well As Getting Food ❤️‍🔥🥰❤️💙🖤 18:00

[@tameikabrown]

Wazzup Mike How U Doing I Was Wondering What U Did On Monday For Memorial Day Hopefully Just Relaxing Somewhere Beside’s Being Home With Family & Friend’s 10:45

[@SVGIN]

HE DIDN'T EVEN TAKE YOU TO CUMBERLAND AREA... ATLANTA A DIFFERENT WORLD MAN

[@Sade-cv5ek]

Sade. Britt 😀😎

[@disracenboi336]

Great video but you did us kind of dirty lol, our skyline is way larger than what was shown, stretching from uptown far into south end and the pearl district with a lot of towers still under construction 😭 come on dawg, we the 5th fastest growing city in the us…why you do us like that😂😂😂

[@UHaulShorts]

I rememba da buncha *kunstruxion* thru SC

[@veronicathomas1877]

What?!

[@UHaulShorts]

@@veronicathomas1877 I-85 thru SC gatt a latta 🚧

[@LydFraz]

2:12:12

[@LydFraz]

2:41:06

[@LydFraz]

3:00:31

[@LydFraz]

3:31:39

[@DorineWilkinson]

I-75

[@ChuHi_Papi]

Did you get some SC gas tho? lol

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Some what?

[@thebabbler8867]

ATL makes Charlotte look like a village. Lmao

[@willp.8120]

Charlotte is still a big place, larger than the likes of Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, or Cincinnati. That said, Atlanta is just an extremely massive urbanized area, the fourth largest in the world by square miles of developed land.

[@bigdripbobz1072]

@@willp.8120 Isn't like 9 of 10 of the largest metro areas of urban sprawl all in the US or something? 😂

[@willp.8120]

@@bigdripbobz1072 8 of 10. Urbanized areas by square miles: 1) New York (United States): 4,380 square miles 2) Boston-Providence (United States) : 3,416 square miles 3) Tokyo-Yokahama (Japan): 3,388 square miles 4) Atlanta (United States): 2,858 square miles 5) Los Angeles (United States): 2,671 square miles 6) Moscow (Russia): 2,565 square miles 7) Chicago (United States): 2,522 square miles 8) Washington-Baltimore (United States): 2,162 square miles 9) Houston (United States): 2,081 square miles 10) Dallas-Fort Worth (United States): 2,049 square miles Charlotte comes in at 20th largest by square miles in the world at 1,402 square miles. Charlotte compared to prominent US urbanized areas to show that it is not small at all. (19) -San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose: 1,403 square miles (21)- Cleveland-Akron-Canton: 1,393 square miles (24) -Phoenix: 1,249 square miles (25)-Miami: 1,244 square miles (27)-Orlando: 1,214 square miles (28)-Seattle: 1,209 square miles (30)-Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater: 1,157 square miles (40)-St. Louis: 970 square miles (41)-Minneapolis-St. Paul: 969 square miles (42)-Pittsburgh: 907 square miles (52)-Cincinnati: 752 square miles (52)-Kansas City: 752 square miles (56)-Raleigh-Durham: 738 square miles (58)-Indianapolis: 723 square miles (65)-San Diego: 675 square miles (66)-Salt Lake City: 674 square miles (74)-Austin: 620 square miles (75)-San Antonio: 613 square miles (77)-Denver: 609 square miles (79)-Nashville: 585 square miles Urbanized areas such as Jacksonville, Portland, Columbus, Memphis, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Las Vegas, and Buffalo are even smaller than those above. On a world scale, look how small in developed land mass these foreign urbanized areas are in square miles. (18)- Sao Paulo, Brazil (1,409 square miles) (23)- Buenos Aires, Argentina (1,327 square miles) (31)- Melbourne, Australia (1,112 square miles) (32)- Paris, France (1,102 square miles) (34)- Seoul, South Korea (1,034 square miles) (35)- Cairo, Egypt (1,041 square miles) (37)- Brisbane-Gold Coast, Australia (1,022 square miles) (39)- Mexico City (977 square miles) (43)- Toronto, Canada (905 square miles) (43)- Delhi, India (905 square miles) (48)- Sydney, Australia (847 square miles) (51)- Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (780 square miles) (68)- London, United Kingdom (671 square miles) (83)- Istanbul, Turkey (568 square miles) (86)- Montreal, Canada (534 square miles) (88)- Berlin, Germany (528 square miles) (89)- Madrid, Spain (527 square miles) (109)- Rome, Italy (442 square miles) (155)- Brussels, Belgium (336 square miles) (161)- Stockholm, Sweden (327 square miles) (164)- Cape Town, South Africa (324 square miles) (199)- Baghdad, Iraq (268 square miles) (209)- Frankfurt, Germany (255 square miles) (216)- Edmonton, Canada (242 square miles) (230)- Athens, Greece (225 square miles) (245)- Warsaw, Poland (211 square miles) (250)- Auckland, New Zealand (209 square miles) (277)- Amsterdam, Netherlands (188 square miles) (295)- Dublin, Ireland (178 square miles)

[@willp.8120]

@@bigdripbobz1072 I spent a lot of time showing the developed area in square miles for world urbanized areas, and for some reason it disappeared. I put a lot of effort into it, about 40 minutes worth. For someone or something to delete it is wrong.

[@willp.8120]

@@bigdripbobz1072 I'll repost the top 10 in the world. Maybe later I can add others. It's probably that algorithm KZbin has that doesn't like longer, broken, paragraphed text. 1) New York (United States): 4,380 square miles 2) Boston-Providence (United States): 3,416 square miles 3) Tokyo-Yokohama (Japan): 3,388 square miles 4) Atlanta (United States): 2,858 square miles 5) Los Angeles (United States): 2,671 square miles 6) Moscow (Russia): 2,565 square miles 7) Chicago (United States): 2,522 square miles 8) Washington-Baltimore (United States): 2,162 square miles 9) Houston (United States): 2,081 square miles 10) Dallas-Fort Worth (United States): 2,041 square miles

[@interstate20]

Will you redo i285?

[@kennethjackson4516]

UNBELIEVABLE I STARTED THIS RIDE WITH YOU AND SOON YOU HIT THE FREE- WAY , I FELT ASLEEP ,SLEP 2HR 15 MINUTE AND YOU WERE STILL DRIVING, SO WHAT I DID I PLAYED THE SAME VIDEO ,I LEFT HOME WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS ,AND REACH THE SAME DESTINATION IN 45 MINUTE MADE IT TO ATL AT MY UNCLE'S HOUSE B.B.Q DRANK A 6PKG OF BEER ,CHECKED THE PHONE AND YOU WERE STILL 25 MINUTE INTO YOUR DRIVE.LET ME EXPLAIN IF YOU WERE TO TRAVEL IN A [ X ] THE DISTANCE IS SHORTER, THE FRE -WAY'S IS ALL A FIGURE OF NUMBERS. TIME AND GAS,, IF I LEFT OUT OF MY BACKDOOR INTO THE NEIGHBOR BEHIND ME ,I COULD GET THERE IN 2 1 / 2 MINUTES, BUT IF I WALKED AROUND THE CORNER IT WOULD TAKE ME 20 MINUTES TO 45 MINUTES, THE TIME IS BASE ON LEFT TO RIGHT. WALKING SPEED UP TIME.,DRIVING PUSHES TIME BACK.

[@SVGIN]

Stop comparing charlotte to Atlanta... ATLANTA FOT LIKE 6 SKYKIBES ...CHARLOTTE GOT LIKE 1 OR ....WHATEVER...STOP