From Deadly Roads to Ghost Stories, These Are Texas’ Highways to Hell

If you've driven through Texas, you know the highways are no joke to drive on. Some of them are very long & exhausting, while others have bad reputations for being deadly, congested with traffic, or even haunted in some cases.

These Texas highways are notorious called the Highways to Hell

We start our list with perhaps the most infamous highway in Texas, Interstate 45; a 50-mile stretch between Houston and Galveston. However, the section of I-45 that has become the most infamous the stretch near League City called The Texas Killing Fields; a 25-acre area where a total of 34 bodies were found from 1971-2006. Many of the young women in this area are still considered missing.

Even looking pass the Texas Killing Fields connection, the highway is notorious among drivers as being one of the scariest to drive on. If you want to find why the highway has such an awful reputation, Mileage Mike drove on I-45 and gave a look into what the highway looks like in the present day.

Another infamous Texas highway is US 285; a 846 mile long highway from Sanderson, Texas, to Denver, Colorado. US 285 is most known as the infamous "Death Highway". Why? If you've ever driven on this stretch of road, you know how scary it is. From 2016 to 2020 (ALONE), several wrecks have occurred in Texas with at least 93 fatalities occurring that time.

2 Texas highways that have other notably bad reputations are I-35, due to its heavy traffic congestion & Loop 1604, which has one of the most dangerous intersections in the San Antonio area.

But we can't talk about "highways to hell" without mentioning FM 666. Aka the "Devil's Highway" located near Mathis, Texas. It's actually just called Farm to Market Road 666, but people have called it FM 666 for short.

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While it might not be as scary to drive on like the Devil's Backbone or Bragg Road (aka the Ghost Road), if you want to find a LITERAL Devil's Highway, what better highway than one that has the number of the beast, 666? Not to mention there's still supposed paranormal activity that have occurred on this stretch of road so keep your eyes open...