BEWARE! If you are driving through Atlanta to get to Disney!

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

In the past I found if there are no traffic problems when driving through Atlanta it's that bad at all, plus once your out of the downtown area it's then a straight and easy drive to WDW. So no matter what my family and I keep driving through there and we don't want to take a chance with any of the detours.

 

[CharacterFan]

Friday Oct 2 is when we will be heading through that way. We are 6 hours from there and I was wanting to leave around 4am so we would hit Atlanta around 10am. Was hoping to hit between morning rush and lunch. What do you think?

There might still be a little back up depending on what happens in the morning, but it should be fine. I don't think you'll find it a parking lot at that hour, unless something majors happens. If that's the case, the signs will let you know long before you get there. When you approach the connector from 75-S just stay in the 2 right lanes or the HOV lanes. People change lanes like there's no tomorrow. Also, while I don't find it at all confusing there is 1 HOV exit on the left side of the road. They now mark it with huge signs and paint to keep people from confusing it with the freeway.

 

[sgtdisney]

This is good to know. We are leaving the Chicago area early in the morning on 8/1 and depending on how far we get (and how tired I am) we will be driving through Atlanta either on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Good to know that the weekends aren't all that bad.

 

[wdwmaw]

There might still be a little back up depending on what happens in the morning, but it should be fine. I don't think you'll find it a parking lot at that hour, unless something majors happens. If that's the case, the signs will let you know long before you get there. When you approach the connector from 75-S just stay in the 2 right lanes or the HOV lanes. People change lanes like there's no tomorrow. Also, while I don't find it at all confusing there is 1 HOV exit on the left side of the road. They now mark it with huge signs and paint to keep people from confusing it with the freeway.

Thank you so much. We will be taking several DS's friends with us so we are taking 2 cars. DD and I will leave early in the morning and will be traveling for the first time by ourselves. DH and the boys will be about 18 hours behind us. This is why I have all the questions, done this as a passenger many times just want my ducks in a row for my first time.