I nominate Liberty Road as the worst, least scenic (non-traffic related) roadway in Houston. Let's take a tour.

Start at Hwy 59 and move east. I'm not sure if the first stretch gets regular city trash pick-up. This is the nice part of Liberty Road. Further east you pass boarded up homes on one side and a giant railroad switchyard on the other side. This is the location of an underground creosote and dioxin site, considered a cancer cluster. Not fun.

But the road itself is a disaster. Drive carefully there are enormous potholes filled with excess rainwater. No curbs, gutters or storm drains (or road repairs) here.

Approaching 610 and behind a forlorn fence lies a giant pile of busted-up concrete, dirt and whatever else is in there and somehow trees are growing out of it. Like nature herself is trying her best to reclaim the region.

Outside 610 you're hoping for no vehicle breakdowns, although there are plenty of spare tires discarded in the side ditches. Take a right at the fork in the road to stay on Liberty and cross the mud-filled railroad crossing. After that, you can take a hard right down a muddy and dreadful dead-end. Better to bear left as the road narrows, lined with weeds and scrub brush.

At the end, take a hairpin right turn (go slow, the potholes are huge) onto McCarty heading south and back toward civilization. It says something when it's McCarty that leads to civilization.

Liberty Road will not be on any tourist recommendations for the upcoming World Cup matches. Take a tour and report back. Any other roads compete with Liberty Road for least scenic in Houston?

I nominate greens Rd by IAH

That segment of Highway 6 out west from about Voss to Westheimer is bad.

A literal third-world stretch of ugly strip malls and uninsured drivers with fake plates on their unfit-to-drive autos careening around and across six lanes of traffic.

Hiram Clarke

I worked at a Holmes Rd address for years. Pretty dreary as were most of the immediate environs.

Telephone Road has some bad spots north and south of the Hobby area.

McCarty Road/Hwy 90 between I10 and BW

Trucks, potholes, landfills, stray dogs, etc. That stretch has it all.

Sea Speed said:

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Anything around hobby. Westheimer west of the galleria is pretty terrible.

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Telephone Road in particular.

Wearer of the Ring said:

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I worked at a Holmes Rd address for years. Pretty dreary as were most of the immediate environs.

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Same. Any time I turned on to Holmes, I could just feel my spirit deflate a little. I do not miss driving that gauntlet.

Telephone rd area, but Mykawa

My parents are almost 80 and telephone and gulf gate were the place to be when they were growing up

Most scenic would be memorial through the villages

Westpark Tollway

I've always been partial to the look and feel of the museum district.

ATM9000 said:

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There's so many ugly roads in Houston that this really isn't as interesting as you guys think it is.

Name the scenic roads in Houston. That gets interesting.

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Depends on if you allow residential roads? Otherwise it's probably Memorial Drive….short list

Have to include the beautiful Houston ship channel locations East of Houston to this list.
None that I've seen are worse than Jacintoport Blvd. Great mixture of Buffalo Bayou air, rotting grain spills on the side of the road, old discarded truck tires, pigeons, oil and grease storage tanks, and huge holes along the road holding a flagrant mixture of all above in water. A truly disgusting place to drive thru.

1960 is very sketchy in places

redaszag99 said:

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Telephone rd area, but Mykawa

My parents are almost 80 and telephone and gulf gate were the place to be when they were growing up

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I am 55 and we used to go up Telephone Road to get to Sears and Gulfgate was the closest movie theater.

You pretty much need a stadium truck to navigate Houston streets these days.

Clinton Dr, Holcomb, Holmes, Telephone, are all a disaster.

Thanks Mayor Turner...

Tidwell Road from 45 to 59. Especially at night.

Tidwell

How about 1960 from kuykendahl to I-45N?

do yall remember when the city had those two lidar equipped trucks to map the city's street surface and determine which streets were in most need of repair? they ran them for a few months until the data came back showing how absolutely ****ed most of the streets were. that was a decade ago. its only gotten better since then.

Hey now! I grew up in that area.

But yes, it's amazing how much that area has been run down. Always depressing driving down 1960 in that area.

Psycho Bunny said:

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Tidwell Road from 45 to 59. Especially at night.

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This is the one.

It's what came to mind immediately

WorthAg95 said:

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It's what came to mind immediately

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Early 90's I went with a buddy to see King's X and The Eric Gales band at the Unicorn Ballroom on Tidwell at 59. It was an old K-Mart or Safeway or something.

Me and the buddy drove up from Lake Jackson. When I told an older co-worker that I was headed up there and didn't know that part of town (he was from Houston and at the time lived in a trailer off of Almeda south of the 619 loop), he said:

"If you get rear-ended up there, just keep going. Don't pull over to check damage or exchange information because you're going to get shot and carjacked."

Once we made it up there, I understood.

Great concert though.