My husband and I are planning a trip to Disneyland in September and just realized that his sister-in-law's due date is right around the time of our trip, so if the baby is born before we leave, we'd like to go visit his family to meet the new baby. We are planning on checking out of our hotel on a Thursday and spending the day in the park, going either all the way to closing or nearly all the way to closing so that we can avoid the traffic. Our original plan was to drive up to the Glendale area and stay with my in-laws for a day, but now, with the baby, we could very well end up going to Redlands instead.
It looks like the shortest route from Disneyland to Redlands is to take 91, but neither of us is very familiar with the whole stretch there (my husband used to take short hops on it as a shortcut when going home from northern San Diego county, but that was the bit around Corona). What's the freeway like in the less inhabited areas? We've inadvertently ended up on slightly terrifying freeways (138 through the desert) after dark trying to avoid Thanksgiving traffic, and would very much like to avoid a repeat of that experience... Would it be better to drive north and then take 10 over? Or will 91 be fine in the dark?
It looks like the shortest route from Disneyland to Redlands is to take 91, but neither of us is very familiar with the whole stretch there (my husband used to take short hops on it as a shortcut when going home from northern San Diego county, but that was the bit around Corona). What's the freeway like in the less inhabited areas? We've inadvertently ended up on slightly terrifying freeways (138 through the desert) after dark trying to avoid Thanksgiving traffic, and would very much like to avoid a repeat of that experience... Would it be better to drive north and then take 10 over? Or will 91 be fine in the dark?
