Not quite. Assuming you pick up I-81 in PA, you cross into MD for 12 miles, then West Virginia before getting into Virginia on I-81. I know it well having driven it to visit PA relatives for 30 years. I've never been bothered by anything in the MD sector but it always tightens up my backside driving through there with Texas plates. The MD police along I-95 do look for out of state plates. Western MD is no where near the Communist mecca that exists in MD around Baltimore, however.jrs_diesel wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:20 am FWIW I was stationed up in both CT and RI for 7 years. I only had my 12 gauge with me the entire time and hunted in both states. I had Arkansas plates at the time, and I went back in 2016 to pick up a sailboat and had Texas plates that trip. I never got hassled by LE at any time, even when pulling our camper. The only interaction I ever had was a game warden doing license checks once when I was duck hunting in RI.
My typical route going south was to take I-95 south, and then pick up I-287 to go around NYC (across the Tappan Zee bridge). When I transferred from RI to TX in 2014, my route was that plus taking I-78 to I-81 out of the North East.
When I picked up the sail boat, I unwittingly tempted fate by taking the Garden State Parkway and the Turnpike through NJ and MD en route to Virginia.
Taking I-81 will keep you out of MD and NJ entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_81_in_Maryland