Although Pennsylvania tops the Worst Roads list, highway construction has helped the state move up the most improved list.

Texas covers 268,601 square miles, making it the second largest state after Alaska. Spanning those miles across dusty deserts and through big cities are the best interstates in the system, according to readers voting in this year’s Overdrive Highway Report Card survey.

Pennsylvania led the list for worst roads. It and Arkansas have been frequent contenders for this dubious honor in recent years, though Arkansas and Pennsylvania also took the top two places as most improved this year.

Texas tops some other categories in the survey, as well: most available overnight parking, best truck stops, best rest stops (tie) and best automobile drivers. The state also was voted to have the worst rest stops, a discrepancy that demonstrates the variety of conditions in a state so large.

“The roads I travel in Texas are good roads,” says cattle hauler Rusty Dykeman, who has driven them for more than 10 years. “I hear a lot of guys talking, though, and they say Houston is a nightmare, but I don’t get down in that area.”

“Texas is always working on their roads,” says Robert Powell of Houston. “If there is a bad area, they tear it out and fix it. They have construction everywhere.”