Longest Distance On A Mileage Sign?

Started by Bigmikelakers, April 10, 2011, 02:16:49 AM

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Quillz

Quote from: Interstate Trav on April 10, 2011, 01:36:35 PM
Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 10, 2011, 02:16:49 AM
This is probably the farthest distance on a mileage sign that I've seen personally.


Mileage Sign on Interstate 15 Northbound for the first time mentions the distance to Salt Lake City by bigmikelakers, on Flickr
I have probably driven by that sign a million times.  I always wondered why they sign Salt Lake City in the California desert.  Especially in Baker.

I heard there was one for Los Angeles in New Mexico on I-40 westbound that was for over 1,000 miles.
The technical reason is almost assuredly because Salt Lake City is the largest city encountered on I-15 after Las Vegas. In fact, between the two cities, there's really very little except for roadside stops and the I-70 junction.


froggie

Quote216 miles.  the sign was near San Jon.

that sign looks like it is button copy.  In any case, it seems to have a non-reflective background.  I remember one with a reflective background in 2005; looks to have been a direct replacement.

Given the mileage and the topography, the actual location would have been just past the welcome center at the state line.  The sign you remember from 2005 may have been this one, photographed in July, 2005 and located on the curve seen in the 1983 photo.

Grzrd

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I recently came across a photo of what appears to be a "legitimate" sign at a fork in the road somewhere east of Yakutsk with a distance of 1504 km to Magadan (and 1519 km to another location on the other road) in the Russian Far East on the "Road of Bones" section of Russia's M56 federal highway:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?s=44ed194a7a25b19f5b852bc51b372a37&t=529114&page=2

Definitely in the "ridiculously isolated" category ...

Bigmikelakers

Quote from: Quillz on April 11, 2011, 06:02:45 AM
The technical reason is almost assuredly because Salt Lake City is the largest city encountered on I-15 after Las Vegas. In fact, between the two cities, there's really very little except for roadside stops and the I-70 junction.

What about St George?

ftballfan

In Michigan, there aren't that many remote ones. I've seen Muskegon signed on US-31 just south of Traverse City (I think it's Honor xx, Manistee xx, Muskegon xxx).

Interstate Trav

Quote from: Kniwt on April 10, 2011, 06:57:29 PM
Quote from: Interstate Trav on April 10, 2011, 01:47:44 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 10, 2011, 01:42:28 PM
Quote from: Interstate Trav on April 10, 2011, 01:36:35 PM

I heard there was one for Los Angeles in New Mexico on I-40 westbound that was for over 1,000 miles.

I think it is gone.  The distance was 1034 miles, if I recall correctly.
Do you have or know of any picture of that sign? 

I just happen to have one right here. The number is 1,007 miles. This is, I believe, from spring 1983. Apologies for the crappy quality -- it's from a Polaroid SX70 print; I played with the sharpening a bit to make the sign more readable.


Thank You, Thats a cool photo!!  I copied it and pasted it in my photo's on my picasa pictures.  I have a collection.  Really cool picture.

Interstate Trav

Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 10, 2011, 10:43:12 PM
216 miles.  the sign was near San Jon.

that sign looks like it is button copy.  In any case, it seems to have a non-reflective background.  I remember one with a reflective background in 2005; looks to have been a direct replacement.
So there is a new one?  That would be cool if they replaced and kept the Los Angeles Control point on there.  this has to date back to US 66

agentsteel53

no, I distinctly remember the very large mileage, not the distance to Tucumcari. 

the sign may have been button copy and I wasn't paying attention.  the other thing I remember from that trip (other than the rain/snow mix) was that some of the "temporary" ranch connections on I-40 had not yet been closed off.

looks like the original thousand-mile sign vanished sometime between January and July, 2005.  Quite a shame.  I wonder if the "1007" miles even reflected interstate mileage. 

a quick Google Maps search reveals the distance along I-40, I-15, I-210, and CA-110 from the TX/NM state line to the Four-Level Interchange to be precisely 1000 miles.
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Interstate Trav

Quote from: Quillz on April 11, 2011, 06:02:45 AM
Quote from: Interstate Trav on April 10, 2011, 01:36:35 PM
Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 10, 2011, 02:16:49 AM
This is probably the farthest distance on a mileage sign that I've seen personally.


Mileage Sign on Interstate 15 Northbound for the first time mentions the distance to Salt Lake City by bigmikelakers, on Flickr
I have probably driven by that sign a million times.  I always wondered why they sign Salt Lake City in the California desert.  Especially in Baker.

I heard there was one for Los Angeles in New Mexico on I-40 westbound that was for over 1,000 miles.
The technical reason is almost assuredly because Salt Lake City is the largest city encountered on I-15 after Las Vegas. In fact, between the two cities, there's really very little except for roadside stops and the I-70 junction.

True, i mean your other options are North Las Vegas, Mesquite, St Geroge Provo. Denver Via I-70.  I gues I just wondered why Las Vegas doesn't stay the control point and have Primm or Jean pop up before.  Smiliar to when you cross into Nevada and Las Vegas goes back to being the control City until after exit 27.

Quillz

Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 11, 2011, 10:58:25 AM
Quote from: Quillz on April 11, 2011, 06:02:45 AM
The technical reason is almost assuredly because Salt Lake City is the largest city encountered on I-15 after Las Vegas. In fact, between the two cities, there's really very little except for roadside stops and the I-70 junction.

What about St George?
Salt Lake City is a much larger city in terms of population and is far better known. St. George, by comparison, is a relatively small city and isn't a major transportation center the way SLC is. That's probably why it's considered the next major city north of Las Vegas.

Bigmikelakers

Is there any distance to San Francisco larger than this anywhere?


101 Mileage Sign in Thousand Oaks by bigmikelakers, on Flickr

Interstate Trav

Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 13, 2011, 01:03:54 AM
Is there any distance to San Francisco larger than this anywhere?


101 Mileage Sign in Thousand Oaks by bigmikelakers, on Flickr

I used to live right off of Rancho Road, and would see that sign all the time.

No I think thats the farthest, unless the one in Oregon on US 97 is farther.

agentsteel53

likely not anymore, but there used to be 700+ in Salt Lake City for I-80.
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Bigmikelakers

There seems to be tons of distances to Los Angeles signs. Are there any long distance signs for New York City?

Quillz

Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 13, 2011, 10:38:31 AM
There seems to be tons of distances to Los Angeles signs. Are there any long distance signs for New York City?
Probably not, because the East Coast is more densely settled and thus there are larger cities in closer proximity to one another. Whereas on the West Coast, there are really only a handful of very large cities, so the implication is a motorist is probably heading to those from farther away than they would be to an East Coast city.

InterstateNG

The Ohio Turnpike outside of Toledo used to have a sign that it was 500-some miles (around 560 probably) to NYC, but that sign has been gone for a while.
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400 miles for NYC on I-80 at Oh 46 interchange (between I-680 and Oh 11)
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Interstate Trav

Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 13, 2011, 10:34:19 AM
likely not anymore, but there used to be 700+ in Salt Lake City for I-80.
Where was that sign?  That would be cool to see.

citrus

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Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 10, 2011, 02:16:49 AM
This is probably the farthest distance on a mileage sign that I've seen personally.


Mileage Sign on Interstate 15 Northbound for the first time mentions the distance to Salt Lake City by bigmikelakers, on Flickr

I drove I-15 north towards Las Vegas on Friday, and the "534" is gone! The "Salt Lake City" text remained. Subsequent signs within CA still had mileage to Salt Lake City intact. Maybe they're revising the number or something.

(edit: 534, not 532)

Henry

Just wondering: Wouldn't it be great if they put up signs at each end of the longest Interstate (I-90), showing the distance from Boston to Seattle? I know it's over 3,000 miles to the other end, but still...
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Interstate Trav

Quote from: citrus on April 18, 2011, 03:37:26 PM
Quote from: Bigmikelakers on April 10, 2011, 02:16:49 AM
This is probably the farthest distance on a mileage sign that I've seen personally.


Mileage Sign on Interstate 15 Northbound for the first time mentions the distance to Salt Lake City by bigmikelakers, on Flickr

I drove I-15 north towards Las Vegas on Friday, and the "532" is gone! The "Salt Lake City" text remained. Subsequent signs within CA still had mileage to Salt Lake City intact. Maybe they're revising the number or something.

They are.  there is one past Nipton Road right before Yeates
Well Road, and it said Las Vegas 51  Salt Lakce City 496.  the 496 was replaced with 470. 

agentsteel53

so they're finally updating old US-91 mileage?  wow - how long has the interstate, with its more direct route, been in place?  gotta be 30 years at least.
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ftballfan

There's a mileage sign on I-196 for Chicago just west of the M-6 interchange in the Hudsonville/Jenison area (just west of Grand Rapids) (156 miles).

cjk374

Quote from: Henry on April 18, 2011, 03:55:13 PM
Just wondering: Wouldn't it be great if they put up signs at each end of the longest Interstate (I-90), showing the distance from Boston to Seattle? I know it's over 3,000 miles to the other end, but still...

IMHO, they should do that at the beginnings of all major interstates.  If there is no major city at the end of the interstate (I-20 at it's JCT with I-10), then use the last major control point.
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Brandon

Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 18, 2011, 05:37:33 PM
so they're finally updating old US-91 mileage?  wow - how long has the interstate, with its more direct route, been in place?  gotta be 30 years at least.

Not the only place interstate mileage still has yet to be updated.  On I-80 eastbound from the Quad Cities to Joliet, the Joliet mileage is three more miles than the actual distance to the city center.  Why?  Because I-80 stopped temporarily at I-55 from 1960 to 1966 and one went three miles north to US-52 to go to the city center.  The signs are still using the old mileage!
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