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The best of road names

Started by silverback1065, July 27, 2017, 10:50:42 PM

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silverback1065

I see plenty of worst of threads, how about a best of one for road names, what are your favorite road names?

mine:
Jamboree Road in the LA area cool name
Diamond Ave in Evansville, IN cool name
Hazel Dell Parkway in Carmel and Noblesville, IN it's a fun drive

you can also state a reason, your reason can even be simple because the name is cool!


Max Rockatansky

Some of my personal favorites:

Kaiser Pass Road:  It sounds like the road is going to start a World War and really is probably vicious enough to do so. This is located at the end of CA 168.

Total Wreck Lane:   Probably the best name for an Arizonan Mine ever and certainly a road.

Take-the-other-Road:   This is located somewhere near Moab, UT.  I thought it was funny.

El Camino Del Diablo:  The Road of the Devil which is an old Spanish Trail traversing Sonora and southern Arizona south of the Goldwater Range.

oscar

#2
This overlaps with "Funniest Street Names", and I'll stick with what I said there. So this thread can focus on best non-funny road names.
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1995hoo

Saw this last week in southern Florida (I think Davie, but I have trouble figuring out the area names as we drive around there). Nicely done by the street-naming folks.

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CNGL-Leudimin

North Hitler Street in Kimmell, IN. Probably not the best, but somehow has managed to survive to this day. I suspect it's because the street is not named after that Hitler, but rather after one of the original settlers of the area.

I grin when I find a street with the same name as a disease, even if it's unrelated. But Andreas Rett Park in Vienna, Austria, has the same namesake as the syndrome.
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AlexandriaVA

A friend of mine grew up on a street called "The Midway" (Annandale va)


hotdogPi

Already mentioned by someone else in "Funniest", but Breakfast Hill Rd. in Greenland, NH. It has an overpass on I-95 with the street name visible, so many more people will see it than normal.
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roadman

Ruta del Fin de Mundo  (Road to the end of the world).  This road name (and a sign bearing the name) was pointed out during Top Gear's Patagonia Special.
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1995hoo

Quote from: AlexandriaVA on July 28, 2017, 09:14:09 AM
A friend of mine grew up on a street called "The Midway" (Annandale va)
I grew up near there and my brother and I always joked that monsters lived on that street.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

vdeane

There is a Blood Street off of NY 149 west of Granville.  Sounds like something out of a horror movie.
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WillWeaverRVA

After moving to Midlothian, VA, I've driven past Genuine Risk Drive a few times. I wouldn't want to live on that street. (Granted, it's in a neighborhood where most of the streets have something to do with horse racing.)
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AlexandriaVA

Quote from: 1995hoo on July 28, 2017, 11:01:20 AM
Quote from: AlexandriaVA on July 28, 2017, 09:14:09 AM
A friend of mine grew up on a street called "The Midway" (Annandale va)
I grew up near there and my brother and I always joked that monsters lived on that street.

First time visiting him (pre MapQuest), he really had to emphasize that there was no "st/Rd/Dr" ending to it

roadman65

Street Road in Bensalem, PA.
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

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Brandon

"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton, "Game of Thrones"

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg, "Monty Python's Life of Brian"

LM117

Poorhouse Road near Farmville, VA. It describes my wallet. :crazy:
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Max Rockatansky

Bloody Basin Road just off of I-17 and Sore Finger Road off of I-10 in Arizona.

epzik8

I saw Moot Point Lane somewhere in Caroline County, Maryland.
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Somewhere in Delaware, I came across Arrow Safety Road. Coincidentally, the guide sign indeed had an arrow on it.

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SFalcon71

Billy Ray Cyrus Highway (Kentucky, right across from Ohio)

Moorheadville Road (NE Ohio)

Vrooman Road (NE Ohio, I think it's just fun to say honestly)

Dh61

Good Choice Mc Road in Pershing, Nevada. Very encouraging road!



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