There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
What about signed county routes? (if applicable)
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 25, 2019, 01:54:50 PM
What about signed county routes? (if applicable)
Because they vary so much from state to state, I didn't include signed county highways as part of my criteria. Of course, anyone else attempting to "highway clinch" counties can choose to include them. Indiana doesn't have them, save a couple decommissioned state highways where counties have chosen to keep the numbers and re-sign them as county highways. Michigan and Kentucky also don't have any that I've ever seen. Also, keeping track of my travels at the state level and above is easy using travelmapping.net and I don't know of any way to easily keep track of county routes.
My part of Michigan doesn't have county highways. I'm in Zone E for county highways which is bordered by I-96 on the south, US-127 on the west, US-10 and the Saginaw Bay on the north and Lake Huron on the east. Zone E is the only zone in Michigan with no county highways.
However Zone D only has two highways and I have both clinched D-19 and D-32 have their terminus at each other and D-32 is called the Highway to Hell since it passes through Hell, Michigan which I ironically passed through without even realizing it about a month ago. Both highways are about 10 miles long.
To answer the question, no.
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
I've clinched the following counties (Georgia unless otherwise specified):
Butts
Clayton
DeKalb
Fayette
Forsyth
Gwinnett, counting only numbered routes (missing some other TM-mappable mileage though)
Henry
Jasper
Rockdale
Spalding
District of Columbia, counting only numbered routes (missing some other TM-mappable mileage though)
Close, but not quite:
Cobb (missing GA 120 west of Marietta)
Fulton (missing part of GA 92 in south Fulton)
Newton (need to re-clinch GA 36 after it was routed onto the Covington bypass)
Walton (need to re-clinch GA 11 after it was routed onto the Social Circle bypass)
Montgomery, MD (pretty sure I have over 90% of the mileage, but missing a few pieces mostly inside I-495)
I track it, all mine are currently in PA, but I am very close to one in MD.
For PA purposes, I'm not counting quadrant routes as those are effectively unsigned and not part of the primary state highway system.
I count it if all interstates, US routes, PA routes, and auxiliary Interstate and US Routes have been driven.
I have the following PA counties:
Adams
Berks
Carbon
Columbia
Cumberland
Dauphin
Franklin
Fulton
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lehigh
Lycoming
Juniata
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Schuylkill
Snyder
Union
York
I am less than 1 mile remaining in Mifflin and Montour.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 25, 2019, 01:54:50 PM
What about signed county routes? (if applicable)
I kind of do that in California with the lettered county routes that interest me. In that regard I've clinched a couple counties but I probably won't even get close with some like Tulare. The problem with counties like Tulare is that the lettered county routes are largely no longer signed and many of them are just plain boring flat terrain. With the State Routes I'm generally making a purposeful attempt to get as many as I can but I won't do a lettered country route unless it is on my path of travel.
MN, as far as I know; it's tough to be 100% sure
Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Crow Wing
Cook (this is the only one I can easily be 100% sure of) :bigass:
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine
Sherburne
Near misses:
Carlton (MN 289)
Wright (US 12 west of Cokato)
I keep track of this, counting interstates, US routes, state routes, and any bannered routes of those. County roads in this area either don't exist or are signed very poorly, so I don't bother with them. However, unsigned state routes do count.
So far I've fully completed Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, and Weber County in Utah. Of those, Morgan County was sort of accidental - I drove up with the intent to clinch SR 65 and 66, and afterwards realized I'd totally finished the county without intending to.
I'm also extremely close on Kane County, where I'm missing the 2 miles or so of US 89A.
I keep track of NY. I have all of Regions 1, 2, 3, 4*, 7**, and 9, as well as Yates, Chemung, Schuyler, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Ulster, Orange, Rockland, New York, and Richmond Counties.
*Technically not Truck NY 354, but it's small enough that I've essentially sight clinched it, probably temporary, and truck routes aren't really considered part of the "state highway system" (for example, we didn't record the pavement score for them back when that was still done by the regions, even though we did for routes that we don't maintain)
**Sight clinch of US 11 from US 2 to the border; no idea if/when I'll be able to get around to fixing this
I've done several in Michigan:
Benzie
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford
I am close in the following counties:
Branch (missing M-86)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kent (missing small portions of M-21, M-44, and M-57)
Mecosta (missing M-20 between Big Rapids and Remus)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)
Quote from: Rothman on June 25, 2019, 03:50:40 PM
To answer the question, no.
Yeah, sometimes there are TOO many things to count. :-)
But I did do some spot checks. I have Macomb, Oakland & Saint Clair counties MI clinched. Broomfield and Clear Creek counties CO clinched. Those 2 make sense - I've lived in Detroit & Denver.
However, I also have Elk County KS clinched. That's an oddball. But there are two through highways and I've taken each of them as part of a bigger trip once.
I keep track of counties and routes, but never gave much thought as to how many of each.
21 in Florida: Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Lee, Palm Beach, Martin, Indian River, Okeechobee, Highlands, De Soto, Hendry, Hardee, Glades, Brevard, Sumter, Osceola, Alachua, Putnam, St. Johns, Flagler.
7 9 in Alabama: Madison, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Marshall, Etowah, Cherokee.
Can add Cullman and Blount.
So, 28 30 is my answer for now. I can't think of any others that I haven't lived near or alongside of, to count towards that total.
Easiest for me to figure is for the states where I've clinched the entire Interstate/US/state highway network:
Hawaii (four counties with state highways, one of which has Interstates but no current signed county routes, the other three I've clinched all the signed and numbered county routes),
Alaska (15 counties/equivalents with state highways; no county routes, not counting lots of unsigned state-maintained routes, and some signed and numbered Forest Service roads)
Delaware (three counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, no signed/numbered county routes)
Maryland (23 county equivalents where I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, missing one state route in the remaining county, no signed/numbered county routes)
California (54 of its 58 counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, but not necessarily all their all their signed/numbered county routes)
Also, Virginia (at least Arlington and Henrico counties, and most of the independent cities, which conveniently have no state secondary routes)
Might be some counties in other states too, but no time to figure that out.
If you have an account with the Travel Mapping site, it is easy to figure out which counties you've clinched.*
That said, I only have 9 counties, all within Ohio, "clinched."
Delaware
Morrow
Marion
Union
Knox
Franklin
Licking
Lake
Geauga
* - I think the only exception is Mississippi which, outside of MS 55, has no other state routes are listed as of yet.
If you're talking about signed state routes within counties, then I have all 55 of West Virginia's clinched, since I have the state primary route system completed in that state.
In Kentucky, that total is exactly one, my home county. I did have two under my belt, but they added a state route to Estill County last year (swapped it with the county; turning over a state route to the county that had been a state highway since the days of the round cutout markers). I never drove that route when it was county maintained, so I couldn't grandfather it in.
Kentucky's counties are definitely a pain due to the density of signed highways. Took me a long time to get Jefferson.
Here is what I have finished in California for state maintained highways:
- Kern
- Tulare
- San Luis Obispo
- San Benito
- Monterey
- Santa Clara
- San Mateo
- San Francisco
- Alameda
- Fresno
- Madera
- Mariposa
- Merced
- Stanislaus
- Mono
- San Joaquin
- El Dorado
- Alpine
I'll have Sacramento County completed tomorrow if plans stick true. For Arizona the only two counties I didn't fully clinch the State Highway system were Graham Santa Cruz. I'd have to sit down and really think about the other states I lived in or worked like Florida or Nevada.
I've been on all numbered state routes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (Dukes County), even though I have never been there.
Iowa made this easier by decommissioning numerous highways in 2003. My list for Iowa includes Fremont, Mills, Pottawattomie, Winnebago, Hancock, Wright, Cerro Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Floyd, Chickasaw and Howard.
When I lived in Nebraska, I got Douglas and Sarpy.
I do it with the
comarcas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comarcas_of_Aragon) of my home region of Aragon. For that, I consider a
comarca to be highway-clinched if I have been on all routes prefixed A, AP or N in it, as well as the Z-40 beltway around Zaragoza (note that A is used for both non-tolled freeways and regional roads). I've thus highway-clinched 3 of them, and recently I've run out of stuff to see in one (Campo de Cariñena, South of Zaragoza) as I grabbed the last municipality I had yet to enter there.
Quote from: 1 on June 26, 2019, 01:34:11 PM
I've been on all numbered state routes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (Dukes County), even though I have never been there.
So I do. As well as those on Kalawao county in Hawaii :bigass:.
Yes I do. A couple years ago, I created a spreadsheet to keep track of clinched Ohio route mileage by county. So far, I've only 100% completed one county in Ohio (Franklin) but am above 90% in two others: Delaware & Clark.
I know I have some counties in Oklahoma finished (at least 2: Oklahoma & Cleveland) but don't have a spreadsheet for that state.
Clinching individual highways, especially non-freeways, is an activity that sounds like it would give me a headache.
I generally know whether I've traveled a specific road segment, and if so roughly how many times, but I've never felt the need to get more detailed than that in recording my travels.
Using the original poster's criteria, I've clinched all of Iowa's state highways, plus the state highways of one non-Iowa county (Rock Island, IL), so that would be a total of 100 counties.
Given Iowa's vast county road system, I have chosen not to keep track of the county roads I've been on.
Quote from: DandyDan on June 27, 2019, 05:23:34 AM
Iowa made this easier by decommissioning numerous highways in 2003. My list for Iowa includes Fremont, Mills, Pottawattomie, Winnebago, Hancock, Wright, Cerro Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Floyd, Chickasaw and Howard.
When I lived in Nebraska, I got Douglas and Sarpy.
Drove the length of MN 251 last weekend, thus finishing Freeborn and Mower Counties in Minnesota, although if it's a requirement I have to drive it, I only have Freeborn.
Quote from: DandyDan on August 15, 2019, 02:17:51 PM
Quote from: DandyDan on June 27, 2019, 05:23:34 AM
Iowa made this easier by decommissioning numerous highways in 2003. My list for Iowa includes Fremont, Mills, Pottawattomie, Winnebago, Hancock, Wright, Cerro Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Floyd, Chickasaw and Howard.
When I lived in Nebraska, I got Douglas and Sarpy.
Drove the length of MN 251 last weekend, thus finishing Freeborn and Mower Counties in Minnesota, although if it's a requirement I have to drive it, I only have Freeborn.
I count anything traveled if I was in the vehicle and awake. I don't require actually being the driver. I know there are others who don't count anything unless they drove it.
Quote from: oscar on June 26, 2019, 09:31:58 AM
Also, Virginia (at least Arlington and Henrico counties, and most of the independent cities, which conveniently have no state secondary routes)
Does Arlington County have any "F" (frontage) routes? Maybe along U.S. 50? I think I have seen one or two, which are almost state secondary highway routes.
Using the criteria specified by the OP, I guess I have the District of Columbia, though it doesn't have counties or cities. I have 100% of the Travel Mapping routes there.
Beyond DC, I don't know, never kept track, but if I were to look carefully at a map I think I'd likely be able to check off at least Arlington County and the City of Alexandria in Virginia. Maybe the City of Charlottesville, too, but I'm less sure about that.
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
Yesterday I added two more counties in Michigan and one in Indiana to my list. Only had one route left in each county. Have a trip planned in a couple weeks that will net me 3 more Indiana counties.
I've got three in New York:
* Nassau
* Suffolk
* Richmond (Staten Island)
I'm also very close to having New York County (Manhattan). Just missing a small piece of Broadway (US 9) all the way uptown.
10/14/19 update
I've done several in Michigan:
Benzie
Branch (clinched in mid-September with BL I-69 and M-86)
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford
I am close in the following counties:
Allegan (missing M-40 south of Allegan)
Barry (missing the less than one mile portion of M-78 within the county)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kalamazoo (missing M-43 west of US-131)
Kent (missing small portions of M-21, M-44, and M-57)
Mecosta (missing M-20 between Big Rapids and Remus)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)
St. Joseph (missing US-12 west of Sturgis, as well as M-103 and M-216)
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 25, 2019, 01:54:50 PM
What about signed county routes? (if applicable)
I've clinched the following 500-series county routes:
Southern CR 501
CR 510
CR 512
CR 523
CR 525
CR 529
CR 531
CR 533 (almost)
CR 565
I've clinched the following county routes in Somerset County:
CR 601
CR 606
CR 612
CR 613
CR 614
CR 615
CR 616
CR 617
CR 618
CR 619
CR 620
CR 622
CR 623
CR 624
CR 626
CR 631
CR 633
CR 635
CR 638
CR 639
CR 640
CR 642
CR 643
CR 646
CR 649
CR 651
CR 652
CR 653
CR 654
CR 655
CR 657
CR 661
CR 663
CR 665
CR 683
CR 685
CR 687
CR 689
In Morris County:
CR 604
CR 605
CR 606
CR 612
CR 618
CR 624
CR 624 Alt
CR 638
CR 657
CR 663
Counties in NJ:
Somerset (the only county in NJ I have completely clinched)
Essex (except for NJ-7)
Hunterdon (except for NJ-12 and NJ-31 north of CR-513)
Morris (except for NJ-23 north of Kiel Ave and US-202 east of I-287 exit 47)
Union (except for some highways in Newark such as NJ-439 and NJ-27, and let's not forget NJ-59)
Mercer (except for the southeast area)
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have ended my travels for the year. My current tally is 44 counties in Indiana, 5 in Michigan, 4 in Illinois and 1 in Kentucky. This included the most populous county in three states (IL, IN, KY).
Goals for 2020 include adding 10-12 counties in Indiana and another 4-5 in Michigan
Quote from: US 89 on June 25, 2019, 08:12:31 PM
So far I've fully completed Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, and Weber County in Utah.
Since I posted this, I’ve added Rich, Tooele, and Utah Counties to this list. I also have several Utah counties where I would only need to drive one more route to complete the clinch:
-Box Elder, SR 30 east of SR 38
-Juab, SR 132
-Kane, US 89A
-Sanpete, SR 132 west of SR 116
-Summit, SR 35
-Wasatch, SR 35
2/10/20 update
I've done several in Michigan:
Benzie
Branch
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Mecosta (finally nabbed the stretch of M-20 between Big Rapids and Remus a couple of weeks ago)
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford
I am close in the following counties:
Allegan (missing M-40 south of Allegan)
Barry (missing the less than one mile portion of M-78 within the county)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kalamazoo (missing M-43 west of US-131)
Kent (missing small portions of M-21 and M-57)
Leelanau (missing everything north of M-204)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Montcalm (missing most of M-57)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)
St. Joseph (missing US-12 west of Sturgis, as well as M-103 and M-216)
I probably just have several counties in Illinois under my belt-- Will, Grundy, Gallatin, Hardin, Stark, Putnam, Kendall, and DeKalb. I'm very close to finishing Pulaski, LaSalle, DuPage, and Kane Counties as well. This isn't a focus of mine; the only thing I aim to clinch are Illinois' state, federal, and Interstate highways, plus possibly the Interstates nationwide.
Mine, in Michigan (I may have one or two outside the state; I'm not going to look everywhere):
Keweenaw
Houghton
Baraga
Schoolcraft
Luce
Mackinac
Benzie
Wexford (the BR's as US-131 before the freeway had opened)
Leelanau (most likely; parts as a child so I can't say for sure)
Near misses:
Chippewa (missing the portion of M-134 on Drummond Island)
Oceana (missing M-120 on the county line)
St Joseph (most likely missing M-103 and M-216)
Possibles:
Ontonagon (can't recall if I was on the portion of M-64 south of M-28)
Emmet (might be missing M-68)
Oakland (might be missing M-5 SE of I-96/275/696 interchange)
Quote from: cabiness42 on December 30, 2019, 12:07:55 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have ended my travels for the year. My current tally is 44 counties in Indiana, 5 in Michigan, 4 in Illinois and 1 in Kentucky. This included the most populous county in three states (IL, IN, KY).
Goals for 2020 include adding 10-12 counties in Indiana and another 4-5 in Michigan
Off to a slow start for 2020. Due to the pandemic, I have not made any trips downstate for work, which I usually use to add counties down there. Did finally manage to get the NE corner of the state.
Current tally is 51 counties in Indiana, 5 in Michigan, 4 in Illinois and 1 in Kentucky.
Still think I can add 7 more in Indiana by the end of the year plus 2-3 in Michigan.
I have a bunch for Colorado, but surprisingly not my home county of Arapahoe as I haven't done US36 east going into the plains. My clinches:
- Adams
- Broomfield
- Clear Creek
- Denver
- Douglas
- Gilpin
- Hinsdale
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Larimer
- Mineral
- Ouray
- Park
- San Juan
Chris
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have managed a few trips in the past couple months and am now up to 58 counties in Indiana. Expect to get at least 4 more within the next couple months.
Stuck on 5 for Michigan but hope to get 3 more soon.
Up to 4 in Illinois with no more expected soon.
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 27, 2020, 09:30:25 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have managed a few trips in the past couple months and am now up to 58 counties in Indiana. Expect to get at least 4 more within the next couple months.
Stuck on 5 for Michigan but hope to get 3 more soon.
Up to 4 in Illinois with no more expected soon.
I'm currently stuck on 70 counties for Indiana but plan on changing that this week. The 22 counties I have left are two areas with 11 counties in them. Marshall, Starke, Fulton, Pulaski, White, Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Owen, Sullivan, Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Washington, Orange, Pike and Gibson.
I don't plan on doing anything in Illinois on this next trip. I have 47 counties left in Illinois and it would take probably three days to clinch the rest of the state something I'll just leave as is for now.
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 27, 2020, 10:55:07 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 27, 2020, 09:30:25 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have managed a few trips in the past couple months and am now up to 58 counties in Indiana. Expect to get at least 4 more within the next couple months.
Stuck on 5 for Michigan but hope to get 3 more soon.
Up to 4 in Illinois with no more expected soon.
I'm currently stuck on 70 counties for Indiana but plan on changing that this week. The 22 counties I have left are two areas with 11 counties in them. Marshall, Starke, Fulton, Pulaski, White, Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Owen, Sullivan, Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Washington, Orange, Pike and Gibson.
I don't plan on doing anything in Illinois on this next trip. I have 47 counties left in Illinois and it would take probably three days to clinch the rest of the state something I'll just leave as is for now.
To be clear, this thread is about clinching all highways in counties, not just clinching counties.
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 27, 2020, 10:56:26 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 27, 2020, 10:55:07 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 27, 2020, 09:30:25 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 25, 2019, 01:34:42 PM
There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties. Does anybody else keep track of that?
For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK
I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).
My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan.
I have managed a few trips in the past couple months and am now up to 58 counties in Indiana. Expect to get at least 4 more within the next couple months.
Stuck on 5 for Michigan but hope to get 3 more soon.
Up to 4 in Illinois with no more expected soon.
I'm currently stuck on 70 counties for Indiana but plan on changing that this week. The 22 counties I have left are two areas with 11 counties in them. Marshall, Starke, Fulton, Pulaski, White, Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Owen, Sullivan, Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Washington, Orange, Pike and Gibson.
I don't plan on doing anything in Illinois on this next trip. I have 47 counties left in Illinois and it would take probably three days to clinch the rest of the state something I'll just leave as is for now.
To be clear, this thread is about clinching all highways in counties, not just clinching counties.
Oh crap ok thanks I saw clinching counties and must of not paid attention to the highways part.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 25, 2019, 07:23:35 PM
MN, as far as I know; it's tough to be 100% sure
Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Crow Wing
Cook (this is the only one I can easily be 100% sure of) :bigass:
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine
Sherburne
Near misses:
Wright (US 12 west of Cokato)
I've added Carlton, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, and Roseau counties. Pro tip for clinching in the north: winter is actually a good time to do clinchathons because you're far less likely to run into full closures of routes.
VA: (excluding secondary and 3xx facility routes)
Chesapeake
Craig
Gloucester
James City
Hampton
Mathews
Manassas
Montgomery
Newport News
Northampton
Poquoson
Pulaski
Williamsburg
York
NC (excluding secondaries):
Dare
Currituck
AK
Anchorage
Kenai Peninsula
To date, I have only clinched two counties in WA: Snohomish and Skagit. Working on King and Whatcom over this summer as extensions to natural trips.
Quote from: Bruce on July 28, 2020, 05:50:09 PM
To date, I have only clinched two counties in WA: Snohomish and Skagit. Working on King and Whatcom over this summer as extensions to natural trips.
You've clinched all the highway mileage in those counties?
Got a lot clinched so far this summer. I'm up to 25 of the 64 counties in Colorado.
- Adams
- Boulder
- Broomfield
- Chaffee
- Clear Creek
- Denver
- Douglas
- Eagle
- El Paso
- Gilpin
- Grand
- Hinsdale
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Larimer
- Mineral
- Moffat
- Ouray
- Park
- Park
- Rio Blanco
- Routt
- San Juan
- Summit
- Teller
Chris
Quote from: Rothman on July 29, 2020, 12:59:49 AM
Quote from: Bruce on July 28, 2020, 05:50:09 PM
To date, I have only clinched two counties in WA: Snohomish and Skagit. Working on King and Whatcom over this summer as extensions to natural trips.
You've clinched all the highway mileage in those counties?
*All state highway milesage.
Signed county routes aren't really a thing in Washington.
7/29/20 update
I've done several in Michigan:
Barry (nabbed the county's portion of M-78 in June)
Benzie
Branch
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Mecosta
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford
I am close in the following counties:
Allegan (missing M-40 south of Allegan)
Eaton (missing unsigned Lansing Rd)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kalamazoo (missing M-43 west of US-131)
Kent (missing small portions of M-21 and M-57)
Leelanau (missing everything north of M-204)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Montcalm (missing most of M-57)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)
St. Joseph (missing US-12 west of Sturgis, as well as M-103 and M-216)
By these guidelines, I have 20 counties.
Illinois:
Cook
DeKalb
DuPage
Kane
Kendall
Putnam
Will
Kansas:
Comanche
Hodgeman
Meade
Rush
Scott
K94 in Clark is keeping that one from being clinched.
Texas:
Loving
Wisconsin:
Dodge
Door
Green Lake
Marquette
Walworth
Winnebago
Clinched three more yesterday. New in bold. Up to 27 of 64 counties and 74% of all the roads in CO.
- Adams
- Arapahoe
- Boulder
- Broomfield
- Chaffee
- Clear Creek
- Denver
- Douglas
- Eagle
- Gilpin
- Grand
- Hinsdale
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Larimer
- Logan
- Mineral
- Moffat
- Morgan
- Ouray
- Park
- Rio Blanco
- Routt
- San Juan
- Summit
- Teller
- Weld
Chris
I'm now sitting on 60/92 counties in Indiana, including just over 82% of all signed highway mileage in the state.
There are about 6 counties left where I can do them within an 8-9 hour day trip. There are about 6 others I can pick up on trips down to my office. The others are going to take some multi-day trips specifically for that purpose.
Up to 8 now in Michigan. About 5 more that I can realistically do with day trips.
Haven't done anything in Illinois recently and still on 4. At least 5 more I can do but IN and MI are my priorities right now.
This will be a fun exercise...
MA: Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester
NH: Belknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford, Sullivan
ME: York (close on a couple others though)
VT: Windham, Bennington, Windsor, Addison, Washington, Essex (only missing 1 road in both Rutland and Orange)
RI: Bristol, Newport (very close on Washington and Kent)
NY: Richmond
VA: Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Isle of Wight, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, York, James City, Williamsburg, Manassas Park (only missing 1 road in Norfolk, Charles City, Hopewell, Manassas; very close in Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Fairfax (city))
NC: (Currituck would be here if not for NC 136)
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
Zero divided by zero is mathematically undefined–not 100%.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
They count. "I have been on all numbered highways in Nantucket" is equivalent to "there are no numbered highways in Nantucket I haven't been on".
Quote from: 1 on September 04, 2020, 11:10:14 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
They count. "I have been on all numbered highways in Nantucket" is equivalent to "there are no numbered highways in Nantucket I haven't been on".
I contend: "You haven't even been on a single numbered highway in Nantucket, therefore you cannot have been on all of them."
Otherwise, for that matter, I've clinched the Moon.
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 11:14:17 AM
Quote from: 1 on September 04, 2020, 11:10:14 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
They count. "I have been on all numbered highways in Nantucket" is equivalent to "there are no numbered highways in Nantucket I haven't been on".
I contend: "You haven't even been on a single numbered highway in Nantucket, therefore you cannot have been on all of them."
Otherwise, for that matter, I've clinched the Moon.
I guess it's up to each person to decide how to deal with those counties.
For me personally, if I've visited a county that doesn't have any highways, I would count it. If I haven't even been to the county, I wouldn't.
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 11:14:17 AM
Quote from: 1 on September 04, 2020, 11:10:14 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
They count. "I have been on all numbered highways in Nantucket" is equivalent to "there are no numbered highways in Nantucket I haven't been on".
I contend: "You haven't even been on a single numbered highway in Nantucket, therefore you cannot have been on all of them."
Otherwise, for that matter, I've clinched the Moon.
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Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 10, 2020, 09:07:27 PM
Will, Grundy, Gallatin, Hardin, Stark, Putnam, Kendall, and DeKalb.
I can add Whiteside and Jo Daviess Counties, now.
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 11:08:35 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
Zero divided by zero is mathematically undefined–not 100%.
According to my fiance, who is a mathematician, 100% of 0 absolutely is 0. According to him, "100% of 0" is not "0/0", but rather "100% x 0", which is 0, not undefined. Word it however you want, but if a county has no numbered highways, then by my logic we've all driven every numbered highway in that county. As
1 said, a better way of looking at it might be "there are no numbered highways in these counties that we haven't driven".
Not that it really matters, since we all can make up whatever rules we want to follow anyway.
And yes, I agree, you have clinched the moon, unless you add a caveat that you're defining the word "clinched" to mean both "driven every numbered highway in" AND "set foot on".
If everything goes to plan in the next few days, I will clinch the remaining state highways in Allegan and Hillsdale counties and get very close to knocking off the remaining state highway mileage in Calhoun, Kent, and St. Joseph counties
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 11:14:17 AM
Quote from: 1 on September 04, 2020, 11:10:14 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
They count. "I have been on all numbered highways in Nantucket" is equivalent to "there are no numbered highways in Nantucket I haven't been on".
I contend: "You haven't even been on a single numbered highway in Nantucket, therefore you cannot have been on all of them."
Otherwise, for that matter, I've clinched the Moon.
Pfft...The moon doesn't have counties.
Seriously, I believe Dukes and Nantucket Counties do have unposted State Highways, so you genuinely would have to find a way to actually clinch them through some sort of physical effort.
Saying you've clinched something without even entering the plane of the counties' boundaries is nonsense.
Quote from: formulanone on September 08, 2020, 07:19:11 AMSeriously, I believe Dukes and Nantucket Counties do have unposted State Highways, so you genuinely would have to find a way to actually clinch them through some sort of physical effort.
Saying you've clinched something without even entering the plane of the counties' boundaries is nonsense.
I think the vast majority of us don't normally care about clinching every piece of road that's state-maintained, only roads that carry a number. Yes there are state-maintained roads on the islands, but they do not have numbers (not even unposted ones, MassDOT inventories them by name). There are a ton of unnumbered roads maintained by the state, and tons of numbered roads not maintained by the state. Clinching normally only refers to the set of numbered ones, not the set of state-maintained ones. I doubt anyone who claims to have clinched Massachusetts's highways has driven every bit of state-maintained road. I know I haven't.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 08, 2020, 09:10:02 AM
Quote from: formulanone on September 08, 2020, 07:19:11 AMSeriously, I believe Dukes and Nantucket Counties do have unposted State Highways, so you genuinely would have to find a way to actually clinch them through some sort of physical effort.
Saying you've clinched something without even entering the plane of the counties' boundaries is nonsense.
I think the vast majority of us don't normally care about clinching every piece of road that's state-maintained, only roads that carry a number. Yes there are state-maintained roads on the islands, but they do not have numbers (not even unposted ones, MassDOT inventories them by name). There are a ton of unnumbered roads maintained by the state, and tons of numbered roads not maintained by the state. Clinching normally only refers to the set of numbered ones, not the set of state-maintained ones. I doubt anyone who claims to have clinched Massachusetts's highways has driven every bit of state-maintained road. I know I haven't.
Serious question: how many un-signed routes does MassDOT keep in inventory? I saw at least two "State Highway Begins" signs in Oak Harbor. If it's truly that many (like North Carolina or West Virginia's massive secondary/tertiary systems), then forgive my ignorance.
Quote from: formulanone on September 08, 2020, 10:31:52 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 08, 2020, 09:10:02 AM
Quote from: formulanone on September 08, 2020, 07:19:11 AMSeriously, I believe Dukes and Nantucket Counties do have unposted State Highways, so you genuinely would have to find a way to actually clinch them through some sort of physical effort.
Saying you've clinched something without even entering the plane of the counties' boundaries is nonsense.
I think the vast majority of us don't normally care about clinching every piece of road that's state-maintained, only roads that carry a number. Yes there are state-maintained roads on the islands, but they do not have numbers (not even unposted ones, MassDOT inventories them by name). There are a ton of unnumbered roads maintained by the state, and tons of numbered roads not maintained by the state. Clinching normally only refers to the set of numbered ones, not the set of state-maintained ones. I doubt anyone who claims to have clinched Massachusetts's highways has driven every bit of state-maintained road. I know I haven't.
Serious question: how many un-signed routes does MassDOT keep in inventory? I saw at least two "State Highway Begins" signs in Oak Harbor. If it's truly that many (like North Carolina or West Virginia's massive secondary/tertiary systems), then forgive my ignorance.
MassDOT inventories every bridge in the state, intersecting roads through every freeway interchange (sometimes for a mile or more), a variety of locally important roads around the state that don't have a number, and some old alignments of upgraded highways. It's not enough to really call them a secondary system a la NC, as towns do still maintain the overwhelming majority of roads. It's more a case of the intersection between the sets of roads maintained by the state, and roads carrying signed numbers is a lot smaller than you'd expect.
Some examples of state-maintained roads that aren't numbered, excluding bridges on otherwise town-maintained roads, and excluding segments that are just centered on freeway interchanges:
- Milestone Rd on Nantucket
- Edgartown - W. Tisbury Rd on Martha's Vineyard
- State Rd on Martha's Vineyard
- Woods Hole Rd in Falmouth
- Waterhouse Rd in Bourne
- Sandwich Rd in Bourne
- State Rd in Sagamore, Bourne
- S. Main St in Acushnet
- County St in Lakeville
- Willard St in Quincy
- Eastern Ave in Cheslea
- Middlesex Ave in Medford
- Washington St & Salem St in Woburn
- Lexington St/Woburn St in Woburn/Lexington
- Toll Rd in Salisbury (pre-95 connector from US 1 to the NH turnpike)
- Merrill Rd & Rabbit St in Salisbury
- Elm St in Amesbury
- Chocksett Rd in Sterling
- A whole string of roads from Douglas to Millbury
- "Route 15" in Sturbridge (pre-84 highway)
- River Rd in Agawam
- Montague City Rd in Greenfield
There are also other state agencies besides MassDOT that own and maintain roads, particularly DCR, whose jurisdiction includes most roads named "parkway", along with a variety of random urban streets, most of which don't carry any numbers (e.g. Ocean Ave & Revere Beach Blvd, Nahant Rd, Morrissey Blvd, Day Blvd, Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Rd, Nonantum Rd, the list goes on).
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 07, 2020, 09:12:53 AM
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 11:08:35 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on September 04, 2020, 11:06:53 AM
MA raises an interesting question though - two of those counties don't contain any numbered highways. I'm counting them here (in italics) even though I've never been to either county, because 100% of 0 is still 0.
Zero divided by zero is mathematically undefined–not 100%.
According to my fiance, who is a mathematician, 100% of 0 absolutely is 0. According to him, "100% of 0" is not "0/0", but rather "100% x 0", which is 0, not undefined. Word it however you want, but if a county has no numbered highways, then by my logic we've all driven every numbered highway in that county. As 1 said, a better way of looking at it might be "there are no numbered highways in these counties that we haven't driven".
Not that it really matters, since we all can make up whatever rules we want to follow anyway.
And yes, I agree, you have clinched the moon, unless you add a caveat that you're defining the word "clinched" to mean both "driven every numbered highway in" AND "set foot on".
I never said that 100% of 0
isn't 0.
If a county has ten county highways, and you've done four of them, then your progress is 4 done / 10 total = 40% completed. You have clinched them once your total reaches 10 done / 10 total = 100% of them.
Let's say we do our math the complicated way. You've done four out of ten county highways. You guys are suggesting that you'd first figure out how many county highways you
haven't clinched. Fine. 10 total — 4 done = 6 remaining. 6 remaining / 10 total is greater than 0%, therefore you haven't yet clinched the county. Makes total sense to me. More complicated, but still makes sense.
By this method, for a county with no county highways, you'd first figure out how many county highways you
haven't done. 0 total — 0 done = 0 remaining. However, 0 remaining / 0 total
is not mathematically greater than 0%. So it is undetermined if you have clinched the county.
TO RECAP:
Method 1Total county highways = 0
Completed county highways = 0
Percentage clinched = 0 / 0 = 0% = Not clinched
Method 2Total county highways = 0
Completed county highways = 0
Remaining county highways = 0 — 0 = 0
Percentage yet to be clinched = 0 / 0 = Clinch not defined
Quote from: formulanone on June 26, 2019, 09:01:03 AM
21 in Florida: Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Lee, Palm Beach, Martin, Indian River, Okeechobee, Highlands, De Soto, Hendry, Hardee, Glades, Brevard, Sumter, Osceola, Alachua, Putnam, St. Johns, Flagler.
9 in Alabama: Madison, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Marshall, Etowah, Cherokee, Cullman, and Blount.
36: I can add six more for Alabama: Calhoun, Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Jefferson, and Dallas.
Quote from: jayhawkco on August 12, 2020, 01:15:49 AM
Clinched three more yesterday. New in bold. Up to 27 of 64 counties and 74% of all the roads in CO.
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Clinched the rest of NE Colorado the other day (anything north of I-70 and east of I-25), and then finally got CO300 on a mountain climbing trip yesterday, so I added 6 more and am now up to 32 of 64 counties and 80.29% of all highways.
EDIT: Another trip. 6 more counties. 83.87%
- Adams
- Arapahoe
- Boulder
- Broomfield
- Chaffee
- Cheyenne
- Clear Creek
- Crowley
- Denver
- Douglas
- Eagle
- El Paso
- Elbert
- Gilpin
- Grand
- Hinsdale
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Kiowa
- Kit Carson
- Lake
- Larimer
- Lincoln
- Logan
- Mineral
- Moffat
- Morgan
- Ouray
- Park
- Phillips
- Rio Blanco
- Routt
- San Juan
- Sedgwick
- Summit
- Teller
- Washington
- Weld
- Yuma
Chris
Quote from: cabiness42 on September 03, 2020, 12:12:50 PM
I'm now sitting on 60/92 counties in Indiana, including just over 82% of all signed highway mileage in the state.
There are about 6 counties left where I can do them within an 8-9 hour day trip. There are about 6 others I can pick up on trips down to my office. The others are going to take some multi-day trips specifically for that purpose.
Up to 8 now in Michigan. About 5 more that I can realistically do with day trips.
Haven't done anything in Illinois recently and still on 4. At least 5 more I can do but IN and MI are my priorities right now.
I just returned from my last trip of the year. I finished the year with 67 of 92 Indiana counties fully clinched. It's going to get harder now as it's a minimum of 2½ hours from home to any of the remaining counties. Probably going to start requiring overnight trips.
Still on 8 in Michigan but did get a 5th in Illinois. Next time out I plan to finish off two more in IL.
Instead of updating previous posts, I'll just list them out here with a few new ones I got in the past several months. Utah has a few unclinchable institutional state routes that I'm not counting for the purposes of this thread:
Bear Lake, ID
Caribou, ID
Franklin, ID
Box Elder, UT
Cache, UT
Davis, UT
Juab, UT
Millard, UT
Piute, UT
Rich, UT
Salt Lake, UT
Sanpete, UT
Sevier, UT
Tooele, UT
Utah, UT
Weber, UT
I'd have some more in Utah, but the state has an annoying habit of ending certain state highways well inside the fee area of state parks. So because of that, in four counties the only thing I'm missing is the fee portion of one route:
Duchesne, UT (SR 311 to Starvation State Park)
Emery, UT (SR 309 to Millsite State Park - sight clinched)
Morgan, UT (SR 306 to East Canyon State Park - sight clinched)
Summit, UT (SR 302 to Rockport State Park)
Wasatch, UT (SR 314 to Deer Creek State Park)
Thankfully for me, Indiana stops signing state highways outside the fee area of state parks and also outside the access point of any access-restricted institutions.
Hadn't updated this in a while. Now up to 50 of the 64 counties in Colorado completely done including all of the counties east of I-25 (woof). 93.48% of all mileage.
New Edit: 3/3/21. Knocked out a few more on my last clinching trip. Up to 54 of 64 counties and 94.80% of all roads in Colorado. New counties bolded.
- Adams
- Alamosa
- Arapahoe
- Baca
- Bent
- Boulder
- Broomfield
- Chaffee
- Cheyenne
- Clear Creek
- Conejos
- Costilla
- Crowley
- Custer
- Denver
- Douglas
- Eagle
- El Paso
- Elbert
- Fremont
- Garfield
- Gilpin
- Grand
- Hinsdale
- Huerfano
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Kiowa
- Kit Carson
- Lake
- Larimer
- Las Animas
- Lincoln
- Logan
- Mineral
- Moffat
- Morgan
- Otero
- Ouray
- Park
- Phillips
- Pitkin
- Prowers
- Pueblo
- Rio Blanco
- Rio Grande
- Routt
- San Juan
- Sedgwick
- Summit
- Teller
- Washington
- Weld
- Yuma
Chris
My part of Michigan doesn't have county highways just Interstate, US highways and State highways.
Saginaw County has I-75, I-675, US-23, M-13, M-15, M-46, M-47, M-52, M-54, M-57, M-58, M-81, M-83 and M-84. All of which I have clinched within the county.
Bay County has I-75, BS I-75, US-10, US-23, M-13, Connector M-13, M-15, M-25, M-47, M-61, M-84, M-138 and M-247 all of which I have clinched within the county.
Midland County has US 10, Bus. US-10, M-18, M-20 and M-30 and I have clinched all those within Midland County.
Genesee County has I-75, US-23, I-475, M-54, M-13, M-15, I-69, M-21, M-57. I have clinched all of them.
The farther away it gets the more likely I haven't clinched all the highways within that county. Like in Oakland County I'm only missing M-150 or else I'd have that county clinched too. Wayne is another county I have everything but a small stretch of US-12.
Quote from: cabiness42 on December 29, 2020, 04:31:39 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on September 03, 2020, 12:12:50 PM
I'm now sitting on 60/92 counties in Indiana, including just over 82% of all signed highway mileage in the state.
There are about 6 counties left where I can do them within an 8-9 hour day trip. There are about 6 others I can pick up on trips down to my office. The others are going to take some multi-day trips specifically for that purpose.
Up to 8 now in Michigan. About 5 more that I can realistically do with day trips.
Haven't done anything in Illinois recently and still on 4. At least 5 more I can do but IN and MI are my priorities right now.
I just returned from my last trip of the year. I finished the year with 67 of 92 Indiana counties fully clinched. It's going to get harder now as it's a minimum of 2½ hours from home to any of the remaining counties. Probably going to start requiring overnight trips.
Still on 8 in Michigan but did get a 5th in Illinois. Next time out I plan to finish off two more in IL.
Have done a few day trips in NE Illinois and just came back from an overnight trip to SW Indiana.
Up to 70 counties in Indiana and 8 in Illinois.
So I finally got time to do a multi-day trip and finish off Indiana, so that's 92 out of 92 counties. Up to 14 in Illinois, 10 in Michigan and still just the one in Kentucky, for a total of 117 counties.
Hadn't updated this in a while.
Finished all of Colorado, so 64 counties. The only county equivalent I have other than Colorado (I think) is Anchorage, AK. So 65.
Chris
For me it's a few counties in north Georgia: Barrow, Walton, Morgan, Oconee, and Clarke counties.
Quote from: jayhawkco on November 01, 2021, 09:17:04 PM
Hadn't updated this in a while.
Finished all of Colorado, so 64 counties. The only county equivalent I have other than Colorado (I think) is Anchorage, AK. So 65.
Chris
Researched this a little more:
AK - Anchorage
AZ - Santa Cruz
CO - All 64
ID - Bannock, Valley
KS - Douglas, Greeley, Hamilton, Johnson, Leavenworth
So up to 73 total. Got Greeley, KS and Hamilton, KS on my trip out to KC this weekend (already had K-27 clinched in both, just needed K-96 and US50/400 respectively).
Quote from: oscar on June 26, 2019, 09:31:58 AM
Easiest for me to figure is for the states where I've clinched the entire Interstate/US/state highway network:
Hawaii (four counties with state highways, one of which has Interstates but no current signed county routes, the other three I've clinched all the signed and numbered county routes),
Alaska (15 counties/equivalents with state highways; no county routes, not counting lots of unsigned state-maintained routes, and some signed and numbered Forest Service roads)
Delaware (three counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, no signed/numbered county routes)
Maryland (23 county equivalents where I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, missing one state route in the remaining county, no signed/numbered county routes)
California (54 of its 58 counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, but not necessarily all their all their signed/numbered county routes)
Also, Virginia (at least Arlington and Henrico counties, and most of the independent cities, which conveniently have no state secondary routes)
Might be some counties in other states too, but no time to figure that out.
This year, I clinched all the signed state highways in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes in Louisiana, as part of exploring the Mississippi River delta while it's still there. In February, I covered St. Bernard, and the part of Plaquemines on the east bank of the Mississippi. Earlier this month, I finished off the Plaquemines routes in the west bank.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on June 26, 2019, 11:34:57 AM
If you have an account with the Travel Mapping site, it is easy to figure out which counties you've clinched.*
That said, I only have 9 counties, all within Ohio, "clinched."
Delaware
Morrow
Marion
Union
Knox
Franklin
Licking
Lake
Geauga
Two plus years later, I can add....
Madison, Pickaway, Fairfield, Coshocton, Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Wyandot, Hardin, Logan, & Champaign for Ohio & Luce County for Michigan.
Quote from: cabiness42 on November 01, 2021, 08:18:59 PM
So I finally got time to do a multi-day trip and finish off Indiana, so that's 92 out of 92 counties. Up to 14 in Illinois, 10 in Michigan and still just the one in Kentucky, for a total of 117 counties.
Between weather and having and recovering from surgery, I hadn't been out on a clinching trip since early December. Got Kenosha County today--my first county in Wisconsin. That also completes the entire Chicago metro area for me. Goal for the rest of the year is to get 6-8 more counties in Illinois and maybe a couple in Michigan and/or Wisconsin.
I've discovered that I have competing interests between finishing off all the highways in closer counties that I've previously visited, or going farther out to visit brand new counties. Not sure which I'll prioritize yet.
Quote from: cabiness42 on April 03, 2022, 05:04:32 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on November 01, 2021, 08:18:59 PM
So I finally got time to do a multi-day trip and finish off Indiana, so that's 92 out of 92 counties. Up to 14 in Illinois, 10 in Michigan and still just the one in Kentucky, for a total of 117 counties.
Between weather and having and recovering from surgery, I hadn't been out on a clinching trip since early December. Got Kenosha County today--my first county in Wisconsin. That also completes the entire Chicago metro area for me. Goal for the rest of the year is to get 6-8 more counties in Illinois and maybe a couple in Michigan and/or Wisconsin.
I've discovered that I have competing interests between finishing off all the highways in closer counties that I've previously visited, or going farther out to visit brand new counties. Not sure which I'll prioritize yet.
I was born in Wisconsin (Oshkosh). Lived all over the state (Sheboygan, Wautoma, Princeton, Beloit). Lived in the Midwest my whole life (Suburban Chicago and St Paul). You know what the most difficult county continues to be for me to clinch in Wisconsin is? Richland. I have surrounded it completely. I just never gandered down US 14 between Madison and La Crosse.
Quote from: hobsini2 on April 04, 2022, 07:46:53 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on April 03, 2022, 05:04:32 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on November 01, 2021, 08:18:59 PM
So I finally got time to do a multi-day trip and finish off Indiana, so that's 92 out of 92 counties. Up to 14 in Illinois, 10 in Michigan and still just the one in Kentucky, for a total of 117 counties.
Between weather and having and recovering from surgery, I hadn't been out on a clinching trip since early December. Got Kenosha County today--my first county in Wisconsin. That also completes the entire Chicago metro area for me. Goal for the rest of the year is to get 6-8 more counties in Illinois and maybe a couple in Michigan and/or Wisconsin.
I've discovered that I have competing interests between finishing off all the highways in closer counties that I've previously visited, or going farther out to visit brand new counties. Not sure which I'll prioritize yet.
I was born in Wisconsin (Oshkosh). Lived all over the state (Sheboygan, Wautoma, Princeton, Beloit). Lived in the Midwest my whole life (Suburban Chicago and St Paul). You know what the most difficult county continues to be for me to clinch in Wisconsin is? Richland. I have surrounded it completely. I just never gandered down US 14 between Madison and La Crosse.
Just to be clear, this wasn't just visiting Kenosha county, it was clinching all of the numbered highways in the county. I've been to 46 counties, but Kenosha was the first one I've finished off entirely.
All I have is Huron and Erie counties in Ohio
Today I picked up the segments of NY 33A and NY 36 that I was missing and have FINALLY completed Monroe County, NY (my home county). So for the first time in my life I can officially say that I have clinched all highways (Interstate, US, and State) in a county!
I'm not far from completing Wayne County and Ontario County, but after that... I'm out of clinching opportunities within range unless I get the chance for some longer trips. Western Orleans and southern Livingston counties are just too far away to fit within my normal limited time frame for clinching trips.
so...44 now.
26 in Florida: Alachua, Broward, Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, De Soto, Dixie, Flagler, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Indian River, Lee, Levy, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Putnam, Sumter, St. Johns
15 in Alabama: Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, Dallas, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, Tuscaloosa
1 each for Giles County (TN), Pulaski (IL), Tippacanoe (IN)
Lost Bradford, Citrus, Hillsboro, Polk in Florida due to new SR openings in the past few years.
AL: Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, St. Clair
June 2022 update
I've done several in Michigan:
Allegan
Barry
Benzie
Branch
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Mecosta
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford
I am close in the following counties:
Eaton (missing unsigned Lansing Rd)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kalamazoo (missing M-43 west of US-131)
Kent (missing a small portion of M-21)
Leelanau (missing everything north of M-204)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Montcalm (missing most of M-57)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)
St. Joseph (only missing M-216)
Got a few more counties in the past couple months. Updated totals:
Indiana - 92 (all)
Illinois - 18
Michigan - 10
Wisconsin - 2
Kentucky - 1
I have about 20 more I can do on single day trips.
In California where I live, I've kept very detailed records of the state, US, interstate, and numbered county routes that I've been on, and even have a KML file showing the roads I've not yet driven, which I can view in my phone.
I've clinched the numbered county routes in 12 of the 40 counties that have such routes: Contra Costa, Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz. I agree with Max that Tulare is the one I'm likely to finish last, due to the large number of routes, the fact that most aren't actually signed, and that they're ugly and boring. But I've got all the counties south of there.
As to state maintained highways, I've clinched 34: Alpine, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lassen, Los Angeles, Marin, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama, Tulare, Trinity, Tuolumne, Ventura, and Yuba. The southernmost road I haven't clinched is CA-165 in Los Banos.
Updated
Quote from: clong on May 25, 2022, 11:14:57 AM
AL: Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall, Shelby, St. Clair
Quote from: iowahighways on July 06, 2019, 07:59:47 PM
Using the original poster's criteria, I've clinched all of Iowa's state highways, plus the state highways of one non-Iowa county (Rock Island, IL), so that would be a total of 100 counties.
For an update, I have clinched the highways of three more Illinois counties within the past year: Henderson, Mercer, and Warren.
48 - can add Bradford, Union, and Gilchrist counties in Florida, as well as Milwaukee County (WI)
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 18, 2022, 03:36:02 PM
Got a few more counties in the past couple months. Updated totals:
Indiana - 92 (all)
Illinois - 18
Michigan - 10
Wisconsin - 2
Kentucky - 1
I have about 20 more I can do on single day trips.
Only two more in Illinois since my last post. For a while, I've switched my focus to visiting new counties farther away over getting highway clinches in the closer ones.
Quote from: webny99 on May 24, 2022, 08:39:18 PM
Today I picked up the segments of NY 33A and NY 36 that I was missing and have FINALLY completed Monroe County, NY (my home county). So for the first time in my life I can officially say that I have clinched all highways (Interstate, US, and State) in a county!
I've primarily been posting updates in
this thread (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=31523.msg2745995#msg2745995), but figured I should give one here. I am up to 8 counties clinched as shown on my
mob-rule map (https://mob-rule.com/user-gifs/USA/webny99.gif) and it will probably stay that way for a while. I'm at around 50% completion in Wyoming and Cayuga County, and a bit less than that in Niagara.
Minnesota: Carver, Clay, Scott, Sherburne, Wadena, Wilkin, Wright
North Dakota: Foster, Sargent
I'd also have Cook County, MN, if not for three blocks on construction on MN 61 in Grand Marais last summer :-/
I got one more: Hardin County, IL
I was already there to knock it off my counties visited list, figured I'm likely never returning, so I got all the county's highways while I was there.
I'm not sure if I should count Hardin County, IL, unless I've taken the Cave-in-Rock ferry.
Quote from: paulthemapguy on September 30, 2022, 08:00:49 PM
I'm not sure if I should count Hardin County, IL, unless I've taken the Cave-in-Rock ferry.
Well...have you?
Quote from: paulthemapguy on September 30, 2022, 08:00:49 PM
I'm not sure if I should count Hardin County, IL, unless I've taken the Cave-in-Rock ferry.
At TravelMapping they don't consider ferries to be highways, so by that standard you can count it. I didn't take it either, but I drove right down to it.
Tangentially related... I've counted some counties as clinched (meaning just visited, not clinched all highways) despite having nothing logged in that county in Travel Mapping.
A current example is Cheshire County, NH, which I entered on NH 119 but did not come close to driving the entirety of the first segment in TM, so I couldn't justify logging it. A former example is Washington County, NY, which I first entered on foot from Lake George, but have since entered on NY 67/NY 22.
Quote from: webny99 on October 01, 2022, 11:40:54 AM
Tangentially related... I've counted some counties as clinched (meaning just visited, not clinched all highways) despite having nothing logged in that county in Travel Mapping.
A current example is Cheshire County, NH, which I entered on NH 119 but did not come close to driving the entirety of the first segment in TM, so I couldn't justify logging it. A former example is Washington County, NY, which I first entered on foot from Lake George, but have since entered on NY 67/NY 22.
I always try to go into a county far enough that I can log at least one segment in TM, but if the segment is really long, I might not do that. I do have some counties I've only entered by train.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on October 01, 2022, 11:45:16 AM
Quote from: webny99 on October 01, 2022, 11:40:54 AM
Tangentially related... I've counted some counties as clinched (meaning just visited, not clinched all highways) despite having nothing logged in that county in Travel Mapping.
A current example is Cheshire County, NH, which I entered on NH 119 but did not come close to driving the entirety of the first segment in TM, so I couldn't justify logging it. A former example is Washington County, NY, which I first entered on foot from Lake George, but have since entered on NY 67/NY 22.
I always try to go into a county far enough that I can log at least one segment in TM, but if the segment is really long, I might not do that. I do have some counties I've only entered by train.
The section of NH 119 in question is about 6.5 miles long. We went about a mile and turned around, mostly just to get a picture of the welcome sign and say we'd visited New Hampshire.
It has struck me as odd that I have no problem counting a county (and in this case, an entire state!) on the basis of such a short visit, but still not log anything in TM. Then again, TM is a lot more technical by nature (as if county-counting isn't technical enough!). I've considered logging any segment I've traveled any part of, which would be less egregious in spirit than counting a county for clipping a tiny corner, but the fact that TM tracks mileage has deterred me from doing so.
I don't really keep track, but there's a few I could reasonably assume I've driven all of the highways in.
MN: Cook, Lake, Goodhue, Rice, Carver.
WI: Ashland, Bayfield, Menominee, maybe Pepin but I don't know about WIS 25 north of Durand.
MI: Gogebic, Keweenaw.
SD: Hyde
ON: Greater Sudbury
Two more in Illinois yesterday, bringing my Illinois total to 23. If things go as planned, I'll get six more by the end of the year.
Quote from: clong on July 13, 2022, 02:21:04 PM
Updated
Quote from: clong on May 25, 2022, 11:14:57 AM
AL: Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega
Got my first two new ones in a while: Winnebago and Stephenson in Illinois. Up to 25 in Illinois.
At this point I've clinched 36 out of California's 58 counties. If you include signed county routes (the pentagonal blue and yellow signs with a letter and a number), that drops to 24 out of 58.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on May 07, 2023, 04:28:01 PM
Got my first two new ones in a while: Winnebago and Stephenson in Illinois. Up to 25 in Illinois.
On my way to visit new counties in Iowa, I finished off Carroll and Jo Daviess counties. Up to 27 in Illinois.
Updated from last fall
Minnesota (48): Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Dakota, Douglas, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Mahnomen, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Otter Tail, Pine, Pope, Ramsey, Rice, Rock, Roseau, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Stevens, Todd, Traverse, Wabasha, Wadena, Washington, Wilkin, Wright
North Dakota (5): Foster, McHenry, McLean, Sargent, Sheridan