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EDIT:  See below (reply #15) for a broadening of the topic.

I know this topic will be specific to those that use Travel Mapping, but was just curious if others had routes that they were the only "clincher" listed.  I have lots of international routes on that site where I'm the only one, so I figured it'd be easier/more interesting if we just used our home states.

According to Travel Mapping, I am the only one who has clinched:

• Dinosaur Park Road
• CO7
• CO9
• CO14
• CO39
• CO42
• CO52
• CO59
• CO63
• CO71
• CO79
• CO97
• CO136
• CO141
• CO144
• CO167
• CO317
• CO392

I think I'm the most surprised by CO141 (it's such a pretty road and a lot of the other remote western Colorado highways have been clinched by a lot of different people) and CO7 (it's close enough to Denver and heads to some widely visited towns/tourist areas).  The ones I'm least surprised by are either CO59 or CO71 as those are some long ass highways through a whole lot of nothing.

Chris

None anymore, because someone else finished a 100% clinch of Minnesota (I'm at about 75%). But there are a couple other roads in other states I found that I'm the only one who has clinched so far.

For a while I was the sole clincher of:
MN 1
MN 6
MN 23
MN 172 (for a time I was also the only one who had been on this road, period)

I don't use Travel Mapping, but I would imagine I'm the only roadgeek who has clinched a number of roads in Kentucky. I can think of several in my home county that I doubt anyone else has clinched.

Alabama 17, 46, 69, 77, 86, 127, 140*, 155, 175*, 187*, 207, 219.

* also the only driver in TM on any part of the same route.

None for me. Two other people are already 100% complete with Indiana (though neither is from Indiana and I question whether they've actually done the new routings of US 33 and IN 912) and even the 4-digit routes in KY I clinched have at least 2 others.

I imagine I'd have to go pretty far from home to find a yet-unclinched route.

Quote from: hbelkins on May 18, 2021, 01:55:42 PM
I don't use Travel Mapping, but I would imagine I'm the only roadgeek who has clinched a number of roads in Kentucky. I can think of several in my home county that I doubt anyone else has clinched.

mapcat has over 75% of Kentucky clinched, but you may still have a few.

I am still the only one that has clinched PA 73 ALT TRUCK (Schwenksville).   :-D

Not on Travel Mapping, but I'm probably the only person on the forum that has clinched my street, as well as many other streets in my town. Have any of you ever been to Needham (besides I-95/128)?

I am currently the only full clincher of:

NC 33, 42, 43, 50, 55, 111, 906
SC 4, 6, 27, 33, 41, 45, 51, 64, 88, 99, 135, 137, 154*, 165, 207, 210, 212*, 213, 260*, 261, 267, 283, 311*, 341, 362, 363, 400*, 414, 421, 453, 512, 541*, 641, 692, 912*, 917

* - only driver at all

I'm probably the only clincher of a couple Virginia Facility routes that are not on TM - VA 315 (state house driveway closed since 9/11) for instance. 

One person has clinched all of Illinois, and another person is one route short of a full clinch.  At least I take 4th place in terms of number of routes clinched, and 3rd place in terms of raw mileage.  Thanks, covid! (I elected not to travel outside of Illinois until I was fully vaccinated.)

None in Virginia.

I'm the only person to have clinched Nova Scotia Route 255 on Cape Breton Island and the only person shown as having clinched the portion of NS-4 on Cape Breton Island, although I wouldn't view the latter as clinching the full route.

I'm the only person who has either clinched or travelled on the A1140 in Scotland; while it's not a clinch, I'm also the only person who's been on the B1347 and the B9131 (missing a clinch by less than a mile on the latter, but I wasn't thinking about clinches that day). I'm also the only person to have either clinched or travelled on the A4259 and the B390 in England.

I believe there are some other roads in Europe that aren't clinches that nobody else has travelled, but I don't have time to check all that right now since the missus just said dinner is ready.

In my state, none.

I did find a few roads in Iceland that I am (according to TravelMapping) the only clincher:  38 and 95

95 surprised me a bit as it is a former routing of the "Ring Road".

I poked around at a few domestic areas but didn't see any.  And I didn't see any option to generate a nice neat sortable table.
So my answer for US roads is "don't know for sure, but probably none".

Not in my state, but in Fujian Province in China, I have the original section of G1505 (called CHN-FJ G1501 on Travel Mapping) clinched, as it shows a 0%, and I don't use Travel Mapping. Due to the extension of G1505 into a full 4th beltway around Fuzhou (and Travel Mapping haven't updated that yet either), I'm missing all of the new section, which is like 2/3 of the route, so I actually don't have the route clinched, only the original section shown on Travel Mapping.

So here's a related question: Are there any routes in the continental US that are listed in Travel Mapping but haven't been clinched by anybody?  I'm pretty sure there are none in IN, IL, MI, or OH.

Quote from: cabiness42 on May 19, 2021, 07:40:57 AM
So here's a related question: Are there any routes in the continental US that are listed in Travel Mapping but haven't been clinched by anybody?  I'm pretty sure there are none in IN, IL, MI, or OH.

Maine has some.

I'll slightly change the subject name and then we can involve everyone.  I guess I didn't think this through that much to realize that you East Coasters wouldn't have any unclinched routes.  There are still a lot out west that no one has logged.  (CO172, CO184, and CO348 still have no clinchers at all.)

New question: which route have you clinched that has the least amount of other clinchers?  Because I have OCD, I'll go state by state.  The number in the far right column it total people with it logged as clinched, so if it's a '1', I'm the only one so far.

State	Route(s)	Clinchers
AL	US84Bus (Dothan)	10
AK	N/A	N/A
AZ	AZ189, AZ289	5
AR	US63Bus (Hoxie)	5
CA	CA1Bus (Cayucos)	5
CO	Dinosaur Park Road (Dinosaur NM), CO7, CO9, CO14, CO39, CO42, CO52, CO59, CO63, CO71, CO79, CO97, CO136, CO141, CO144, CO167, CO317, CO392	1
CT	I-691	58
DE	DE16	9
FL	FL104	9
GA	GA33Con	3
HI	N/A	N/A
ID	US30	4
IL	IL110	6
IN	I-265	58
IA	I-35BL (Clear Lake)	17
KS	K-20, K-187	2
KY	US41Trk (Hopkinsville)	7
LA	LA45, LA301, LA302, LA303, LA560-4, LA3134, LA3257	3
ME	N/A	N/A
MD	MD404Bus (Denton)	17
MA	N/A	N/A
MI	I-96BL (Lansing)	11
MN	MN74	7
MS*	US45Alt (West Point)*	15*
MO	MO254	1
MT	MT47	1
NE	NE Spur 4A, NE Link 53C	2
NV	NV865	4
NH	I-393	49
NJ	I-280	59
NM	NM526, NM615	2
NY	I-78	92
NC	I-95BL (Fayetteville)	24
ND	I-94BL (Valley City), I-94BL (Bismarck)	10
OH	I-680	43
OK	I-40BL (Erick)	7
OR	US30Bus (Huntington)	4
PA	I-83BL (York)	34
RI	I-95	98
SC	US52Trk (Cheraw)	6
SD	I-90BS (White Lake)	4
TN	I-240	44
TX	US84Bus (Slaton), US84Bus (Hermleigh)	1
UT	Harpers Corner Road (Dinosaur NM)	2
VT	I-89	38
VA	US13Bus (Cheriton)	11
WA	WA171	5
WV	I-68	113
WI	US2Trk (Superior)	8
WY	WYO10, WYO70, WYO213, WYO214, WYO215, WYO216	2

* denotes that MS still doesn't have state routes added

Chris

Lone clinches:

In my own state, I'm the only clincher of GA81, GA138, GA155, GA162, and GA162Con (Porterdale). Elsewhere, I also hold the solo title on PR24.

Other states with a lower number than listed in the table already:

Alabama: AL165, AL169 (2 total clinchers each)
Florida: FL907 (8)
Hawaii: HI8930 (3)
Maryland: MD117, MD124 (10 each)
North Carolina: NC60 (14)

Quote from: Eth on May 19, 2021, 03:47:47 PM
Lone clinches:

In my own state, I'm the only clincher of GA81, GA138, GA155, GA162, and GA162Con (Porterdale). Elsewhere, I also hold the solo title on PR24.

Other states with a lower number than listed in the table already:

Alabama: AL165, AL169 (2 total clinchers each)
Florida: FL907 (8)
Hawaii: HI8930 (3)
Maryland: MD117, MD124 (10 each)
North Carolina: NC60 (14)

I was just doing it for me specifically rather than getting a table finding the lowest amount of clinchers per segment per state.  I was just kind of curious what my "most remote" routes were in each state.

Chris

Quote from: 1 on May 19, 2021, 07:44:02 AM

Quote from: cabiness42 on May 19, 2021, 07:40:57 AM
So here's a related question: Are there any routes in the continental US that are listed in Travel Mapping but haven't been clinched by anybody?  I'm pretty sure there are none in IN, IL, MI, or OH.

Maine has some.

I couldn't remember if I had driven SC 413 so when I checked TM it showed that nobody has driven any of it.

Just checked the only SC state route I've never even crossed and it too has not been driven by anyone (SC 193).

Wouldn't be surprised if there are a few more among the 42 SC routes I have not driven any of...

I'm pretty sure I'm the sole clincher on this board of FM 1495 and FM 523 (btw, why aren't FM routes on TM?). Looking at TM overall, I see that TX-35 hasn't been clinched yet. I have everything north of Bay City, and I might go down to Corpus Christi this summer, clinching it along the way.

There are a few MN routes that the only other clincher besides me is the 100% guy, including MN 6, MN 23, MN 34, and MN 73.

Quote from: jayhawkco on May 18, 2021, 10:41:03 AM
EDIT:  See below (reply #15) for a broadening of the topic.  Logged a request for a mod to change the subject line on this thread. [Done. You could have done it yourself, however, by editing the first post in the thread; changing the subject line of that post changes the subject line of the whole thread. -S.]

I know this topic will be specific to those that use Travel Mapping, but was just curious if others had routes that they were the only "clincher" listed.  I have lots of international routes on that site where I'm the only one, so I figured it'd be easier/more interesting if we just used our home states.

According to Travel Mapping, I am the only one who has clinched:

• Dinosaur Park Road
• CO7
• CO9
• CO14
• CO39
• CO42
• CO52
• CO59
• CO63
• CO71
• CO79
• CO97
• CO136
• CO141
• CO144
• CO167
• CO317
• CO392

Chris

might have to check out the travel mapping.. but i have co7, co14 and co392 firmly under my belt..

edit: had my text inside the quote. sorry chris.

I'll have to look when I'm not on my phone, but I suspect I'm the only one with a few OR Routes.

Stretching over the borders of Alabama...

TN: 11, 166, 203, 243, 247, 272, 273, 309, 334
LA: 38, 62, 74, 341, 424, 430, 436, 440, 677, 686, 737, 1000, 1023, 1045, 1047, 1050, 1056, 1058, 1062, 1071, 1072
GA: 159, 178, 198, 234, 13, 362
TX: 119, Spur 400, Loop 573, Loop 574

Is there any way to determine this other than by checking individual routes' TM pages?

Quote from: deathtopumpkins on June 21, 2021, 01:48:08 PM
Is there any way to determine this other than by checking individual routes' TM pages?

https://courses.teresco.org/metal/hdx/

Graph format should be "traveled", despite a different option saying "most likely you want this".

Before you choose the region you want, first choose any region with a small number of points (like the first one by default, Afghanistan), turn off "show markers", and then choose the one you want. Otherwise, it's going to take a really long time to load a large set.

Quote from: 1 on June 21, 2021, 02:07:33 PM

Quote from: deathtopumpkins on June 21, 2021, 01:48:08 PM
Is there any way to determine this other than by checking individual routes' TM pages?

https://courses.teresco.org/metal/hdx/

Graph format should be "traveled", despite a different option saying "most likely you want this".

Before you choose the region you want, first choose any region with a small number of points (like the first one by default, Afghanistan), turn off "show markers", and then choose the one you want. Otherwise, it's going to take a really long time to load a large set.

I have now tried playing with this for a solid 15 minutes and I'm stumped. I have no idea how to get this to show anything relevant to this topic?

For the handful of US states that show up in the graph list, I can eventually get to a view where if I click on a segment it will give me a list of users who have traveled it, but this is actually less useful than just looking at routes in the highway browser.

Quote from: deathtopumpkins on June 21, 2021, 02:27:55 PM

Quote from: 1 on June 21, 2021, 02:07:33 PM

Quote from: deathtopumpkins on June 21, 2021, 01:48:08 PM
Is there any way to determine this other than by checking individual routes' TM pages?

https://courses.teresco.org/metal/hdx/

Graph format should be "traveled", despite a different option saying "most likely you want this".

Before you choose the region you want, first choose any region with a small number of points (like the first one by default, Afghanistan), turn off "show markers", and then choose the one you want. Otherwise, it's going to take a really long time to load a large set.

I have now tried playing with this for a solid 15 minutes and I'm stumped. I have no idea how to get this to show anything relevant to this topic?

For the handful of US states that show up in the graph list, I can eventually get to a view where if I click on a segment it will give me a list of users who have traveled it, but this is actually less useful than just looking at routes in the highway browser.

I misinterpreted the thread title. I was thinking of segments of road, not entire clinches.

Segments is actually even easier: just load up Mapview and change the coloring to by traveler count.  Segments with only one traveler have their own color.

Only one other has clinched UT 319

Quote from: epzik8 on June 22, 2021, 04:53:55 PM
Only one other has clinched UT 319

That would be me.  :sombrero:

According to TM, I am the only one to have logged a clinch of WA 108 Business, which I stumbled upon by chance while clinching WA 108 last week.

I looked at three states where I have the highest % of road segments clinched.
I did not see any where I was the only one who clinched any route

These are the highways I have clinched, with the fewest total clinchers:

State - Route - Total clinched

CA US6 Historic - Santa Clarita  - 3
CA US395 Historic - Temecula - 3
CA US395 Historic - Riverside - 3

AZ AZ80 - 5
AZ AZ386 - 5

HI HI7101 - 5

Ok, for Oregon:
I'm the only one who's clinched OR 241, 255, 260, and 380.
Only one person has clinched OR 402 and the western half of 422.
No one's clinched OR 245 or 413, and no one's been on the northern half of 237.
As for US 30B in Huntington, there's a question whether it's a Business loop or mainline 30 itself.

Quote from: JayhawkCO on May 19, 2021, 04:01:22 PM

Quote from: Eth on May 19, 2021, 03:47:47 PM
Lone clinches:

In my own state, I'm the only clincher of GA81, GA138, GA155, GA162, and GA162Con (Porterdale). Elsewhere, I also hold the solo title on PR24.

Other states with a lower number than listed in the table already:

Alabama: AL165, AL169 (2 total clinchers each)
Florida: FL907 (8)
Hawaii: HI8930 (3)
Maryland: MD117, MD124 (10 each)
North Carolina: NC60 (14)

I was just doing it for me specifically rather than getting a table finding the lowest amount of clinchers per segment per state.  I was just kind of curious what my "most remote" routes were in each state.

Chris

In TravelMapping, there are three people who have Indiana 100% clinched, so there's no route with fewer than 3 people who have clinched it. The routes that have only three clinchers:

IN 13, IN 18, IN 28, IN 37(S), IN 39(N)
IN 43(S), IN 48(W), IN 54, IN 58
IN 59, IN 60, IN 63(S), IN 64, IN 65
IN 66, IN 69, IN 71(S), IN 75(N), IN 75(S)
IN 135, IN 157, IN 158, IN 159(N), IN 159(S)
IN 160, IN 165, IN 168, IN 203, IN 218(E)
IN 234(W), IN 235, IN 246, IN 256, IN 257
IN 264, IN 335(N), IN 337(N), IN 337(S), IN 356(E)
IN 356(W), IN 357, IN 362, IN 458, IN 462
IN 550(W)

Two that really surprise me are IN 37 and IN 135 as they're pretty major routes. What that tells me is that other than the three people who have the state 100% clinched, everybody else who's logged their travels has focused more on clinching the Interstate/US highway mileage and visiting counties and not on clinching state routes.

Quote from: JayhawkCO on May 19, 2021, 11:11:03 AM
(CO172, CO184, and CO348 still have no clinchers at all.)

Since your original post, both of us have clinched CO348.

In Montana, I am the only TM user to have traveled or clinched MT 38. Much of it is a narrow, unpaved mountain road, though the spectacular Skalkaho Falls in the middle probably draws some non-masochistic tourists.

Quote from: CoreySamson on June 18, 2021, 11:53:15 PM
(btw, why aren't FM routes on TM?).

Being worked on, by a team member who also does a lot of TM system administration work. As you can imagine, it's a huge project, though many FM/RM routes have been drafted.

I'm not a travel mapper but looking through the list of what you guys put for single clinches there is a couple I have finished also.  CO 141 from the original post as an example is one I've clinched too.

Out of curiosity what is the current listings for Arizona and California?

It looks like there are a few OK routes that only I have clinched, mostly because they ramble around in an illogical fashion that nobody would follow unless they were intending to clinch the route. OK-59 is one of these. A few others, I'm a little surprised by, like OK-76 (funnily enough, the section I'm unique on is not the stub end!). I'm also the only one to clinch OK-65 (which is a perfectly logical route, it just doesn't go to many big towns).

I seem to have slightly overestimated Eric Stuve's travels a bit–his coverage on OKHighways is so vast that I assumed that he had more of the system done than he really does. While he does have more of it done than me, it looks like he's been to every terminus (which is the primary coverage focus of OKHighways) but not necessarily filled in the gaps in between.

Cross-posted from the "Highways you have Clinched" thread, which I thought this was until I couldn't find my previous post, some of these aren't full clinches but it's still relevant: 

Quote from: webny99 on June 25, 2022, 09:37:26 PM
Looks like I'm one of only 7 travelers to have been on NY 279, so I'm thinking that's probably my most niche clinched route!

Browsing around a bit more, it turns out that a portion of the state route closest to home also only has 7 travelers. Which is interesting because most routes around here have at least 9-10 or more. And the legend for "# of Travelers" only goes down to 5 when zoomed in on my home region.

With that said, I figured there wasn't much hope of me being the sole clincher of anything in TM anytime soon... that is, until I remembered Manitoba, where I've logged my travels (as best I can remember) on Winnipeg City Routes, a preview system.

Turns out I'm the sole traveler on portions of MB 236, MB 238, MB 307, and MB 520, plus Winnipeg City Routes 95, 105, and 145. Heading down to North Dakota, I am presumably the sole traveler on portions of ND 17 and ND 32; I've been to both Edinburg and Park River, and have those segments of their respective routes logged even though I don't remember with 100% certainty the exact routing I took.

Apparently nobody on Travel Mapping has clinched TX-35, which I did last week. Makes perfect sense though for a decently long route that is not the fastest route between its two endpoints in a relative corner of the country. I presume I am the sole clincher on this forum of several FM roads.

There are a few routes in Northeast Georgia where I'm the only TM user that has clinched them, but for a lot of these it's because the route as a whole doesn't necessarily make sense as a route that would be traveled from end to end.

GA 82, 191, 330, 334, 335.

I'm currently the only user to clinch ND 11 so far (and one of 2 to clinch ND 16 including the tendril south of I-94 through Beach and Golva).

So I think the fewest people to clinch I highway I have clinched is 3.  I share all my clinches with at least two other people, if I'm observing the stats on TM correctly.

Highway clinches I share with only two other people:  Minnesota 270, Illinois 1, Illinois 4, Illinois 78, Illinois 142, Illinois 149

In my state (Maryland) I had no illusions of being the only clincher of a particular route.  At best, I am only one of 7 people to clinch MD 382.  All of my other Maryland clinches, I am one of at least ten, if not more (or many more).

Worldwide, it looks like the only road that I am the only clincher is Iceland's TH 38.

(I will admit that I didn't do an exhaustive search; instead looked at the likely candidates)

I think this is all of them. It appears several of my "only me" clinches in Ontario have been taken away by other users gaining ground. :)

Only me:
ON 6 (Main only) - still missing some of the Manitoulin Island segment, so this is the only questionable one.
ON 7
ON 12
QC 245
Honourable mentions -> Iceland 261, which I've travelled 69.58%
                               -> QC 317, which I've travelled 88.28%
                               -> QC 321, which I've travelled 13.95%
                               -> QC 325, which I've travelled 1.78%

Me and one other user:
MB 45
ON 7A
ON 8
ON 10
ON 94
ON 124
ON 129
QC 215
TCH 1A (Portage la Prairie, MB)
Honourable mention -> MB 357, which I've travelled 18.84%

Me and two other users:
Iceland 359
ON 15
ON 19
ON 23
ON 24
ON 35
ON 37
ON 48
ON 89
ON 93
ON 118
ON 141
ON 144
Honourable mentions -> MB 262, which I've travelled 38.72%
                                  -> QC 315, which I've travelled 15.80%
                                  -> QC 338, which I've travelled 5.49%

I was amused to note that myself and oscar are the only ones to have been to Pinawa, MB - now that's truly the middle of nowhere!

Quote from: webny99 on July 04, 2022, 01:11:09 PM
I was amused to note that myself and oscar are the only ones to have been to Pinawa, MB - now that's truly the middle of nowhere!

Well oscar and I are the only ones to visit Chapleau, ON, so that's another contender! But the real lesson is that oscar has been everywhere. :sombrero:

Quote from: 7/8 on July 04, 2022, 01:29:33 PM

Quote from: webny99 on July 04, 2022, 01:11:09 PM
I was amused to note that myself and oscar are the only ones to have been to Pinawa, MB - now that's truly the middle of nowhere!

Well oscar and I are the only ones to visit Chapleau, ON, so that's another contender! But the real lesson is that oscar has been everywhere. :sombrero:

And oscar is likely working on being everywhere for the second time around :)

I wish there were an easier way to do this on the Travel Mapping site than clicking and hunting through each individual route's page. I know I have a bunch in Utah and maybe a couple in Georgia too.

However, more interesting are those routes I've clinched where I am the only driver. Per the Travel Mapping website, Utah 45, 122, 125, 174, 208, and 218 all fall into that category, and there may be a few more - though I know some of these routes have been clinched by members of this forum who for various reasons don't use TM. Corco, for example, has clinched all but three of those.

Also, I used to have a few more that have gradually been picked away over the years. I know I was at one point the only driver on Utah 81, 87, 136, and 155.

Maybe Jim can figure out a way to search the TM DB for lowest clinched counts by state for us and spit a report out. I'm going to work on updating my list that I posted upthread for my own particular "most untraveled" highways.

Updated:

State/Province	Route(s)	Clinchers
AL	US84BusDot	12
AK	ParkRd	3
AZ	MonCanRd	2
AR	AR363Pot	1
CA	CA1BusCay	7
CO	CO39, CO52, CO59, CO71, CO79, CO90Mon, CO97, CO136, CO141, CO167, CO184	1
CT	I-384	60
DE	DE16	11
FL	FL104	9
GA	GA33ConWen	4
HI	N/A	-
ID	ID200BusHop	2
IL	IL110	7
IN	I-265	63
IA	I-35BLCle	19
KS	KS20, KS96	2
KY	KY212	15
LA	LA45, LA302, LA303, LA560-4, LA3134, LA3257	3
ME	ME140, ME221	3
MD	MD404BusDen	19
MA	MA286	18
MI	I-69BLCha, I-94BLBat, I-96BLLan	12
MN	MN74	7
MS*	US45AltWPt	17
MO	MO254	2
MT	MT47, MT78	3
NE	L53C	4
NV	NV397, NV860	1
NH	NH286	21
NJ	I-280	62
NM	NM29, NM468, NM527, NM569	1
NY	I-878	36
NC	I-95BLFay	28
ND	I-94BLBis	10
OH	I-680	45
OK	I-40BLEri	7
OR	OR6	27
PA	I-83BLYor	35
RI	I-95	107
SC	I-20BSFlo	44
SD	SD231	5
TN	US78	17
TX	US84BusHer, US277BusSla, US277BusHasTX71BusCol, TX71BusLaG	2
UT	UT46, UT243	2
VT	VT10A	19
VA	US13BusOnl	12
WA	WA171	7
WV	I-68	120
WI	US2TrkSup	9
WY	WY232	1
AB	AB93	9
BC	BC13	15
MB	MB16	6
NB	NB7	4
NL	N/A	-
NT	N/A	-
NS	NS395	1
ON	ON409	22
PE	PE213, PE249, PE267, PE268, PE270, PE272, PE306, PE319, PE331, PE341, PE343, PE358	1
QC	A-85	9
SK	SK16	5
YT	N/A	-

Bolds are states or provinces where I am the only to clinch a route.
* denotes MS state highways aren't in TM yet.
Strikethrough shows a list where I'm the only in TM but somebody here has clinched it as well without logging their routes.

So in the U.S. & Canada, I'm the only clincher of 31 different routes.

Figured out I have 4 Alabama State Highways that I am the only clincher of: 143, 147, 148, 235.

Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 05, 2022, 01:26:08 PM
Updated:

OK, so to make sure I'm reading this right...

The route you have clinched in NY that has the fewest other clinchers is I-878?

Quote from: webny99 on July 06, 2022, 11:35:14 AM

Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 05, 2022, 01:26:08 PM
Updated:

OK, so to make sure I'm reading this right...

The route you have clinched in NY that has the fewest other clinchers is I-878?

Correct. I haven't done much (if anything really) in NY that isn't interstate mileage.

I was taking a look at my Travel Mapping, and it looks like I have clinched 3 routes that only have one other clincher:

- TX 19
- TX 35 (used to be the only clincher for a while)
- TX Loop 7

My best is Colorado, having been one of only three clinchers for three routes: CO119, CO257, and CO392.

Kinda forgot I made this thread. I'm going to have to revisit tomorrow if I have some free time. I know a bunch of the Puerto Rico routes I clinched, I'm the only traveler much less clincher.

Funny that I am the only TM user to have clinched, or even traveled on, the highway the OP uses for his avatar, Northwest Territories highway 10. But many non-TM users have clinched that highway, including many of the ~900 residents of Tuktoyaktuk (highway is the only land access to that hamlet), and the many dignitaries (including Canada's former Governor General, representing Queen Elizabeth) who rode the highway the day it was opened to the public.

As for my own avatar, I and four other TM users have clinched Alaska state route 11. One of those four is among the forum members who traveled the highway during the only Alaska road meet.

Quote from: oscar on February 05, 2024, 12:47:14 AM
Funny that I am the only TM user to have clinched, or even traveled on, the highway the OP uses for his avatar, Northwest Territories highway 10. But many non-TM users have clinched that highway, including many of the ~900 residents of Tuktoyaktuk (highway is the only land access to that hamlet), and the many dignitaries (including Canada's former Governor General, representing Queen Elizabeth) who rode the highway the day it was opened to the public.

As for my own avatar, I and four other TM users have clinched Alaska state route 11. One of those four is among the forum members who traveled the highway during the only Alaska road meet.

I used to use CO5 as my avatar, since I a) am from Colorado and b) climb mountains. But another user joined, had another CO shield as an avatar and it looked confusing when we were corresponding in threads, so I switched. I haven't made it to NWT yet, but the Dempster is a bucket list road for me and I'll knock it out in the next 10 years or so. My plan is also to get the entirety of the Nahanni Range Road which, I believe, is the only bit of Yukon that you're missing.

Quite a few highways in Washington only have myself and one other user in TM. The only one that I'm totally alone on seems to be a piece of Historic US 10 that I got during a road closure on I-90.

I am the only person to clinch ND 19, ND 20, and ND 56. ND 20 comes with the asterisk that I turned around right before the Canadian border instead of going through.

A new update, including all US & Canadian states, provinces, and territories. Bolded highlight the routes where I'm the only one.

State/Province/Territory	Route(s) I Have Clinched	Clinchers Other Than Me
AL	US84BusDot	15
AB	AB93	11
AK	ParkRd	2
AS	Have not visited	-
AR	AR363Pot	1
AZ	AZ83	5
BC	BC13	15
CA	CA1BusMar	10
CO	CO71, CO136, CO167	0
CT	I-384	64
DC	I-66	116
DE	DE16	10
FL	FL104	8
GA	GA33ConWen	4
GU	None clinched, but been to	-
HI	None clinched, but been to	-
ID	ID200BusHop	1
IL	IL110	6
IN	I-64	93
IA	I-35BLCle	18
KS	KS79	0
KY	KY212	18
LA	LA3257	2
ME	ME140, ME221	3
MB	MB16	6
MD	MD404BusDen	20
MA	MA286	17
MI	MI73	9
MN	MN74	7
MS	US45AltWPt	18
MO	MO1, MO45	11
MT	MO254	1
NE	NE4, NE41, NE S34C, NE S67A, NE S76D	1
NV	NV397, NV860	2
NB	NB7	3
NH	NH286	20
NJ	I-280	69
NM	NM29, NM196, NM515, NM527, NM569	0
NY	I-878	40
NL	Have not visited	-
NC	I-95BLFay	30
ND	ND I-94BLBis	9
NMI	Have not visited	-
NT	Have not visited	-
NS	NS395	0
NU	Have not visited	-
OH	I-680	51
OK	OK I-40BLEri	8
ON	ON420	28
OR	US30BusHun	9
PA	PA I-84BLYor	38
PE	PE213, PE249, PE267, PE268, PE270, PE272, PE306, PE319, PE331, PE341, PE358	0
PR	PR25, PR35, PR136Gua, PR379, PR381, PR388, PR439, PR442, PR443, PR955, PR4466, PR9989	0
QC	A-85	10
RI	I-95	117
SK	SK16	5
SC	US52BusDar, US52TrkChe	6
SD	SD231	6
TN	US78	22
TX	US84BusHerm	1
UT	UT46, HarCorRd	2
VT	VT10A	20
VI	Have not visited	-
VA	US13BusChe, US13BusOnl	14
WA	WA171	8
WV	I-68, I-70	138
WI	WI17	6
WY	WY232	0
YT	Have not visited	-

Just seeing this thread for the first time.

My inital gut reaction is that there are plenty of travelers like myself who have never been on TM, so take the "only clincher" info on there with a sizeable grain of salt.

Quote from: tmoore952 on February 05, 2024, 06:54:58 PM
Just seeing this thread for the first time.

My inital gut reaction is that there are plenty of travelers like myself who have never been on TM, so take the "only clincher" info on there with a sizeable grain of salt.

Hence the notes in both the OP and in post 15.

Maybe I'll try it Jayhawk-style for states I've clinched stuff in:

State	Clinched Routes	Other Clinchers
AL	I-10	104
AR	US 64, AR 155 (Dardanelle)	5
FL	FL 536	61
LA	LA 423	3
MS	MS 713	17
MO	US 166/400	48
NM	Dunes Drive (Carlsbad Caverns NP)	20
OK	OK 344	4
TN	TN 15	9
TX	TX 19, TX 35, TX Loop 7	1

For Minnesota, I have several that are tied.

I, along with only two other people, have clinched:

MN 4, MN 6, MN 23, MN 27, MN 29, MN 34, MN 40, MN 87, MN 92, MN 102, MN 108, MN 113, MN 167, MN 223, and MN 226.

I was one of only two people to clinch MN 222, but that was recently turned back into a county highway.

Here's my full list (out of the states I've been to):

State	Route(s)	Clinchers
AL	N/A	-
AR	I-55	78
AZ	AZ69	27
CA	CA126	24
CO	CO119, CO257, CO392	3
DC	I-66	117
FL	FL614	13
GA	I-520	50
IA	I-380	64
ID	N/A	-
KS	N/A	-
MN	MN336	18
MO	MO27	32
MS	N/A	-
MT	WEntRd	57
ND	N/A	-
NE	NE27Hai	16
NM	NM518	8
NV	I-15	88
OK	US287	23
SC	SC781	6
SD	I-190	106
TN	I-155	65
TX	TXSpr326	5
UT	I-15BLBea, UT160	15
VA	N/A	-
WA	N/A	-
WY	I-25BLDou, US20BusDou, US26BusDou, US87BusDou	13

Quote from: dlsterner on May 18, 2021, 08:31:25 PM
In my state, none.

I did find a few roads in Iceland that I am (according to TravelMapping) the only clincher:  38 and 95

95 surprised me a bit as it is a former routing of the "Ring Road".

I poked around at a few domestic areas but didn't see any.  And I didn't see any option to generate a nice neat sortable table.
So my answer for US roads is "don't know for sure, but probably none".

Re-visiting my response from several years ago.

I am no longer the sole clincher of TH 38.

I am still listed as the sole clincher of TH 95.  The caveat being that it was signed as part of TH 1 when I drove it in 2017; the number was changed after my visit.  So I guess it depends whether somebody tracks numbers, or tracks asphalt^*.

^* Actually TH 95 is part asphalt, part gravel :)

To take the Subject Line literally, I have none in Maryland where I am the sole clincher, which doesn't surprise me in the least.  Closest that I could find was being one of 14 who have clinched MD 636.

And as user tmoore952 pointed out earlier, this is all with a grain of salt as not everybody uses Travel Mapping.

I live in California, which has no roads unclinched by travelmapping users. The only roads I see that have one clinch are a substantial section of historic US-40 around Auburn, which I've driven practically all of but somehow missed a bit of it right in Auburn, and a tiny little historic US-50 in Folsom. There are six roads that have two clinchers, routes 59, 104, 113, the west section of 162, and a bit of historic US-40, and a bit of historic US-66 in Barstow. The last one is the only one I've done, so that would be my "rarest" clinch. I'm also one of three who clinched routes 3 and 36, and one of four who clinched 33, 49, 96, 119, 137, the west part of 190, the east part of 193, 198, 238, and 299.

It's often surprising what roads have few clinchers. I guess some long roads like 33, 49, 96, and 299 really aren't the kind of roads one would normally drive all at once, increasing the chance that one part will be driven but not another part. I drove practically all of 96 at once, 299 on two successive days, and the others over several years. I notice that interstates get a lot of clinches, I guess since people need to drive them even if not on a clinching tour, but I didn't polish off California's interstates until I did a systematic clinching trip around the Bay Area over Thanksgiving. And I'm really surprised few people have driven the old US-66 through Barstow, because it's a major crossroads, and a very famous road.

For US routes on travelmapping, I'm one of three who've clinched US-395, and one of five who've clinched US-95. I highly recommend US-395, by the way. Overall, it's my favorite numbered route, especially alongside the Sierra Nevada, in the mountainous areas of Oregon, and Washington north of Spokane. US-95 is only really nice in the northern half of Idaho.

I haven't gotten around to setting up an account on travelmapping yet, but it looks like I would be the only person to have clinched the road in my current avatar. I would also be the only clincher of MO-117, MO-32 Business in Park Hills (both very short roads) and MO-123, along with a handful of other Missouri roads I've found that have one other clincher.

This exercise points up how much more competitive the Northeast is on TravelMapping compared to other areas of the country. I am one of just six users on TM to have clinched the 182-mile NY 104. Everything else I've clinched in NY, even obscure routes like NY 272 and 279, has at least seven clinchers.

There are a bunch of routes where I would hold the record for most total miles driven - NY 104, NY 404, NY 286, NY 153, NY 441 and NY 250 among them. But that would be pretty hard to calculate, and bring plenty of potential for petty arguments (not that this forum is stranger to that).

Worldwide, I have a few clinches in Manitoba shared with just oscar and/or Ib3kii, but none entirely to myself (the one I do have according to TM is not technically a full clinch, I just had to count it as such since I'm over 50% and it has only one loggable segment).

While I haven't used TravelMapping on its current iteration, I'm pretty sure I'm the only member of this forum to have clinched every regional route in Aragon (and possibly a few other regions) I currently have clinched.

Based on Travel Mapping. Routes where I'm the only user to clinch are in bold.

Jurisdiction	Route(s) I Have Clinched with Lowest Number of TM Clinchers	Clinchers Other Than Me
Andorra	None
Canada (AB)	None
Canada (BC)	BC 19A [Nanaimo segment]	7
	BC 4A	8
Canada (MB)	MB 45	2
Canada (NB)	NB 16	18
Canada (NS)	NS 303	5
Canada (ON)	ON 6 [Main segment]	0
	ON 12, ON 94	1
Canada (PE)	None confirmed*
Canada (QC)	QC 245	0
Canada (SK)	SK 16A	4
Estonia	None
Finland	None
France (Ile-de-France)	D 117	0
Iceland	IS 359	4
Ireland	None
Latvia	P101	0
Mexico (QR)	MEX 307 [Puerto Morelos spur]	1
	MEX 180D	4
Mexico (YU)	None
Spain (Catalonia)	C-55	0
Spain (Castile and Leon)	N-603	1
Spain (Madrid)	A6	2
United States (AR)	None
United States (CO)	E470	21
United States (DC)	DC 295	138
United States (DE)	I-495	123
United States (FL)	FL 417	30
United States (GA)	I-475	106
United States (IA)	I-80	92
United States (ID)	None
United States (IL)	I-80	95
United States (IN)	I-69 [NE of Indianapolis only]	48
United States (KY)	Park City Road in Mammoth Cave N.P.	26
United States (MD)	Baltimore-Washington Parkway	108
United States (ME)	None
United States (MI)	M-136	4
United States (MN)	US 2	15
United States (MO)	I-255	91
United States (MT)	US 20	51
United States (NC)	NC 241	3
United States (ND)	None
United States (NE)	I-76	92
United States (NH)	None
United States (NJ)	None
United States (NY)	NY 246	7
United States (OH)	OH 420	39
United States (PA)	US 15	32
United States (SC)	SC 38	9
United States (SD)	SD 240	62
United States (TN)	I-24 [Chattanooga segment]	162
United States (TX)	None
United States (UT)	UT 113	6
United States (VA)	I-785 Future	67
	I-77	114
United States (VT)	VT 118, VT 235	6
United States (WI)	US 2	36
United States (WV)	None
United States (WY)	US 18	19

* Trip from 2003, I didn't record the routes well

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I know that only Oscar and I clinched QC 199 (and I clinched it more times than anyone ever will). The loneliest segment I have is QC 138 between Sheldrake and the La Romaine access road. I should really use TM, but I still haven't gotten to it.

Quote from: 7/8 on February 06, 2024, 03:30:59 PM
Based on Travel Mapping. Routes where I'm the only user to clinch are in bold.
<snip>

I didn't bother to tabulate my foreign country ones (outside of Canada). I would imagine I'm the only one on most of them.

Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 06, 2024, 06:26:35 PM

Quote from: 7/8 on February 06, 2024, 03:30:59 PM
Based on Travel Mapping. Routes where I'm the only user to clinch are in bold.
<snip>

I didn't bother to tabulate my foreign country ones (outside of Canada). I would imagine I'm the only one on most of them.

There are quite a few TM users in Europe so I wouldn't assume that if you have any travels there.

Quote from: webny99 on February 06, 2024, 07:37:05 PM

Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 06, 2024, 06:26:35 PM

Quote from: 7/8 on February 06, 2024, 03:30:59 PM
Based on Travel Mapping. Routes where I'm the only user to clinch are in bold.
<snip>

I didn't bother to tabulate my foreign country ones (outside of Canada). I would imagine I'm the only one on most of them.

There are quite a few TM users in Europe so I wouldn't assume that if you have any travels there.

Some in Europe. Far more in Asia.

All my other provinces/states:

Manitoba - MB 75 (23 others)
Saskatchewan - SK 39A (3 others)

Illinois - I-94 (100 others)
Nevada - NV 592 Spring Valley segment (19 others)
South Dakota - SD 109 and SD 123 (3 others each)
Wisconsin - WI 243 (13 others)

Quote from: formulanone on May 18, 2021, 02:11:55 PM
Alabama 17, 46, 69, 77, 86, 127, 140*, 155, 175*, 187*, 207, 219.

* also the only driver in TM on any part of the same route.

Update: 17, 69, 86, 127, 175*, 187, 219

Mississippi: 350, 556, 804 are the only ones I can find. rlee at TM has about 90% of the state completed.

I guess the two routes I've clinched in Trinidad (Audrey Jeffers Highway and Beetham Highway) are also solely clinched by me.

Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 06, 2024, 08:03:44 PM

Quote from: webny99 on February 06, 2024, 07:37:05 PM

Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 06, 2024, 06:26:35 PM

Quote from: 7/8 on February 06, 2024, 03:30:59 PM
Based on Travel Mapping. Routes where I'm the only user to clinch are in bold.
<snip>

I didn't bother to tabulate my foreign country ones (outside of Canada). I would imagine I'm the only one on most of them.

There are quite a few TM users in Europe so I wouldn't assume that if you have any travels there.

Some in Europe. Far more in Asia.

Decided to look. I'm the only clincher on:

Georgia S6
Iceland 60, 61, 72
Philippines E1
Portugal VE1 (both of them)

Surprisingly low. Even my Armenian and Kyrgyz clinches have one other person.