Unique, Odd, or Interesting Signs aka The good, the bad, and the ugly

[Rothman]

Old mileage sign near Mount Frissell Trailhead on West St near CT/MA border.  Probably been posted on here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look it up this time around.

Old Mileage Sign by Mount Frissell Trailhead

And I like the Taconic Parkway's enhanced mileage markers:

Taconic Parkway Enhanced Mile Marker

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/hXWqWmHJUvP39APF8
A NJ route shield posted in New York actually informing motorists that NY 440 is to become NJ 440 especially that no NY exits exist along NY 440 into New Jersey.

[SilverMustang2011]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

[ethanhopkin14]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

[tchafe1978]

https://goo.gl/maps/3ghbXeEXaMrj5dkV8

OK, I found Waldo!

[Big John]

https://goo.gl/maps/3ghbXeEXaMrj5dkV8

OK, I found Waldo!

Surprised a village of about 500 people would be a control city 13 miles away.  It is on WI 57 which is a better route.

[tchafe1978]

https://goo.gl/maps/3ghbXeEXaMrj5dkV8

OK, I found Waldo!

Surprised a village of about 500 people would be a control city 13 miles away.  It is on WI 57 which is a better route.

The sign in the  northbound direction also lists Sheboygan. I wonder why this one doesn't list Sheboygan as well.

[roadman65]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/53041467085/in/dateposted-public/
Glad to see some text signing still around.

[D-Dey65]

My word.  These kinds of installations seem silly since they make people duck.

I know of a sign along NY 112 where I would often have problems ducking. It was a divided highway sign south of where the road became a four-lane highway in the vicinity of the Long Island Expressway. 

It's kind of hard to duck beneath those when you're 5'11 1/2" and you're on a bike.

[ClassicHasClass]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

There's a couple of those mystery exits along US 101 in California, mostly around Monterey and SLO counties.

[formulanone]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

There's a couple of those mystery exits along US 101 in California, mostly around Monterey and SLO counties.

The first example is weird for Florida, where there's almost always a town or named/numbered road used with a guide sign. And it's been that way for about 25 years, without any control cities or road labeling. I-10 also had a weird exception for CR 257, figuring Aucilla was too small, perhaps?

[roadman65]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

There's a couple of those mystery exits along US 101 in California, mostly around Monterey and SLO counties.

The first example is weird for Florida, where there's almost always a town or named/numbered road used with a guide sign. And it's been that way for about 25 years, without any control cities or road labeling. I-10 also had a weird exception for CR 257, figuring Aucilla was too small, perhaps?

I-4 had one in Lakeland.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/15770159128
A few years ago “ Polk City” was added.

I-95 at US 1 in Volusia was that way until the mid 2000’s. Now it has this https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/27690169167

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

[SilverMustang2011]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

There's a couple of those mystery exits along US 101 in California, mostly around Monterey and SLO counties.

The first example is weird for Florida, where there's almost always a town or named/numbered road used with a guide sign. And it's been that way for about 25 years, without any control cities or road labeling. I-10 also had a weird exception for CR 257, figuring Aucilla was too small, perhaps?

I-4 had one in Lakeland.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/15770159128
A few years ago " Polk City"  was added.

I-95 at US 1 in Volusia was that way until the mid 2000's. Now it has this https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/27690169167

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

I-75's new Overpass Road exit doesn't have any cities listed either, but Overpass Road is a local road and they built the exit for the suburbs in between State Roads 52 and 54: https://goo.gl/maps/ZPqaeELXxzsracDV6.

The opposite is also interesting. This exit onto a mile-long side street in the middle of Fort Myers still gets "Fort Myers" listed as a control city, and in a larger font than the name of the road: https://goo.gl/maps/82WYB2JkfTB4VA9N8

[ethanhopkin14]

I-75 Exit 358 in Florida is the combination of a small exit sign and no control cities or towns listed for the route, neither of which are common in FL:

https://goo.gl/maps/DKnkFFgdQcWnL81J9

This interchange is pretty busy too, since people get on/off it to/from 301 to cut northeast/southwest across the state, but I guess Florida didn't want to sign Blitchton (West) or Silver Springs (East).

It's still better than this.

There's a couple of those mystery exits along US 101 in California, mostly around Monterey and SLO counties.

The first example is weird for Florida, where there's almost always a town or named/numbered road used with a guide sign. And it's been that way for about 25 years, without any control cities or road labeling. I-10 also had a weird exception for CR 257, figuring Aucilla was too small, perhaps?

I-4 had one in Lakeland.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/15770159128
A few years ago “ Polk City” was added.

I-95 at US 1 in Volusia was that way until the mid 2000’s. Now it has this https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/27690169167

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

I-75's new Overpass Road exit doesn't have any cities listed either, but Overpass Road is a local road and they built the exit for the suburbs in between State Roads 52 and 54: https://goo.gl/maps/ZPqaeELXxzsracDV6.

The opposite is also interesting. This exit onto a mile-long side street in the middle of Fort Myers still gets "Fort Myers" listed as a control city, and in a larger font than the name of the road: https://goo.gl/maps/82WYB2JkfTB4VA9N8

I have seen Texas do it when it's for the paralleling US Highway that is staying close to the interstate that is, as I like to call it, "checking in and checking out".  Basically, they give you the benefit of the doubt of knowing the US Highway and the interstate go to the same town so control cities are a waste of space. 

[D-Dey65]

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

Simple solution to that;
Kingsland, GA
Yulee

[SilverMustang2011]

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

Simple solution to that;
Kingsland, GA
Yulee

My guess is that they didn't think it was worth signing either since exits 373 in Florida and 3 in Georgia are more direct routes to Yulee and Kingsland. That said, that hasn't stopped Florida from signing cities before, like here https://goo.gl/maps/SCNstgHHuPhSxvsB7. If you're going south, you passed the main Lake City exit 20 minutes ago. If you're going north, you've passed exits 399 and 404, which are much closer to High Springs.

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/A4zetSo6WsmT5PTe9
When they razed the former Niagara Scenic Parkway they didn't take the sign with the grading.

[Amaury]

These aren't strictly erroneous, just slightly misleading, so I'm posting them here under "odd/interesting."

Southbound WA 281 about to meet its spur route, where you turn left to be on the spur route:

https://goo.gl/maps/aoi6fG4DGckhkMy56

https://goo.gl/maps/H6GyipKsHALimaCh6

https://goo.gl/maps/HLn4gKkM86bGb9Wv8

These signs say, for example, left for Interstate 90 east and straight for Interstate 90 west, but, actually, both places lead to entrance ramps for both directions, so the signs are slightly inaccurate.

Spokane, as such, could also be on here, though I realize signs don't usually have more than three control cities.

Now, when you start getting to the entrance ramps for Interstate 90 on the southern terminus of mainline WA 281, the signs are accurate:

https://goo.gl/maps/nbJjTHWXeS29ZBrG6

https://goo.gl/maps/fYQvX75KnbUfui8KA

Although for that first one I would mention eastbound and Spokane, too, but it's not as odd as the ones back at the junction with WA 281 Spur.

And northbound WA 281 before the junction with its spur route does it accurately, so I don't know why southbound is odd: https://goo.gl/maps/TQVddLP3Xv24DMae7

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This sign would be better after the turn, as that's what it's referring to. Where it is now is confusing, as it makes it seem to go straight for WA 150, when WA 150 turns right at the intersection, and the right lane is a right turn only lane: https://goo.gl/maps/362jrYzABvLjJoZp7

Signage-wise, signs don't acknowledge the US 97A and WA 150 concurrency in Chelan: https://goo.gl/maps/zRm32bCuo57PugLk6

That's actually US 97A north / WA 150 east.

When you're on westbound WA 150 and come up to the junction where it joins US 97A southbound, the big guide sign in front of you says TO WA 150 for left-turning traffic, when it should actually say WEST WA 150: https://goo.gl/maps/PxjGxQkdRVTweMk89

There is one exception, and it's this overhead sign here, where WA 150 east joins US 97A north: https://goo.gl/maps/mYbrPXQp6MekZAax7

[vdeane]

https://goo.gl/maps/A4zetSo6WsmT5PTe9
When they razed the former Niagara Scenic Parkway they didn't take the sign with the grading.

There's a connection to the multi-use path where the road used to be, so it looks like it's still fulfilling its purpose.

[thenetwork]

https://goo.gl/maps/A4zetSo6WsmT5PTe9
When they razed the former Niagara Scenic Parkway they didn't take the sign with the grading.

There's a connection to the multi-use path where the road used to be, so it looks like it's still fulfilling its purpose.

Nice of them to have a sign for the multi-users telling them the direction of the rest room (over the bridge)...

[Amaury]

I was in Kittitas a little bit ago and noticed something attached to a few of the signs. There might be more, these are just the ones I noticed since that's the area I drove through. They appear to be antennas or something for survey-related stuff maybe? I don't know. It seems to be a city thing and not a DOT thing as one is on a local city stop sign.

[jay8g]

Those are traffic study cameras.

[D-Dey65]

I-95 near the GA border still has one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/52885667263

Simple solution to that;
Kingsland, GA
Yulee

My guess is that they didn't think it was worth signing either since exits 373 in Florida and 3 in Georgia are more direct routes to Yulee and Kingsland.

Even Exit 1 in Georgia can take you to Kingsland, if you're willing to meander through the woods of southeastern Georgia before reaching US 17.  One thing I know is that there used to be a lot more motorist services along US 17 between Yulee and Kingsland. More gas station motels, restaurants and such. If you look at the Big Blue signs there they don't even acknowledge that there's still an RV park southeast of Exit 380.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.7124781,-81.6749632,1988m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&entry=ttu

I just got this in my head, but I suspect this might be an attempt to discourage an increase in traffic along the US 17 St. Mary's River Bridge.

There's at least one other restaurant I know of in Kingsland that looks like it's aimed at tourists;

One other thing; Did you notice a lot of the business located in Becker and Gross are addressed as being in Yulee?

[ethanhopkin14]

My wife and I saw this on our recent trip to California.  Neither one of us had seen one before and found it to be a very descriptive way to say don't ride your bike over the railroad tracks.

[Big John]

My wife and I saw this on our recent trip to California.  Neither one of us had seen one before and found it to be a very descriptive way to say don't ride your bike over the rail road tracks.

Usually it is safe to cross the tracks at a 90-degree angle. But scrolling down shows it at 90 degrees for a very short length, so I would conclude a significant amount of people were crossing their bikes at a skew angle and getting caught in the tracks and the signs were installed meaning be careful.