Hanging Ends

[mapman1071]

The California list would be pretty long with a lot of planned routes that never were finished.  Some that come to mind off the top my head would include; 130, 190, 168, and 178.  There are others like 3 and 191 that end in inhabited places while others like 41, 140, and 180 end in National Parks.  299 ends at the Nevada State Line at what was once NV 8a. 

Arizona has some weird route endings like 238, 99, and 288 which all continue as non-State Routes.  AZ 95 continues as a city street in Needles on the California side. 

AZ 210 both ends

[Mapmikey]

Coastal VA has a bunch that end at or near the water (non-exhaustive, doing my best to exclude ones that end at secondaries):
VA-354 (Boat ramp in Senora)
VA-222 (Dead end in Weems)
VA-33 (Dead end in Deltaville)
VA-14 (Dead end in Matthews)
VA-171 (Dead end at Messick Pt in Poquoson)
VA-172 (Ends at unnumbered routes in Poquoson)
VA-173 (Dead end in Newport News)
VA-175 (Ends at unnumbered streets in Chincoteague)
VA-125 has a gap with two hanging ends, caused by the removal of a bridge that was never replaced.
I-264 (Ends at 2 unnumbered streets in VB)

There are also the few that end at military bases (VA-178 -> Langley AFB, VA-105 -> Ft. Eustis)

These are otherwise sorta hard to find in VA (outside of pure dead-ends), mostly since pretty much every route outside of the independent cities and a few counties has some sort of secondary number.

More from Virginia that do not end at a secondary route:
VA 149
VA 150
VA 281 (maybe)
VA 142
VA 402 (maybe)
VA 238
VA 246
VA 403
US 60
US 258 (maybe)
VA 244
VA 261

There are of course a plethora of the 3xx routes that would also qualify for this list.

[bzakharin]

NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway

[Beeper1]

Most numbered routes in Alaska have a hanging end:

AK 1 west end at Homer Spit

AK 2 west end near Manley Hot Springs

AK 4 south end near Valdez

AK 6 east end at Yukon River in Circle

AK 7 (Haines) east end at ferry terminal

AK 7 (Juneau) north end near Echo Cove, and south end near downtown Juneau

AK 7 (Petersburg) north end east of downtown Petersburg, and south end in the middle of nowhere at the south end of Mitkof Island

AK 7 (Ketchikan) north and south ends at trailheads on opposite sides of downtown Ketchikan

AK 9 south end in Seward

AK 10 (northern segment) east end in Chitina

AK 10 (southern segment) west end at ferry terminal, east end past Million Dollar Bridge

AK 11 north end at Lake Colleen in Deadhorse

AK 98 west end at ferry terminal

AK 3, AK 5, and AK 8 are the only Alaska routes that don't have hanging ends.

Doesn't AK-5 have a hanging end at the Yukon River in Eagle?    The road from Jack Wade Jct. to the Canadian Border technically doesn't have a number.

[BrianP]

NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway

NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143

[RobbieL2415]

RI-77
MA-88
CT-159
CT-83

[TBKS1]

There are so many in Arkansas that have hanging/random endings. I'll list some that I can think of.

AR-35
AR-36
AR-88
AR-89
AR-171
AR-176
AR-232
AR-256
AR-266
AR-286
AR-310
AR-320
AR-324
AR-346
AR-347
AR-386

[catsynth]

CA 3 in Montague (east of Yreka) is a baffling one.

[jdb1234]

If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.

AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest.

AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.

AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).

Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.

TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.

Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.

TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.

In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.

A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area.

The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry in Gulf Shores, AL.

AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island.

AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL.

Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.

In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).

If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.

You forgot AL 149 (north end), AL 180 (east end), and AL 271 (north end)

One Florida example
FL 951 ends at the bridge to Marco Island. 

[dvferyance]

Not many in Wisconsin the only ones I can think of is
42 ends at the northern tip of Door County at the ferry docks for Washington Island
134 spur into London mystery to me why this was ever even a primary state highway as London ain't much of a town
152 spur into Mt Morris a small resort community
159 or 136 ends at the entrance to Devil's Lake State Park probably the most famous one in the state

[bdmoss88]

If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.

AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest.

AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.

AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).

Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.

TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.

Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.

TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.

In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.

A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area.

The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry in Gulf Shores, AL.

AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island.

AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL.

Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.

In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).

If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.

GA 109 becomes Chambers Co 278 in Alabama.

[Buck87]

OH 53, OH 163 and OH 269 all have hanging ends on the Marblehead Peninsula on Lake Erie.

One inland Ohio example I can think of off the top of my head is OH 231 in the village of Morral

[mrcmc888]

I'm surprised you didn't include MA 203 on your list.

DE 7
DE 100

NJ 52

DE 6 is another one.  Unlike those two I believe it's the only one that actually hangs in the state itself.  It continues past DE 9 and then peters out in Woodland Beach.

TN 32 and 167 end at the NC border, but generally Tennessee is very good about not having routes that hang.

[bzakharin]

NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway

NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143

If I'm not mistaken those have at least county routes as their ends

[SSOWorld]

Many of these become county routes but a few end as local roads and as a consequence of meeting a state line (Mainly Michigan's UP)

WIS-107
WIS 42 (mentioned above)
WIS 134 -
WIS 17 - Michigan state line (becomes a National forest road)
WIS 24 - after being retired to a county route in Waukesha County but remaining in Milwaukee County
WIS 77 - Michigan State line (US BR 2 continues in)
WIS 106
WIS 122 - Michigan State Line - becomes a county road
WIS 158 - becomes a local street in Kenosha
WIS 794
WIS 136 - Devils Lake State Park
WIS 155

[jeffandnicole]

NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway

NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143

If I'm not mistaken those have at least county routes as their ends

The southern end of 44 ends at a municipal roadway.

324 ends at the Delaware River on the East side, the West side ends at Barker Ave, a Twp roadway.

[thefraze_1020]

Washington State:

SR 20 Spur- This ending is ambiguous. On land, it ends at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal. However, since 1994, all Washington State Ferries routes have been part of the state highway system. Therefore, it could be argued that the end of SR 20 Spur is at the ferry terminals on Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, Friday Harbor, and Sidney, B.C.

SR 92- Ends in Granite Falls, continues as the county-maintained Mountain Loop Highway.
SR 100 Spur- Ends at Fort Canby State Park.
SR 102- Ends at the Washington Corrections Center west of Shelton.
SR 103- Ends at Leadbetter Point State Park.
SR 105 Spur- Ends at the Coast Guard facility in Westport.
SR 109- Legally it ends at US 101 in Queets, but physically it ends randomly in Taholah due to a disagreement with the Quinalt Nation.
SR 110 and SR 110 Spur- Both end at the Olympic National Park boundary.
SR 112- Ends at the boundary of the Makah Indian Reservation.
SR 115- Ends at the north end of Ocean Shores.
SR 116- Ends at Fort Flagler State Park.
SR 117- Ends at the Port of Port Angeles.
SR 119- Ends near Lake Cushman State Park.
SR 131- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary just south of Randle.
SR 141- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary (which is also the Skamania County line) west of Trout Lake.
SR 150- Ends in Manson.
SR 160- Another ambiguous one. Legally it ends at the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal in West Seattle, but on land it ends at the Southworth Ferry Terminal.
SR 163- Similar story. Legally ends at the Tahlequah Ferry Terminal at the south end of Vashon Island, but on land it ends at the Point Defiance Ferry Terminal in Ruston.
SR 165- Ends at the Mount Rainier National Park boundary (in the northwest corner).
SR 166- Ends at the eastern city limits of Port Orchard.
SR 170- Ends in Warden.
SR 174 Spur- Ends at Crown Point State Park.
SR 193- Ends at the Port of Wilma.
SR 194- Ends at Almota.
SR 206- Ends at Mt. Spokane State Park.
SR 207- Ends at Lake Wenatchee State Park.
SR 263- Ends at the Port of Windust.
SR 300- Ends at Belfair State Park.
SR 304- On land it ends at Bremerton Ferry Terminal, but legally it ends at a junction with SR 519 at Coleman Dock in Downtown Seattle.
SR 305- Same as above, but on land ends at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.
SR 308- Ends at Keyport.
SR 409- Ends at the Puget Island Ferry Terminal.
SR 501- Legally it is a complete road, but it has a physical gap and both sides of the gap are hanging ends.
SR 503 Spur- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary (which is also the Skamania County line) between Cougar and Yale Lake.
SR 504- Ends at Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mt. St. Helens.
SR 504 Spur- Ends at a WSDOT maintenance yard.
SR 505- Ends in Winlock.
SR 506- Ends at Ryderwood.
SR 513- Ends at the NOAA facility at Magnuson Park in Seattle.
SR 519- On land it ends at Coleman Dock in Downtown Seattle, but legally it ends at a junction with SR 304 and SR 305 there.
SR 531- Ends at Wenburg County Park.
SR 532- Begins at Terry's Corner on Camano Island.
SR 542- Ends at Artist Point near Mt. Baker.
SR 704- Ends at Spanaway Loop Road in Spanaway.
SR 706- Ends at the Mt. Rainier National Park boundary.
SR 903- Ends at Salmon la Sac.
SR 906 Spur- Ends at a WSDOT maintenance yard at Hyak.

I-705- Ends at Schuster Parkway in Tacoma.

[Revive 755]

I posted in the regional forum thread about Massachusetts that talked about Route 80. The route is a hanging end, as it does not end at another route. I know RI 100 is a hanging end on its northern end, as it is an unnumbered route in MA. Are there many examples of "hanging ends" in the US?

Quite a few.  Many, at least in these parts, end at a major river.

Illinois (not including ones that end at the state line on land):
IL-70, ends in downtown Durand.
IL-178, ends at the junction of two county highways in Lowell.
IL-17, ends in  New Boston, at the Mississippi River.
IL-156, ends in Valmeyer, shy of the Mississippi River.
IL-155, ends at Fort de Chartres State Park, near the Mississippi River.
IL-34, ends in Rosiclare, at the Ohio River.
IL-142, ends in downtown Equality.
IL-49, ends in Willow Hill

Also IL 138 - east end.  It has advance signing for the end, but I'm not seeing an end assembly. Streetview


Even just counting numbered routes, Missouri has a lot, though Missouri frequently uses numbered routes for spurs into state parks. 

Partial list for just around the St. Louis area:

*MO 100 east end
*MO 109 north end (south end as well if ending at lettered routes doesn't county)
*MO 144 south end
*MO 180 east end
*MO 231 north end
*MO 267 north end
*MO 340 east end

[dvferyance]

Coastal VA has a bunch that end at or near the water (non-exhaustive, doing my best to exclude ones that end at secondaries):
VA-354 (Boat ramp in Senora)
VA-222 (Dead end in Weems)
VA-33 (Dead end in Deltaville)
VA-14 (Dead end in Matthews)
VA-171 (Dead end at Messick Pt in Poquoson)
VA-172 (Ends at unnumbered routes in Poquoson)
VA-173 (Dead end in Newport News)
VA-175 (Ends at unnumbered streets in Chincoteague)
VA-125 has a gap with two hanging ends, caused by the removal of a bridge that was never replaced.
I-264 (Ends at 2 unnumbered streets in VB)

There are also the few that end at military bases (VA-178 -> Langley AFB, VA-105 -> Ft. Eustis)

These are otherwise sorta hard to find in VA (outside of pure dead-ends), mostly since pretty much every route outside of the independent cities and a few counties has some sort of secondary number.

More from Virginia that do not end at a secondary route:
VA 149
VA 150
VA 281 (maybe)
VA 142
VA 402 (maybe)
VA 238
VA 246
VA 403
US 60
US 258 (maybe)
VA 244
VA 261

There are of course a plethora of the 3xx routes that would also qualify for this list.

I thought US 60 and VA 149 ended at one another.

[froggie]

They do not.  There's about 6 miles between the two.  Despite Virginia Beach signage, US 60 does not cross south of Rudee Inlet and VA 149 doesn't even make it to General Booth Blvd.

[Charles2]

If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.

AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest.

AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.

AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).

Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.

TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.

Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.

TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.

In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.

A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area.

The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry in Gulf Shores, AL.

AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island.

AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL.

Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.

In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).

If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.

You forgot AL 149 (north end), AL 180 (east end), and AL 271 (north end)

One Florida example
FL 951 ends at the bridge to Marco Island.

Another example in Alabama: AL 235 north in Talladega County.  It ends at the junction of two county roads.

[dvferyance]

They do not.  There's about 6 miles between the two.  Despite Virginia Beach signage, US 60 does not cross south of Rudee Inlet and VA 149 doesn't even make it to General Booth Blvd.

It's hard to tell on the map where VA 149 ends. Was VA 108 mentioned? It ends at the Henry/ Franklin County line it used to continue to VA 40 but the Franklin County portion for whatever reason was downgraded. I have no idea when the downgraded happened. Doesn't make much sense given that both primary and secondary routs are both maintained by VDOT anyways.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I thought WIS 77 ended at US 51 before reaching the Michigan line but I could be wrong.

[roadman65]

NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway

NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143

NJ 167 in Bass River. It is the old US 9, still on NJDOT books, that dead ends at the former US 9 Mullica River Bridge.  Though in Galloway across the river it is resurrected.  Maybe a gap does not count, but certainly worth mentioning.

[Flint1979]

Michigan has quite a few:
M-5 (northwestern end at Pontiac Trail in Commerce Twp)
M-8 (eastern end at Conant St in Detroit)
M-10 (northwestern end at Orchard Lake Rd/14 Mile Rd in West Bloomfield)
M-37 (northern end at the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula)
US-41 (northern end at Fort Wilkins State Park)
US-45 (northern end at Ontonagon St in Ontonagon)
M-46 (western end at Muskegon Ave in Muskegon)
M-64 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH-B)
M-77 (northern end at Carlson St in Grand Marais)
M-93 (southwestern end at Camp Grayling and northeastern end at Hartwick Pines State Park)
M-95 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH N)
M-116 (northern end at Ludington State Park)
M-119 (northern end at C-66 in Cross Village)
M-121 (western end at Main Ave in Zeeland, just 500 feet away from BL I-196)
M-134 (eastern end at Townline Rd on Drummond Island)
M-137 (southern end at Interlochen State Park)
M-143 (western end at Lansing/East Lansing city limit)
M-149 (northern end at Palms Book State Park)
M-150 (northern end at Tienken Rd in Rochester Hills)
M-152 (western end at Van Buren/Berrien county line in the Sister Lakes area, two miles short of M-140)
M-154 (northern end at ferry connection to mainland and southern end along South Channel Dr, both on Harsens Island)
M-183 (southern end at Fayette State Park)
M-188 (southeastern end at VFW National Home near Eaton Rapids)
BS I-196 (eastern end at Clyde Park Ave in Wyoming; the portion in Grand Rapids was turned back to local control last year)
M-201 (northern end at Leelanau State Park)
M-211 (northern end at Onaway State Park)
M-212 (western end at Aloha State Park)
M-217 (southern end at Indiana state line, connecting to CR 17)

I'm surprised that some of these are still state highways like M-152 for example, I was looking for a lake around Dowagiac when I came across M-152 and thought of this post when I saw that it just straight up ended at the county line. Some of them make sense to me and some of them don't since some of them serve locations.