Highways you would like to explore

[mgk920]

I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin.  Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.

I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.

In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.

Mike

[SEWIGuy]

I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin.  Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.

I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.

In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.

Mike

WI-35 is beautifully desolate between Superior and WI-77.

[Rothman]

I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin.  Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.

I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.

In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.

Mike

WI-35 is beautifully desolate between Superior and WI-77.

Watch out for deer.  My in-laws owned a cabin outside of Danbury.

[OCGuy81]

Pretty much anyplace I haven't been yet. But here are some priorities in no particular order:

US 101 Coastal highway from Tacoma to Crescent City
Vancouver Island
US 50 in Nevada and Utah
The intermontane parts of SW Colorado (Gunnison Canyon and Upper Rio Grande Valley)
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron shorelines around Michigan "mitten"
Most of New England, especially US 1 and the Northern Maine wilderness area
The barrier islands along the Carolina and Georgia coast
The Road to Hana

I'll warn you now, the road to Hana is a bit anti-climactic. It's a pretty drive but you get to the town and are left thinking "all that...for this?!"

[kenarmy]

I'm one of the crazy eccentrics that wants to drive US 6 end to end  .
But anyway:
- US 50 in Maryland
- US 1 south of Miami
- I-359 (I have passed right by this route *several* times)
- MS 1
- MS 465 (most of it is usually flooded)
- Lakeshore Drive (IL)
- Finish the Natchez Trace

[hbelkins]

Lots of stuff in the west and southwest, including Monument Valley (US 163), the Moki Dugway, US 191 south of I-40, and probably a bunch of other routes that don't come readily to mind. I'd also like to pick up US 60 in northeast Oklahoma and drive it the rest of the way west. And since I have US 62 clinched in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky, I'd like to drive the rest of the route.

Closer to home, the Cherohala Skyway in Tennessee and North Carolina.

[Max Rockatansky]

Some that come to mind:

-  Usal Road and all of the Lost Coast from Rockport to Ferndale
-  The Old Rattlesnake Grade east of the South Fork Eel River
-  The Devil's Backbone on the Grand Staircase
-  Black Bear Pass Road near Telluride
-  Old US 60 and the original Queen Creek Tunnel
-  The Bradshaw Trail east of the Salton Sea
-  Hovatter Road and beyond in the KOFA Range

[zachary_amaryllis]

anything gritty and urban. i already live in the mountains.

when i was a kid i lived in northern nj and have memories of things like the pulaski skyway, goethals bridge, etc.

i-278 fascinates me because its just so... well, gritty and urban. same with 579 in pittsburgh. the big fustercluck where like 97 roads come together to go across the george washington bridge. god forbid you're on the wrong set of lanes or wrong road because you might end up in an entirely different part of new york than you intended.

i liked the old 76/25/36/270 mess in denver, before the revamp. coming sb, you had to make like a 20mph turn to head east on 76.. or the old 'mousetrap'. or even the 85/bus 85/byp 34 mess in greeley.

[TheGrassGuy]

Route 66. Or is that highway overrated?

[SkyPesos]

Route 66. Or is that highway overrated?

For this forum, this is what I have for it in the Roasted 2dus thread:

66 - Some people here thinks it doesn't deserve the fame it gets in the general public

[doglover44]

I would also love to drive out to Cove Fort Utah where I-70 West ends and turns into I-15

[NWI_Irish96]

I would also love to drive out to Cove Fort Utah where I-70 West ends and turns into I-15

Back in 2002, when I was on a vacation out west, before I was into road clinching, I used US 50 to shortcut between I-70 and I-15. Now I regret taking that shortcut.

[formulanone]

The one with a number and/or scenery that I haven't seen to before.

[Flint1979]

Pretty much anyplace I haven't been yet. But here are some priorities in no particular order:

US 101 Coastal highway from Tacoma to Crescent City
Vancouver Island
US 50 in Nevada and Utah
The intermontane parts of SW Colorado (Gunnison Canyon and Upper Rio Grande Valley)
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron shorelines around Michigan "mitten"
Most of New England, especially US 1 and the Northern Maine wilderness area
The barrier islands along the Carolina and Georgia coast
The Road to Hana

The shoreline around the thumb is so-so nothing special about it in Huron County anyway. Almost all of the thumb is boring, flat farm fields with no significant inland lakes to speak of really.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

M-22

All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?

[Bickendan]

Local: The rest of the Oregon Route System
US 101 from Aberdeen to Olympia
WA 16, 3
US 12
WA 8
WA 20

Not so local: BC 1, 5, 19, 97
CA 1
I-90
US 16

International:
India NH 110
NH in Sikkim (impossible as foreigners aren't permitted in Sikkim because of China and India's relations)

[Flint1979]

M-22

All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?

Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

M-22

All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?

Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.

Yeah, I thought both Northport and Suttons Bay were nice towns.

[Ned Weasel]

I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes.  No, really.  And it seems doable.

[Henry]

If I ever get over my fear of flying, I'd like to go to Europe and sample the English motorways, the French autoroutes and the German autobahns.

[Flint1979]

M-22

All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?

Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.

Yeah, I thought both Northport and Suttons Bay were nice towns.

I took a trip to Alpena the other day actually I didn't have any reason to be there I just ended up there. I took a combination of M-13, US-23, a few back roads because of a detour on M-65, M-65 and M-32. Then took M-32 again, M-33 and I-75.

M-65 is decent once you get up by the Au Sable River. M-33 is a scenic ride for most of its route north of Rose City it's pretty nice. I would say between those two M-33 wins.

[Scott5114]

I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes.  No, really.  And it seems doable.

It's very doable. And most of them are even interesting!

[ozarkman417]

I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes.  No, really.  And it seems doable.

If you ever do such a thing, add up all the tolls you pay. That would be an interesting figure to look at.

[Scott5114]

I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes.  No, really.  And it seems doable.

If you ever do such a thing, add up all the tolls you pay. That would be an interesting figure to look at.

Assuming a 2-axle vehicle and paying cash:
Cherokee–$3.25
Chickasaw–$0.85
Cimarron–$4.25
Creek 364–$3.75
Bailey 44–$6.25
Indian Nation–$7.75
Kickapoo–$2.25
Kilpatrick–$3.75
Muskogee 351–$4.00
Turner 44–$5.00
Will Rogers 44–$5.00

So you can expect to spend at least $46.10, $16.25 of which is spent clinching I-44 alone. Note that these do not include the H.E. Bailey and Cimarron spurs, and assume each toll road is clinched in one go with no backtracking or repeat visits (like clinching the Cimarron, then using the Cimarron again later to get to Tulsa to clinch the Muskogee).

[sparker]

As much of my cross-country journeys, mostly done between 1982 and 2004, were principally east-west, with a fair number of diagonals thrown in, many of my unexplored highways are the longer N-S corridors.  Several stand out; others are simply combinations of routes traversing areas I've missed solely because they're not along the E-W/diagonal corridors traveled in the past.  A few off the top of my head:

The old MSR 789 corridor from Nogales, AZ to Sweetwater, MT (border-to-border) Done pieces of it here & there (most notably the portion now occupied by US 20 and US 310 in WY and MT). 

US 281.  Period.  The longest 3dus; it would just be intriguing to do a south-to-north journey -- even though there's little in the way of major towns once north of TX.   Just the fact that it'll likely, overall, to be boring over long stretches makes it interesting -- one can concentrate on the differences between the southern and norther prairies, for instance.

The Great River Road -- particularly the one on the east side of the river north of Cairo, IL.  It's also eminently doable.  One of the things to consider would be whether it would have made a decent US 59 (with the present one reverting to US 73, which is mainly where it is, grid-wise).  Would have been a nice pair -- US 59 on the east side of the Mississippi River and US 61 on the west (with several exceptions, of course). 

Probably a lot more I haven't yet assembled into a cohesive trip.  Give me time..............