Roads with severely overgrown foliage

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Bar abandoned routes like NJ Route 324. Looking for open roads that you can still travel on, that you're supposed to be able to travel on.

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Starting off this thread with a ramp to Hart Expy in Jacksonville, FL.

[Max Rockatansky]

Golden State Boulevard from Kingsburg north to the Fresno City Limit is getting overrun with plants that once adorned US 99.

[thspfc]

Golden State Boulevard from Kingsburg north to the Fresno City Limit is getting overrun with plants that once adorned US 99.

I got put on that road on Geoguessr once and I couldn't believe how ugly and just terrible overall it was once I figured out the location. I thought that CalTrans made a good effort to keep their roads in good shape, but apparently that doesn't apply to the Central Valley.

[Max Rockatansky]

Golden State Boulevard from Kingsburg north to the Fresno City Limit is getting overrun with plants that once adorned US 99.

I got put on that road on Geoguessr once and I couldn't believe how ugly and just terrible overall it was once I figured out the location. I thought that CalTrans made a good effort to keep their roads in good shape, but apparently that doesn't apply to the Central Valley.

Golden State hasn't been maintained by the DOH or Caltrans since the early 1960s.  That's all under the responsibility of; Fresno County, Kingsburg, Selma, Fowler and the City of Fresno.  Considering how little traffic Golden State gets now I get why it really in the budget to keep it nice looking for any of those entities.  The small freeway segment of Golden State in Fresno also has a issue with homeless camps in the median approaching CA 99.

[thspfc]

Golden State Boulevard from Kingsburg north to the Fresno City Limit is getting overrun with plants that once adorned US 99.

I got put on that road on Geoguessr once and I couldn't believe how ugly and just terrible overall it was once I figured out the location. I thought that CalTrans made a good effort to keep their roads in good shape, but apparently that doesn't apply to the Central Valley.

Golden State hasn't been maintained by the DOH or Caltrans since the early 1960s.  That's all under the responsibility of; Fresno County, Kingsburg, Selma, Fowler and the City of Fresno.  Considering how little traffic Golden State gets now I get why it really in the budget to keep it nice looking for any of those entities.  The small freeway segment of Golden State in Fresno also has a issue with homeless camps in the median approaching CA 99.

Ah, I didn't realize that it's not a state route.

[Rothman]

El Camino Real in Burlingame, CA used to have huge eucalyptus trees lining it, growing over the curb and sidewalk.  Some are still there, but they tried to thin them out.

[Rothman]

Any back road in New England.  See MA 8A, MA 143, MA 112...

[OCGuy81]

Haven't driven a lot of backroads in the Deep South, but I imagine kudzu has taken over a lot of overpasses?

[webny99]

Haven't driven a lot of backroads in the Deep South, but I imagine kudzu has taken over a lot of overpasses?

Kudzu was actually the first thing I thought of. Can't seem to find any specific examples, but I recall it being bad in rural parts of Tennessee and southern Virginia.

[Rothman]

Haven't driven a lot of backroads in the Deep South, but I imagine kudzu has taken over a lot of overpasses?

Kudzu was actually the first thing I thought of. Can't seem to find any specific examples, but I recall it being bad in rural parts of Tennessee and southern Virginia.

I've taken many trips down to Appalachia over the past few decades.  I have to say that there's less of it -- at least in the areas I frequented -- than there was when I was a kid.

[webny99]

Haven't driven a lot of backroads in the Deep South, but I imagine kudzu has taken over a lot of overpasses?

Kudzu was actually the first thing I thought of. Can't seem to find any specific examples, but I recall it being bad in rural parts of Tennessee and southern Virginia.

I've taken many trips down to Appalachia over the past few decades.  I have to say that there's less of it -- at least in the areas I frequented -- than there was when I was a kid.

This was several years ago for me, too. The locations I'm thinking of were in the Smokies and in far southwestern Virginia (west of Abingdon). I've never noticed it in PA, WV, or elsewhere.

[Rothman]

It's definitely in WV and I'd bet PA, too.

[plain]

US 1 in Morrisville, PA, especially SB past the Pennsylvania Ave interchange. Pretty overgrown there

[formulanone]

US 1 in Morrisville, PA, especially SB past the Pennsylvania Ave interchange. Pretty overgrown there

No doubt!





Been on I-65 a few times in the summer months in Alabama and there's weeds at least 2 feet tall in the median or swale.

US 77 (in 2012, before the I-69E designation) near Harlingen was really overgrown in areas:

[kphoger]

[ErmineNotyours]

This tree is purely truck trimmed, not worker trimmed.

[jp the roadgeek]

US 1 in Morrisville, PA, especially SB past the Pennsylvania Ave interchange. Pretty overgrown there

No doubt!

Those are actually on the stretch between Kennett Square and the MD line.

The Merritt Parkway (CT 15) is notorious for its trees, and ones that often fall over.

[HighwayStar]

Other than the safety concerns that might arise I really do like roads that are "overgrown", it is one reason why the east has such beautiful highway landscaping without even really trying in most cases. In many areas as long as unsound trees are removed and any required line of sight is maintained I think this "overgrown" look really reduces the visual impact of the road.

[kernals12]

The Merritt Parkway is fairly infamous for this.

[CoreySamson]

I would think I-H3 in Hawaii would be pretty overgrown in spots based on what I've seen.