Non-freeway beltways

[hotdogPi]

An example of what I am talking about is MA 27. It wraps around Boston at a distance of about 20 miles away. It's not that great of an example, but it's the best I can find.

[hbelkins]

Man O'War Boulevard in Lexington, Ky.

[Charles2]

Ross Clark Circle (AL-210) in Dothan, AL.

[realjd]

Belt Line Road in Dallas
Loop 12 in Dallas (some freeway portions)
Semoran Blvd (SR-436) in Orlando
Coliseum Blvd (SR-930) in Fort Wayne, IN
US-52 in Lafayette, IN
The upcoming Palm Bay Parkway here in Palm Bay, FL http://parkwaypatriots.weebly.com/maps.html

[Joe The Dragon]

Nevada State Route 659

[SD Mapman]

I know Wyoming has a few: WY 258 in Casper, WY 212 in Cheyenne, and WY 376 in Rock Springs.
To SD...
If it doesn't have to go all the way around the city, Elk Vale Road/Catron Boulevard (SD 79 and Truck US 16) would count for Rapid City.
They are also planning to have a bypass around Sioux Falls (SD 100), but I don't know when they'll get to it.

[Alps]

North/East/South Blvd., Montgomery AL
US 202, everything from Wilmington to Portland
Pittsburgh's colored belts

[Brian556]

SR 155 Nashville TN

Tons in TX:
examples:
LOOP 288 Denton. Partial Arterial, Partial Expy
LOOP 323 Tyler. Arterial.

[NE2]

Sprawlmoran Boulevard (SR 436).

[national highway 1]

In London:
The A406 and the A205.

[lordsutch]

SR 20 in Georgia probably qualifies, although it's only about a 1/2 beltway of Atlanta. The aborted Northern Arc was supposed to at least build a freeway from I-75 to I-85; there's a stopgap set of improvements planned instead, but eventually a freeway (almost certainly a toll road) is probably inevitable.

San Antonio has Loop 1604, which is eventually planned to be a full freeway but is about 70% non-freeway today.  As pointed out above, TxDOT has a lot of loops in a similar boat.

[lepidopteran]

Dayton, OH has a string of several roads that make a partial loop around the city.  The roads have different names, but collectively they have the designation "Wright Brothers Parkway".

Madison, WI has W. Beltline Highway, but a glance at Google Maps suggests it was upgraded to full freeway.  Not sure when this upgrade took place.  Abandonment of at least 2 at-grade RR crossings might have helped.

In Nashville, TN, Briley Parkway (TN-155) is full freeway north of I-40.  South of there, TN-155 becomes an arterial and changes names at least 3 times before returning to freeway form on the other end.

In Lexington, KY, New Circle Rd (KY-4) is about 1/3 non-freeway, specifically in the arc closest to I-75.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The Rxx series in Belgium. Only those with two digits, the Rx are all freeway-like.

[mefailenglish]

Tallahassee, FL has the Capital Circle, FL 263 on the west side, US 319 on the east side.  But it's only a 3/4 loop; the northern piece is missing.

[froggie]

- VA 262 (the northern half)
- VA 286/Fairfax County Pkwy
- Originally, Military Hwy in the Norfolk/South Hampton Roads area (now US 13 and VA 165) performed a similar function.

[1995hoo]

–Herndon Parkway around Herndon, Virginia (forms a full ring)

–The unpaved road around the Goshen Scout Camps (reservation east of the town of Goshen owned by the Boy Scouts of America's National Capital Area Council) is called "the beltway" with a lowercase "b." Or at least it was in the 1980s and 1990s.

[US81]

San Antonio used to have Loop 13. Some of the northern loop was upgraded into I-410; it is still signed and exists as surface streets to the south circling maybe 3/5 of the city.

[US 41]

TX Rte. 6 in Houston

[m2tbone]

Columbia, MO:  MO-740 (Stadium Blvd.) circles Columbia to the west and south (connecting I-70 to US-63) with future plans to connect back to I-70 in the east.

St. Louis Metro:  MO-141 acts as an outer belt starting at MO-370 northwest of St. Louis and ending just past I-55 south of St. Louis.

[corco]

The Gallatin County Montana outerbelt- starting from I-90, US 89 south to the North Loop Rd in Yellowstone, the North Loop Rd west to US 20, US 20 west to US 287, US 287 north to US 12, US 12 east to US 89, US 89 south to I-90

http://goo.gl/maps/t95Dc
http://goo.gl/maps/3A7BA

[tchafe1978]

In the Milwaukee area, WI 100 was the original beltway. Probably 75% of it is now one big long commercial strip.

[dgolub]

This probably doesn't count because it's too far away from the city, but NY 28 forms a semicircle around Albany with something like a 50-mile radius.

[Jardine]

In the Milwaukee area, WI 100 was the original beltway. Probably 75% of it is now one big long commercial strip.

I was in the area around 1980 and it was building up rapidly then.  Hiways can be an engine of economic development.

I recall enjoying driving on the southern strip of 100 and playing Devo's Snowball there on my after market cassette, LOL.

[vdeane]

Winnipeg: TCH 100/MB 101 (although the addition of more and more interchanges is creating short freeway segments)

[DTComposer]

The circa-1960 plan for the Santa Clara Valley included an expressway loop around San Jose. About 21 miles of the 31-mile loop is constructed as expressway (the Montague, San Tomas and Capitol Expressways); the rest is urban arterials (Camden, Hillsdale and Capitol Avenues).