Strangest destination/control city for an exit/ramp

[Rothman]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

[NJ]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

[Rothman]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

Makes me wonder how many parks out there are used as "control cities."

[empirestate]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

Makes me wonder how many parks out there are used as "control cities."

Probably a bunch of the national ones. You could make a case for Delaware Water Gap, but I imagine that's referring to the gap itself, not the park. (For that matter, how many natural physiographic features like passes are used likewise?)

[1995hoo]

Capitol Hill is used as a control city on I-395 and I-695 in DC, though not on any exit ramps I can think of. There are, however, a couple of exit signs that use "The House" and "US Senate."

Verizon Center (the hockey/basketball/concert arena) appears as a "control city" on at least two exit signs for the 12th Street Tunnel.

[bzakharin]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

Makes me wonder how many parks out there are used as "control cities."

Probably a bunch of the national ones. You could make a case for Delaware Water Gap, but I imagine that's referring to the gap itself, not the park. (For that matter, how many natural physiographic features like passes are used likewise?)

I don't think it's the gap itself. If it's not the park, it's the Borough of Delaware Water Gap in PA, which is the first municipality I-80 enters after crossing into PA

[Ian]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

Makes me wonder how many parks out there are used as "control cities."

I've seen it done on Long Island...

[noelbotevera]

Battery Park as "control city."

https://goo.gl/maps/91pcM4GcbHB2

You're already in Manhattan so it may make sense

Makes me wonder how many parks out there are used as "control cities."

I've seen it done on Long Island...

Still doesn't beat the JPL sign I posted upthread. Who even uses that as a control city?

[empirestate]

You could make a case for Delaware Water Gap, but I imagine that's referring to the gap itself, not the park. (For that matter, how many natural physiographic features like passes are used likewise?)

I don't think it's the gap itself. If it's not the park, it's the Borough of Delaware Water Gap in PA, which is the first municipality I-80 enters after crossing into PA

Maybe, but for travel purposes the gap makes more sense. It is, after all, how you get through the mountains and out of New Jersey. But I think it's unlikely we'll ever find an official memo or anything stating which is actually the case.

[Rothman]

Here's another vote for "Del Water Gap" referring to the actual gap.  It's been an important geographic feature since the 18th century, if not beforehand (as empirestate points out).

[wanderer2575]

At the end of the I-5 exit ramps to US-97 near Weed, California, I think there used to be a guide sign that said "College" (arrow pointing one direction) and "Weed" (arrow pointing the other direction), which was probably a hoot in the '70s. 

Apparently now the signs are less suggestive and direct traffic toward "College of Siskiyous" and "Central Weed / Klamath Falls."

[wanderer2575]

Separately, I'm sure these are wonderful communities.  Taken together, one might be inclined to just keep driving past...

https://goo.gl/maps/M872Hr91B3w

[mwb1848]

Many a Spanish speaking motorist has gotten a laugh out of the Boracho Station exit on I-10 in Far West Texas:

https://goo.gl/maps/37FybhKH4fH2

They chuckle because boracho translates to "drunk"; I get frustrated because TxDOT's MUTCD doesn't acknowledge "Sta" as the appropriate abbreviation for "Station":

http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/fsh/guide_sign_elements.htm

There's no agreement on the exact origin of the name of this place. There's also inconsistency about whether it's "Boracho" or "Boracho Station." To remove any ambiguity – and since this all ultimately in reference to a ghost town which is now nothing more than a cemetery – it would probably be best to sign it as "Boracho Station Road."

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrbeu

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Actually the Spanish word for 'drunk' is borracho, with two Rs. 'Boracho' doesn't make sense.

[golden eagle]

Braggadocio, MO, along I-57.