State welcome signs at places other than state borders

[epzik8]

Indiana welcome center westbound on I-70 several miles into the state

[kphoger]

Indiana welcome center westbound on I-70 several miles into the state

But so what?  The "State welcome sign" is only 500 feet from the state line–in the middle of an interchange, no less.

[bulldog1979]

Indiana welcome center westbound on I-70 several miles into the state

But so what?  The "State welcome sign" is only 500 feet from the state line–in the middle of an interchange, no less.

On the other side of the state, there's a small green sign at the state line, but the bigger welcome sign is about 2.1 miles into Indiana.

[triplemultiplex]

Manitowoc is very far from the state border and yet:


Thanks, Badger ferry crossing!

[CtrlAltDel]

Indiana welcome center westbound on I-70 several miles into the state

The I-40 Welcome Center in Texas is in the middle of the state, and serves both directions.

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mU4zUC5uoz7QUq8K6?g_st=ac
There is supposed to be one here, but the construction contractors who rehabilitated the viaduct didn't place it back.

This is what was there.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50283934858

[hbelkins]

Kentucky installed a bunch of welcome signs at small general aviation airports sometime between 2004 and 2007. I'm not sure how many of them are still standing.

At least for the Julian Carroll Airport in Jackson, the sign has been updated to include the current governor's name.

[freebrickproductions]

In my experience, Alabama posts welcome signs at every rest area, even the ones (hundreds of) miles within the state.

[Mr. Matté]

Kentucky installed a bunch of welcome signs at small general aviation airports sometime between 2004 and 2007. I'm not sure how many of them are still standing.

At least for the Julian Carroll Airport in Jackson, the sign has been updated to include the current governor's name.

I'm surprised they kept the old governor's name considering he was MeTooed late in his career.

[Rothman]

Kentucky installed a bunch of welcome signs at small general aviation airports sometime between 2004 and 2007. I'm not sure how many of them are still standing.

At least for the Julian Carroll Airport in Jackson, the sign has been updated to include the current governor's name.

I'm surprised they kept the old governor's name considering he was MeTooed late in his career.

This is the state that kept "where the d*****s are all gay" in its state song for decades...

[Amaury]

I suppose this would count?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/j62vmaF34x21ywAF7

Street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FzhhaCTRr5Vab3su7

[hbelkins]

Kentucky installed a bunch of welcome signs at small general aviation airports sometime between 2004 and 2007. I'm not sure how many of them are still standing.

At least for the Julian Carroll Airport in Jackson, the sign has been updated to include the current governor's name.

I'm surprised they kept the old governor's name considering he was MeTooed late in his career.

Are you referring to Julian Carroll? If so, the accusation was questionable and they even kept his name on the parkway that was named for him -- at least until I-69 makes it all the way to Tennessee. At any rate, the airport was what's named after him in Breathitt County.

[Bitmapped]

West Virginia posts the two-lane road-sized version of the state welcome sign at rest areas. Here's an example from the I-79 Burnsville northbound rest area in the center of the state: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sEEsiYVT3Y1rFBUo6

[architect77]

As mentioned above, Triangle North Executive Airport (LHZ) North of Raleigh follows large airports' practice of welcome signs as you arrive to the new region. . This sign faces you at a stop sign leaving the small airport facility (5,500 ft. runway) near Louisburg, NC.

5776459C-9B21-4255-A980-B0BDC62553CB by Stephen Edwards, on Flickr

[Quillz]

Thinking about the Las Vegas sign yielded this possibly-interesting question–is anyone aware of any state welcome signs officially posted outside the boundaries of the state they welcome you to? (That is, you see them before you enter the state in question?)

I need to double check, but I think there's a "Welcome to California" sign in Oregon on OR-39, since the junction with CA-161/CA-139 is literally on the state line, so any sign posted just to the north is in Oregon.

Last time I was there I was on CA-161 but forgot to briefly go into Oregon to check.

[thenetwork]

The Colorado Welcome Center/Rest Area in Fruita, CO (off of I-70) is 19 miles into the state at CO-340.  They have a full-sized WELCOME TO COLORFUL COLORADO sign that you can get your photo next to just outside the building.

Nevermind that at the Utah/Colorado Border there is a pullout at the state line if you want to stand next to the ACTUAL border sign(s-- in addition to the old state line marker relocated from the old US-6/50 alignment).  Heck, traffic there can be so sparse that you can stand in the eastbound I-70 lanes with a foot in each state safely (for 30 seconds at a time at least).

I've also noticed in my travels that it's usually the state line welcome signs predominantly west of the Rockies that tend to get pasted with various decals and bumper stickers from travelers "marking" their territory.

[ClassicHasClass]

If we're including actual Welcome Center centers, California has a number of them rather far from statelines. The one at the Jelly Belly in Fairfield immediately comes to mind, which is about 40 miles from San Francisco.

[kphoger]

I've also noticed in my travels that it's usually the state line welcome signs predominantly west of the Rockies that tend to get pasted with various decals and bumper stickers from travelers "marking" their territory.

Here's a notable one from east of the Rockies, but it's on old Route 66:

[crispy93]

There are two on Long Island, for traffic entering via CT ferries. CT doesn't seem to post Welcome signs at the ferry terminals.

Port Jefferson: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bDXmynmX6pCPFw568

Orient Point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YBeDUAL94rpPWjz1A

[freebrickproductions]

West Virginia posts the two-lane road-sized version of the state welcome sign at rest areas. Here's an example from the I-79 Burnsville northbound rest area in the center of the state: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sEEsiYVT3Y1rFBUo6

I want to say Alabama does the same. At the very least, the Cullman rest stop on I-65 has some:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0755844,-86.8639626,3a,15y,71.25h,91.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDMcluglCpI6s04S-Iwg2Ag!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.6649127743514072%26panoid%3DDMcluglCpI6s04S-Iwg2Ag%26yaw%3D71.2514678155437!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Amusingly, the welcome signs there are also still the older "Alabama the Beautiful" welcome signs.

[roadfro]

The "Welcome to Nevada" sign on SR 374 southwest of Beatty is posted about 4 miles after you've crossed into Nevada from California. This is due to Death Valley National Park—there's a small portion of the park that juts into Nevada, which happens to include a main roadway (Daylight Pass Road). But NDOT does not maintain any of the roadway within the national park, so SR 374 begins just as you exit the national park boundary and that's also where the welcome sign is posted. There's just a minimal indication of crossing the state line within the park itself.

[TheOneKEA]

Do the crossings of the Potomac River from Virginia into Maryland qualify for this thread? The actual state line is the low water mark of the river on the Virginian side of the Potomac, but the "Welcome to Maryland" sign is adjacent to the bridge landing on the Maryland side of the Potomac, or some distance further inland. At US 15, the "Welcome to Maryland" sign is about 1/3 of a mile east of the bridge landing.

[kphoger]

Do the crossings of the Potomac River from Virginia into Maryland qualify for this thread? The actual state line is the low water mark of the river on the Virginian side of the Potomac, but the "Welcome to Maryland" sign is adjacent to the bridge landing on the Maryland side of the Potomac, or some distance further inland. At US 15, the "Welcome to Maryland" sign is about 1/3 of a mile east of the bridge landing.

There are gazillions of "welcome to" signs that are a mile or less from the actual boundary.  I don't think that fits the spirit of the thread.

[Bruce]

SR 20 Spur has a "Welcome to Washington" sign at the Anacortes ferry terminal: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HgEnGwWEfEJ4RkR67

It is just past the customs facility for the Sidney, BC ferry but since that has been suspended for a few years, there's been no out-of-state visitors to be welcomed. Not to mention the ferry makes an intermediate stop on San Juan Island.

[PurdueBill]

For a couple of years now Ohio has had smaller versions of the "Heart of it all" welcome sign at pretty much all rest areas, even far from state lines.  For example, This rest area on US 30 near Upper Sandusky.  This also meant that when Husted left the lieutenant governor position for the Senate and was replaced by Tressel, all those signs needed overlays. 
(For comparison, here is a current state line sign.)