What highway do you most closely associate with?

[thspfc]

What highway will always be #1 to you, for whatever reason? For me it's US-51.

[hotdogPi]

I don't closely associate with any highway for fear of getting the coronavirus.

Seriously, MA 110.

[Max Rockatansky]

US 66 since I've traveled so many alignment variations it was on in the Western States.  US 99 is rapidly climbing towards the top given how much I feature it on Gribblenation.  I never really lived anywhere long enough to have a true life long association with any particular road.  Some other highways that have some personal significance; US 7, US 202, US 12, US 27, I-96, US 60, AZ 101, AZ 51, FL 50, US 1, I-4, US 41, CA 41, CA 180, and CA 198.

[bing101]

 I-80! for obvious reasons and I-280 because my childhood home is near that freeway.

[jp the roadgeek]

I-84, since it seems I'm on it most days and I'm a complex person like the multitude of terrains it traverses.  Plus, I don't need the spotlight like I-95.

[Some one]

Probably I-45, since I've made so many drives up and down that freeway and that's the freeway I'm most familiar with.

Though US 59 would be a close contender.

[Flint1979]

I-75. I've lived near it all my life and ride on a part of it everyday.

Also I know every curve, overpass and exit from downtown Detroit to Bay City.

[CtrlAltDel]

It's a tossup between I-290 and I-294 in the greater Chicago area.

[renegade]

I-94.  It seems I am on it nearly every day, but only in the eastbound direction for some odd reason.

[sparker]

CA 99 and US 99 before that.   Trekking up and down that road from L.A. to Sacramento, starting from when my first lasting memories kicked in ca. 1955 or so cemented my interest in roads -- particularly watching it go from a 2 (and sometimes 3!)-lane street/road to the freeway that it is today.   Even though my ventures over it number in the multiple hundreds, I still enjoy my time on 99 -- always find something I haven't seen before (even the adjacent and nascent HSR structures around Fresno -- just another thing to get pissed about!).   And I always like crossing CA 198 -- to me, that's the effective dividing line between Southern and Northern California! -- and it just isn't the same on I-5;  NB on that road, I know the odor of the Harris Ranch feedlot is coming right up!

[J3ebrules]

Even though other roads are fascinating, and I love learning their history and my bucket list involves old alignments and nooks and crannies across the country, the NJ Turnpike will always be my road back home.

I mean, literally and figuratively, if you want to get technical.

But yeah, I've been up and down several times from childhood - it connected my family from PA to NY, it was the site of 16 year old me's first high speed highway merger... where I predictably almost caused my oh-shit-handle-clutching mother a coronary when I over-enthusiastically gunned the gas. I'll always have a strong affinity for the NJ Turnpike, the somewhat scoliotic spine of New Jersey.

[DandyDan]

Currently I-35 as that is the highway out of the area and also you can see where I work from there.

[epzik8]

U.S. Route 1, or I-95.

[TheGrassGuy]

I-78
I-87
I-95
I-287
US 202
US 206

Hmm... I don't know.

[hotdogPi]

I've noticed that most people here have listed an Interstate. However, it's definitely MA 110 for me. Here's why: I live very close to MA 110. My commute to UMass Lowell by bus is mostly on MA 110, so I'm on it almost every weekday. I also like 45 mph surface roads with no traffic lights, and I think there should be more of them; MA 110 through Dracut and near the Methuen/Haverhill line are two segments like this.

[Rothman]

I really don't know.

MA 9?  Grew up along it.
I-90?  Most of my life has occurred along it somewhere.
I-95?  Traveled up and down it very frequently.
I-81?  Traveling through the land of my ancestors...

It's one of those.

[nexus73]

US 101 for the win!

Rick

[index]

US 74. That highway raised me as a little kid. Did and went to so many things along it that I have memories of now. It takes me everywhere and I also learned to drive on it.

[Flint1979]

I also have M-58 and M-84 that are close to me. Both use to be other highways. M-84 took over for part of M-47 and M-58 took over for US-10 and M-47. In fact the only stretch of M-47 original to that highway is the short stretch between M-58 and M-46.

[TEG24601]

An interesting thought...


I would say WA's SR 525, 526, and 20, as those are the roads I know best.  But I also have a soft spot for IN's SR 18, 218, and 25, as well as the former SR 18/25/39/US 421 Multiplex.  Additionally, MI's M-21 and M-24, given my time spent in Flint and Lake Orīon.  And finally, US 24 and I-69 which were frequent travels for me between college and my Uncle's farm in Indiana.


I never really identified with any of the Oregon routes I lived near, nor the long-distance Interstates.

[Ketchup99]

This might be blasphemy, but for me it's the Bud Shuster Abomination Porkbarrel Expressway I-576? I-99. I've lived in State College since I was two and 99 has been a thing ever since I was little. When I was pretty young the I-99 designation was added to the US-220 freeway, and I didn't understand how we could take 99 north, drive EAST, and get on 95. Most of what I remember of driving from when I was a kid is on I-99, and the first time I got onto a highway in the front left seat (fine, it was six months ago) was I-99. So I'd say I associate myself more with I-99 than any other highway.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I-35 and US 61

[-- US 175 --]

Hmmm, I wonder, which one could it be?

[Beltway]

I-95.  All the areas I have lived other than my original of Chicago, are served by I-95.

Melbourne, FL
Alexandria, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Petersburg, VA
Richmond, VA

[Max Rockatansky]

CA 99 and US 99 before that.   Trekking up and down that road from L.A. to Sacramento, starting from when my first lasting memories kicked in ca. 1955 or so cemented my interest in roads -- particularly watching it go from a 2 (and sometimes 3!)-lane street/road to the freeway that it is today.   Even though my ventures over it number in the multiple hundreds, I still enjoy my time on 99 -- always find something I haven't seen before (even the adjacent and nascent HSR structures around Fresno -- just another thing to get pissed about!).   And I always like crossing CA 198 -- to me, that's the effective dividing line between Southern and Northern California! -- and it just isn't the same on I-5;  NB on that road, I know the odor of the Harris Ranch feedlot is coming right up!

The last thing I expected in this thread was to see CA 198 twice.  Criminally underrated scenic highway in the Diablos and surprisingly important highway in the Central Valley.