Longest state highways

[texaskdog]

Saw this on yahoo today: Texas State Highway 16 only ranks as the fifth longest state highway in the country

Anyone know what the whole top 10 are?

[texaskdog]

Did find this, which just has the longest one in each state. Sure looks like MT/ND/MN 200 could be a US highway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_state_highways_in_the_United_States

[NE2]

Note that the list is not the longest 50 state highways, since that list would have more than one from many states. But SH 16 being fifth does appear to be correct.

[Beeper1]

ID/MT/ND/MN-200 is the longest by a long shot.   I don't know if MSR-789 used to be longer before being mostly eliminated. 

[NE2]

If we're going multistate, CO/NM/TX 1 was more than 1600 miles in 1926, and KS/NE/AR/TN 1 was more than 1400 miles.

[adventurernumber1]

Not saying these are the longest, but many state routes that are multiplexed a lot and a lot of "secret highways" are very long, such as GA 1 (stays with US 27 all the way through GA) and GA 3 (stays with US 19 in all of south & middle GA and US 41 from there to TN).

EDIT: And all the secret state routes that are concurrent with interstates in Georgia (ex. GA 401 is with I-75 all the way through GA)

[texaskdog]

Yes, some may be longer. OK-3 is pretty worthless.  200 on 2nd thought might not be much of a US highway is it does not appear to be a very efficient route to travel.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN 1 has a handful of lengthy duplexes (US 53, MN 89, MN 169) - although MN 23 is shorter by a few miles (it may have been a little longer than MN 1 before its portion through Duluth was truncated back in 1997) it is a much more independent route.

[texaskdog]

MN 1 has a handful of lengthy duplexes (US 53, MN 89, MN 169) - although MN 23 is shorter by a few miles (it may have been a little longer than MN 1 before its portion through Duluth was truncated back in 1997) it is a much more independent route.

No offense to your avatar but I think they should have extended MN-23 instead of changing US 61 to MN-61

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN 1 has a handful of lengthy duplexes (US 53, MN 89, MN 169) - although MN 23 is shorter by a few miles (it may have been a little longer than MN 1 before its portion through Duluth was truncated back in 1997) it is a much more independent route.

No offense to your avatar but I think they should have extended MN-23 instead of changing US 61 to MN-61

I don't think US 61 ever should have been removed to begin with and I've never been able to find out why they did that. If it was bugging them that much, they could have just done what they did with US 12 and US 52 and just hide it along 35 until Duluth.

[roadman65]

In Florida it would have to be FL 5 which goes from Key West to the GA Border.  However it is unsigned most of its way so I guess FL 20 would be if it were for the visible routes.  US 98, though, is the longest signed route of all highways, but not a state highway.

[texaskdog]

MN 1 has a handful of lengthy duplexes (US 53, MN 89, MN 169) - although MN 23 is shorter by a few miles (it may have been a little longer than MN 1 before its portion through Duluth was truncated back in 1997) it is a much more independent route.

No offense to your avatar but I think they should have extended MN-23 instead of changing US 61 to MN-61

I don't think US 61 ever should have been removed to begin with and I've never been able to find out why they did that. If it was bugging them that much, they could have just done what they did with US 12 and US 52 and just hide it along 35 until Duluth.

Minnesota doesn't like gaps within the state.  They could have just made it US 153 or 802 or whatever number was available. 

[Bickendan]

BC 97...

[jp the roadgeek]

PA 29(northern)/NY 7/VT/NH/ME 9 is a little over 700 miles.

[Bickendan]

ID/MT/ND/MN-200 is the longest by a long shot.   I don't know if MSR-789 used to be longer before being mostly eliminated. 

No, not by a long shot at all. Using the mileage derived by the Clinched Highways project, which actually shortchanges the true length a bit, we have:
MSR 200: 1363.5 miles
BC 97: 1351.9 miles*

For fun, let's add up the spurs, business routes and alternates.
ID 200 Bus (Hope) 1.4
MT 200S 45.5
ND 200 Alt (Washburn) 36.8
ND 200 Alt (Hillsboro) 8.5
That adds 92.2 miles to MSR 200, for 1455.7 miles.

(BC 97A, B and D are not in the Clinched Highways database. Using Wikipedia's reported lengths)
BC 97A 40
BC 97B 9
BC 97C 138.1
BC 97D 15
202.1 miles, bringing BC 97 to 1554.

Also, ON 11 (1118) and 17 (1213.8) both would like to chime in.

*I'm not sure Wikipedia accounts for BC 97's mileage in Yukon as it border hops a few times before switching to YT 1.

[vtk]

PA 29(northern)/NY 7/VT/NH/ME 9 is a little over 700 miles.

So now we're just chaining together state routes with different numbers and calling them one route for statistics purposes?

[Bickendan]

PA 29(northern)/NY 7/VT/NH/ME 9 is a little over 700 miles.

So now we're just chaining together state routes with different numbers and calling them one route for statistics purposes?

If that's the case, I guess we can pull out the Alaska Highway or the Northern Woods and Water Route...

[hotdogPi]

PA 29(northern)/NY 7/VT/NH/ME 9 is a little over 700 miles.

So now we're just chaining together state routes with different numbers and calling them one route for statistics purposes?

VT/NH/ME 9 is definitely a single route. NY 7 would be considered the same route if it was numbered 9 like the others (which would never happen because of US 9).

[NE2]

NY 7 was NY 9 before 1926.

[Gnutella]

Pennsylvania seems pretty well-served by east/west U.S. highways, so it's no surprise to me that the longest state route is actually a north/south highway.

By the way, I've nearly clinched GA 11, so that'll be awesome when I do. I also want to drive the whole length of MO 5 someday.

[texaskdog]

PA 29(northern)/NY 7/VT/NH/ME 9 is a little over 700 miles.

So now we're just chaining together state routes with different numbers and calling them one route for statistics purposes?

Well this was meant to be "one state route".  It's my fault for commenting on highway 200.

[texaskdog]

NY 7 was NY 9 before 1926.

Moving up from #9 to #7..makes you miss Casey Kasem.

[NE2]

NY 7 was NY 9 before 1926.

Moving up from #9 to #7..makes you miss Casey Kasem.

No it doesn't. Stop lying about me.

[dgolub]

I'd guess that CA 1 and FL A1A are probably up there.

[NE2]

I'd guess that CA 1 and FL A1A are probably up there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_state_highways_in_the_United_States