Smells/senses you associate with certain highways/areas

[TravelingBethelite]

I believe this is reviving an old thread-so what.  Anyway, when I think pine smell, I think cresting up on I-84 southeast west of Newburgh, up in the Shawangunks, according to Wikipedia.

[1995hoo]

The obvious one is the Jersey Turnpike between Carteret (Exit 12) and Newark Airport, which Car and Driver once memorably referred to as "miles and miles of universal fart."

I-295 in DC south of Exit 1 exudes a foul outhouse-like stink as well due to the sewage treatment plant. Last Wednesday I had the unfortunate experience of driving past there in the convertible with the top down when I made a wrong turn near the casino construction site just south of the Beltway near there.

[Big John]

The stench of I-41 by Kaukauna.

[Buffaboy]

The smell of Cheerios along I-190 in Buffalo.

[dcharlie]

The smell of cattle (and all that that implies!) west of Ogallala NE on I-80.  Not good...

[DaBigE]

The stench of I-41 by Kaukauna.

If Kaukauna is a stench, I don't know what word to use to describe I-90 through Gary, Indiana.

[iBallasticwolf2]

I-75 around the GE Plant north of the Lockland Split smells like gasoline.

[nexus73]

I actually liked the smell of asphalt on the really hot days in SoCal.  It was what I called "local flavor".  Where I was raised we had a much worse odor from the pulp mill...LOL! 

Rick

[ET21]

The smell of wonder bread reminds me of the mile long bridge on I-294, where a factory is located.

[hbelkins]

From childhood trips to the Outer Banks, I remember a horrible stench along I-40 in the Canton, NC area west of Asheville.

Also from childhood, there was an awful rotten egg smell along KY 89 in Clark County near Trapp. That odor has been gone for several years now.

On the flip side, there's a Kellogg's Pop Tarts bakery along KY 194 in Pike County. It produces a pretty pleasant smell.

[wxfree]

A part of west Texas, between San Angelo, Midland, and Fort Stockton, smells like poison gas.  It's because of a gas, a poison gas with a strong smell, that's released as a result of mineral extraction.  Further west, I really like the smell of the desert.

The bridges over the Trinity River in Dallas smell like sewage.  At the Miller beer plant on I-35W in Fort Worth it sometimes smells nice, I think it's the yeast, but usually smells moderately bad (I always thought it smelled like canned green beans).

I like the smell of the rural area around Glen Rose, because of the vegetation.  I think it's mesquite, or something like that.  For some reason I've always found it to be stronger there than in other areas.

[txstateends]

The bridges over the Trinity River in Dallas smell like sewage.

Probably because the main Dallas water treatment plant is along the Trinity, just west of I-45.

US 60 southwest of Amarillo has many cattle feedlots, and when the wind picks up from that direction, >ugh<  The roads up that way that have rendering plants, man, I just don't know how anybody works in those places.  Turns my stomach all kinds of ways just to drive by one.

US 69 in SE Texas with the pulp mills.

US 80/TX 19 east of Dallas used to have a sulfur plant, with a sick rotten-egg smell, but it was brief when you'd go by it.  GSV shows it pretty much dismantled now.

In Dallas, there used to be a Mrs. Baird's Bread plant at US 75/Mockingbird.  Wonderful fresh-bread smell....but alas, it is gone now, replaced by an expansion of the SMU campus facilities.

[xcellntbuy]

Oranges and grapefruits at harvesting time or blossom time in Indian River County, Florida.  Citrus smells wonderful in season.

[Bruce]

I-5 going into Tacoma has a rotten eggs smell, known as the Tacoma Aroma.

I-5 and WA-529 between Everett and Marysville will occasionally smell like sewage because there are two municipal sewage treatment plants (with open ponds) right next to the freeway.

[Mr. Matté]

A sweet smell while riding up the Hershey Highway.

(That's the name for US 422, right?)

[Avalanchez71]

The stench of the pet food mill around US 61 near Keokuk, IA.

[Pete from Boston]

The stench of the pet food mill around US 61 near Keokuk, IA.

Same with the west end of NY 59 in Suffern, where Hi-Tor dog food used to be made.

I swear we've had this thread multiple times before.

[cpzilliacus]

Smell of tar or asphalt on Maryland's I-895 in the vicinity of the tunnel portals. 

[Rothman]

Yep, Tacoma Aroma's on my list, too.

As is the smell of oil refineries on I-64 near Ashland, KY (and intermittently to Charleston, WV).

[DandyDan]

Sometimes, I wonder if they still slaughter cattle within Omaha, in the area of the I-80/I-480 interchange.

[Roadgeek Adam]

NY 324 and I-190 get the nice smell of Noco (Newman Oil) tanks off the Niagara River in the town of Tonawanda.

Also, the smell on the NJ Turnpike usually centers around that terrible Linden Cogeneration Plant.

[US71]

US 71 at Ashdown, AR smells like cheap sauerkraut.

[Bruce]

Currently, everything in Seattle, Western WA and parts of Eastern WA smells like smoke. Might have something to do with this cloud:

[mariethefoxy]

the manure/chicken death smell on US 13 in Southern Delaware, and on I-81 south of Carlisle (and parts of the PA Tpke)

the staten island garbage smell

the beach smell on the LI Parkways south of Merrick Road/27A

the Jet Fuel smell on the Belt Parkway near the Airport

that crappy city smell on the Cross Bronx Expwy by the Apartment Buildings

[Avalanchez71]

The smell of a paper mill emanates near Pickwick Lake off of TN 128.