Closest US Highway you’ve never driven

[US 89]

I saw this idea in another thread and figured I'd start a thread devoted to it.

For me, it would be US 163 (which I really want to drive someday) except that I did travel on the segment of modern 191 between Bluff and I-70 before 2008, which was when AASHTO officially truncated 163 to Bluff. If that counts as having been on 163, then my answer is US 14/16.

[oscar]

Are you counting alternate or business US routes?

I recall some other thread asking for the closest Interstate, US, and state highway we've never driven/been on -- and I think the alt/bus routes issue came up there too. I'm too sleepy to look for it tonight, but maybe it can be dredged up with some more digging.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

My best guess is US 183, which I've seen the northern terminus of but never used.

[DandyDan]

When I lived in the Omaha area, it was US 183, but I went on to drive the segment between I-80 and Holdrege earlier this year. Now that I live here in Mason City, it's US 212, with US 8 close behind. I have been on US 212, but never drove on it. US 8 would be entirely new.

[sparker]

Had to rack my brain on this; originally thought it would be 283, which I've referred to in other similar threads.  But a little light came on -- it'd have to be US 138!  Always used the parallel I-76 through the area; never drove an inch of the "old road".  Maybe one of these days.............

[jp the roadgeek]

If we're counting alternate routes, it would be US 1A in CT (passenger only) or US 1A in RI (not at all).  If we're not counting alternates, then it's either the Eastern US 2, US 220, or US 113 (although I have driven a decommissioned portion of US 113).

[Buffaboy]

I don't think I've ever been physically on US Route 11. I have been on US Route 6 however, in Coudersport.

Actually I have been on US 11, in Binghamton at least. It's US 6N in Western Penn then.

[Aaron Camp]

I don't drive, although I've never been a passenger on US-40 before, which runs about 45 miles or so south of where I live. I've crossed US-40 as a passenger before (in downtown Terre Haute, IN on US-41, prior to US-40 being rerouted south of downtown Terre Haute).

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Alt US 1 near Hamlin ME. And I won't be driving it in the foreseeable future, since it's 3,229 miles (in a straight line) from me.

[index]

US 321, it is ~35ish miles from me. If we can count business routes or other special routes, then it's US 601 BUS in Pageland, SC. ~25ish miles from me.

[Max Rockatansky]

US 195 which is close to 1,000 miles away to the north.

[hotdogPi]

As a passenger (I don't drive): US 44.

[GaryV]

My first thought was whether or not I've ever been on US-223.  Maybe once when I was in Adrian?  Then I remembered that overlap with US-23 ...

So it would probably be US-224.

[Eth]

Including auxiliary routes: US 27 Alt in Newnan between GA 16 and GA 34 Bypass (about 40 miles away). (Wait, that doesn't count because I've been on other parts of the route. That's what I get for posting before I've had my coffee.)

Mainline routes only: US 378 (about 90 miles away). Honorable mention: I've covered only about a half-mile of US 341 (about 50 miles away).

[Jim]

Looking at non-bannered routes only, it looks like mine's US 48, a little more than 400 miles from home.

There appear to be many bannered routes in the northeast that are closer that I've likely never traveled.

[Flint1979]

I don't ever recall driving on US 223. I've driven on all of Michigan's other US highways except for US 45 and US 41 but those are much further away than US 223 is. Now this is a little tricky because US 223 multiplexes with US 23 for some unknown reason just to carry the number down to Ohio and I don't consider that a part of US 223 rather US 23 only.

[Jmiles32]

I was about to say US-30, but I definitely remember going through Breezewood at least once in my life. I'm pretty sure now the honor would go to US-222, around 120 miles northeast from home.

[bulldog1979]

Going by mainlines only, I've travelled on all of them in Michigan, so I think the answer is probably US 63 in Wisconsin.

[ekt8750]

Tie between US 301 and US 206. As many times as I've been up and down the Delmarva, I dunno how I haven't had to take 301 at least once.

[Bickendan]

US 195

[pianocello]

US 59, 90 miles away.

If I specify that I was the driver (which I usually don't), it's US 71, 60 miles away. I traveled on parts of it in MO on a bus once.

[kkt]

Hm.  I don't think I've ever driven on US 730 in Washington or Oregon.

[dgolub]

US 222.  Although I've been on MD 222, which is sort of a continuation of it.

[NWI_Irish96]

Excluding Business/Alt highways, the shortest distance I could travel to reach a US highway that I have never been on any part of would be 175 miles to US 67.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I'm pretty sure the nearest one to me is US 19, clear off in southwestern Virginia.

Actually, US 113 might be closer.