How would you rank the interstates by how much you've actually used them?

[DTComposer]

Tier one - many, many times:
5, 10, 15, 80

Tier two - more than a handful:
8, 40, 70, 84, 90, 95

Tier three - once or twice:
4, 17, 45, 64, 70, 86 (W), 87, 94

I need to get out more.

[Alex4897]

FREQUENT:
I-95 – daily
I-76 – the occasional trip into Philly

INFREQUENT:
I-64 – vacations / school trips to Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, or south towards the Outer Banks
I-4 – vacations to Orlando
I-83 – vacation to Niagara Falls (single round trip)
I-81 – ""
I-99? – "" (it was on the verge of being signed in NY at this point, so does this count?)
I-86 – ""
I-90 – ""
I-78 – once, only leaving NYC

[kkt]

I-5 way out in front.  Never a daily commute, but 2-4 times a week.

At least a couple of times a month:  I-90.

Less often:  I-405 (Wash.), 205 (Wash./Or.).  Bay Area freeways, 80, 280, 880, 980, 380, 580, 680, 505.

A handful of times:  I-82, 84 (Western).  Virginia/DC:  I-95, 495, 64, 295, 85.

Once or twice:  I-40, 15, 70, 84 (Eastern), 91, 495 (Mass.), 93.

I'm probably forgetting some.

[corco]

I'll sort this into broad categories:

Interstates I've lived by and used very frequently:
5, 80, 84W, 90

Interstates I've lived by and used somewhat frequently:
10, 15, 88W

Other frequent interstates:
17, 25, 70, 71, 82

Interstates I've been on rarely but multiple times for a specific, recurring purpose (most likely more frequent but over shorter distances than the category below):
8, 76W, 86W, 94

Interstates I've been on rarely but multiple times for a roadtrip or other one-off purpose:
19, 29, 40, 44, 75, 95

Interstates I've been on once or twice in recent years:
20, 27, 30, 35, 49, 55, 64, 69, 76E, 78, 87, 91, 93

Interstates I've been on and have little memory of:
4, 24, 57, 65, 66, 68, 74, 77

[1995hoo]

I'll take a stab at this, though I'm sure I'll miss something. I'm limiting this to ones on which I've personally driven, not ones on which I've only been a passenger.

Interstates I've driven the most: I-95 and I-66. I grew up in, and now live in, Northern Virginia, so this is easy. I couldn't tell you on which one I've made a higher number of trips, though obviously I've logged more miles overall on I-95.

Interstates I've driven on a lot due primarily to their being near where I went to college and law school (UVA and Duke, respectively): I-64, I-85, and I-40 (my brother went to William & Mary, so I used I-64 a lot to visit him; I-85 was my primary route to pretty much everywhere during law school; I commuted via I-40 when I worked in Raleigh during the summer of 1996)

Others I've used frequently due to various travel: I-81, I-70, I-76 (eastern), I-68, I-83, I-97, I-78

Others I use once or twice a year over the past five years since I got married: I-4, I-75 (both due to my wife having relatives in Florida)

Used frequently during the summer of 1997 when I worked in Alabama: I-65

Used several times on ski trips to Canada: I-87

Used periodically on trips south for football or en route to Florida: I-77 (in every case other than local travel in Charlotte, I use this road due to wanting a change of scenery from I-85 and I-95)

Used twice only, en route to or from Alabama: I-59 and I-24 (both due to wanting a route other than I-85)

Minimal use–to and from New Orleans in 1997 and back and forth from the motel on a Gator Bowl trip in 1991: I-10

Used only once or twice with me as the driver (though I also travelled some of these as a kid): I-84 (eastern), I-26, I-90, I-79, I-12, I-16 (a single mile in Macon!), I-71

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

[hobsini2]

Almost daily:
I-55, I-88, I-190 IL, I-355 IL, I-294 IL

Weekly to Monthly:
I-80, I-90, I-94, I-290 IL

Monthly to Semi-annual:
I-39, I-57, I-180 IL, I-280 IL-IA, I-794 WI, I-894 WI

Semi-annual to Bi-annual:
I-27, I-29, I-30, I-35, I-40, I-43, I-44, I-65, I-70, I-72, I-74, I-155 IL, I-180 NE, I-255 IL-MO, I-270 IL-MO, I-435 MO, I-465 IN, I-494 MN, I-635 TX, I-694 MN

[nexus73]

My guess for least-mentioned 2di is I-97.

Rick

[jemacedo9]

Tier one (often):  76(E), 95, 90, 86, 78, 83, 80, 81, 84, 99
Tier two (several times):  79, 70, 97, 87, 64, 66
Tier three (only once or twice, numerical order):  5, 10, 20, 26, 30, 40, 45, 55, 68, 71, 75, 88(E), 89, 91, 93

[Eth]

Tier I
I-20 - the only one that's ever served as part of my regular commute

Tier II
I-75, I-85 - if I'm leaving Atlanta to go anywhere, chances are I'm on one of these two

Tier III
I-40, I-64*, I-66, I-77**, I-81 - used these a lot for about 4 years when I found myself making trips between Atlanta and DC every few months
I-95 - used this a bit less often in the same time period, but was also how I got to BWI when I lived up there, plus a couple road trips to the Northeast
I-10 - mostly for visiting family

* just the portion of I-64 concurrent with I-81; otherwise this goes in Tier V
** just the portion of I-77 concurrent with I-81; otherwise this goes in Tier IV

Tier IV
I-16 - a few trips to Savannah
I-26 - a couple trips to Charleston, used once or twice on the Atlanta-DC route when I-81 and I-95 got boring
I-70 - even though I lived only about 20 miles from it for a while, it wasn't really used that much

Tier V
I-4, I-24, I-59, I-68, I-73, I-74(e), I-76(e), I-79, I-83, I-84(e), I-90, I-91, I-93, I-97 - various one-offs

Tier VI
I-5, I-65, I-89 - never driven, but have been on as a passenger

[Zzonkmiles]

D-OH, I forgot to mention that I have driven on at least one Hawaii interstate. I know I've driven on H-1 and possibly H-201. I can't remember if H-201 services the Honolulu Airport. I don't particularly like H-1 because of the congestion and the low speed limits. But it's Hawaii, so it's not like you have anywhere "far" to go.

It's interesting to see what constitutes everyone's "bread and butter" interstate or "mainstay" interstate. Surely we've got most of the country's interstate mileage covered between us all.

And to the person who mentioned driving on I-26 on the trip from Atlanta to DC, I'm curious about your route since you said I-81 and I-95 were boring. I-26 and Atlanta is only understandable to me if you use I-26/85 to get from Columbia to Atlanta as a way of bypassing the desolation that is I-20 between Atlanta and Augusta.

[DandyDan]

This is somewhat challenging, but here goes:
1. I-80.  I use it at least once a week and also use it whenever going anywhere east, or down to Lincoln.
2. I-29. I use it to go to KC and to my relatives in SD and SW MN.
3. I-90. I used it a lot when I lived in the Chicago area and it also gets used when I see my MN relatives.  Also used it on my 2002 Ohio trip.
4. I-88W. I used it a few times when I went to NIU in the 90's.
5. I-70. Used several times on various KS road trips.  Also used on 02 OH trip and 03 TN trip.
6. I-94. Used while in Chicago and also as part of OH trip, when I made my only visit to Michigan.
7. I-55. Used occasionally whenever I went to Chicago.
8. I-39. Used occasionally when I was going to NIU.
9. I-74. Used on 03 TN trip, as I drove through IN and IL on way back home.  Also used in Quad cities.
10. I-43. Used on trip to Milwaukee for friend's wedding and also in 2012, as my friend and I used it to go see Cubs play Brewers.
11. I-65. Used on day trip to Indy from Chicago in 2005.
12-13. I-24/I-57 both used on TN road trip.  I never had reason to use I-57 when in Chicago area.
14-16. I-69/I-75/I-71. All used once on Ohio trip.  I may also have I-77, but don't recall it.
17-18. I-95/I-66 both used on my trip to DC in 2001.
19. I-44. Used once in St. Louis, essentially to say I was on it.
I may also have I-72, in Jacksonville, IL, but don't remember it for sure.  This after avoiding it in Springfield, IL.
EDIT: Forgot I-64, which can be added to the I-24/I-57 list.
EDIT#2: I-35 Been on it several times in KC area and when going to Twin Cities.  Probably fits in between I-55 and I-94.  I have no idea how I missed this one (it's a bigger miss than I-64).

[HazMatt]

40 - Lived within an hour of I-40 almost my entire life.
77 - Main N/S route for a lot of road trips, visiting family in OH.
85 - Mostly the 40 concurrency, but use it more frequently now out east.
81 - Main road trip route in college (Boone).
95 - Just not very useful in NC.
74 - Ohio/NC segments
26 - Would be higher if I counted former I-181.
75 - Visiting family in OH
64 - Visiting family in OH, couple road trips.  Mainly the 77 concurrency, but have clinched from Lexington KY through all of WV.
70 - Visiting family in OH
73 - It's so short, so not much mileage.
79/66/71/79 - Drove once, outside the 71/75 concurrency in Cincy.

[Zeffy]

Yay for patheticness.

1. I-95 - Used for short trips mostly on a semi-weekly basis.
2. I-78 - Rarely used, but since I take US 22 a lot and it runs concurrent with it, it ends up at the number 2 spot.
3. I-76 - Used a few times in Philadelphia.
4. I-80 - Used once and only once.
5. I-66 - Used it once in D.C.
6. I-4 - Used more frequently when I lived down in Orlando.

[ekt8750]

For me 476 and 95 since they are my daily commute then 76 gets an honorable mention.

[bzakharin]

With me behind the wheel:
295 (NJ) - 3 times a week if no traffic
287 - several times weekly for a few months
95 - ditto, but a bit less total
76 (PA - NJ) - ditto, but a bit less total
276 (PA) - ditto minus a few recent trips
676 (PA - NJ) - about same as 276
280 (NJ) - in the single digits
78 - about same as 280
87 - once (each way)

Total (as best as I can recall):
76 (PA - NJ) - Weekdays for 10 years minus summers
676 (PA - NJ) - Ditto, but less of the more recent trips
295 (NJ-DE) - Weekdays for 3 months, 3 times a week last 2 years, pretty often sporadically all the time
95 - Weekly for 3 years or so, every other week for 10 years
278 - Weekly for 3 years or so
287 - Every other week for 4 years
276 (PA) - Weekly for a few years
84 - 100+ times total
476 - Upwards of 50 times total
280 - in the single digits or teens
78 - about same as 280
80 - maybe 8 times
87 - Ditto
91 - maybe 5 times
695 (Baltimore Beltway) - Ditto
90 - Ditto
83 - Once

[slorydn1]

I'll give it a shot, even though I haven't lived near a "daily use" 2di since 1990.


Tier 1 (heavy use-just not in a long time).
#1 top Mostest (lol) used 2di: I-90 (and all of the 3di's in the Chicagoland area as they were configured as of 12/18/1990)
followed by I-94,I-80,I-55. Harder for me to quantify if I had been on I-57 more or less than the 2di's that I currently use to get away from my current home on trips-probably less.

Tier 2 (I use them every chance I get to leave eastern NC)
I-95 (more often south of NC Exit 97 then north of it)
I-40
I-85 (mostly the I-40 concurrency, and singularly on a few trips to Charlotte and points southwest of there)
I-26
I-77

Tier 3 (I have used them on trips, just not very often-in no particular order of times of use or timeframe)
I-4,I-10,I-16,I-20,I-24,I-25,I-30,I-39,I-43,I-64,I-65,I-66,I-70,I-72,I-73,I-74,I-75,I-78,I-81,I-87,I-88

Of the one's listed in T3 I can say for certain the least travelled are I-25,I-30 and I-66, all once each (and I only just added I-66 to my portfolio this past Memorial Day as I used it to get to the beginning of Skyline Drive in Front Royal, VA).

AND lastly add I-96 as ridden on a ton of times as a small child, but I don't believe I have driven on it*, at least not in the Grand Rapids area where I lived until I was 9.


I do know that I have been on I-76 (east) as a passenger, but I have never driven it, and I believe I-44 in the St Louis area is in this boat as well. I do know for certain that I have never driven it, I just don't remember if my dad drove it with me as a passenger when we visited St Louis in 1983.


I-69 is on the passenger only list for sure.




note: *I "might" have driven a short segment of it in the Detroit area as a young adult when I drove my then girlfriend from Schaumburg IL to see her grandparents, I just don't remember if we actually went on it during the 2 days we were there.

I am assuming from the OP that we aren't considering 3di's because if we were, I better break out a pen and paper as I have work to do (LOL)

[noelbotevera]

Revised list:
Pennsylvania (2006-present)
I-81 - my family almost always uses this
I-70 - often for DC trips or bypassing US 30 between Breezewood and McConellsburg
I-76 - Philadelphia/Pittsburgh trips - fairly often
I-83 - Harrisburg trips - fairly often
I-270 MD - used for DC trips
I-370 MD - ditto
I-495 DC MD VA - DC trips from Dulles Airport/Silver Line
I-95 - some Philly trips

North Carolina (2004-2006)
I-95 - used this for Myrtle Beach, and I-40 to get anywhere west of Lumberton
I-40 - used for frequent road trips west
I-85 - a little bit around Greensboro

One-offs
I-395 MD - one Baltimore trip
I-25 WYO - one Devils Tower trip
I-90 WYO/SD - one trip to Rapid City/Mt. Rushmore

[Highway63]

By far the most are 80 and 35, with 29 after a moderate gap. After that I guess it would fall to 90 and 70, then 74, then the rest are too infrequent because they'd all be long-vacation-related.

For x0 and x5 interstates, I've been on 15 and 25 two separate times each; 5, 20, 45 only on one vacation each.

86E just enough to say I've been on it and clinch it in PA. Then it's into the "never"s.

[bzakharin]

With me behind the wheel:
295 (NJ) - 3 times a week if no traffic
287 - several times weekly for a few months
95 - ditto, but a bit less total
76 (PA - NJ) - ditto, but a bit less total
276 (PA) - ditto minus a few recent trips
676 (PA - NJ) - about same as 276
280 (NJ) - in the single digits
78 - about same as 280
87 - once (each way)

Total (as best as I can recall):
76 (PA - NJ) - Weekdays for 10 years minus summers
676 (PA - NJ) - Ditto, but less of the more recent trips
295 (NJ-DE) - Weekdays for 3 months, 3 times a week last 2 years, pretty often sporadically all the time
95 - Weekly for 3 years or so, every other week for 10 years
278 - Weekly for 3 years or so
287 - Every other week for 4 years
276 (PA) - Weekly for a few years
84 - 100+ times total
476 - Upwards of 50 times total
280 - in the single digits or teens
78 - about same as 280
80 - maybe 8 times
87 - Ditto
91 - maybe 5 times
695 (Baltimore Beltway) - Ditto
90 - Ditto
83 - Once

Oops, forgot I-195 (NJ). On my first list that can go at the bottom, since I'm pretty sure it was once and Westbound only.
On the second list between 276 and 84, every other week for 5 years when the NJ Turnpike was congested, which was almost all summer and often other times

[Eth]

And to the person who mentioned driving on I-26 on the trip from Atlanta to DC, I'm curious about your route since you said I-81 and I-95 were boring. I-26 and Atlanta is only understandable to me if you use I-26/85 to get from Columbia to Atlanta as a way of bypassing the desolation that is I-20 between Atlanta and Augusta.

I still used quite a bit of I-81 that time, just not all of it. If memory serves, my route was something along the lines of I-66 -> I-81 -> I/VA-381 -> US 11E -> I-26 -> I-40 -> US 74 -> US 23 -> I-985. (Yes, this took a little longer than a direct route, but I didn't mind that so much.)

[SSOWorld]

from my home bases past and present (3 points in WI, 1 in CA)
Daily use - current? None - nowhere near one
Daily use - past: 39, 5, 10 and their LA children

Frequent use - current: 39, 90, 94, 80
Frequent use - past: 15, 8

Long drives on (bold is completed): 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 25, 35, 39, 40, 44, 55, 57, 70, 76 (both) 80, 88 (both) 90, 95, 99

[Bruce]

1. I-5 (near-daily use)
2. I-405 (monthly use)
3. I-90 (annual use)

[JakeFromNewEngland]

1. I-95: Almost on I-95 daily.
2. I-91: We usually take I-91 if we're heading somewhere north such as Hartford, Springfield, or Vermont.
3. I-195 RI/MA: Considering this is one of the only "higher speed" routes heading into Cape Cod, this route is heavily traveled by us.
4. I-84: We take I-84 but only if we're heading west towards NY State or Danbury.
5. I-87: We take I-87 if we're heading towards the Adirondacks.
6. I-90 (MA): We take I-90 if we're heading towards Boston.
7. I-89 (VT): I-89 has to be one of my favorite interstates due to the beautiful route through the Green Mountains. We usually take it when traveling either to or from Burlington.

[cpzilliacus]

I-95 (Md., Va.)
I-495 (Md., Va.)
I-595 (Md.)
I-270 (Md.)
I-370 (Md.)
I-395 (Va., D.C.)
I-695 (D.C.)
I-295 (D.C., Md.)
I-66 (Va., D.C.)
I-895 (Md.)
I-695 (Md.)
I-795 (Md.)
I-70 (Md.)
I-83 (Md., Pa.)
I-68 (Md., W.Va.)
I-81 (Va., Md., W.Va., Pa.)

[JCinSummerfield]

94
280 (OH)
75
275 (MI)
96
77
196
80/90
275 (MI)
69
79
85
64