Longest Distance on a Mileage Sign in Each State

[pdx-wanderer]

What is the longest distance shown on a milage sign both in and to a city in your (or really any other) state? (not counting celebratory markers at the beginning of cross-country routes)

A bit similar to this thread: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=4416.50 but my goal is to get a list of the longest signed milages in each state.

Two categories: one for distances on signs within each state (referencing any city), another for a sign (in any state) referencing a city in each state. In some cases, they may very well be the same.

For my state of Oregon, I'm quite confident that it's this one on I-5 referencing Portland.



As for within Oregon, it's probably this one on I-84. No picture so GSV will have to do. https://goo.gl/maps/6zs1FjYzSSA2

[TheHighwayMan3561]

My unscientific guess for Minnesota is this one, on eastbound I-94 outside Moorhead.



EDIT: There's also a distance given for Madison, WI on I-94 which is 247 miles.

[US 89]

I’m thinking this is Utah’s longest:



Posted on I-80 westbound, leaving Park City.

[ftballfan]

For Michigan, I know there's a sign on WB I-94 just west of US-23 that mentions Chicago, at 239 miles. There might be one on SB I-75 in the Mackinac Bridge area that mentions Detroit, but I haven't been up that way in years

SB I-75 just south of I-475 in Ohio has signs mentioning Atlanta and Tampa (new ones, by the way). Also, Lexington KY makes a couple of appearances on I-75 between Toledo and Dayton.

[tdindy88]

Almost certainly the winner for Indiana is along US 41 just north of I-64 in southwest Indiana. The mileage sign lists the distance to Chicago at 279 miles.

[webny99]

So just to clarify, there's two lists going on here:

1 Longest distance that refers to somewhere in the state (the sign can be located out of state, as in the OP).
2 Longest distance on a sign in the state, that refers to any place, anywhere (the sign can refer to a city within the state).

There's one for NYC on the thruway near Ripley, but I can't find it in street view at the moment.

[vdeane]

There's one for NYC on the thruway near Ripley, but I can't find it in street view at the moment.

Probably this one.

[webny99]

There's one for NYC on the thruway near Ripley, but I can't find it in street view at the moment.

Probably this one.

Ah. Yes. Thanks for that. I was looking several miles too close to Ripley.

I think that's the longest within the state (and it is artificially high, because no one would actually use the thruway to get to NYC). There's also some for Montreal that make it into the 300's IIRC. In any case, we're not going to beat 490, so that's the final NYS submission for Part 2.

There may be mileage signs referring to NYC from further afield (Youngstown, maybe?) to wrap up Part 1 for New York.

[vdeane]

Unless there's something posted near Toledo (Youngstown is a hundred miles closer... just goes to show how indirect the Thruway is), I think that's the longest one to anywhere in NY unless Maine posted a sign with mileage to various cities along I-95 near the border (didn't see one when I did a quick street view check, though).

[PHLBOS]

To my knowledge, this one posts the longest distance mileage sign in Massachusetts.

[jp the roadgeek]

This is one of the few in CT.  SB CT 15 on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Meriden just past the I-91 interchange. Has to be the highest to refer to any location.



The highest in-state sign for an in-state location would be the one on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich for Hartford (82 mi.).  The longest out of state sign for an in-state location would be on I-84 East just east of I-684 in Brewster, NY: Hartford 65 mi.

[freddyb590]

For NYC:  Posted on I-80 EB in Ohio, just east of the 76/80 split. . .
https://tinyurl.com/y8oxdama

Doesn't beat the mileage from the sign on the Thruway.

[rlb2024]

When crossing into Texas on I-10 westbound from Louisiana, a sign in Orange near Exit 875 shows:

Beaumont  23
El Paso     857


https://www.google.com/maps/@30.1214265,-93.7731589,3a,49y,287.98h,95.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCgPWN_UDpbjP0jCL06Uf5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[oscar]

This might be it for Alaska, taken in Deadhorse, at the north end of the Dalton Highway. I wouldn't be surprised if there's one with a four-digit mileage to Dawson Creek BC (mile 0 for the Alaska Highway -- mile 1422 is in Delta Junction AK):

[cl94]

Maryland is on US 50 in Ocean City. 3,073 miles.

[hotdogPi]

Maryland is on US 50 in Ocean City. 3,073 miles.

(not counting celebratory markers at the beginning of cross-country routes)

[cl94]

Maryland is on US 50 in Ocean City. 3,073 miles.

(not counting celebratory markers at the beginning of cross-country routes)

I mean, if we're using that logic, we could say that the Thruway example doesn't count either.

[roadman65]

Florida has them on I-95 for Miami starting in St. John's County out of Jacksonville well in the 300's.  I do not think that I have seen anything higher in the Sunshine State over 225 and those are on US 1 and US 27 for Miami.  Then you have Perry on US 19 from as far south as Memphis, where the US route first begins at US 41 that is close to that give or take.

[webny99]

Maryland is on US 50 in Ocean City. 3,073 miles.

(not counting celebratory markers at the beginning of cross-country routes)

I mean, if we're using that logic, we could say that the Thruway example doesn't count either.

How so? The two aren't really comparable IMO.

[webny99]

To my knowledge, this one posts the longest distance mileage sign in Massachusetts.

But there may be signs from further afield referring to Boston for the other part of the question.

If there's none on the thruway, there certainly should be.

[Jim]

Tampa's far from Ohio.  I-75, August, 16, 2017.

[webny99]

^ Also questionable IMO. An illusion caused by the impending eclipse, perhaps? 

The OP could say, but maybe a good rule of thumb would be that the sign can't count if intermediate control cities (or large metros, for non-freeways) are skipped.

[dvferyance]

I am sure South Dakota's would be the 337 miles to Rapid City heading west on I-90 just past Sioux Falls.

[Jmiles32]

For Virginia I'm pretty sure the winner is a mileage sign for Roanoke located on I-81 just south of Exit 323(185 miles away).
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2811875,-78.0897022,3a,27.2y,247.51h,89.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8CItkXf9re5U6eGbOIgPpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[Revive 755]

For Illinois to a city in Illinois, probably this one with 371 to Chicago on NB I-57 after the IL 3/US 51 interchange

For in Illinois but to a city in another state, probably the first distance sign with Memphis on the bottom line for I-57 - I believe that would be 496 on this sign south of the Manteno Exit.  If there is one for Memphis with a distance over 500 south of I-80 I cannot find it tonight.

For Missouri to a city in Missouri - 276 to St. Louis on I-44/I-49 around Joplin

For in Missouri but to a city in a different state:  370 to Tulsa, OK west of MO 141