States you've never been on a US highway in

[US 89]

We have a thread for interstates, so why not make one for US highways too: are there any states you've been to that you have not been on any US routes in?

I'll use the same format I used in the other thread, where bold denotes a clinch in that state. Looks like my nontrivial answers would be Maryland, New York, and New Hampshire.

AL - 11, 43, 78, 80, 82, 84, 231, 278, 280, 431
AZ - 64, 89, 160, 180
AR - 49, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70, 79, 412
CA - 50, 101
CO - 6, 24, 34, 36, 40, 50, 84, 85, 87, 160, 285, 287, 491, 550
DC - 1, 29, 50
FL - 90, 98, 231
GA - 11, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 41, 76, 78, 80, 123, 129, 278, 411, 441
ID - 20, 26, 30, 89, 91, 93
IL - 40
IN - 31
IA - 6, 18, 275
KS - 54, 56, 69, 75, 160, 166, 169, 400
KY - 31, 31E, 31W, 42, 60, 150
ME - 1
MD - none
MA - 1, 3
MI - none, airport only
MN - none, airport only
MS - 45, 78
MO - 24, 40, 50, 56, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 71, 136, 159, 160
MT - 2, 12, 20, 89, 93, 191, 287
NE - 26, 34, 77,  81, 83, 275
NV - 6, 50, 93, 95
NH - probably none
NJ - none, boat only
NM - 60, 64, 70, 84, 85, 87, 160, 285, 491, 550
NY - none
NC - 13, 17, 19, 64, 74, 76, 129, 258, 301, 421
OK - 59, 60, 62, 64, 69, 75, 77, 169, 270, 412
OR - 30, 395
SC - 17, 52, 76, 78, 123, 501, 521, 701
SD - 18
TN - 11, 27, 41, 51, 61, 64, 70, 72, 74, 76, 79, 127, 411
TX - 59, 67, 70, 75, 77, 79, 82, 83, 84, 87, 90, 180, 183, 190, 277, 281, 283, 287, 290, 377, 380, 385
UT - 6, 40, 50, 89, 91, 189, 191, 491
VA - 1, 29
WA - 12, 97, 395
WY - 26, 30, 85, 87, 89, 189, 191, 287

[hotdogPi]

CA, NM, OR, and possibly IL and ME. The only one of these that I have significant road mileage for is CA.

[Max Rockatansky]

That would be none for me in all the Lower 48 States.  I've been on at least one active US Route in all of them. 

[ozarkman417]

For me, This would only be Ohio & Maryland. If I were to count states with less than one mile of US-Highways traveled, I could include NE, IA, and PA. Including airport layovers this would also include NY and MN.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits

[Rothman]

I've been to 49 states, all except Alaska.  I believe in Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska I was only on US routes that had a concurrency with interstates, though.

I've been on US routes in all of them, except Hawaii.

[Rothman]

VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits

Somebody's doin' it wrong.

[Big John]

RI, CT, SC, NC

[Eth]

We have a thread for interstates, so why not make one for US highways too: are there any states you've been to that you have not been on any US routes in?

I'll use the same format I used in the other thread, where bold denotes a clinch in that state. Looks like my nontrivial answers would be Maryland, New York, and New Hampshire.

Using the same format:

AL — 11, 29, 31, 72, 78, 80, 82, 84, 231, 278, 280, 431
AZ — none, airport only
CA — 101
CO — none, airport only
CT — 1, 5, 6
DE — 40, 202
DC — 1, 29, 50
FL — 1, 17, 19, 27, 41, 90, 92, 98, 129, 192, 231, 301, 331, 441
GA — 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 41, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 123, 129, 221, 278, 280, 319, 341, 411, 441
HI — none, but mostly because there aren't any
LA — 190
ME — 1
MD — 1, 13, 15, 29, 40, 50, 219, 220, 301, 340, 522
MA — 1, 3, 44
NH — 1, 3, 4, 202
NJ — 1, 9, 40, 46, 206
NY — 1, 9
NC — 1, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 52, 64, 70, 74, 129, 158, 220, 301, 401, 421, 441, 501, 601
OH — none!
OK — 69, 70, 75, 77
PA — 15, 30, 202, 222, 322, 422
RI — 1, 6
SC — 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 76, 78, 123, 178, 301, 501, 601, 701
TN — 11, 11E, 19, 19W, 23, 25W, 27, 31, 31W, 41, 64, 70, 74, 421, 431
TX — 67, 69, 75, 77, 81, 287
VT — 2
VA — 1, 11, 11E, 13, 15, 17, 19, 29, 50, 52, 58, 60, 220, 250, 301, 340, 421, 460, 501
WA — none, unless I can count former 99
WV — 19, 50, 52, 60, 340

So, leaving aside layovers and states that don't have any US routes, my answer would be Ohio and Washington.

[formulanone]

I'm sure I've not been on a US highway in Nevada. Mostly just walking around Las Vegas Boulevard, and being shuttled around I-15.

So that means MT (not yet visited), NV, and Utah (airport-only).

North Dakota squeaks by because of the I-29/US 81 concurrency.

[dlsterner]

I've been to 33 states (counting DC as a "state").  I have been on US highway in each of them, save for the exceptions below:

Colorado, Missouri, and Texas - Airport only; never left the building.

Iowa - only SR 165, in Carter Lake

So my answer is either 1 or 4, depending whether airport only clinches are counted.

A couple of close calls:
CT - Couldn't remember any, although I probably was on US 6 and/or US 44 on a family vacation (1965) when I was too young to really notice.  But I then noticed that I have grabbed a few recently via concurrencies with Interstate highways.
NY - Couldn't remember any, but in the same vacation above I was almost surely on US 9 and/or US 9W.
LA - A couple of blocks of US 190 in Slidell - not significant enough to place my Travel Mapping file.

I just don't have the 100% conclusive proof in my mind for CT and NY.

[theroadwayone]

When I was in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama many years ago, I vaguely remember going on US 90. When going through Nevada, Arizona, and Utah to get to Zion, I just used I-15.

[Great Lakes Roads]

I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC and excluding Hawaii and Alaska.

[NWI_Irish96]

Nebraska is the only state I've entered but not been on a US Highway, though there are several states where my only US highways are concurrencies with interstates.

[Rothman]

I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.

Which one did you get in Hawaii?

[Max Rockatansky]

I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.

Which one did you get in Hawaii?

Weren't there highways signed with US Route shields during World War II in Hawaii since it was a recognizable marker for soldiers to follow?

[deathtopumpkins]

My answer to this question is the same as the interstate one. Only state I've been to that I haven't been on a US highway in is Arizona, which was only an airport layover.

However, for several states this only includes interstate overlaps: LA, MS, AL, TN, AR, TX, NE, IA, KY.

[oscar]

I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.

Which one did you get in Hawaii?

Weren't there highways signed with US Route shields during World War II in Hawaii since it was a recognizable marker for soldiers to follow?

Yes. At least one wartime route marker was still posted in the 1950s, around the time Hawaii Territory developed the precursor to the current route system, in preparation for statehood.

As for Alaska, it got conditional approval in 1964 for US 97, from the Canadian border to Fairbanks. But the condition was that Yukon renumber its part of the Alaska Highway to 97, which never happened. I've seen photos of an Alaska US 97 marker in a museum, but I don't know if it was ever posted iin the wild. 

[Buck87]

Of my 48 states visited + DC, the only one I can think of would be Mississippi, which I've crossed on I-10, and once went all of two exits into on I-55 from Memphis and back....so no US routes there.

[hbelkins]

I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits

Somebody's doin' it wrong.

I did that to illustrate how I used no US routes in those states.

[Rothman]

I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.

If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.

[1995hoo]

For me it's Alaska, Hawaii, and Minnesota. A harder task, and one I don't care about doing right now, would be to figure out whether there are any states in which my US Highway travel was solely on routes running concurrently with an Interstate. I'm pretty sure that's how I got US Highway mileage in Illinois, for example, as my only non-Interstate travel in that state was in cabs (or a hotel van) between O'Hare or Midway and the Chicago Loop area.

But I can't be bothered to look that up.

[BrianP]

I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.

If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.

And the short US 6 concurrency too.

For me it would be two different states from the interstate thread. 

NH - only on I-95
MI - only on I-75 between Detroit and OH.

[hbelkins]

I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.

If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.

I have. I have 95 in RI clinched. So I guess I've been on a US route in every state I've been in.