What are some of the highways or State routes you would like to explore ? Me I would like to check out Ohio's State route 235 US 35 and US 68 in Ohio.
I haven't been on most of CA 1 before, so that would be one of them for me.
For interstates, I have most of I-75 clinched except for the section north of the I-96 interchange and south of the Florida Turnpike interchange. Would like to complete those two sections in the future too.
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
CA 1
the Canadian side of the Lake Superior Circle Tour
M-22
US 101
I think I'd enjoy driving all of US-1 from Key West to Maine as well.
"Explore" and "drive" are two different things, in my opinion.
There are highways I'd like to drive because of the road itself or the scenery, and this one in Mexico (https://goo.gl/maps/CWen6dDyxhzUnYGMA) is probably at the top of that list. But there's not much along the way from A to B that I'd like to "explore".
Contrast that, though, with I-70 across the Colorado Rockies. Yes, I've driven it a few times, and it's scenic as all get out, but I'd like to "explore" it more. That is, I'd like to stop and see more places along the route, hike some more trails, visit some more towns.
CA 1 north of Malibu
US 1 south of Miami
Blue Ridge Pkwy
M 185
HI 72
AK 3
My Highway Bucket List
Dalton Highway
Dempster Highway/Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway
US1 between Miami and Key West
US101 down the Oregon Coast & around Olympic NP
James Bay Road
Trans Taiga Road
Apache Trail
I-H3
Hana Highway
Trans-Labrador Highway
Chile's Ruta 5
Pamir Highway (Tajikistan)
Karokoram Highway (Pakistan/China)
Khyber Pass (AH1) (Pakistan/Afghanistan)
"Road of Bones" (Russia)
Great Ocean Road (Australia)
Atlantic Ocean Road (Norway)
As you can probably tell, the more remote, the more I want to drive it.
Chris
Any that would help me achieve my various travel goals.
That said, trying to drive US 202 in its entirety is something I've considered.
Want to drive to Yellowstone on the Beartooth. Been into the park on every other road...
I am sure there are others.
I-80, I-70, TN-71, CA-1, the 85 MPH segment of TX-130, and the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Quote from: Ketchup99 on March 17, 2021, 09:29:01 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Have a flying car. That, or somehow get a private ferry service.
The entire length of the western US-2.
Quote from: interstatefan990 on March 17, 2021, 09:33:08 PM
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Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Have a flying car. That, or somehow get a private ferry service.
Wait until the FritzOwl interstate system gets completed, in which there's an interstate across the Darien Gap!
Quote from: SkyPesos on March 17, 2021, 09:47:41 PM
Quote from: interstatefan990 on March 17, 2021, 09:33:08 PM
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Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Have a flying car. That, or somehow get a private ferry service.
Wait until the FritzOwl interstate system gets completed, in which there's an interstate across the Darien Gap!
In my plans I have my Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay Alaska I-5, 17, 19, 43 across the Darien Gap
I think this is needed
There will be a 5/17/19/43 concurrency
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Quote from: Ketchup99 on March 17, 2021, 09:29:01 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Have a flying car. That, or somehow get a private ferry service.
Wait until the FritzOwl interstate system gets completed, in which there’s an interstate across the Darien Gap!
In my plans I have my Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay Alaska I-5, 17, 19, 43 across the Darien Gap
I think this is needed
There will be a 5/17/19/43 concurrency
In my plans, I have four 2di in the Darien Gap, I-20, I-37, I-66 and I-69, as well as two 3di and a 4di: I-420, I-666 and I-1337. There will be a I-69/420/666/1337 concurrency. I think this is needed.
Quote from: Ketchup99 on March 17, 2021, 09:29:01 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
There have previously been on-again-off-again ferry operations between Panamá and Colombia, but I don't believe any are currently in operation. There was a vehicle ferry between Colón and Cartagena, for example, but not anymore. Absent that convenience, the process involves putting your vehicle on a cargo ship from Panamá to either Colombia or Ecuador. Depending on how much money you have (and it requires a lot of money and time and hoops to jump through either way), this means it either gets put into a shipping container protected by dunnage, or else strapped to the deck exposed to the ocean air. No matter how it's transported, it's a good idea to get an alignment job after arriving to port.
Here's a video that shows the actual shipping part. Bear in mind that the process also involves a large sum of money, a few days' worth of paperwork and legal arrangements on each end of the journey, plus separate passenger transport between cities.
It appears these folks had their vehicles strapped down inside the container, rather than (in addition to?) having the voids filled with dunnage.
Quote from: Ketchup99 on March 17, 2021, 09:29:01 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Drive the General Lee and simply jump the Darien Gap.
(https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.o50smvsyPP6KjV3_wzfpBwHaEx&pid=Api&P=0&w=266&h=172)
Quote from: interstatefan990 on March 17, 2021, 09:33:08 PM
Quote from: Ketchup99 on March 17, 2021, 09:29:01 PM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 17, 2021, 12:41:21 PM
My dream road trip would be driving as much of the Pan American highway that I can, from the Dalton Highway in AK to Panama, then navigating around the Darien Gap and continue through South America.
Alas, I need to at least get my kids through college before I seriously entertain this.
How does one navigate around the Darien Gap?
Have a flying car. That, or somehow get a private ferry service.
I guess I should've put "via ferry or some transportation around" the Darien Gap 😂
Maybe Elon Musk will build some of his tubes under the gap.
Anything west of the Mississippi River.
Quote from: kphoger on March 17, 2021, 12:51:27 PM
Contrast that, though, with I-70 across the Colorado Rockies. Yes, I've driven it a few times, and it's scenic as all get out, but I'd like to "explore" it more. That is, I'd like to stop and see more places along the route, hike some more trails, visit some more towns.
On a related note: I'm kicking myself for passing up the opportunity, at the tail-end of a recent Colorado trip, to check out US 6 thru Clear Creek Canyon instead of sticking with I-70 over the final few foothills (which are certainly no slouch scenery-wise, either). Especially considering we then spent a few hours around Denver killing time before returning to DIA :spin:
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 18, 2021, 01:36:18 PM
Anything west of the Mississippi River.
Well, just so you know,
former IA-302 (https://goo.gl/maps/dQyCUKTY6wgq1YD58) is nothing to write home about.
Pretty much anyplace I haven't been yet. But here are some priorities in no particular order:
US 101 Coastal highway from Tacoma to Crescent City (https://www.themandagies.com/pacific-coast-road-trip/)
Vancouver Island (https://wheatlesswanderlust.com/vancouver-island-road-trip-itinerary/)
US 50 in Nevada (https://travelnevada.com/road-trip/loneliest-road-in-america/) and Utah
The intermontane parts of SW Colorado (Gunnison Canyon (https://www.nps.gov/cure/index.htm) and Upper Rio Grande Valley (https://www.nps.gov/grsa/index.htm))
Lake Michigan (https://lakemichigancircletour.com/) and Lake Huron (https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/scenic-drives-michigan-summer-road-trips) shorelines around Michigan "mitten"
Most of New England, especially US 1 and the Northern Maine wilderness area
The barrier islands along the Carolina and Georgia coas (https://www.fodors.com/community/road-trips/active-road-trip-charleston-outer-banks-1094890/)t
The Road to Hana (https://roadtohana.com/)
I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin. Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.
I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.
In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on March 18, 2021, 03:15:52 PM
I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin. Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.
I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.
In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.
Mike
WI-35 is beautifully desolate between Superior and WI-77.
Quote from: SEWIGuy on March 18, 2021, 04:17:12 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on March 18, 2021, 03:15:52 PM
I've done the Blue Ridge Parkway, but I would like to do the interstate highway drive between Denver (actually Glenwood Springs) and the Los Angeles Basin. Also the Natchez Trace Parkway.
I wouldn't mind doing US 6 across Pennsylvania, too.
In Wisconsin, I have not yet done WI 35 between Hudson and Superior.
Mike
WI-35 is beautifully desolate between Superior and WI-77.
Watch out for deer. My in-laws owned a cabin outside of Danbury.
Quote from: skluth on March 18, 2021, 02:34:09 PM
Pretty much anyplace I haven't been yet. But here are some priorities in no particular order:
US 101 Coastal highway from Tacoma to Crescent City (https://www.themandagies.com/pacific-coast-road-trip/)
Vancouver Island (https://wheatlesswanderlust.com/vancouver-island-road-trip-itinerary/)
US 50 in Nevada (https://travelnevada.com/road-trip/loneliest-road-in-america/) and Utah
The intermontane parts of SW Colorado (Gunnison Canyon (https://www.nps.gov/cure/index.htm) and Upper Rio Grande Valley (https://www.nps.gov/grsa/index.htm))
Lake Michigan (https://lakemichigancircletour.com/) and Lake Huron (https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/scenic-drives-michigan-summer-road-trips) shorelines around Michigan "mitten"
Most of New England, especially US 1 and the Northern Maine wilderness area
The barrier islands along the Carolina and Georgia coas (https://www.fodors.com/community/road-trips/active-road-trip-charleston-outer-banks-1094890/)t
The Road to Hana (https://roadtohana.com/)
I'll warn you now, the road to Hana is a bit anti-climactic. It's a pretty drive but you get to the town and are left thinking "all that...for this?!"
I'm one of the crazy eccentrics that wants to drive US 6 end to end :).
But anyway:
- US 50 in Maryland
- US 1 south of Miami
- I-359 (I have passed right by this route *several* times)
- MS 1
- MS 465 (most of it is usually flooded)
- Lakeshore Drive (IL)
- Finish the Natchez Trace
Lots of stuff in the west and southwest, including Monument Valley (US 163), the Moki Dugway, US 191 south of I-40, and probably a bunch of other routes that don't come readily to mind. I'd also like to pick up US 60 in northeast Oklahoma and drive it the rest of the way west. And since I have US 62 clinched in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky, I'd like to drive the rest of the route.
Closer to home, the Cherohala Skyway in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Some that come to mind:
- Usal Road and all of the Lost Coast from Rockport to Ferndale
- The Old Rattlesnake Grade east of the South Fork Eel River
- The Devil's Backbone on the Grand Staircase
- Black Bear Pass Road near Telluride
- Old US 60 and the original Queen Creek Tunnel
- The Bradshaw Trail east of the Salton Sea
- Hovatter Road and beyond in the KOFA Range
anything gritty and urban. i already live in the mountains.
when i was a kid i lived in northern nj and have memories of things like the pulaski skyway, goethals bridge, etc.
i-278 fascinates me because its just so... well, gritty and urban. same with 579 in pittsburgh. the big fustercluck where like 97 roads come together to go across the george washington bridge. god forbid you're on the wrong set of lanes or wrong road because you might end up in an entirely different part of new york than you intended.
i liked the old 76/25/36/270 mess in denver, before the revamp. coming sb, you had to make like a 20mph turn to head east on 76.. or the old 'mousetrap'. or even the 85/bus 85/byp 34 mess in greeley.
Route 66. Or is that highway overrated?
Quote from: TheGrassGuy on March 19, 2021, 09:56:35 AM
Route 66. Or is that highway overrated?
For this forum, this is what I have for it in the Roasted 2dus thread:
Quote from: SkyPesos on March 13, 2021, 07:46:20 PM
66 - Some people here thinks it doesn't deserve the fame it gets in the general public
I would also love to drive out to Cove Fort Utah where I-70 West ends and turns into I-15
Quote from: doglover44 on April 09, 2021, 11:53:03 AM
I would also love to drive out to Cove Fort Utah where I-70 West ends and turns into I-15
Back in 2002, when I was on a vacation out west, before I was into road clinching, I used US 50 to shortcut between I-70 and I-15. Now I regret taking that shortcut.
The one with a number and/or scenery that I haven't seen to before.
Quote from: skluth on March 18, 2021, 02:34:09 PM
Pretty much anyplace I haven't been yet. But here are some priorities in no particular order:
US 101 Coastal highway from Tacoma to Crescent City (https://www.themandagies.com/pacific-coast-road-trip/)
Vancouver Island (https://wheatlesswanderlust.com/vancouver-island-road-trip-itinerary/)
US 50 in Nevada (https://travelnevada.com/road-trip/loneliest-road-in-america/) and Utah
The intermontane parts of SW Colorado (Gunnison Canyon (https://www.nps.gov/cure/index.htm) and Upper Rio Grande Valley (https://www.nps.gov/grsa/index.htm))
Lake Michigan (https://lakemichigancircletour.com/) and Lake Huron (https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/scenic-drives-michigan-summer-road-trips) shorelines around Michigan "mitten"
Most of New England, especially US 1 and the Northern Maine wilderness area
The barrier islands along the Carolina and Georgia coas (https://www.fodors.com/community/road-trips/active-road-trip-charleston-outer-banks-1094890/)t
The Road to Hana (https://roadtohana.com/)
The shoreline around the thumb is so-so nothing special about it in Huron County anyway. Almost all of the thumb is boring, flat farm fields with no significant inland lakes to speak of really.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 17, 2021, 12:45:15 PM
M-22
All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?
Local: The rest of the Oregon Route System
US 101 from Aberdeen to Olympia
WA 16, 3
US 12
WA 8
WA 20
Not so local: BC 1, 5, 19, 97
CA 1
I-90
US 16
International:
India NH 110
NH in Sikkim (impossible as foreigners aren't permitted in Sikkim because of China and India's relations)
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 17, 2021, 12:45:15 PM
M-22
All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?
Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 09, 2021, 02:38:31 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 17, 2021, 12:45:15 PM
M-22
All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?
Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.
Yeah, I thought both Northport and Suttons Bay were nice towns.
I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes. No, really. And it seems doable.
If I ever get over my fear of flying, I'd like to go to Europe and sample the English motorways, the French autoroutes and the German autobahns.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 09, 2021, 05:50:56 PM
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 17, 2021, 12:45:15 PM
M-22
All right, I have to confess. I did M-22 last weekend. It was a nice road, but other than a couple short sections above Lake Michigan and coming down to Grand Traverse Bay and a couple charming towns I found little about it worth stealing a sign or buying a T-shirt over. Maybe I should come back in the summer or fall?
Summertime up there is probably the best. Also Northport is a cool town it's north of where M-22 curves back to the South.
Yeah, I thought both Northport and Suttons Bay were nice towns.
I took a trip to Alpena the other day actually I didn't have any reason to be there I just ended up there. I took a combination of M-13, US-23, a few back roads because of a detour on M-65, M-65 and M-32. Then took M-32 again, M-33 and I-75.
M-65 is decent once you get up by the Au Sable River. M-33 is a scenic ride for most of its route north of Rose City it's pretty nice. I would say between those two M-33 wins.
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 09, 2021, 05:53:02 PM
I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes. No, really. And it seems doable.
It's very doable. And most of them are even interesting!
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 09, 2021, 05:53:02 PM
I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes. No, really. And it seems doable.
If you ever do such a thing, add up all the tolls you pay. That would be an interesting figure to look at.
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Quote from: stridentweasel on April 09, 2021, 05:53:02 PM
I want to clinch all of the Oklahoma Turnpikes. No, really. And it seems doable.
If you ever do such a thing, add up all the tolls you pay. That would be an interesting figure to look at.
Assuming a 2-axle vehicle and paying cash:
Cherokee–$3.25
Chickasaw–$0.85
Cimarron–$4.25
Creek 364–$3.75
Bailey 44–$6.25
Indian Nation–$7.75
Kickapoo–$2.25
Kilpatrick–$3.75
Muskogee 351–$4.00
Turner 44–$5.00
Will Rogers 44–$5.00
So you can expect to spend at least $46.10, $16.25 of which is spent clinching I-44 alone. Note that these do
not include the H.E. Bailey and Cimarron spurs, and assume each toll road is clinched in one go with no backtracking or repeat visits (like clinching the Cimarron, then using the Cimarron again later to get to Tulsa to clinch the Muskogee).
As much of my cross-country journeys, mostly done between 1982 and 2004, were principally east-west, with a fair number of diagonals thrown in, many of my unexplored highways are the longer N-S corridors. Several stand out; others are simply combinations of routes traversing areas I've missed solely because they're not along the E-W/diagonal corridors traveled in the past. A few off the top of my head:
The old MSR 789 corridor from Nogales, AZ to Sweetwater, MT (border-to-border) Done pieces of it here & there (most notably the portion now occupied by US 20 and US 310 in WY and MT).
US 281. Period. The longest 3dus; it would just be intriguing to do a south-to-north journey -- even though there's little in the way of major towns once north of TX. Just the fact that it'll likely, overall, to be boring over long stretches makes it interesting -- one can concentrate on the differences between the southern and norther prairies, for instance.
The Great River Road -- particularly the one on the east side of the river north of Cairo, IL. It's also eminently doable. One of the things to consider would be whether it would have made a decent US 59 (with the present one reverting to US 73, which is mainly where it is, grid-wise). Would have been a nice pair -- US 59 on the east side of the Mississippi River and US 61 on the west (with several exceptions, of course).
Probably a lot more I haven't yet assembled into a cohesive trip. Give me time..............
Pretty much any old highway that I can explore on Google Maps, mostly in the US & maybe even Canada & some other countries.
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 10, 2021, 12:18:35 AM
Assuming a 2-axle vehicle and paying cash:
Cherokee–$3.25
Chickasaw–$0.85
Cimarron–$4.25
Creek 364–$3.75
Bailey 44–$6.25
Indian Nation–$7.75
Kickapoo–$2.25
Kilpatrick–$3.75
Muskogee 351–$4.00
Turner 44–$5.00
Will Rogers 44–$5.00
So you can expect to spend at least $46.10, $16.25 of which is spent clinching I-44 alone. Note that these do not include the H.E. Bailey and Cimarron spurs, and assume each toll road is clinched in one go with no backtracking or repeat visits (like clinching the Cimarron, then using the Cimarron again later to get to Tulsa to clinch the Muskogee).
That's slightly less than the E-ZPass rate for the 360 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike mainline alone. Not bad, although we all knew the Penna Turnpike was pricey.
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While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
Santa Clara County (California) Expressways
MO 100
Florida's Turnpike
It's not very ambitious, but I'd like to explore US 23 in Appalachia north of Kingsport and especially the part in Kentucky. Might as well add OH 7 up to East Liverpool while I'm up that way.
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
That's slightly less than the E-ZPass rate for the 360 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike mainline alone. Not bad, although we all knew the Penna Turnpike was pricey.
OTA can be accused of many things, but charging unreasonable tolls isn't one of them.
Say hi when you do the Bailey Spur, that's part of my commute!
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
MO 100
Okay, I'll bite. Why?
Quote from: Tom958 on April 11, 2021, 10:05:23 PM
It's not very ambitious, but I'd like to explore US 23 in Appalachia north of Kingsport and especially the part in Kentucky. Might as well add OH 7 up to East Liverpool while I'm up that way.
Have to say US 23 was more interesting before the last portions were four-laned (i.e., having to drive through Prestonsburg and Pikeville), but the four-laning was an engineering feat unto itself.
Quote from: Rothman on April 12, 2021, 12:27:27 AM
Quote from: Tom958 on April 11, 2021, 10:05:23 PM
It's not very ambitious, but I'd like to explore US 23 in Appalachia north of Kingsport and especially the part in Kentucky. Might as well add OH 7 up to East Liverpool while I'm up that way.
Have to say US 23 was more interesting before the last portions were four-laned (i.e., having to drive through Prestonsburg and Pikeville), but the four-laning was an engineering feat unto itself.
The talk of US 23 through KY and VA got me interested in it too. I might use it over I-75 or I-77 on a future trip to the southeast.
I’d love to explore more of US 19. I’ve been on most of it in the northern half of GA, but I would jump at the chance to drive the rest of it someday. Up there with US 89 and US 64 on the list of 2dus routes I think would be most fun to clinch (given enough time and money, of course).
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 12, 2021, 12:07:51 AM
Say hi when you do the Bailey Spur, that's part of my commute!
Will do!
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Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
MO 100
Okay, I'll bite. Why?
Interesting design features and typological variety, including a one-way couplet and a set of extra-large jughandles. Good example of a surface highway and part-time expressway. Honestly, I find that the most interesting roads are those that truly blur the lines between surface-street and express highway, and it's always interesting to see how traffic control and safety features are handled on these roads.
(Edited to show context.)
- I-84 in New York
- I-64 in Indiana
- Just about all of I-85
- US 1 in North Carolina
- US 33 in Virginia
Quote from: epzik8 on April 12, 2021, 10:11:02 AM
I-64 in Indiana
Just out of curiosity, why this one?
Chris
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 12, 2021, 07:10:47 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 12, 2021, 12:07:51 AM
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
MO 100
Okay, I'll bite. Why?
Interesting design features and typological variety, including a one-way couplet and a set of extra-large jughandles. Good example of a surface highway and part-time expressway. Honestly, I find that the most interesting roads are those that truly blur the lines between surface-street and express highway, and it's always interesting to see how traffic control and safety features are handled on these roads.
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For the one way couplet, is it the one at the I-270 interchange? That's the only one I can think of on MO 100. I don't remember any jughandles, can you link me the extra large one you found?. If you're clinching MO 100, there's a chance you'll get tired of the traffic signals on Manchester Rd about half way through :D
Quote from: epzik8 on April 12, 2021, 10:11:02 AM
- I-84 in New York
- I-64 in Indiana
- Just about all of I-85
- US 1 in North Carolina
- US 33 in Virginia
Why I-64 in Indiana? I've clinched it before but wasn't trying to I was just going between Louisville and St. Louis. I-64 in Indiana is pretty boring to be honest.
US-23 in Kentucky was pretty cool the last time I was there. So was the Mountain Parkway.
I had the privilege of traveling part of the Bluegrass Parkway recently. Would love to go down there and travel a few more of the parkways.
Quote from: SkyPesos on April 12, 2021, 01:44:31 PM
For the one way couplet, is it the one at the I-270 interchange? That's the only one I can think of on MO 100.
Yes. https://goo.gl/maps/zJvLdkAT5A3gWUxv9
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I don't remember any jughandles, can you link me the extra large one you found?.
Yes. https://goo.gl/maps/1HuT5svdUmAjfda56
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 12, 2021, 09:11:35 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on April 12, 2021, 01:44:31 PM
For the one way couplet, is it the one at the I-270 interchange? That's the only one I can think of on MO 100.
Yes. https://goo.gl/maps/zJvLdkAT5A3gWUxv9
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I don't remember any jughandles, can you link me the extra large one you found?.
Yes. https://goo.gl/maps/1HuT5svdUmAjfda56
That set of jughandles looks more like a folded diamond variant, minus the grade separation, than anything else. If left turns from the intersecting road are in fact prohibited (which looks to be the case by lack of usage traces), it probably works quite well -- better than the convoluted configurations found on some of our local (San Jose) expressways (think "standard" diamonds with RIRO's on the ramps for local streets!).
Any of the Rocky Mountain interstates
The sections of M-22 I'm missing (I've never been to Northport despite living less than 100 miles from there most of my life)
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 12, 2021, 07:10:47 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 12, 2021, 12:07:51 AM
Say hi when you do the Bailey Spur, that's part of my commute!
Will do!
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Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
MO 100
Okay, I'll bite. Why?
Interesting design features and typological variety, including a one-way couplet and a set of extra-large jughandles. Good example of a surface highway and part-time expressway. Honestly, I find that the most interesting roads are those that truly blur the lines between surface-street and express highway, and it's always interesting to see how traffic control and safety features are handled on these roads.
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I personally never cared for MO 100 east of Gray Summit; it quickly goes from rural highway to four lane expressway to four lane suburban strip mall nightmare. Of course, the stretch I used to drive frequently was the strip mall nightmare between MO 141 and Lindbergh so my viewpoint is much different from those driving west of Ellisville. OTOH, I love the section between Gray Summit and Hermann skirting the south bank of the Missouri culminating with a mandatory stop at Stone Hill Winery. It continues for a bit west of Hermann with the land around MO 100 looking a lot like Wisconsin's Driftless Area. I prefer MO 94 on the north bank which can be fairly busy between Washington and I-64 (especially on fall weekends) but has very little traffic once you get west of MO 47 and goes all the way to Jeff City.
I do think the MO 100 interchange with I-270 is one of the weirdest designs (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6028563,-90.4505215,16.38z) ever, though it's surprisingly efficient.
Quote from: skluth on April 15, 2021, 12:24:37 PM
I do think the MO 100 interchange with I-270 is one of the weirdest designs (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6028563,-90.4505215,16.38z) ever, though it's surprisingly efficient.
It's a Parclo-Plus.
Quote from: skluth on April 15, 2021, 12:24:37 PM
Quote from: stridentweasel on April 12, 2021, 07:10:47 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on April 12, 2021, 12:07:51 AM
Say hi when you do the Bailey Spur, that's part of my commute!
Will do!
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Quote from: stridentweasel on April 11, 2021, 09:51:28 PM
While we're on this thread: some other roads that have been on my driving wish list for a while:
MO 100
Okay, I'll bite. Why?
Interesting design features and typological variety, including a one-way couplet and a set of extra-large jughandles. Good example of a surface highway and part-time expressway. Honestly, I find that the most interesting roads are those that truly blur the lines between surface-street and express highway, and it's always interesting to see how traffic control and safety features are handled on these roads.
(Edited to show context.)
I personally never cared for MO 100 east of Gray Summit; it quickly goes from rural highway to four lane expressway to four lane suburban strip mall nightmare. Of course, the stretch I used to drive frequently was the strip mall nightmare between MO 141 and Lindbergh so my viewpoint is much different from those driving west of Ellisville. OTOH, I love the section between Gray Summit and Hermann skirting the south bank of the Missouri culminating with a mandatory stop at Stone Hill Winery. It continues for a bit west of Hermann with the land around MO 100 looking a lot like Wisconsin's Driftless Area. I prefer MO 94 on the north bank which can be fairly busy between Washington and I-64 (especially on fall weekends) but has very little traffic once you get west of MO 47 and goes all the way to Jeff City.
I do think the MO 100 interchange with I-270 is one of the weirdest designs (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6028563,-90.4505215,16.38z) ever, though it's surprisingly efficient.
I like the I-270 interchange a lot, mainly because they care about the traffic to West County Mall from its own mall entrance on the NB exit, and stop sign on the SB exit. Also pretty much free-flow except one signals set that only have a straight movement for both directions.
Out of the 3 major strip mall lined E-W state route arterials I've been on the most (D, 340, 100), generally between MO 141 and I-170 (Brentwood for 100), I think the traffic is the worst on MO 100. Page Ave seems to have fewer traffic signals than the other two, which is a breeze to use, and sometimes I use it continuing east of MO 364 past its eastern terminus all the way to I-170, instead of switching to I-64.