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I Nominate ( Blank) as the most loneliest road in the nation.

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roadman65:
NE Highway 8 is very lonely from US 75 to US 81. That’s my pick.

If you drive it, please have plenty of gas as all the towns seem to lack services, or if they have them then they’re off the highway.

What’s your picks of lonely highways that you’ve discovered?

Scott5114:
Just to get it out of the way—US 50 in Nevada is officially named the Loneliest Road in America and, at one time, was signed as such.


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Max Rockatansky:
Doesn’t US 191 have the two lowest AADTs of any US Route?  In particular along the Coronado Trail and somewhere in Wyoming that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

JayhawkCO:

--- Quote from: Max Rockatansky on October 06, 2023, 04:17:26 AM ---Doesn’t US 191 have the two lowest AADTs of any US Route?  In particular along the Coronado Trail and somewhere in Wyoming that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

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The lowest overall is US191 in Montana at the Canadian border (AADT: 16). The lowest that isn't a border is one of the orphaned segments of US87 in Wyoming (AADT: 52). Looks like US191 in Arizona (AADT: 97) is the 3rd lowest non-border segment after the aforementioned US87 and US19W in North Carolina (AADT: 70)


And then for a nomination, US6 in Nevada actually has a lower AADT than US50, so it's even lonelier.

gonealookin:

--- Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 06, 2023, 09:39:11 AM ---And then for a nomination, US6 in Nevada actually has a lower AADT than US50, so it's even lonelier.

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Nevada's north-south state highways that connect I-80 to US 50 and US 50 to US 6 or US 95 are all uniformly empty, with AADT of a few hundred once you get away from the towns at either end.  Not US 93 or US 95, which are reasonably busy, but any of those state routes in the central part of the state work, and most of them are close to 100 miles long.

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