Strangest destination/control city for an exit/ramp

[TravelingBethelite]

What's the weirdest you've seen?

Mine would have to be the "RR Yard" off of exit 421A in Kansas City, KS:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0928219,-94.6403003,3a,37.5y,285.61h,92.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9NMlhkSe28Ua9abG5e3puw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[CapeCodder]

The Boeing "Exit" off of I-170 in St. Louis https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7499117,-90.337708,3a,75y,335.5h,89.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spVLmHEiIfrKX1dvpNb8HYg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[jbnati27]

With my weird sense of humor, I've always found this one entertaining:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4419129,-81.7656485,3a,75y,110.22h,90.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saffW8mnVtll2BGK2_DXWbw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Does this mean there will be some woman named Joanna Whitmire standing at the end of the ramp? (Har har har har)

[jbnati27]

This one isn't necessarily strange, it's just extremely cool: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5790036,-122.1226883,3a,75y,87.27h,67.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSvyKDKMFlfu7o5b-ET9_1A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

There's a state park in the median of the interstate!

[roadman]

What's the weirdest you've seen?

Mine would have to be the "RR Yard" off of exit 421A in Kansas City, KS:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0928219,-94.6403003,3a,37.5y,285.61h,92.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9NMlhkSe28Ua9abG5e3puw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

In Nashua NH, Exit 4 on the Everett Turnpike (East Dunstable Road) once included the legend "FAA Facility" (a reference to the Boston Center air traffic control facility). The legend was removed shortly after 9/11, but the sign panels still have a large blank space where the legend once was.

[ftballfan]

One I find kind of strange is US-31 NB at BUS US-31 south of Ludington. The control city from the ramp is still Ludington despite coming straight out of Ludington. Traverse City, Manistee, or even Scottville would make more sense there

[D-Dey65]

In Nashua NH, Exit 4 on the Everett Turnpike (East Dunstable Road) once included the legend "FAA Facility" (a reference to the Boston Center air traffic control facility). The legend was removed shortly after 9/11, but the sign panels still have a large blank space where the legend once was.

The Baltimore-Washington Parkway has a lot of similar exits, and they haven't changed their signs for the same security reasons.

[vtk]

On US 23 between Lucasville and Piketon, Ohio: "American Centrifuge". Fissile material is enriched there...

[The Nature Boy]

Interstate 91 in White River Junction, Vermont

The airport in question is a small airport in Lebanon, NH (right across the river). It seems like a weird control city for an interstate that you would take to get to Concord, Manchester and Boston.

[lordsutch]

In Tifton, Georgia, there's signs for "ABAC" on U.S. 41 at I-75. Unless you're from the area, you'd probably not know that ABAC was the abbreviation for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

[DandyDan]

After they opened the new US 34 bridge between Iowa and Nebraska last year, I thought it was quite odd that on I-29, the control city for WB US 34 is "South Bellevue".  Unlike "North Omaha", which gets posted off of I-29 and I-80 at their respective I-680 exits in Iowa, there is no area generally referred to as "South Bellevue", that I'm aware of.

[noelbotevera]

BUMP
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1827925,-118.1717537,3a,15y,309.28h,89.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soFD3jayWSsYPMWSD7U5fwA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is off exit 22A (duh) on I-210 in Pasadena, California. Unless you're a science geek, you'd never know that JPL stands for Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[xcellntbuy]

In Tifton, Georgia, there's signs for "ABAC" on U.S. 41 at I-75. Unless you're from the area, you'd probably not know that ABAC was the abbreviation for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

I always wondered.  Thank you.

[Big John]

^^ And that is redundant too as another sign leading to that exit almost spells it out (except the agricultural part): https://www.google.com/maps/@31.4918253,-83.5156823,3a,75y,219.62h,90.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si7aav9sOg6fdabWn448mAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[1995hoo]

I can't post a Street View link using my iPad, but one I've found odd is on northbound I-95 in Virginia at Exit 166 for the Fairfax County Parkway (Route 286). The sign for the northbound Parkway says "286 North/Fairfax County Parkway/Backlick Rd/Fullerton Rd." I find the final two lines a bit odd. In fairness, I will note that once upon a time they made sense–for many years, the northbound road stub-ended less than a mile west of I-95 and it didn't go anywhere other than Backlick and Fullerton Roads. Nowadays, the road is finished and provides a direct route to Burke, Fair Lakes, Reston, and Herndon, although admittedly you do have a TOTSO situation a shirt distance to the north.

The BGSs for that interchange were replaced recently (I don't know exactly when, but it was sometime this year), but the new signs are simply Clearview clones of the old ones. I would have thought a sign-replacement project would be an ideal time to put a real destination on the sign instead of simply two street names. VDOT doesn't seem to like to put "Burke" on road signs, though, other than some of the smaller signs you see at at-grade intersections, and I suppose maybe they don't want to use "Reston" or "Herndon" due to both distance and the availability of the Beltway route a short distance to the north.

[SteveG1988]

NH Liquor Store for the Turnpike rest areas.

[roadman65]

FDOT using "Magic Kingdom" for US 192 Westbound on I-4.

Then in Tifton, GA you have an acronym used for US 41 along I-75 that is not even a city.

[Pete from Boston]

BUMP
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1827925,-118.1717537,3a,15y,309.28h,89.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soFD3jayWSsYPMWSD7U5fwA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is off exit 22A (duh) on I-210 in Pasadena, California. Unless you're a science geek, you'd never know that JPL stands for Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

JPL is actually pretty well known by the public at large.  People may not know exactly what goes on there, but it's a fairly regular source of developments that make it into the mainstream news.

FDOT using "Magic Kingdom" for US 192 Westbound on I-4.

Then in Tifton, GA you have an acronym used for US 41 along I-75 that is not even a city.

You mean this one?

[Henry]

This one should take the cake:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2966022,-76.7426332,3a,75y,357.02h,79.34t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKjJOx0uBJGQHx9kt_MAGag!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DKjJOx0uBJGQHx9kt_MAGag%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D88.914551%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

It's Local Traffic for I-70 east of I-695. Of course, it was once planned to extend all the way to I-95, but heavy opposition due to its route through a large wooded area shot it down.

[Jim]

I like this one, on I-70 in Colorado.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Exit 39 on I-40 in New Mexico is "Refinery".

[roadman65]

To answer you Pete, yes that is the one!

Many places, of course, use local slang that you have to be from the area to know, but to strangers it is strange.

[realjd]

FDOT using "Magic Kingdom" for US 192 Westbound on I-4.

Then in Tifton, GA you have an acronym used for US 41 along I-75 that is not even a city.

And "Disney World" is a control city on the 417.

I always liked the "Canaveral/Cape-Port-AFS" signs for the 528 that have since been replaced.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The strangest destination I've seen? Well, it's either 'CEDER' (Renewable energies development center), exit 56 off (Spanish) A-15, or 'vía de servicio' ('Frontage road'), exit 347 off A-23, which just serves the old N-330 road.

[roadman65]

FDOT using "Magic Kingdom" for US 192 Westbound on I-4.

Then in Tifton, GA you have an acronym used for US 41 along I-75 that is not even a city.

And "Disney World" is a control city on the 417.

I always liked the "Canaveral/Cape-Port-AFS" signs for the 528 that have since been replaced.

Part right as its cosigned with "Tampa."

However, that is the center of tourism here in Florida, so it gets mentioned.  It used to be the sole destination for US 192 on US 27 until a few years ago when "Kissimmee" was added as well.