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Started by Max Rockatansky, November 13, 2024, 08:11:17 AM

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Max Rockatansky

Nevada State Route 431 is a designation carried along Mount Rose Highway in Washoe County, Nevada.  The 24.413-mile corridor begins at Interstate 580/US Route 395 in southern Reno and terminates at Nevada State Route 28 at Incline Village along the northeast shore of Lake Tahoe. 

Mount Rose Highway crosses the namesake 8,911-foot-high Mount Rose Summit.  The highway is the highest road corridor open all year in the Sierra Nevada range.  The origins of Mount Rose Highway began with the development of a road up Galena Creek in 1906.  During 1932 the Nevada Department of Highways commissioned Mount Rose Highway as Nevada State Route 27.  The corridor was completed over Mount Rose Summit to Incline Village by the late 1930s and would be heavily modernized during the early 1950s.  The current designation of "Nevada State Route 431" was commissioned in 1976 but was not signed in-field for several years.

https://www.gribblenation.org/2024/11/neveda-state-route-431-mount-rose.html?m=1


xonhulu

Great article, as usual. But I do have a question.

Is there an sign error pictured in the overhead assembly in photo #15?  The highway to Virginia City is NV 341, not NV 431.  Did the similarity of these numbers confuse even NDOT? Or does 431 extend slightly east, maybe to US 395's old alignment, and only then become 341?

Probably not a bright idea to have the very similar state route numbers 341 and 431 end at the same point.


Max Rockatansky

Quote from: xonhulu on November 13, 2024, 10:42:11 PMGreat article, as usual. But I do have a question.

Is there an sign error pictured in the overhead assembly in photo #15?  The highway to Virginia City is NV 341, not NV 431.  Did the similarity of these numbers confuse even NDOT? Or does 431 extend slightly east, maybe to US 395's old alignment, and only then become 341?

Probably not a bright idea to have the very similar state route numbers 341 and 431 end at the same point.



The same exit is used to access NV 341 and Virginia City.  There probably isn't a good way to sign it other than notifying eastbound traffic that they can reach NV 341 (even if it isn't until US 395A).

xonhulu

I agree: they should have at least included "TO 341" on that overhead.

Again, thanks for the great article.  I'm hoping to pass through there on my way to Utah next year, and I'm thinking I need to check out the Mount Rose Hwy while I'm there.

US 395

Quote from: xonhulu on November 13, 2024, 10:42:11 PMGreat article, as usual. But I do have a question.

Is there an sign error pictured in the overhead assembly in photo #15?  The highway to Virginia City is NV 341, not NV 431.  Did the similarity of these numbers confuse even NDOT? Or does 431 extend slightly east, maybe to US 395's old alignment, and only then become 341?

Probably not a bright idea to have the very similar state route numbers 341 and 431 end at the same point.



I'm from Reno. 431 and 341 both start at what is now Alt 395. The freeway exit just happens to be on 431 but 431 itself doesn't start there.

Max Rockatansky

Which NDOT seems to want to infer.  I don't get why they just don't extend 341 to I-580 and call it a day. 

roadfro

NDOT doesn't do "To" signage very well, or at all really... This is one of those times that it would have been very useful.
Roadfro - AARoads Pacific Southwest moderator since 2010, Nevada roadgeek since 1983.



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