Seemingly excessive number of exits relative to the size of the town they serve

[thspfc]

Three exits makes intuitive sense to me for any town that was bypassed by a freeway:

1st exit: freeway and old route into town diverge
2nd exit: freeway junction with main perpendicular crossroad
3rd exit: freeway and old route into town rejoin

Classic examples of this: Columbus WI, Platteville WI, Oconto WI

Though smaller towns may need only interchanges on the ends (examples Peshtigo WI and Mt. Horeb WI).

[DandyDan]

Austin, Minnesota has 8 exits for 26,000 people.

[US 89]

Three exits makes intuitive sense to me for any town that was bypassed by a freeway:

1st exit: freeway and old route into town diverge
2nd exit: freeway junction with main perpendicular crossroad
3rd exit: freeway and old route into town rejoin

I mean the alternative is to have just two exits, one at either end of the old road. This makes sense especially for cities that didn't really have a main crossroads (Green River UT), or maybe they had one with a highway that only went the other direction (Green River WY) but sometimes the lack of a central interchange is a good head-scratcher (Beaver UT, which has no interchange at SR 21).

[hbelkins]

My little county seat town (populaton 1,000) has two signed exits on the Mountain Parkway.

[FrCorySticha]

Wibaux, MT, population less than 600, has two half exits off I-94 as a loop on old US 10, but not marked as a business loop. Instead, both sides are signed for "TO MT 7".

The little town of Cascade, MT, similar population as Wibaux, has two full exits signed for MT 68 (old US 91) along old US 91 I-15.

[kirbykart]

The little town of Cascade, MT, similar population as Wibaux, has two full exits signed for MT 68 along old US 91.

Wow. If that isn't excessive, I don't know what is.

[FrCorySticha]

The little town of Cascade, MT, similar population as Wibaux, has two full exits signed for MT 68 along old US 91.

Wow. If that isn't excessive, I don't know what is.

It is, even if had a brain fart and put down the wrong highway!

[Sctvhound]

Lumberton, NC. About 20K live in the town, and losing population, but it still gets 4 exits on I-95 and 2 on 74.

Dunn is less than half the population of Lumberton (about 10K), and has a whopping 5 I-95 exits.

SM-G998U

[countysigns]

Columbia SC has "Next 12 Interchanges" signs on I-20. Never mind the size of the city, 12 interchanges seems like a high number of exits for a "next X exits/interchanges" sign regardless.

Toledo, Ohio does one better..."Next 13 exits" sign on I-75 northbound.  https://tinyurl.com/3vpjrbp3

[Dirt Roads]

Orangeburg, South Carolina (pop 12,700) gets three exits on I-26 and two more on I-95.