I posted in the regional forum thread about Massachusetts that talked about Route 80. The route is a hanging end, as it does not end at another route. I know RI 100 is a hanging end on its northern end, as it is an unnumbered route in MA. Are there many examples of "hanging ends" in the US?
MA 31
MA 88
MA 109
NH 121
NH 121A
NH 122
NH 123
NH 123A
NH 124
NH 128
RI 179
MA 228
RI 238
CT 272
EDIT:
US 21
US 30
US 40/322
US 41
US 70
Quote from: CapeCodder on January 31, 2018, 11:16:00 AM
I posted in the regional forum thread about Massachusetts that talked about Route 80. The route is a hanging end, as it does not end at another route. I know RI 100 is a hanging end on its northern end, as it is an unnumbered route in MA. Are there many examples of "hanging ends" in the US?
Quite a few. Many, at least in these parts, end at a major river.
Illinois (not including ones that end at the state line on land):
IL-70, ends in downtown Durand.
IL-178, ends at the junction of two county highways in Lowell.
IL-17, ends in New Boston, at the Mississippi River.
IL-156, ends in Valmeyer, shy of the Mississippi River.
IL-155, ends at Fort de Chartres State Park, near the Mississippi River.
IL-34, ends in Rosiclare, at the Ohio River.
IL-142, ends in downtown Equality.
IL-49, ends in Willow Hill
Will update when I find out more: Oregon:
SR 224
SR 542
SR 351
SR 350
SR 173
NY 590 used to be one. I'm not sure where it officially ends now, but I think it's at NY 104.
In NC there are plenty that end at or near the coast, which are kind of trivial. I'll list the ones I know besides those.
NC 90 - Ends in Edgemont at Blue Ridge Escarpment.
NC 128 - Mount Mitchell access
NC 114 - Short route that ends in Drexel
NC 5 - Ends at Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen
NC 153 - Ends at old US 29 in Landis.
NC 184 - Ends in Beech Mountain.
NC 151, NC 694 - End at the Blue Ridge Parkway, which technically isn't a numbered route in NC (I think). I wouldn't count them.
NC 194, NC 103, NC 903 don't continue as primary highways in Virginia. I believe TN, GA, and SC continue all as primary (or TN secondary but they still have a shield).
Quote from: HazMatt on January 31, 2018, 12:15:37 PM
In NC there are plenty that end at or near the coast, which are kind of trivial. I'll list the ones I know besides those.
NC 90 - Ends in Edgemont at Blue Ridge Escarpment.
NC 128 - Mount Mitchell access
NC 114 - Short route that ends in Drexel
NC 5 - Ends at Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen
NC 153 - Ends at old US 29 in Landis.
NC 184 - Ends in Beech Mountain.
NC 151, NC 694 - End at the Blue Ridge Parkway, which technically isn't a numbered route in NC (I think). I wouldn't count them.
NC 194, NC 103, NC 903 don't continue as primary highways in Virginia. I believe TN, GA, and SC continue all as primary (or TN secondary but they still have a shield).
Also for NC:
NC 149
US 117
NC 125
NC 56
NC 53
NC 213
NC 9
NC 461
Also NC 39 ends at Virginia line without continuing as primary
MN-11 (east end) and MN-172 (north end) both end at private entrances. There are a number of 200-series state highways that have termini not at other state highways, but as county routes, though I'm not sure if you're counting that or not.
There used to be a lot of these in Iowa before 2003, but to my knowledge only Iowa 98 and 316 remain.
The California list would be pretty long with a lot of planned routes that never were finished. Some that come to mind off the top my head would include; 130, 190, 168, and 178. There are others like 3 and 191 that end in inhabited places while others like 41, 140, and 180 end in National Parks. 299 ends at the Nevada State Line at what was once NV 8a.
Arizona has some weird route endings like 238, 99, and 288 which all continue as non-State Routes. AZ 95 continues as a city street in Needles on the California side.
Most numbered routes in Alaska have a hanging end:
AK 1 west end at Homer Spit
AK 2 west end near Manley Hot Springs
AK 4 south end near Valdez
AK 6 east end at Yukon River in Circle
AK 7 (Haines) east end at ferry terminal
AK 7 (Juneau) north end near Echo Cove, and south end near downtown Juneau
AK 7 (Petersburg) north end east of downtown Petersburg, and south end in the middle of nowhere at the south end of Mitkof Island
AK 7 (Ketchikan) north and south ends at trailheads on opposite sides of downtown Ketchikan
AK 9 south end in Seward
AK 10 (northern segment) east end in Chitina
AK 10 (southern segment) west end at ferry terminal, east end past Million Dollar Bridge
AK 11 north end at Lake Colleen in Deadhorse
AK 98 west end at ferry terminal
AK 3, AK 5, and AK 8 are the only Alaska routes that don't have hanging ends.
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Hawaii also has many hanging ends. Here are some of the most notable:
On the Big Island, HI 130 west end, where the highway was "truncated" by multiple lava flows (HI 130 previously connected to Chain of Craters Rd. in the national park)
HI 270 north end, and HI 240 west end, on opposite sides of the deep Waipio Valley
On Maui, HI 360 east end, at the Hana Bay wharf (but less than a mile west of the wharf, county 31 will take you back to western Maui, along the south side of the Haleakala volcano)
HI 31 south end, in Wailea (planned extension inland to HI 37/county 31 dead in the water)
On Kauai, HI 50, HI 560, and HI 550 all have dangling ends on the west side of the island, because of the steep Na Pali cliffs, and the high-altitude Alakai Swamp frustrating plans for an inland connecting highway
On Oahu, HI 93 north end, and HI 930 west end, with the former connecting road broken up by landslides and the Kaena Point nature preserve
HI 92 west end at the Pearl Harbor military base, and east end in the messy Waikiki street network
Also, the east end of Interstate H-3, and a multitude of short and often unsigned state routes, all ending at military bases
Michigan has quite a few:
M-5 (northwestern end at Pontiac Trail in Commerce Twp)
M-8 (eastern end at Conant St in Detroit)
M-10 (northwestern end at Orchard Lake Rd/14 Mile Rd in West Bloomfield)
M-37 (northern end at the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula)
US-41 (northern end at Fort Wilkins State Park)
US-45 (northern end at Ontonagon St in Ontonagon)
M-46 (western end at Muskegon Ave in Muskegon)
M-64 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH-B)
M-77 (northern end at Carlson St in Grand Marais)
M-93 (southwestern end at Camp Grayling and northeastern end at Hartwick Pines State Park)
M-95 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH N)
M-116 (northern end at Ludington State Park)
M-119 (northern end at C-66 in Cross Village)
M-121 (western end at Main Ave in Zeeland, just 500 feet away from BL I-196)
M-134 (eastern end at Townline Rd on Drummond Island)
M-137 (southern end at Interlochen State Park)
M-143 (western end at Lansing/East Lansing city limit)
M-149 (northern end at Palms Book State Park)
M-150 (northern end at Tienken Rd in Rochester Hills)
M-152 (western end at Van Buren/Berrien county line in the Sister Lakes area, two miles short of M-140)
M-154 (northern end at ferry connection to mainland and southern end along South Channel Dr, both on Harsens Island)
M-183 (southern end at Fayette State Park)
M-188 (southeastern end at VFW National Home near Eaton Rapids)
BS I-196 (eastern end at Clyde Park Ave in Wyoming; the portion in Grand Rapids was turned back to local control last year)
M-201 (northern end at Leelanau State Park)
M-211 (northern end at Onaway State Park)
M-212 (western end at Aloha State Park)
M-217 (southern end at Indiana state line, connecting to CR 17)
Since Indiana started turning over their urban sections of state highways to cities and decommissioning them, there are a whole bunch in Indiana, plus several others that already existed due to ending at state lines or the Ohio River and not meeting up with a numbered highway from the neighboring state.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 12:27:39 PM
MN-11 (east end) and MN-172 (north end) both end at private entrances. There are a number of 200-series state highways that have termini not at other state highways, but as county routes, though I'm not sure if you're counting that or not.
MN 40 has a hanging east end because Willmar wanted the final mile turned over to them and converted for industrial expansion.
US 75 has a hanging north end because Canada closed the Emerson/Noyes customs station.
MN 169 has a hanging north end near Winton, east of Ely.
I believe WIS 24's west end is at a city/county line.
WIS 42 ends at the Washington Island ferry dock (not sure if this counts).
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on January 31, 2018, 12:44:42 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 12:27:39 PM
MN-11 (east end) and MN-172 (north end) both end at private entrances. There are a number of 200-series state highways that have termini not at other state highways, but as county routes, though I'm not sure if you're counting that or not.
MN 40 has a hanging east end because Willmar wanted the final mile turned over to them and converted for industrial expansion.
US 75 has a hanging north end because Canada closed the Emerson/Noyes customs station.
MN 169 has a hanging north end near Winton, east of Ely.
Good call on US-75, but MN-40 and 169 end at county routes, which I'm not sure if OP counts that or not.
Another one I just thought of is MN-65 in Minneapolis, though Washington Ave is CSAH 152.
If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
Since Georgia does have an ocean border, we have a few (but not many) routes with hanging east ends near the coast:
- US 80/GA 26
- GA 204 Spur
- GA 144 Spur
- GA 144
- The Torras Causeway to St. Simons Island is shown on the official GDOT map as "SR 25SE", whatever that means; it seems to be unsigned
- GA 520
- GA 40 Spur
- GA 40
GA 177 exists in two segments, separated by Okefenokee Swamp; both segments have a hanging end at the swamp.
GA 39, GA 253, and GA 97 Spur all end at Lake Seminole in the southwest corner of the state. A little further north, GA 273 Spur ends short of the Chattahoochee and doesn't cross into Alabama.
Quote from: Mapmikey on January 31, 2018, 12:25:40 PM
Quote from: HazMatt on January 31, 2018, 12:15:37 PM
In NC there are plenty that end at or near the coast, which are kind of trivial. I'll list the ones I know besides those.
NC 90 - Ends in Edgemont at Blue Ridge Escarpment.
NC 128 - Mount Mitchell access
NC 114 - Short route that ends in Drexel
NC 5 - Ends at Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen
NC 153 - Ends at old US 29 in Landis.
NC 184 - Ends in Beech Mountain.
NC 151, NC 694 - End at the Blue Ridge Parkway, which technically isn't a numbered route in NC (I think). I wouldn't count them.
NC 194, NC 103, NC 903 don't continue as primary highways in Virginia. I believe TN, GA, and SC continue all as primary (or TN secondary but they still have a shield).
Also for NC:
NC 149
US 117
NC 125
NC 56
NC 53
NC 213
NC 9
NC 461
Also NC 39 ends at Virginia line without continuing as primary
Also,
US 74 - dead end in Wrightsville beach north end
US 76 - dead end at Wrightsville beach south end
US 421 - dead end in Fort Fisher
NC 12 - basically dead ends into the ocean
NC 211 - ends at a ferry
NC 90 - one of only two unpaved state routes. Ends at a secondary road.
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Would you rather some hanging chads?
Hanging is lethal.
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Is that better?
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 03:48:34 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Is that better?
Did you intend it to be?
It is, but only slightly.
ETA: TIL that when someone changes the thread title, it changes it for all further replies unless you change it back manually.
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 03:56:40 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 03:48:34 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Is that better?
Did you intend it to be?
I'll leave that for you to decide.
This is going from bad to worse :rofl:
Quote from: 1 on January 31, 2018, 11:27:31 AM
I'm surprised you didn't include MA 203 on your list.
DE 7
DE 100
NJ 52
Quote from: fillup420 on January 31, 2018, 02:46:08 PM
Quote from: Mapmikey on January 31, 2018, 12:25:40 PM
Quote from: HazMatt on January 31, 2018, 12:15:37 PM
In NC there are plenty that end at or near the coast, which are kind of trivial. I'll list the ones I know besides those.
NC 90 - Ends in Edgemont at Blue Ridge Escarpment.
NC 128 - Mount Mitchell access
NC 114 - Short route that ends in Drexel
NC 5 - Ends at Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen
NC 153 - Ends at old US 29 in Landis.
NC 184 - Ends in Beech Mountain.
NC 151, NC 694 - End at the Blue Ridge Parkway, which technically isn't a numbered route in NC (I think). I wouldn't count them.
NC 194, NC 103, NC 903 don't continue as primary highways in Virginia. I believe TN, GA, and SC continue all as primary (or TN secondary but they still have a shield).
Also for NC:
NC 149
US 117
NC 125
NC 56
NC 53
NC 213
NC 9
NC 461
Also NC 39 ends at Virginia line without continuing as primary
Also,
US 74 - dead end in Wrightsville beach north end
US 76 - dead end at Wrightsville beach south end
US 421 - dead end in Fort Fisher
NC 12 - basically dead ends into the ocean
NC 211 - ends at a ferry
NC 90 - one of only two unpaved state routes. Ends at a secondary road.
If we are including ones by the ocean now, there is also US 70, NC 50, NC 210, NC 130, NC 906, NC 133, NC 87, NC 904, NC 307, NC 33, NC 304, NC 400, NC 345, NC 344, NC 136, NC 343, NC 58
Though it may not be posted yet, NC 211 has been extended across the ferry to US 421.
South Carolina does not have near as many: US 21, US 52, US 78, SC 802, SC 116, SC 174, SC 171, SC 700, SC 703, SC 304, SC 64, SC 419, SC 260, SC 165, SC 122, SC 461, SC 216, plus one at a state line: SC 57
A couple further ends I remembered (looking at a map helps!)
Iowa 122's east end is at the Mason City east limits, where the road continues as a county road.
Iowa 281's west end is at the Waterloo city limits, continuing west as a city street (Independence Ave).
Are we including routes that end at county routes, or not?
There are too many to count in Montana and Wyoming
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 04:25:24 PM
Are we including routes that end at county routes, or not?
I and a few others have been, so I guess the consensus is yes, we are.
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 03:56:40 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 03:48:34 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Is that better?
Did you intend it to be?
It is, but only slightly.
ETA: TIL that when someone changes the thread title, it changes it for all further replies unless you change it back manually.
If you quote a post, it takes the title of the quoted post. Otherwise, it takes the title of the OP.
Texas Farm to Market Roads have some good ones based on length and isolation. For the first two examples, the whole road is a hanging end, with no intersections after the one where the road begins. FM 2810 begins at US 90 in Marfa and goes 32 miles with no intersections before ending at a gravel road that continues to FM 170, mentioned below. FM 169 starts at US 67 south of Marfa and goes 25 miles with no intersections to end at a gravel road.
FM 170 enters Presidio from the east, and continues out to the west. It goes 48 miles to end at a gravel road, with no intersections with state roads. It does intersect Pinto Canyon Road, which is the road at the end of FM 2810. This road isn't all a hanging end, but close to half of it is.
FM 2119 is a 40-mile long road that's all hanging end, but it has county road intersections, unlike the first two (shorter) examples.
As a double example, FM 2185 starts at SH 54 in Van Horn and continues 41 miles to a gravel road. Its only other state road intersection is at FM 2809, which is another hanging end that ends at a gravel road. It's a 46-mile double-headed (double-tailed?) hanging end system.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 01:05:23 PM
If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2322808,-87.7947059,3a,41.3y,264.56h,82.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP2flVi5wCInbkmx7eGtNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
The west end of
AL 180 is at this ferry (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2316063,-88.0149647,289m/data=!3m1!1e3") in Gulf Shores, AL.
AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.265583,-88.1159909,3a,37.4y,154.58h,85.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSeO3YDtw4lpX43qazimvuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0310255,-88.3527002,3a,60.2y,326.93h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVMTjnFa_1E04bJqrAWOghQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
Also,
MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for
MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with
MS 594 and CR 96.
In a reverse situation,
AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
Quote from: 1 on January 31, 2018, 04:50:38 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 03:56:40 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 03:48:34 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 02:56:38 PM
The title of this thread leaves little to be desired for those of us with vivid imaginations :eyebrow:
Is that better?
Did you intend it to be?
It is, but only slightly.
ETA: TIL that when someone changes the thread title, it changes it for all further replies unless you change it back manually.
If you quote a post, it takes the title of the quoted post. Otherwise, it takes the title of the OP.
Oh. Makes sense, I guess.
I see other new replies do have the original title again (which I still think leaves a bit to be desired).
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 11:53:28 AM
NY 590 used to be one. I'm not sure where it officially ends now, but I think it's at NY 104.
Signage and reference markers end at Titus, but many NYSDOT sources, including the Traffic Data Report, still have it ending near Sea Breeze.
More from Alabama:
AL 227 just decides it doesn't feel like being a state route at the county line in Duck Springs.
AL 261 ends a triplet of opposing county routes in Helena. (Four different numbered routes at one intersection; can't say I've seen this anywhere else.)
AL 257 winds north from Jasper, but then becomes Winston County 41 after the Walker County line along a much greater distance to AL 157.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 04:54:08 PM
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
With the exception of the 1xx routes (old US route alignments), it seems Mississippi signs a lot of the three-digit routes sporadically, at best. There might be two approaching the intersection, another at the junction, and one a few hundred feet later for reassurance, but that's it.
If I remember correctly, UT 211 has a posted end at a seemingly random spot on the way to Canyonlands National Park Needles district.
Quote from: fillup420 on January 31, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
If I remember correctly, UT 211 has a posted end at a seemingly random spot on the way to Canyonlands National Park Needles district.
Yes, 211 ends at a place called Dugout Ranch. The rest of the way to Needles is a county road.
How many route "hang" at both ends like New York 171? Main Street in Frankfort out to a county road. It crosses NY 5S but without an interchange, so you can't even get to it from another state/US/I highway.
http://tm.teresco.org/hb/index.php?r=ny.ny171 (http://tm.teresco.org/hb/index.php?r=ny.ny171)
^ Relating to Jim's post, does anyone know if IA 165 in Carter Lake, IA still exists? If so, then not only can you not get to it directly from another state/US/Interstate highway, but you have to drive through Nebraska to get to it. It's a salient surrounded by Omaha, NE and caused by a realignment of the Missouri River. Abbott Dr on both sides is an Omaha city street.
That's a whole thread of its own: Roads in a given state/county/etc. that are only accessible by leaving and then re-entering.
I-15 does this in Arizona. You have to go through either Utah or Nevada to get to the rest of Arizona by road.
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 09:43:57 PM
That's a whole thread of its own: Roads in a given state/county/etc. that are only accessible by leaving and then re-entering.
I-15 does this in Arizona. You have to go through either Utah or Nevada to get to the rest of Arizona by road.
I-15 doesn't end at the state border.
Quote from: froggie on January 31, 2018, 09:36:48 PM
^ Relating to Jim's post, does anyone know if IA 165 in Carter Lake, IA still exists? If so, then not only can you not get to it directly from another state/US/Interstate highway, but you have to drive through Nebraska to get to it. It's a salient surrounded by Omaha, NE and caused by a realignment of the Missouri River. Abbott Dr on both sides is an Omaha city street.
I believe it does. Jason Hancock's website (http://www.iowahighways.org/highways/iowa160-179.html#165) certainly indicates that it does.
Quote from: 1 on January 31, 2018, 09:44:53 PM
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 09:43:57 PM
That's a whole thread of its own: Roads in a given state/county/etc. that are only accessible by leaving and then re-entering.
I-15 does this in Arizona. You have to go through either Utah or Nevada to get to the rest of Arizona by road.
I-15 doesn't end at the state border.
Well, of course. Hence:
Quotethat's a whole thread of it's own
Coastal VA has a bunch that end at or near the water (non-exhaustive, doing my best to exclude ones that end at secondaries):
VA-354 (Boat ramp in Senora)
VA-222 (Dead end in Weems)
VA-33 (Dead end in Deltaville)
VA-14 (Dead end in Matthews)
VA-171 (Dead end at Messick Pt in Poquoson)
VA-172 (Ends at unnumbered routes in Poquoson)
VA-173 (Dead end in Newport News)
VA-175 (Ends at unnumbered streets in Chincoteague)
VA-125 has a gap with two hanging ends, caused by the removal of a bridge that was never replaced.
I-264 (Ends at 2 unnumbered streets in VB)
There are also the few that end at military bases (VA-178 -> Langley AFB, VA-105 -> Ft. Eustis)
These are otherwise sorta hard to find in VA (outside of pure dead-ends), mostly since pretty much every route outside of the independent cities and a few counties has some sort of secondary number.
Quote from: cabiness42 on January 31, 2018, 12:43:14 PM
Since Indiana started turning over their urban sections of state highways to cities and decommissioning them, there are a whole bunch in Indiana, plus several others that already existed due to ending at state lines or the Ohio River and not meeting up with a numbered highway from the neighboring state.
one that comes to mind is IN 257
any island routes? like iowa 165. neither connects, nor crosses another highway
Quote from: 1 on January 31, 2018, 11:27:31 AM
CT 272
A few more CT routes:
CT 4: East end becomes town maintained Farmington Ave in West Hartford
CT 15: South end becomes the Hutchinson River Parkway, an unsigned NYS reference route
CT 17: South end becomes city maintained portion of Middletown Ave. in New Haven
CT 32: South end at Crystal Ave in New London
CT 34: West end at local road in Newtown. Despite popular belief, does not continue through Sandy Hook to US 6
CT 70: West end becomes unsigned SR 801 at Cheshire/Waterbury line, which is left hanging on East Main St in Waterbury
CT 83: South end is at town maintained New London Turnpike in Glastonbury
CT 99: North end becomes city maintained Wethersfield Ave in Hartford
CT 104: North end becomes a town road across the NY border
CT 124: North end becomes a town road (that used to be part of NY 124) across the NY border
CT 159: South end becomes Main St in Hartford
CT 163: North end at unsigned SR 608 in Bozrah
CT 173: North end becomes town maintained South Main St in West Hartford at Hooker Dr.
CT 176: North end becomes city maintained Newington Ave in Hartford
CT 349: South End at Shennecossett Rd in Groton
Quote from: ftballfan on January 31, 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Michigan has quite a few:
M-5 (northwestern end at Pontiac Trail in Commerce Twp)
M-8 (eastern end at Conant St in Detroit)
M-10 (northwestern end at Orchard Lake Rd/14 Mile Rd in West Bloomfield)
M-37 (northern end at the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula)
US-41 (northern end at Fort Wilkins State Park)
US-45 (northern end at Ontonagon St in Ontonagon)
M-46 (western end at Muskegon Ave in Muskegon)
M-64 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH-B)
M-77 (northern end at Carlson St in Grand Marais)
M-93 (southwestern end at Camp Grayling and northeastern end at Hartwick Pines State Park)
M-95 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH N)
M-116 (northern end at Ludington State Park)
M-119 (northern end at C-66 in Cross Village)
M-121 (western end at Main Ave in Zeeland, just 500 feet away from BL I-196)
M-134 (eastern end at Townline Rd on Drummond Island)
M-137 (southern end at Interlochen State Park)
M-143 (western end at Lansing/East Lansing city limit)
M-149 (northern end at Palms Book State Park)
M-150 (northern end at Tienken Rd in Rochester Hills)
M-152 (western end at Van Buren/Berrien county line in the Sister Lakes area, two miles short of M-140)
M-154 (northern end at ferry connection to mainland and southern end along South Channel Dr, both on Harsens Island)
M-183 (southern end at Fayette State Park)
M-188 (southeastern end at VFW National Home near Eaton Rapids)
BS I-196 (eastern end at Clyde Park Ave in Wyoming; the portion in Grand Rapids was turned back to local control last year)
M-201 (northern end at Leelanau State Park)
M-211 (northern end at Onaway State Park)
M-212 (western end at Aloha State Park)
M-217 (southern end at Indiana state line, connecting to CR 17)
M-125 hangs at the Ohio state line (becomes N. Detroit Ave).
Likewise, Ohio 64 hangs at the Michigan state line (becomes Loar Hwy).
Quote from: webny99 on January 31, 2018, 04:09:13 PM
This is going from bad to worse :rofl:
And that is an understatement... This is turning into a thread for off-topic instead of GHT In my opinion.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 31, 2018, 12:29:21 PM
The California list would be pretty long with a lot of planned routes that never were finished. Some that come to mind off the top my head would include; 130, 190, 168, and 178. There are others like 3 and 191 that end in inhabited places while others like 41, 140, and 180 end in National Parks. 299 ends at the Nevada State Line at what was once NV 8a.
Arizona has some weird route endings like 238, 99, and 288 which all continue as non-State Routes. AZ 95 continues as a city street in Needles on the California side.
AZ 210 both ends
Quote from: Thing 342 on January 31, 2018, 10:16:14 PM
Coastal VA has a bunch that end at or near the water (non-exhaustive, doing my best to exclude ones that end at secondaries):
VA-354 (Boat ramp in Senora)
VA-222 (Dead end in Weems)
VA-33 (Dead end in Deltaville)
VA-14 (Dead end in Matthews)
VA-171 (Dead end at Messick Pt in Poquoson)
VA-172 (Ends at unnumbered routes in Poquoson)
VA-173 (Dead end in Newport News)
VA-175 (Ends at unnumbered streets in Chincoteague)
VA-125 has a gap with two hanging ends, caused by the removal of a bridge that was never replaced.
I-264 (Ends at 2 unnumbered streets in VB)
There are also the few that end at military bases (VA-178 -> Langley AFB, VA-105 -> Ft. Eustis)
These are otherwise sorta hard to find in VA (outside of pure dead-ends), mostly since pretty much every route outside of the independent cities and a few counties has some sort of secondary number.
More from Virginia that do not end at a secondary route:
VA 149
VA 150
VA 281 (maybe)
VA 142
VA 402 (maybe)
VA 238
VA 246
VA 403
US 60
US 258 (maybe)
VA 244
VA 261
There are of course a plethora of the 3xx routes that would also qualify for this list.
NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway
Quote from: oscar on January 31, 2018, 12:35:01 PM
Most numbered routes in Alaska have a hanging end:
AK 1 west end at Homer Spit
AK 2 west end near Manley Hot Springs
AK 4 south end near Valdez
AK 6 east end at Yukon River in Circle
AK 7 (Haines) east end at ferry terminal
AK 7 (Juneau) north end near Echo Cove, and south end near downtown Juneau
AK 7 (Petersburg) north end east of downtown Petersburg, and south end in the middle of nowhere at the south end of Mitkof Island
AK 7 (Ketchikan) north and south ends at trailheads on opposite sides of downtown Ketchikan
AK 9 south end in Seward
AK 10 (northern segment) east end in Chitina
AK 10 (southern segment) west end at ferry terminal, east end past Million Dollar Bridge
AK 11 north end at Lake Colleen in Deadhorse
AK 98 west end at ferry terminal
AK 3, AK 5, and AK 8 are the only Alaska routes that don't have hanging ends.
Doesn't AK-5 have a hanging end at the Yukon River in Eagle? The road from Jack Wade Jct. to the Canadian Border technically doesn't have a number.
Quote from: bzakharin on February 01, 2018, 03:45:50 PM
NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway
NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143
RI-77
MA-88
CT-159
CT-83
There are so many in Arkansas that have hanging/random endings. I'll list some that I can think of.
AR-35
AR-36
AR-88
AR-89
AR-171
AR-176
AR-232
AR-256
AR-266
AR-286
AR-310
AR-320
AR-324
AR-346
AR-347
AR-386
CA 3 in Montague (east of Yreka) is a baffling one.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 04:54:08 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 01:05:23 PM
If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2322808,-87.7947059,3a,41.3y,264.56h,82.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP2flVi5wCInbkmx7eGtNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2316063,-88.0149647,289m/data=!3m1!1e3") in Gulf Shores, AL.
AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.265583,-88.1159909,3a,37.4y,154.58h,85.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSeO3YDtw4lpX43qazimvuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0310255,-88.3527002,3a,60.2y,326.93h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVMTjnFa_1E04bJqrAWOghQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.
In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
You forgot AL 149 (north end), AL 180 (east end), and AL 271 (north end)
One Florida example
FL 951 ends at the bridge to Marco Island.
Not many in Wisconsin the only ones I can think of is
42 ends at the northern tip of Door County at the ferry docks for Washington Island
134 spur into London mystery to me why this was ever even a primary state highway as London ain't much of a town
152 spur into Mt Morris a small resort community
159 or 136 ends at the entrance to Devil's Lake State Park probably the most famous one in the state
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 04:54:08 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 01:05:23 PM
If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2322808,-87.7947059,3a,41.3y,264.56h,82.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP2flVi5wCInbkmx7eGtNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2316063,-88.0149647,289m/data=!3m1!1e3") in Gulf Shores, AL.
AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.265583,-88.1159909,3a,37.4y,154.58h,85.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSeO3YDtw4lpX43qazimvuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0310255,-88.3527002,3a,60.2y,326.93h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVMTjnFa_1E04bJqrAWOghQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.
In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
GA 109 becomes Chambers Co 278 in Alabama.
OH 53, OH 163 and OH 269 all have hanging ends on the Marblehead Peninsula on Lake Erie.
One inland Ohio example I can think of off the top of my head is OH 231 in the village of Morral
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 31, 2018, 04:14:51 PM
Quote from: 1 on January 31, 2018, 11:27:31 AM
I'm surprised you didn't include MA 203 on your list.
DE 7
DE 100
NJ 52
DE 6 is another one. Unlike those two I believe it's the only one that actually hangs in the state itself. It continues past DE 9 and then peters out in Woodland Beach.
TN 32 and 167 end at the NC border, but generally Tennessee is very good about not having routes that hang.
Quote from: BrianP on February 01, 2018, 05:13:30 PM
Quote from: bzakharin on February 01, 2018, 03:45:50 PM
NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway
NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143
If I'm not mistaken those have at least county routes as their ends
Many of these become county routes but a few end as local roads and as a consequence of meeting a state line (Mainly Michigan's UP)
WIS-107
WIS 42 (mentioned above)
WIS 134 -
WIS 17 - Michigan state line (becomes a National forest road)
WIS 24 - after being retired to a county route in Waukesha County but remaining in Milwaukee County
WIS 77 - Michigan State line (US BR 2 continues in)
WIS 106
WIS 122 - Michigan State Line - becomes a county road
WIS 158 - becomes a local street in Kenosha
WIS 794
WIS 136 - Devils Lake State Park
WIS 155
Quote from: bzakharin on February 03, 2018, 10:56:53 PM
Quote from: BrianP on February 01, 2018, 05:13:30 PM
Quote from: bzakharin on February 01, 2018, 03:45:50 PM
NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway
NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143
If I'm not mistaken those have at least county routes as their ends
The southern end of 44 ends at a municipal roadway.
324 ends at the Delaware River on the East side, the West side ends at Barker Ave, a Twp roadway.
Washington State:
SR 20 Spur- This ending is ambiguous. On land, it ends at the Anacortes Ferry Terminal. However, since 1994, all Washington State Ferries routes have been part of the state highway system. Therefore, it could be argued that the end of SR 20 Spur is at the ferry terminals on Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, Friday Harbor, and Sidney, B.C.
SR 92- Ends in Granite Falls, continues as the county-maintained Mountain Loop Highway.
SR 100 Spur- Ends at Fort Canby State Park.
SR 102- Ends at the Washington Corrections Center west of Shelton.
SR 103- Ends at Leadbetter Point State Park.
SR 105 Spur- Ends at the Coast Guard facility in Westport.
SR 109- Legally it ends at US 101 in Queets, but physically it ends randomly in Taholah due to a disagreement with the Quinalt Nation.
SR 110 and SR 110 Spur- Both end at the Olympic National Park boundary.
SR 112- Ends at the boundary of the Makah Indian Reservation.
SR 115- Ends at the north end of Ocean Shores.
SR 116- Ends at Fort Flagler State Park.
SR 117- Ends at the Port of Port Angeles.
SR 119- Ends near Lake Cushman State Park.
SR 131- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary just south of Randle.
SR 141- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary (which is also the Skamania County line) west of Trout Lake.
SR 150- Ends in Manson.
SR 160- Another ambiguous one. Legally it ends at the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal in West Seattle, but on land it ends at the Southworth Ferry Terminal.
SR 163- Similar story. Legally ends at the Tahlequah Ferry Terminal at the south end of Vashon Island, but on land it ends at the Point Defiance Ferry Terminal in Ruston.
SR 165- Ends at the Mount Rainier National Park boundary (in the northwest corner).
SR 166- Ends at the eastern city limits of Port Orchard.
SR 170- Ends in Warden.
SR 174 Spur- Ends at Crown Point State Park.
SR 193- Ends at the Port of Wilma.
SR 194- Ends at Almota.
SR 206- Ends at Mt. Spokane State Park.
SR 207- Ends at Lake Wenatchee State Park.
SR 263- Ends at the Port of Windust.
SR 300- Ends at Belfair State Park.
SR 304- On land it ends at Bremerton Ferry Terminal, but legally it ends at a junction with SR 519 at Coleman Dock in Downtown Seattle.
SR 305- Same as above, but on land ends at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.
SR 308- Ends at Keyport.
SR 409- Ends at the Puget Island Ferry Terminal.
SR 501- Legally it is a complete road, but it has a physical gap and both sides of the gap are hanging ends.
SR 503 Spur- Ends at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest boundary (which is also the Skamania County line) between Cougar and Yale Lake.
SR 504- Ends at Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mt. St. Helens.
SR 504 Spur- Ends at a WSDOT maintenance yard.
SR 505- Ends in Winlock.
SR 506- Ends at Ryderwood.
SR 513- Ends at the NOAA facility at Magnuson Park in Seattle.
SR 519- On land it ends at Coleman Dock in Downtown Seattle, but legally it ends at a junction with SR 304 and SR 305 there.
SR 531- Ends at Wenburg County Park.
SR 532- Begins at Terry's Corner on Camano Island.
SR 542- Ends at Artist Point near Mt. Baker.
SR 704- Ends at Spanaway Loop Road in Spanaway.
SR 706- Ends at the Mt. Rainier National Park boundary.
SR 903- Ends at Salmon la Sac.
SR 906 Spur- Ends at a WSDOT maintenance yard at Hyak.
I-705- Ends at Schuster Parkway in Tacoma.
Quote from: Brandon on January 31, 2018, 11:28:33 AM
Quote from: CapeCodder on January 31, 2018, 11:16:00 AM
I posted in the regional forum thread about Massachusetts that talked about Route 80. The route is a hanging end, as it does not end at another route. I know RI 100 is a hanging end on its northern end, as it is an unnumbered route in MA. Are there many examples of "hanging ends" in the US?
Quite a few. Many, at least in these parts, end at a major river.
Illinois (not including ones that end at the state line on land):
IL-70, ends in downtown Durand.
IL-178, ends at the junction of two county highways in Lowell.
IL-17, ends in New Boston, at the Mississippi River.
IL-156, ends in Valmeyer, shy of the Mississippi River.
IL-155, ends at Fort de Chartres State Park, near the Mississippi River.
IL-34, ends in Rosiclare, at the Ohio River.
IL-142, ends in downtown Equality.
IL-49, ends in Willow Hill
Also IL 138 - east end. It has advance signing for the end, but I'm not seeing an end assembly. Streetview (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0720577,-89.7501451,3a,23.2y,114.17h,88.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spuC-uaCpBZwacYjzbxpJSQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DpuC-uaCpBZwacYjzbxpJSQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D99.15866%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
Even just counting numbered routes, Missouri has a lot, though Missouri frequently uses numbered routes for spurs into state parks.
Partial list for just around the St. Louis area:
*MO 100 east end
*MO 109 north end (south end as well if ending at lettered routes doesn't county)
*MO 144 south end
*MO 180 east end
*MO 231 north end
*MO 267 north end
*MO 340 east end
Quote from: Mapmikey on February 01, 2018, 07:02:12 AM
Quote from: Thing 342 on January 31, 2018, 10:16:14 PM
Coastal VA has a bunch that end at or near the water (non-exhaustive, doing my best to exclude ones that end at secondaries):
VA-354 (Boat ramp in Senora)
VA-222 (Dead end in Weems)
VA-33 (Dead end in Deltaville)
VA-14 (Dead end in Matthews)
VA-171 (Dead end at Messick Pt in Poquoson)
VA-172 (Ends at unnumbered routes in Poquoson)
VA-173 (Dead end in Newport News)
VA-175 (Ends at unnumbered streets in Chincoteague)
VA-125 has a gap with two hanging ends, caused by the removal of a bridge that was never replaced.
I-264 (Ends at 2 unnumbered streets in VB)
There are also the few that end at military bases (VA-178 -> Langley AFB, VA-105 -> Ft. Eustis)
These are otherwise sorta hard to find in VA (outside of pure dead-ends), mostly since pretty much every route outside of the independent cities and a few counties has some sort of secondary number.
More from Virginia that do not end at a secondary route:
VA 149
VA 150
VA 281 (maybe)
VA 142
VA 402 (maybe)
VA 238
VA 246
VA 403
US 60
US 258 (maybe)
VA 244
VA 261
There are of course a plethora of the 3xx routes that would also qualify for this list.
I thought US 60 and VA 149 ended at one another.
They do not. There's about 6 miles between the two. Despite Virginia Beach signage, US 60 does not cross south of Rudee Inlet and VA 149 doesn't even make it to General Booth Blvd.
Quote from: jdb1234 on February 02, 2018, 02:45:04 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 04:54:08 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on January 31, 2018, 01:05:23 PM
If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2322808,-87.7947059,3a,41.3y,264.56h,82.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP2flVi5wCInbkmx7eGtNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2316063,-88.0149647,289m/data=!3m1!1e3") in Gulf Shores, AL.
AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.265583,-88.1159909,3a,37.4y,154.58h,85.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSeO3YDtw4lpX43qazimvuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0310255,-88.3527002,3a,60.2y,326.93h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVMTjnFa_1E04bJqrAWOghQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.
In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
You forgot AL 149 (north end), AL 180 (east end), and AL 271 (north end)
One Florida example
FL 951 ends at the bridge to Marco Island.
Another example in Alabama: AL 235 north in Talladega County. It ends at the junction of two county roads.
Quote from: froggie on February 04, 2018, 06:56:12 PM
They do not. There's about 6 miles between the two. Despite Virginia Beach signage, US 60 does not cross south of Rudee Inlet and VA 149 doesn't even make it to General Booth Blvd.
It's hard to tell on the map where VA 149 ends. Was VA 108 mentioned? It ends at the Henry/ Franklin County line it used to continue to VA 40 but the Franklin County portion for whatever reason was downgraded. I have no idea when the downgraded happened. Doesn't make much sense given that both primary and secondary routs are both maintained by VDOT anyways.
I thought WIS 77 ended at US 51 before reaching the Michigan line but I could be wrong.
Quote from: BrianP on February 01, 2018, 05:13:30 PM
Quote from: bzakharin on February 01, 2018, 03:45:50 PM
NJ 47
NJ 35
NJ 90, though it continues into PA to end at I-95 as an unnumbered freeway
NJ 168
NJ 152
NJ 52 (mentioned above)
NJ 147
NJ 109
NJ 162
NJ 44
NJ 324
NJ 41
NJ 68
NJ 72
NJ 143
NJ 167 in Bass River. It is the old US 9, still on NJDOT books, that dead ends at the former US 9 Mullica River Bridge. Though in Galloway across the river it is resurrected. Maybe a gap does not count, but certainly worth mentioning.
Quote from: ftballfan on January 31, 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Michigan has quite a few:
M-5 (northwestern end at Pontiac Trail in Commerce Twp)
M-8 (eastern end at Conant St in Detroit)
M-10 (northwestern end at Orchard Lake Rd/14 Mile Rd in West Bloomfield)
M-37 (northern end at the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula)
US-41 (northern end at Fort Wilkins State Park)
US-45 (northern end at Ontonagon St in Ontonagon)
M-46 (western end at Muskegon Ave in Muskegon)
M-64 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH-B)
M-77 (northern end at Carlson St in Grand Marais)
M-93 (southwestern end at Camp Grayling and northeastern end at Hartwick Pines State Park)
M-95 (southern end at Wisconsin state line, connecting to CTH N)
M-116 (northern end at Ludington State Park)
M-119 (northern end at C-66 in Cross Village)
M-121 (western end at Main Ave in Zeeland, just 500 feet away from BL I-196)
M-134 (eastern end at Townline Rd on Drummond Island)
M-137 (southern end at Interlochen State Park)
M-143 (western end at Lansing/East Lansing city limit)
M-149 (northern end at Palms Book State Park)
M-150 (northern end at Tienken Rd in Rochester Hills)
M-152 (western end at Van Buren/Berrien county line in the Sister Lakes area, two miles short of M-140)
M-154 (northern end at ferry connection to mainland and southern end along South Channel Dr, both on Harsens Island)
M-183 (southern end at Fayette State Park)
M-188 (southeastern end at VFW National Home near Eaton Rapids)
BS I-196 (eastern end at Clyde Park Ave in Wyoming; the portion in Grand Rapids was turned back to local control last year)
M-201 (northern end at Leelanau State Park)
M-211 (northern end at Onaway State Park)
M-212 (western end at Aloha State Park)
M-217 (southern end at Indiana state line, connecting to CR 17)
I'm surprised that some of these are still state highways like M-152 for example, I was looking for a lake around Dowagiac when I came across M-152 and thought of this post when I saw that it just straight up ended at the county line. Some of them make sense to me and some of them don't since some of them serve locations.
I have a database of all numbered routes in New England. This should be a complete list:
CT 2
MA 2
CT 4
ME 4
RI 5
RI 7
MA 7A
ME 9
RI 12
CT 15
ME 15
CT 17
VT 17
ME 24
MA 31
CT 32
CT 34
RI 37
VT 38
CT 41
ME 43
NH 49
CT 71A
RI 77
MA 80
CT 83
MA 88
ME 92
ME 96
CT 99
MA 99
ME 100
RI 100
ME 101
MA 102 (NY reference route)
CT 104
VT 105
VT 105A
NH 107A
RI 108
MA 109
ME 110
VT 113
VT 114
NH 121
VT 121
NH 121A
NH 122
ME 123
NH 123
NH 123A
CT 124
NH 124
ME 127
VT 127
NH 128
ME 129
ME 130
VT 129
ME 131
MA 136
ME 144
MA 146
MA 147
CT 149
MA 150
ME 150
ME 153
VT 153 (NY county route)
CT 159
ME 159
ME 161
ME 166 (unless it recently changed)
CT 173
CT 176
ME 183
ME 184
ME 185
ME 188
ME 190
ME 195
ME 198
MA 203
ME 204
ME 208
ME 209
ME 216
ME 219
MA 228
CT 229
CT 272
VT 279 (NY reference route)
CT 341
CT 349
CT 361
CT 372
RI 403
Quote from: dvferyance on February 05, 2018, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: froggie on February 04, 2018, 06:56:12 PM
They do not. There's about 6 miles between the two. Despite Virginia Beach signage, US 60 does not cross south of Rudee Inlet and VA 149 doesn't even make it to General Booth Blvd.
It's hard to tell on the map where VA 149 ends. Was VA 108 mentioned? It ends at the Henry/ Franklin County line it used to continue to VA 40 but the Franklin County portion for whatever reason was downgraded.
Because it did not meet primary standards. Also, BTW, it doesn't end at the county line but instead ends about a mile short (http://www.vahighways.com/route-log/va101-120.htm#va108)...
QuoteI have no idea when the downgraded happened.
1952.
QuoteDoesn't make much sense given that both primary and secondary routs are both maintained by VDOT anyways.
Different roadway standards between primary and secondary routes.
Quote from: 1I have a database of all numbered routes in New England. This should be a complete list:
<snip some of list>
VT 17 (NY 185 and VT 100)
VT 38 (VT 36 and US 7)
VT 121 (VT 11 and US 5)
These are not hanging ends. Termini are cited above in italics.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 31, 2018, 04:17:57 PM
A couple further ends I remembered (looking at a map helps!)
Iowa 122's east end is at the Mason City east limits, where the road continues as a county road.
Iowa 281's west end is at the Waterloo city limits, continuing west as a city street (Independence Ave).
You can also add the west end of Iowa 85, which ends at the Montezuma city limits and continues as Main Street.
All Nebraska Spur routes have a hanging end.
Was just looking at this...US 75 should be rerouted to Pembina. Why have it just dead end in Noyes?
Quote from: texaskdog on April 23, 2018, 10:05:21 AM
Was just looking at this...US 75 should be rerouted to Pembina. Why have it just dead end in Noyes?
Why does US-75 just dead end at the border? I'm just wondering the reason for that border crossing to be closed.
is us 75 the only us route that dead ends?
Well after doing a little reading I understand that it was Canada that closed the border citing such factors as the age of the facility, the proximity of another port, and workload and resource considerations. The train crossing looks like it's still open though. It would make perfect sense to scale US-75 back and use MN-171 and ND-59 getting rid of both state highways and either having it end at I-29 or go to the border with I-29 and US-81 in Canada I-29's route continues as Highway 75 anyway. There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
US 75 and MB 75 should be continuous.
Quote from: silverback1065 on April 23, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
is us 75 the only us route that dead ends?
Would you count 21 in South Carolina and 41 in Michigan?
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2018, 02:36:14 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
US 75 and MB 75 should be continuous.
Quote from: silverback1065 on April 23, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
is us 75 the only us route that dead ends?
Would you count 21 in South Carolina and 41 in Michigan?
21 just kinda ends and doesn't continue, 41 has a cul-de-sac but they both end in the same fashion to me.
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2018, 02:36:14 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
US 75 and MB 75 should be continuous.
Quote from: silverback1065 on April 23, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
is us 75 the only us route that dead ends?
Would you count 21 in South Carolina and 41 in Michigan?
US-421 has a pure dead end at a boat ramp in Kure Beach, NC; complete with BEGIN and END signs:
(https://i.imgur.com/EfNidHm.jpg)
(via GSV)
Quote from: Thing 342 on April 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2018, 02:36:14 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
US 75 and MB 75 should be continuous.
Quote from: silverback1065 on April 23, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
is us 75 the only us route that dead ends?
Would you count 21 in South Carolina and 41 in Michigan?
US-421 has a pure dead end at a boat ramp in Kure Beach, NC; complete with BEGIN and END signs:
(https://i.imgur.com/EfNidHm.jpg)
(via GSV)
That's the craziest ending for a US highway I've ever seen.
^^^
Not too far away from here, US 117 ends at a port.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4332/37372111025_0dcd399366_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP)2017 NC route-clinching trip Day 2 - 282 (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP) by H.B. Elkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/), on Flickr
Quote from: wxfree on January 31, 2018, 04:50:46 PM
Texas Farm to Market Roads have some good ones based on length and isolation. For the first two examples, the whole road is a hanging end, with no intersections after the one where the road begins. FM 2810 begins at US 90 in Marfa and goes 32 miles with no intersections before ending at a gravel road that continues to FM 170, mentioned below. FM 169 starts at US 67 south of Marfa and goes 25 miles with no intersections to end at a gravel road.
FM 170 enters Presidio from the east, and continues out to the west. It goes 48 miles to end at a gravel road, with no intersections with state roads. It does intersect Pinto Canyon Road, which is the road at the end of FM 2810. This road isn't all a hanging end, but close to half of it is.
FM 2119 is a 40-mile long road that's all hanging end, but it has county road intersections, unlike the first two (shorter) examples.
As a double example, FM 2185 starts at SH 54 in Van Horn and continues 41 miles to a gravel road. Its only other state road intersection is at FM 2809, which is another hanging end that ends at a gravel road. It's a 46-mile double-headed (double-tailed?) hanging end system.
There are quite a few FM/RM ends in TX that 'hang'. Some ends are close enough to other numbered roads, especially FMs/RMs, that they could have been extended onto a more logical/reasonable terminus intersection. IDK why those particular ones are like that. A few of the FMs/RMs that hang, amazingly have 'advanced' END signage. This one (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.08351,-95.58004,3a,47.516968y,126.44533h,-1.8336182t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s7EmKgtlDmZK6vJt1hYYhdQ!2e0)
on FM 1305 in Henderson County is one example. I'm not sure if these are a trend in the state, but for those kind of roads that have a surprise end, I think it's a good idea.
The only TX primary routes I know of that 'hang' are:
* TX 4 (ends at a park beach between South Padre Island and the mouth of the Rio Grande)
* TX 5 (currently ends in Allen at the Greenville Ave./Exchange Pkwy. intersection--a product of several truncations over the years)
* TX 25 (ends near the Red River north of Electra; no bridge connection across to OK, just a nondescript left turn to a county road)
* TX 186 (ends at the shore of the Gulf in Port Mansfield, a block east of its intersection with FM 606, which itself 'hangs' on the north end of town)
* TX 289 (continues as a county road that ends on the south shore of Lake Texoma)
Other minor TX numbered roads (park, recreational, FM/RM spurs, etc) are a mixture. Some 'hang', some cul-de-sac or circulate back, a few actually have ends at other numbered roads.
Quote from: hbelkins on April 24, 2018, 10:51:30 AM
^^^
Not too far away from here, US 117 ends at a port.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4332/37372111025_0dcd399366_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP)2017 NC route-clinching trip Day 2 - 282 (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP) by H.B. Elkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/), on Flickr
Continuing the North Carolina theme, this was US 64's east end from 1932-51:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vahighways.com%2Fncannex%2Fncscans%2F64pic.jpg&hash=36746ac87ab3cc18d94f7b4cc12bd2dfd8928a1a)
Mapmikey, April 2008
US 74 east ends at a dead end - https://goo.gl/maps/d4YrWGEWGER2
US 76 east ends at a dead end as well...the road to the right is an alleyway to a Coast Guard gate
https://goo.gl/maps/tXRC7q6Mj2t
US 60 east technically ends at a dead-end turnaround in Virginia Beach but it is highly developed...
US 360 east ended at a Cul-de-sac from 1933-54
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vahighways.com%2Fva-ends%2Fold%2Fold360_et.jpg&hash=065e9d300e93eba545a6d8d4ae9b6dcbbf58f43f)
bad sun angle Feb 2007
CA SR130, SR131, SR211
Quote from: hbelkins on April 24, 2018, 10:51:30 AM
^^^
Not too far away from here, US 117 ends at a port.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4332/37372111025_0dcd399366_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP)2017 NC route-clinching trip Day 2 - 282 (https://flic.kr/p/YWrQzP) by H.B. Elkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/), on Flickr
Wow it amazes me that US-117 even exists since it doesn't come close to the 300 mile limit or two state limit.
US-70 ends at a dead end too. Ironically all these US highways that we're talking about are in the same area.
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 24, 2018, 04:58:35 PM
US-70 ends at a dead end too. Ironically all these US highways that we're talking about are in the same area.
US 70 does not end at a dead end. It ends 1/2 mile short of where the road no longer crosses Little Port Brook. When the bridge still existed, US 70 crossed it and ended at today's Old Cedar Island Road, meaning other than a possible brief period when the bridge was closed and before the endpoint was moved back officially in 1973, US 70 has never ended at a dead end. See the mapscans at the very bottom of http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/us070.html
Quote from: Mapmikey on April 24, 2018, 05:26:44 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 24, 2018, 04:58:35 PM
US-70 ends at a dead end too. Ironically all these US highways that we're talking about are in the same area.
US 70 does not end at a dead end. It ends 1/2 mile short of where the road no longer crosses Little Port Brook. When the bridge still existed, US 70 crossed it and ended at today's Old Cedar Island Road, meaning other than a possible brief period when the bridge was closed and before the endpoint was moved back officially in 1973, US 70 has never ended at a dead end. See the mapscans at the very bottom of http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/us070.html
Doesn't really mean much to me. US-70 ends on Seashore Drive which indeed dead ends.
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
Well after doing a little reading I understand that it was Canada that closed the border citing such factors as the age of the facility, the proximity of another port, and workload and resource considerations. The train crossing looks like it's still open though. It would make perfect sense to scale US-75 back and use MN-171 and ND-59 getting rid of both state highways and either having it end at I-29 or go to the border with I-29 and US-81 in Canada I-29's route continues as Highway 75 anyway. There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
Talk of re-routing US-75 that way does make a lot of sense, but strangely I've never heard of it as a real proposal. I wonder if the American side is hoping for Canada to change its mind, or something.
Either way, MnDOT would still have to maintain the road to the border as a state highway, due to the description of Constitutional Route 6. Maybe swap designations with MN-171, or they could give it a wholly new number, or just leave it as an unmarked route, something like MN-975A.
It could be inertia on the part of the state of Minnesota (due to that C.R. status) that's left things as-is, for now.
I suppose though it would be a lot of work to put into a minor arterial, since most border-bound traffic is probably already on I-29 by that point. That's probably why nothing will be done anyone soon.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 24, 2018, 08:30:29 PM
I suppose though it would be a lot of work to put into a minor arterial, since most border-bound traffic is probably already on I-29 by that point. That's probably why nothing will be done anyone soon.
That, plus what I said, in addition to the red-tape for re-routing a US Route, plus who knows how the state of North Dakota/NDDOT feels about the whole thing (I have serous doubts that they care. It's not their problem.)
Alrighty, here's an exhaustive list for New York. Roads that end at state-maintained parkways or reference routes are excluded, as they aren't hanging.
Interstates
I-78 (east end at Canal St)
I-485 (east end at Suffolk CR 58)
I-678 (JFK Airport)
I-781 (east end at Fort Drum)
US Routes
US 220 (technically ends at the NY/PA border, NOT NY 17)
State Routes
NY 7A (becomes a quadrant route in PA)
NY 14 (dead end Lake Ontario)
NY 24 (eastern segment, Suffolk CR 80)
NY 25 (both ends hanging)
NY 27 (dead end at Montauk Point)
NY 45 (becomes Bergen CR 73)
NY 74 (dead end at Lake Champlain)
NY 85 (west end at Albany CR 353)
NY 101 (north end at Astor Ln)
NY 102 (west end at William St)
NY 106 (north end at Bay Ave)
NY 107 (both ends hanging)
NY 108 (south end at Woodbury Rd)
NY 110 (north end at Youngs Hill Rd)
NY 112 (south end at Suffolk CR 80)
NY 135 (south end at Merrick Rd)
NY 171 (both ends hanging)
NY 182 (west end at Whirlpool Rapids Bridge)
NY 210 (becomes Passaic CR 511)
NY 250 (north end at Lake Rd)
NY 264 (south end at Oswego CR 57)
NY 272 (dead end at Lake Ontario)
NY 303 (becomes Bergen CR 505)
NY 304 (becomes Bergen CR 503)
NY 309 (north end at Fulton CR 112)
NY 320 (north end at Chenango CR 29)
NY 329/409/429 (west ends at Watkins Glen State Park)
NY 340 (becomes Bergen CR 501)
NY 344 (unnumbered town road on MA side)
NY 367 (quadrant route on PA side)
NY 373 (dead end at Lake Champlain)
NY 396 (west end at Albany CR 301)
NY 418 (west end at Warren CR 4)
NY 421 (north end at end of pavement)
NY 431 (dead end below Whiteface Mountain summit)
NY 590 (north end at Culver Rd)
NY 840 (west end at Oneida CR 52)
NY 878 (east end at Atlantic Beach Bridge tolls)
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 24, 2018, 08:27:08 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 23, 2018, 02:34:16 PM
Well after doing a little reading I understand that it was Canada that closed the border citing such factors as the age of the facility, the proximity of another port, and workload and resource considerations. The train crossing looks like it's still open though. It would make perfect sense to scale US-75 back and use MN-171 and ND-59 getting rid of both state highways and either having it end at I-29 or go to the border with I-29 and US-81 in Canada I-29's route continues as Highway 75 anyway. There is no reason for US-75 to continue north of MN-171.
Talk of re-routing US-75 that way does make a lot of sense, but strangely I've never heard of it as a real proposal. I wonder if the American side is hoping for Canada to change its mind, or something.
Either way, MnDOT would still have to maintain the road to the border as a state highway, due to the description of Constitutional Route 6. Maybe swap designations with MN-171, or they could give it a wholly new number, or just leave it as an unmarked route, something like MN-975A.
It could be inertia on the part of the state of Minnesota (due to that C.R. status) that's left things as-is, for now.
I'm just thinking that they could put it as an unsigned state highway to the border and put a No Outlet sign up as well.
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 24, 2018, 09:03:40 PM
I'm just thinking that they could put it as an unsigned state highway to the border and put a No Outlet sign up as well.
That's probably the most likely outcome of any potential changes (not that I think any of them are probable in the near future), but the CR-16 junction a mile south of the border would make using a No Outlet sign incorrect (where 75 and 171 currently intersect—if you meant the CR-16 junction, then yes, that's fine.)
IMO, I currently see no practical reason to change things as they are. I'm pretty sure MnDOT has done all that I would do: put a sign on US-75 near the MN-171 junction (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.9719249,-97.1991301,3a,26.9y,309.57h,86.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slKx2sZaZ-aEQ4wPXWgYcRw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) noting that US-75 has no Canada crossing.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 24, 2018, 09:06:31 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 24, 2018, 09:03:40 PM
I'm just thinking that they could put it as an unsigned state highway to the border and put a No Outlet sign up as well.
That's probably the most likely outcome of any potential changes (not that I think any of them are probable in the near future), but the CR-16 junction a mile south of the border would make using a No Outlet sign incorrect (where 75 and 171 currently intersect–if you meant the CR-16 junction, then yes, that's fine.)
IMO, I currently see no practical reason to change things as they are. I'm pretty sure MnDOT has done all that I would do: put a sign on US-75 near the MN-171 junction (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.9719249,-97.1991301,3a,26.9y,309.57h,86.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slKx2sZaZ-aEQ4wPXWgYcRw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) noting that US-75 has no Canada crossing.
Yeah I was thinking of that before I even posted my last reply. Put it just north of CR-16 which swings back to US-75 anyway just north of Humboldt. Or like you said they could put up a sign saying, "No Access to Canada."
Quote from: cl94 on April 24, 2018, 09:02:16 PM
Alrighty, here's an exhaustive list for New York.
Thanks for the list! Couple of things here:
- If you're including NY 182, then you have to include I-190, no?
- I-781, for all practical purposes, ends at US-11. Unless I'm mistaken, it's not signed east of there.
- NY 590 no longer ends at Culver Rd - it ends at Titus Ave - but I guess it still counts either way.
And on a note not directly related to the list, Watkins Glen has way too many contenders for a town of its size. None of them should be state maintained given their lack of importance (and lack of volume) :paranoid:
Doesn't matter if I-781 isn't signed east of US 11. It ends at the gate.
I-190 ends at ON 405 at the border. NY 182 doesn't go onto the bridge (and even if it did, the ON side is an unnumbered road).
Quote from: txstateends on April 24, 2018, 12:15:50 PM
The only TX primary routes I know of that 'hang' are:
* TX 4 (ends at a park beach between South Padre Island and the mouth of the Rio Grande)
* TX 5 (currently ends in Allen at the Greenville Ave./Exchange Pkwy. intersection--a product of several truncations over the years)
* TX 25 (ends near the Red River north of Electra; no bridge connection across to OK, just a nondescript left turn to a county road)
* TX 186 (ends at the shore of the Gulf in Port Mansfield, a block east of its intersection with FM 606, which itself 'hangs' on the north end of town)
* TX 289 (continues as a county road that ends on the south shore of Lake Texoma)
A few more...
Military bases: TX 358 at the gates of Corpus Christi NAS, TX 195 at Fort Hood
Three on the shores of Matagorda Bay: TX 172 at a park along the coast in Olivia, TX 316 near Indianola, and TX 185 a couple blocks short of the beach in Port O'Connor
Technically, TX 118 and US 385 at the Big Bend National Park boundary
And then there's the de facto dangle in the middle of TX 87
Given the number of old routes that are being decommissioned because cities want to do more with them than TxDOT can afford, I think there may be a couple dangling state routes somewhere (there certainly are for loops, spurs and FM/RM roads.) Possibly SH 80 in San Marcos is among them. There was a weird period for a time after RM 12 was relocated to bypass the city where the signs directed you as far as the west side of the Texas State campus and then disappeared.
Quote from: 1 on February 08, 2018, 08:27:55 AM
I have a database of all numbered routes in New England.
I tend to count roads that end at a grade-separated limited access highway junction but the road continues beyond as a hanging ending. However, I don't count those where the roadway continues beyond an at-grade junction with a numbered route. (Examples: CT 66, CT 174, CT 175, CT 287, and CT 314 west ends, and CT 218 south end). I also don't count CT 64 or CT 154 because the ramps to I-84 and CT 9, respectively, are part of the mainline route.
Some examples of additional ones I count in CT:
US 5 (South end continues beyond I-91 as State St, which was once part of US 5)
CT 10 (south end continues as Ella T Grasso Blvd beyond I-95 to Kimberly Ave.)
CT 70 (Unless we count SR's as a legitimate continuation. West end becomes SR 801 at I-84)
CT 94 (west end continues beyond CT 2 as Hebron Ave to Main St.)
CT 122 (as in CT 70; Sounth end at I-95 becomes SR 745)
CT 155 (East end continues beyond CT 9 as Randolph Rd to Saybrook Rd)
CT 163 (North end becomes SR 612 north of CT 2)
CT 171 (West end continues beyond I-84 as Holland Rd and becomes Mashapaug Rd a few feet later at MA border)
CT 172 (South end continues beyond I-84 as Georges Hill Rd)
CT 254 (South end continues beyond CT 8 as SR 848)
CT 322 (East end continues beyond I-691 as West Main St; the numbered route once did as well when it was part of US 6A)
Also, do we count NY CR's as a continuation? CT 41, CT 341, and CT 361 all become Dutchess CR's at the NY border.
Quote from: catsynth on February 02, 2018, 02:33:57 PM
CA 3 in Montague (east of Yreka) is a baffling one.
That situation dates back to the days when the Southern Pacific Siskiyou line between Weed, CA and Springfield, OR was (and is, under different ownership) routed via Montague rather than the Siskiyou county seat of Yreka for topological reasons. Since in those days there was daily passenger service over this line, in the winter access between the two towns was considered vital, so LRN 82 (unsigned before '64) was extended east from Yreka to Montague to ensure that a state-plowed road was available to reach the Montague depot. For a brief moment in the '30's, the thought with the Division of Highways was to eventually extend the route east to US 97 in the Mt. Hebron area. But that never materialized, so the state maintenance ended at the east town limits of Montague, where CA 3 terminates today.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the most obvious "hanging ends" in CA -- that of CA 59 near Snelling. The idea was to terminate at the unconstructed CA 65 "Eastside" corridor near the historic endpoint; seeing as that corridor is unlikely to ever reach fruition, CA 59 will continue to be as such unless Caltrans reverses its longstanding reluctance to adopt any more surface mileage and assumes mainenance of county road J59 north from there to at least CA 132 but preferably CA 108/120 (and given recent trends within that agency, the chances of that happening are slim & none!).
OR 104
OR 131
ORH 182
OR 540
OR 241
OR 240
OR 501
ORH 180
ORH 120
OR 224
multiple instances of ORH 100
OR 227
OR 260
OR 46
OR 380
ORH 372
ORH 429
OR 422S
OR 70
ORH 350
ORH 351
ORH 413
ORH 410
OR 205
ORH 222 (twice)
ORH 200
OR 541
Of all the hanging ends in CT...does the unfinished Route 11 in Salem count?
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on April 25, 2018, 01:50:12 AM
Of all the hanging ends in CT...does the unfinished Route 11 in Salem count?
It's a temporary ending and it ends at a state highway so I dunno if it counts or not.
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CA 3 in Montague (east of Yreka) is a baffling one.
That situation dates back to the days when the Southern Pacific Siskiyou line between Weed, CA and Springfield, OR was (and is, under different ownership) routed via Montague rather than the Siskiyou county seat of Yreka for topological reasons. Since in those days there was daily passenger service over this line, in the winter access between the two towns was considered vital, so LRN 82 (unsigned before '64) was extended east from Yreka to Montague to ensure that a state-plowed road was available to reach the Montague depot. For a brief moment in the '30's, the thought with the Division of Highways was to eventually extend the route east to US 97 in the Mt. Hebron area. But that never materialized, so the state maintenance ended at the east town limits of Montague, where CA 3 terminates today.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the most obvious "hanging ends" in CA -- that of CA 59 near Snelling. The idea was to terminate at the unconstructed CA 65 "Eastside" corridor near the historic endpoint; seeing as that corridor is unlikely to ever reach fruition, CA 59 will continue to be as such unless Caltrans reverses its longstanding reluctance to adopt any more surface mileage and assumes mainenance of county road J59 north from there to at least CA 132 but preferably CA 108/120 (and given recent trends within that agency, the chances of that happening are slim & none!).
See that's the thing with CA 59, the continuation Signed County Route is so good that it fits pretty well with the rest of state route system. I think we've discussed that on CA 59/J59 thread that the county route portion is one of the best in the entire state.
What about hanging ends that were created due to unbuilt routings like CA 180, CA 168, CA 190, CA 211, CA 169, CA 203, and CA 178? Each one of them has a pretty interesting concept of what they were intended to be:
CA 180: More than likely would have used Onion Valley Road to reach what was CA 7 until Kings Canyon National Park was created.
CA 168: Was briefly looked at as the Piute Pass Highway which would have utilized Kaiser Pass Road to connect the two gapped segments today.
CA 190: Probably the only realistic Trans-Sierra Route left not to be built via low portion of the Kern River Canyon.
CA 211: Intended to be the northern most segment of CA 1 which would connect via the Lost Coast.
CA 169: Intended to connect through a reservation but never happened.
CA 203: Briefly explored as a Trans-Sierra Highway via the San Joaquin River Canyon.
CA 178: Long proposed to cross the Panamint Range south of Death Valley.
Other I didn't think of was CA 89, 41, 120, 140, CA 198, and 146. CA 41 and CA 140 dead end in Yosemite National Park, CA 198 ends at the start of the Generals Highway in Sequoia National Park, while CA 146 has two segments that dead end in Pinnacles National Park. CA 89 and CA 120 have maintenance gaps in Lassen Volcanic National Park and Yosemite which creates a hanging end.
Now, I'm going to go away from examples and posit a question about general road philosophy:
What, in particular, is wrong with a numbered highway not ending at another numbered highway?
It seems, at least to me, from this thread, that a number of us roadgeeks find something objectionable about numbered highways ending on their own. But, I ask: what's the problem with that? Sometimes, the importance of a corridor doesn't end at another highway. Sometimes it ends at a boat ramp on the Atlantic coast, like US-421. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that–that's just how it happens to be. Sure, it's interesting (hence this thread), but it seems like quite a few people find this condition to be unacceptable, or that its occurrence is something wrong with the system that should be fixed.
I'm of the belief that all numbered routes should go somewhere, and actually end at a road (preferably numbered) that can also take them somewhere else. Hanging ends suggest that something is incomplete. In true wilderness, such as in Northern Canada, this is acceptable. In the continental US, this is not really acceptable in most cases.
NY 14, for example, which dead-ends in Sodus Point, does not need to be a state route north of NY 104. It can become a county route, which can end at Lake Road (another county route), and the true dead end should not have a number.
To put it more generally, the "status" assigned to a route should reflect its strategic importance. So if a road is serving local traffic, has no outlet, etc., it should not really be part of the larger inter/intra - route system. Save those for long-distance and or thru-traffic routes that a significant portion the traveling public can actually use.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 25, 2018, 08:38:50 AM
Now, I'm going to go away from examples and posit a question about general road philosophy:
What, in particular, is wrong with a numbered highway not ending at another numbered highway?
It seems, at least to me, from this thread, that a number of us roadgeeks find something objectionable about numbered highways ending on their own. But, I ask: what's the problem with that? Sometimes, the importance of a corridor doesn't end at another highway. Sometimes it ends at a boat ramp on the Atlantic coast, like US-421. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that–that's just how it happens to be. Sure, it's interesting (hence this thread), but it seems like quite a few people find this condition to be unacceptable, or that its occurrence is something wrong with the system that should be fixed.
If it's actually ending at something important like the ocean, sure, no problem. As an example, truncating US 80 to Savannah just because no other numbered highway goes out to Tybee Island would be silly. But some hanging ends just don't make any sense, like, say, the north end of MD 119, which you could easily extend less than a mile to end at any of three other numbered routes instead of just ending it at an unremarkable suburban intersection.
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 25, 2018, 03:43:00 AM
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on April 25, 2018, 01:50:12 AM
Of all the hanging ends in CT...does the unfinished Route 11 in Salem count?
It's a temporary ending and it ends at a state highway so I dunno if it counts or not.
It's now a permanent ending, as ConnDOT officially cancelled the extension. I wouldn't count it because it ends at an at-grade intersection with CT 82. If we did, then we'd have to count CT 78's west end as a hanging ending, along with other cancelled expressway endings (CT 9 north end, I-291 west end, CT 3 north end, I-384 east end, CT 20 east end, CT 40 north end)
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 25, 2018, 11:35:09 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on April 25, 2018, 03:43:00 AM
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on April 25, 2018, 01:50:12 AM
Of all the hanging ends in CT...does the unfinished Route 11 in Salem count?
It's a temporary ending and it ends at a state highway so I dunno if it counts or not.
It's now a permanent ending, as ConnDOT officially cancelled the extension. I wouldn't count it because it ends at an at-grade intersection with CT 82. If we did, then we'd have to count CT 78's west end as a hanging ending, along with other cancelled expressway endings (CT 9 north end, I-291 west end, CT 3 north end, I-384 east end, CT 20 east end, CT 40 north end)
I think I can see why it wasn't extended south. Looking at Google Maps it would have ran directly into a residential neighborhood. I wouldn't count it even without it being temporary since it ends at CT-82.
Quote from: Eth on April 25, 2018, 09:34:35 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 25, 2018, 08:38:50 AM
Now, I'm going to go away from examples and posit a question about general road philosophy:
What, in particular, is wrong with a numbered highway not ending at another numbered highway?
It seems, at least to me, from this thread, that a number of us roadgeeks find something objectionable about numbered highways ending on their own. But, I ask: what's the problem with that? Sometimes, the importance of a corridor doesn't end at another highway. Sometimes it ends at a boat ramp on the Atlantic coast, like US-421. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that–that's just how it happens to be. Sure, it's interesting (hence this thread), but it seems like quite a few people find this condition to be unacceptable, or that its occurrence is something wrong with the system that should be fixed.
If it's actually ending at something important like the ocean, sure, no problem. As an example, truncating US 80 to Savannah just because no other numbered highway goes out to Tybee Island would be silly. But some hanging ends just don't make any sense, like, say, the north end of MD 119, which you could easily extend less than a mile to end at any of three other numbered routes instead of just ending it at an unremarkable suburban intersection.
It's not necessarily bad, it just feels or seems more unusual. Most numbered roads go somewhere, if only a connection to another numbered road. The FMs/RMs that just stop out in the sticks somewhere have that look like the state had to stop because it ran out of $$$ for the project. Even seeing them on a map, you might think, "Ok, where's the rest of it?"
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 25, 2018, 08:38:50 AM
Now, I'm going to go away from examples and posit a question about general road philosophy:
What, in particular, is wrong with a numbered highway not ending at another numbered highway?
It seems, at least to me, from this thread, that a number of us roadgeeks find something objectionable about numbered highways ending on their own. But, I ask: what's the problem with that? Sometimes, the importance of a corridor doesn't end at another highway. Sometimes it ends at a boat ramp on the Atlantic coast, like US-421. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that–that's just how it happens to be. Sure, it's interesting (hence this thread), but it seems like quite a few people find this condition to be unacceptable, or that its occurrence is something wrong with the system that should be fixed.
I don't think it's inherently a bad thing for a numbered highway to end at a place that isn't a numbered highway, but I do think that overall there is, as there should be, an impression that numbered highways go somewhere. Another highway, a city, a coast, or some other kind of destination can be fine places to end a highway. In general, I think that the higher the class of highway the more important it is that it end at a suitable place, because the more important it will be that that each segment of the highway perform a function worthy of its classification. For example, an Interstate should probably end at another Interstate or in a major city, or at an international border with a major crossing.
I listed example of Farm to Market Roads based on what I thought made them good examples, such as length and isolation from the rest of the road system. There are, however, many FM roads with isolated ends. Just within 30 miles of my location I can think of 9. This is the lowest class of state road, less likely to be used by through travelers who may not know how the road ends. In many cases, FM roads end at a county line, generally one in a more rural county ends at the boundary with a more urban county. I always thought of that as being extra help for the rural county, which may be more likely to have lower-quality county roads, while the more urban county is more likely to have roads that are at least paved. I think that's okay for an agricultural road system (or however a state identifies its lowest-grade highway system). It isn't as useful for long-distance drivers but can decrease the mileage rural residents have to drive on slow gravel roads.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 25, 2018, 08:38:50 AM
Now, I'm going to go away from examples and posit a question about general road philosophy:
What, in particular, is wrong with a numbered highway not ending at another numbered highway?
To pick up where you left off.
The other day, I drove Mississippi Highway 14 a little further west than I where needed to turn (forgot to leave it at MS-12, and continue on that route), and it stopped in the small hamlet of Ebeneezer. To which I said: "Aw, crap." when I saw the END STATE MAINTENANCE sign. Although it had three paved roads radiating out of that end, none of them had any posted names or numbers. And of course, no cell phone service.
Fortunately, heading north from that point at least put me back to MS-17 on a serviceable route, after about 10-12 minutes. I'm sure many of us have had moments like these, but it's an example why there's a greater confidence in knowing it connects to something else, save a proper end near a body of water or other physical limitation.
Some come to mind for Arizona off the top of my head:
AZ 238: If I recall correctly this ends near Mobile and the Maricopa County maintained portion continues to Gila Bend.
AZ 95: Turns into a non-state highway at the California state line.
AZ 99: Ends suddenly south of Winslow but the road continues to AZ 260.
AZ 288: Ends in Young but the road continues to AZ 260.
AZ 473: Ends at Hawley Lake.
AZ 273: Ends suddenly south of AZ 261 but the road continues.
AZ 373: Ends in Greer
AZ 564: Ends at Navajo National Monument.
AZ 366: Ends near the summit of Mount Graham.
AZ 266: Ends near a state prison.
AZ 181: Ends at Chircahua National Monument.
AZ 83: Ends at Parker Canyon Lake.
AZ 289: Ends near Pena Blanca Lake and a ghost town called Ruby.
AZ 386: Ends at Kitt Peak.
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If we're talking about the route having to end at another state route, US route, or Interstate, then here are a few from Alabama:
AL 255 is technically "hanging" on both ends. It's southern terminus is at Gate 9 for Redstone Arsenal and it's current northern terminus is Bob Wade Lane on the north side of Huntsville.
AL 281 ends at two unpaved roads and a parking lot in the middle of Talladega National Forrest (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@33.404516,-85.8742272,566m/data=!3m1!1e3").
AL 101 ends at CR 460 in Lawrence County, AL. The road had originally been AL 24, but it was rerouted to the north when the road got widened though AL 101 was never truncated to match this change.
AL 62 is a rather infamous example of one, with the west end being at a locked gate for a long-closed factory (especially since the road got state route status after said factory closed).
Other states also have a few state routes that end at the Alabama State Line, but don't have an AL state route on the other side:
GA 301's northern terminus at the AL State Line is CR 90 in Jackson County, AL.
TN 121's southern end at the AL State Line is Winchester Road (unsigned CR 65) in Madison County, AL.
Likewise, TN 274's southern end at the AL State Line is Old Railroad Bed Road in Madison County, AL.
TN 98 is another route ending at the AL State Line that leads to a county route, this time CR 89 in Lauderdale County, AL.
In a non-Alabama example: GA 97 ends at the Florida State Line and leads directly into CR 269A in Gadsden County, FL. CR 269A used to be FL 269A years ago, but Florida decommissioned a bunch of these daughter and suffixed routes state wide to be able to build the Interstates in the state without having to go over their state mileage cap.
A few more from Alabama:
AL 182 ends just before a cul-de-sac in the Gulf Shores area (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2322808,-87.7947059,3a,41.3y,264.56h,82.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP2flVi5wCInbkmx7eGtNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
The west end of AL 180 is at this ferry (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2316063,-88.0149647,289m/data=!3m1!1e3") in Gulf Shores, AL.
AL 193 ends right as you get onto Dauphin Island (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@30.265583,-88.1159909,3a,37.4y,154.58h,85.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSeO3YDtw4lpX43qazimvuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
AL 217's western end is at CR 21 in Mobile County, AL (http://"https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0310255,-88.3527002,3a,60.2y,326.93h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVMTjnFa_1E04bJqrAWOghQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656").
Also, MS 614's eastern end at the Alabama State Line does not have any state highway it connects to, instead connecting to CR 56 in Mobile County, AL.
Similar situation for MS 612 and CR 7 in Mobile County, AL, along with MS 594 and CR 96.
In a reverse situation, AL 56 ends at the Mississippi state line, but doesn't have a state route that it connects to, though Mississippi signs it as "To AL 56" from US 45 and it appears that the road is state maintained between the two (it lacks a route number of its own though).
If anyone wants to post more routes that end at the Alabama state lines but don't have state routes on the Alabama side, feel free to.
You forgot AL 149 (north end), AL 180 (east end), and AL 271 (north end)
One Florida example
FL 951 ends at the bridge to Marco Island.
Another example in Alabama: AL 235 north in Talladega County. It ends at the junction of two county roads.
Don't think this one was mentioned yet either: AL 759 ends at city street in Gadsden, AL on its east end.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on April 25, 2018, 07:48:56 AM
CA 169: Intended to connect through a reservation but never happened.
IIRC, this existed as a through route until the mid-1960s after a flood took out the original paved road, and then it was never rebuilt (through the reservation land as noted).
There are quite a few in Nevada, though I don't have the time to document there here at present.
Quote from: SSR_317 on April 28, 2018, 06:16:16 PM
There are quite a few in Nevada, though I don't have the time to document there here at present.
You're not wrong on that, in either your estimation of quantity or the time to document them...
Many, if not most, of the hanging ends actually have the state highway terminate at an isolated town, a state/federal facility (such as a state prison, state park, national park/recreation area boundary, etc.), or sometimes accessing a mining interest. While towns/sites might have a road leading out in another direction, most often such extending roads are either dirt roads not well maintained, or go in a direction that topography or traffic patterns would make extending the state highway designation pointless.
Examples, listed based on a cursory scan of NDOT's most recent Nevada highway map and my knowledge of Nevada highways. This is not an exhaustive list, and generally does not include routes fully within urban or built-up areas. (Those denoted with a "+" are ones I think could be usefully extended.)
- SR 116: Ends at Stillwater, accesses Stillwater Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
- SR 121: Ends en route to Dixie Valley
- SR 147: Ends at Lake Mead NRA boundary
- SR 156 & 157: Ends in national forest and ski areas at Mt Charleston
- SR 161: Ends in Goodsprings
- SR 165: Ends at Nelson
- SR 169: Ends south of Overton at Lake Mead NRA boundary
- SR 170+: Ends just south of Mesquite (hanging due to relinquishments)
- SR 171+: McCarran Airport connector, ends at airport tunnel. (could be extended if NDOT took over airport access roads from Clark County)
- SR 172: Hoover Dam Access Road, state highway designation ends at BLM boundary
- SR 226+: Ends at Jack Creek (could be extended back to SR 225 with paving)
- SR 227: Ends at Lamoille, accesses Ruby Mountains
- SR 228: Ends past Jiggs, accesses Ruby Mountains
- SR 231: Ends at Angel Lake State Park
- SR 232+: Ends randomly just short of US 93 (possibly relinquished?)
- SR 265+: Ends at Silver Peak (this one could be extended east if a bit of road were paved)
- SR 290: Ends at Paradise Valley
- SR 306+: Ends at Gold Acres (could extend south to meet SR 305)
- SR 317+: Ends at Elgin (could extend to either I-15 or US 93 if roads were paved)
- SR 322: Ends at Ursine en route to Spring Valley State Park
- SR 377: Ends at Manhattan (could be extended, but wouldn't meet another state highway within reason)
- SR 379: Ends at Duckwater/Duckwater Indian Reservation (could be extended north to US 50 with improvements)
- SR 399: Ends randomly, serveing a mining area northwest of Lovelock
- SR 400: Ends near Unionville (could be extended south and west back to I-80)
- SR 401: Short spur to the Rye Patch area (a dam, reservoir & state recreation area)
- SR 445: Ends in the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
- SR 447+: Ends in Gerlach, accesses Black Rock Desert (site of Burning Man). (Could be extended over paved county road to CA state line en route to Eagleville & Cedarville, but there's not a corresponding CA highway.)
- SR 488: Ends at Great Basin Nat'l Park boundary
- SR 490: Ends outside the state prison near Ely
- SR 564: Ends at Lake Mead NRA boundary
- SR 759: Ends at Minden-Tahoe Airport
- SR 766: Ends at Leeville
- SR 774: Ends at Gold Point
- SR 806: Ends north of Battle Mountain serving some mining interests
- SR 789: Ends somewhat randomly northeast of Golconda serving some mining interests
- SR 839: Ends en route to Rawhide. (Conceivably could be extended south to US 95 at Hawthorne, but there's little utility for this.)
- SR 844: Ends at Berlin, accesses Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
These are examples I'm baffled by, as the purpose of the highway is not readily apparent to me:
- SR 293: Ends randomly in Kings River Valley
- SR 294: Ends randomly in Grass Valley
- SR 893: Ends in the middle of nowhere, Spring Valley
New Jersey (I don’t count roads that end at county routes):
US 30, US 40, and US 322 end at local streets in Atlantic City.
Atlantic CR 638 is essentially an extension of NJ 87 through Brigantine, but it connects to no other county highways and ends at a dead end.
NJ 52, depending on what you look at. Officially it ends at Palen Avenue in Ocean City, but the two streets haven’t been connected since the 9th Street Bridge was rebuilt, and now it’s signed starting from CR 656.
NJ 35 begins at the entrance to Island Beach State Park. (The last cross streets are maintained by Ocean County but belong to an internal route network.)
CR 656 in Ocean City ends abruptly at the Longport-Ocean City Bridge, which along with the connection to NJ 152 are maintained by the Cape May County Bridge Commission with no assigned number within Atlantic County.
NJ 68 ends at Joint Base MDL, but CR 616 is the last cross road.
NJ 163 is a vestige of old US 46. NJ 167 is split in two and both portions dangle off US 9. NJ 324 is isolated from all other routes.
NJ 44 begins under US 322 in Bridgeport, but they don’t directly connect. There is an extension beyond CR 640 near National Park that is utilised as a sliproad from I-295. In National Park, CRs 638, 642, and 644 lead to dead ends; CR 642 is an entrance to Red Bank Battlefield Park.
Cumberland CRs 637 and 643 lead to Fortescue and Money Island respectively; CR 734 is offered as a cut-off of the Y intersection south of Newport. Cumberland CR 601 dead-ends north of Sea Breeze. Cape May CR 655 goes to Reeds Beach, and Cape May CR 640 goes to the US Coast Guard Training Center. CR 561 Alternate ends at Oyster Creek, and Atlantic CR 657 ends at Motts Creek. Atlantic CR 651 ends at a boat landing before a local road continues to Morris Beach. Ocean CR 607 is Long Beach Boulevard along Long Beach Island and is isolated from 600- and 500-series county routes. Ocean CRs 601, 602, and 605 end at boat landings along Barnegat Bay and also do not connect to other 600- or 500-series routes or state routes at one or both ends.
Cumberland CR 610 suddenly ends north of Jones Island, and Dover Township takes over the rest of the road there (and it’s private after that). Cumberland CR 644 suddenly ends at the Atlantic County Line and the connecting road is maintained by Estell Manor. Atlantic CR 644 suddenly ends at the Pleasantville city line, and Atlantic CR 684 ends shortly after CR 662 with the rest of the road taken up by Egg Harbor Township. Ocean CR 608 sticks out from CR 539 at Warren Grove and is apparently only minimally maintained.
Cape May CR 627 goes for just two blocks before ending. The road ostensibly went through South Cape May before that town was washed into the sea. CR 604 ventured there once as well. Atlantic CRs 659 and 661, both unsigned, each connect to only one other county route (615 and 651 respectively), but the road was split by the Garden State Parkway. Ocean CR 642 is split in two and each segment only connects to one other major county or state road.
Quote from: Bickendan on April 25, 2018, 01:24:00 AM
OR 104
OR 131
ORH 182
OR 540
OR 241
OR 240
OR 501
ORH 180
ORH 120
OR 224
multiple instances of ORH 100
OR 227
OR 260
OR 46
OR 380
ORH 372
ORH 429
OR 422S
OR 70
ORH 350
ORH 351
ORH 413
ORH 410
OR 205
ORH 222 (twice)
ORH 200
OR 541
Might I add: OR 339. This appears to be an old alignment between Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater. Washington moved a new WA 215 a few blocks east, picked up by OR 11 on the other side, but Oregon kept the old highway alignment on their side in the state system. Looking at GSV, you can see a couple of run-down convenience stores on the highway, missing the traffic that use to be there.
I've noticed too that most of 99W through Portland has been deleted from the state system leaving isolated sections such as the Steel Bridge under state jurisdiction. Look closely at this map for this and other island state route sections not connected to any other state routes. http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Data/Documents/District_dist02b.pdf
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on May 24, 2018, 10:23:51 AM
I've noticed too that most of 99W through Portland has been deleted from the state system leaving isolated sections such as the Steel Bridge under state jurisdiction. Look closely at this map for this and other island state route sections not connected to any other state routes. http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Data/Documents/District_dist02b.pdf
This map clearly shows that OR 99W (ORH 81) is still state-maintained along its Barbur Blvd. alignment parallel to I-5, as previously illustrated on overhead street signs in NW threads -- and that it ends at or near Ross Island Bridge/US 26, but picks up again (unsigned) up near Jantzen Beach, with no connection along its previous Interstate Ave. alignment. This should put to rest any speculative route through downtown, as it's clear from this map that ODOT has little or no problem with disconnected route segments.