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Title: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: roadman65 on January 28, 2020, 01:46:09 PM
I noticed that US Highway 271 runs from Smith County, TX to Fort Smith, AR.  Two endpoints that have Smith in their name.  I have seen many common things about one end of a highway over another, but this is probably one rare find like this to have one route end at a common name. 

I am sure many other stories are out there as well.  The universe is full of them.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 28, 2020, 03:47:55 PM
US 319 still ends at Apalachicola Bay in the middle of US 98 despite not really having a real reason to do so at that location for decades.  Before the bridge was there US 319 would end and a ferry would take traffic to US 98. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: usends on January 28, 2020, 04:45:07 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 28, 2020, 03:47:55 PM
US 319 still ends at Apalachicola Bay in the middle of US 98 despite not really having a real reason to do so at that location for decades.  Before the bridge was there US 319 would end and a ferry would take traffic to US 98.
True, although US 319 used a ferry only briefly, because the original Gorrie Bridge was built in 1935, just two years after US 319 (and US 98) were commissioned.  The current bridge was built in 1988, and interestingly, US 319's "End" sign is posted right where the new bridge's alignment diverges from the original alignment.  (That's my best theory for how the terminus of 319 came to be located at that seemingly-nonsensical point.)  This photo (https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/142748) was taken during the brief timeframe during which both alignments were visible.  I suspect that 319's original endpoint was in Apalachicola itself, probably at the courthouse, but so far haven't found anything to prove that... which is frustrating, since 1988 wasn't all that long ago.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Bruce on January 28, 2020, 05:13:22 PM
US 2 and I-90 both end at short state routes just beyond I-5, and these state routes are both spurs of I-5 that end in -9 (SR 529 and SR 519, respectively). Always thought that was a neat coincidence.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:00:20 AM
Quote from: Bruce on January 28, 2020, 05:13:22 PM
US 2 and I-90 both end at short state routes just beyond I-5, and these state routes are both spurs of I-5 that end in -9 (SR 529 and SR 519, respectively). Always thought that was a neat coincidence.

The other end of I-90 also ends at a state-level highway (MA-1A)

Also...according to Google street view, I-90 seems to start at "Mile 2"??
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:07:41 AM
There's the eastern terminus of US-6 in Provincetown, MA.

It and its own "alternate" highway (MA-6A) end at each other.

What's even funnier is that before the Provincetown bypass was built, the old US-6 terminus was not adjacent to any currently numbered state highway.  It was at the west end of Commercial Street.  US-6 was never signed along Provincelands Rd to Herring Cove.  It wasn't given a numbered designation until the bypass was built.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: hbelkins on January 29, 2020, 11:38:19 AM
How many begin and end at the same route? US 460's western end is at US 60 (and US 421) in Frankfort, Ky., and the eastern end is at US 60 in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on January 29, 2020, 11:53:09 AM
This may be a bit of a stretch to consider it "interesting" but for Indiana the best I can come up with is that three US Highways: 33, 35, and 421, all had their northern termini truncated to US 20.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Mapmikey on January 29, 2020, 01:08:30 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 29, 2020, 11:38:19 AM
How many begin and end at the same route? US 460's western end is at US 60 (and US 421) in Frankfort, Ky., and the eastern end is at US 60 in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

158 and 264 do this - both start and end at US 64

101 does this with I-5

311 did for decades but no longer does
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: pianocello on January 29, 2020, 05:25:10 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on January 29, 2020, 11:53:09 AM
This may be a bit of a stretch to consider it "interesting" but for Indiana the best I can come up with is that three US Highways: 33, 35, and 421, all had their northern termini truncated to US 20.

To piggyback on that, all three of these routes' most recent former endpoint was at US 12 (although in US 33's case, it was in Michigan).
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: ozarkman417 on January 29, 2020, 05:43:47 PM
US 425 ends at US 65, and US 65 ends at US 425, so they are essentially endpoints for each other, and what's with 425's seemingly pointless (and poorly signed) concurrency leading up to I-530?
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Some one on January 29, 2020, 08:48:43 PM
Us 24 has its western terminus at I-70 (US 6) and it's eastern (northern) terminus at I-75. I just find it to be interesting because both interstates start with a 7 and US 24 runs in a north-south path at those points (and is signed as such in Michigan).

US 10 has it's western and eastern terminus at an interstate (I-94, I-75), a US highway (US 52, US 23), and an interstate business highway (I-94 Bus, BL I-94). The eastern terminus also M-25.

In general, it's just really interesting to see the amount of US Highways that end at I-75 in Michigan. You got US 2, US 10, US 23, US 24. US 31, and US 127.

Quote from: hbelkins on January 29, 2020, 11:38:19 AM
How many begin and end at the same route? US 460's western end is at US 60 (and US 421) in Frankfort, Ky., and the eastern end is at US 60 in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
US 16 has its western terminus at Yellowstone Park alongside US 14 (and the western segment of US 20) and its eastern terminus at US 14 (and I-90/I-190/US 16 Truck) in Rapid City.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: US 89 on January 29, 2020, 09:23:02 PM
It always amazed me that there are four US route termini in a single county in North Carolina.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 29, 2020, 11:48:29 PM
US 180 has a western terminus that is co-signed with AZ 64 at the South Rim entrance of Grand Canyon National Park:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/2933/32737643774_716e92bc42_3k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RSUYW3)180USb (https://flic.kr/p/RSUYW3) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr

US 89 ends at US 180/Historic US 66/I-40 BL in on Milton Road.  While that might not seem so odd a western jog on Milton Road through downtown Flagstaff will take a traveler to AZ 89A which was part of US 89A until fairly recently.  For a route that is supposed to be truncated ADOT sure did a crappy job at picking new numbers:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/3850/32766659433_f53b378728_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RVtGh2)180USa (https://flic.kr/p/RVtGh2) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr

US 50's western terminus near I-80 near Sacramento is also legislatively recognized as part of the signed route of I-80BL.  Interestingly US 50 west of CA 99 is considered FHWA I-305 but the California legislature doesn't recognize it.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Evan_Th on January 30, 2020, 01:25:22 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:00:20 AM
Also...according to Google street view, I-90 seems to start at "Mile 2"??
Yes; the original plan was to have it start at SR 99, but that part got cancelled in the Seattle freeway revolts.  I wish it'd been kept; it would've made it a lot easier to get to and from the west part of the city.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: DJ Particle on January 30, 2020, 01:31:23 AM
Quote from: Evan_Th on January 30, 2020, 01:25:22 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:00:20 AM
Also...according to Google street view, I-90 seems to start at "Mile 2"??
Yes; the original plan was to have it start at SR 99, but that part got cancelled in the Seattle freeway revolts.  I wish it'd been kept; it would've made it a lot easier to get to and from the west part of the city.
That was what I originally thought too...but WA-99 is only another block away.   :hmmm:
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: TheStranger on January 30, 2020, 03:10:13 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 29, 2020, 11:48:29 PM

US 50's western terminus near I-80 near Sacramento is also legislatively recognized as part of the signed route of I-80BL. 

As of 2016-2017 that's no longer the case and the east-west stretch through West Sacramento is pretty much signed entirely as US 50 except for some straggler ramp signs, IIRC.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: US 89 on January 30, 2020, 07:50:56 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 29, 2020, 11:48:29 PM
US 89 ends at US 180/Historic US 66/I-40 BL in on Milton Road.  While that might not seem so odd a western jog on Milton Road through downtown Flagstaff will take a traveler to AZ 89A which was part of US 89A until fairly recently.  For a route that is supposed to be truncated ADOT sure did a crappy job at picking new numbers:

US 89 might have one of the most poorly defined endpoints I know of. There are shields and street blades to support an endpoint at Historic 66 which you posted above, but the END 89 sign (https://goo.gl/maps/PS6fQoit7WkENfkv9) is back up at the intersection with Country Club Drive. Then the signage from I-40 (https://goo.gl/maps/qTs64GsfTwgPihHh9) seems to suggest Country Club Drive is US 89.

The 2013 Arizona route log (https://azdot.gov/sites/default/files/2019/05/2013shslog.pdf) (most recent I can find) states that US 89 begins "Near Trailsend Drive inside Flagstaff", which is well north of any of these other intersections. (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2390459,-111.5720014,17z) That point is given milepost 1.87; tracing the mileage back would suggest a MP 0 at either Historic 66 or the north side ramps at the I-40 interchange.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 30, 2020, 08:12:17 AM
Quote from: TheStranger on January 30, 2020, 03:10:13 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 29, 2020, 11:48:29 PM

US 50's western terminus near I-80 near Sacramento is also legislatively recognized as part of the signed route of I-80BL. 

As of 2016-2017 that's no longer the case and the east-west stretch through West Sacramento is pretty much signed entirely as US 50 except for some straggler ramp signs, IIRC.

Yes, the signage got took taken down but the Legislative requirement to co-sign it as I-80B still remains.  I can confirm at least one I-80B shield on former CA 160 as it crosses under US 50. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 30, 2020, 09:54:27 AM
Quote from: US 89 on January 30, 2020, 07:50:56 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 29, 2020, 11:48:29 PM
US 89 ends at US 180/Historic US 66/I-40 BL in on Milton Road.  While that might not seem so odd a western jog on Milton Road through downtown Flagstaff will take a traveler to AZ 89A which was part of US 89A until fairly recently.  For a route that is supposed to be truncated ADOT sure did a crappy job at picking new numbers:

US 89 might have one of the most poorly defined endpoints I know of. There are shields and street blades to support an endpoint at Historic 66 which you posted above, but the END 89 sign (https://goo.gl/maps/PS6fQoit7WkENfkv9) is back up at the intersection with Country Club Drive. Then the signage from I-40 (https://goo.gl/maps/qTs64GsfTwgPihHh9) seems to suggest Country Club Drive is US 89.

The 2013 Arizona route log (https://azdot.gov/sites/default/files/2019/05/2013shslog.pdf) (most recent I can find) states that US 89 begins "Near Trailsend Drive inside Flagstaff", which is well north of any of these other intersections. (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2390459,-111.5720014,17z) That point is given milepost 1.87; tracing the mileage back would suggest a MP 0 at either Historic 66 or the north side ramps at the I-40 interchange.

Isn't Trails End near or at the end of the City Limit of Flagstaff?  That might explain the discrepancy in the ADOT logs if Flagstaff maintained part of US 89.  I could have swore I had a picture of that US 89 End shield assembly but I can't find it in any of photo logs. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: -- US 175 -- on January 30, 2020, 11:19:04 AM
The backwoods semi-cul-de-sac at US 41's north terminus in MI is an unusual and sudden one to those unfamiliar.

The blockage of the US 75 north terminus in Noyes, MN made the once 'king of trails' a rather quiet, anticlimactic one.  I guess as long as nothing is ever done about that (mainly connecting US 75 to Pembina as a reroute), it will remain so.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Evan_Th on February 01, 2020, 02:15:57 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 30, 2020, 01:31:23 AM
Quote from: Evan_Th on January 30, 2020, 01:25:22 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:00:20 AM
Also...according to Google street view, I-90 seems to start at "Mile 2"??
Yes; the original plan was to have it start at SR 99, but that part got cancelled in the Seattle freeway revolts.  I wish it'd been kept; it would've made it a lot easier to get to and from the west part of the city.
That was what I originally thought too...but WA-99 is only another block away.   :hmmm:
My guess is they rounded up; the SR 99 exit would've been Exit 1, and the I-5 interchange half a mile later is Exit 2.

Or, intriguingly, if you continue down SR 99 to the interchange with the West Seattle Bridge (which was planned as an x05), you've come almost exactly two miles from the I-90/I-5 interchange...
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: bing101 on February 01, 2020, 08:47:24 AM
US-101 in both  the north end and south end meet with I-5.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Bruce on February 02, 2020, 05:52:54 PM
Quote from: Evan_Th on February 01, 2020, 02:15:57 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 30, 2020, 01:31:23 AM
Quote from: Evan_Th on January 30, 2020, 01:25:22 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on January 29, 2020, 04:00:20 AM
Also...according to Google street view, I-90 seems to start at "Mile 2"??
Yes; the original plan was to have it start at SR 99, but that part got cancelled in the Seattle freeway revolts.  I wish it'd been kept; it would've made it a lot easier to get to and from the west part of the city.
That was what I originally thought too...but WA-99 is only another block away.   :hmmm:
My guess is they rounded up; the SR 99 exit would've been Exit 1, and the I-5 interchange half a mile later is Exit 2.

Or, intriguingly, if you continue down SR 99 to the interchange with the West Seattle Bridge (which was planned as an x05), you've come almost exactly two miles from the I-90/I-5 interchange...

The West Seattle Bridge was not planned to be a freeway, let alone an Interstate. There was a vague proposal from the state for a cross-sound freeway bridge that would have landed at Fauntleroy and worked its way up to the Cloverdale Interchange (SR 99 / SR 509) before proceeding to I-5 near Georgetown.

As for the I-90 / SR 99 connection: the Connecticut Street Viaduct was not done in by the city's freeway revolts but rather the amount of time it took to sort out the construction of the third floating bridge and the lids on Mercer Island. The I-5 / I-90 interchange famously had many pre-built ramps that sat empty for decades, but when it came time to build the western connection there was little demand and not enough funding to go around. Having that connection today wouldn't work with the design of the SR 99 tunnel, as the stoplights in SODO act as a very large ramp meter to help control traffic flow.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: hbelkins on February 02, 2020, 06:34:01 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?

US 14 and US 16 end at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 02, 2020, 06:51:58 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2020, 06:34:01 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?

US 14 and US 16 end at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park.

US 385 at Big Bend National Park. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 02, 2020, 08:19:06 PM
US 209 ends at PA 147 in Millersburg--instead of ending at a US route, Interstate, or seaboard, it terminates at a lowly state route.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: US 89 on February 03, 2020, 12:50:26 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2020, 06:34:01 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?

US 14 and US 16 end at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park.

As does US 212, but at a different entrance
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 03, 2020, 12:58:19 AM
Quote from: US 89 on February 03, 2020, 12:50:26 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2020, 06:34:01 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?

US 14 and US 16 end at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park.

US 180 as mentioned up thread does as well with Grand Canyon National Park. 

As does US 212, but at a different entrance
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: sbeaver44 on February 08, 2020, 08:17:31 PM
Quote from: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 02, 2020, 08:19:06 PM
US 209 ends at PA 147 in Millersburg--instead of ending at a US route, Interstate, or seaboard, it terminates at a lowly state route.
US 209 used to run down to US 22/322, I wonder why that was changed
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: sparker on February 09, 2020, 01:57:34 AM
Prior to the 1964 renumbering, no fewer than 8 US highways terminated at US 101 in CA (40,50,60,70,80,199,299,399); that was cut back to just US 199 after that year.  In addition -- again, prior to '64, all the fully cross-country US highways ending in "0" terminated at US 101 (adding US 20 and US 30 in OR).  And keeping in the pre-renumbering "101" family -- Alternate US 101 was the western terminus (1935-64) of US 66, and hosted the truly weirdest set of termini, that of US 6 and US 91, which terminated not at Alternate 101 but along that route, terminating at each other -- from opposite directions -- and the junction of SSR 15, which terminated there as well in Long Beach. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Verlanka on February 09, 2020, 05:29:09 AM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on February 08, 2020, 08:17:31 PM
Quote from: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 02, 2020, 08:19:06 PM
US 209 ends at PA 147 in Millersburg--instead of ending at a US route, Interstate, or seaboard, it terminates at a lowly state route.
US 209 used to run down to US 22/322, I wonder why that was changed
When US 15 was moved to the east bank of the Susquehanna, US 209 was dropped south of Millersburg and replaced by US 15. However, US 15 moved back to the west bank, with PA 147 replacing it.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Buck87 on February 09, 2020, 09:03:08 AM
US 62 is the only east-west US route to go from the Mexican Border to the Canadian Border (El Paso, TX to Niagara Falls, NY)
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: mrcmc888 on February 09, 2020, 02:22:53 PM
US 69 and 96 end at each other in Port Arthur, Texas.  US 96's north end is also at what will become Interstate 69.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Thing 342 on February 09, 2020, 03:02:17 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on February 02, 2020, 06:00:14 PM
US 6 ends in Provincetown, MA on Federal land.  Are there any other US routes that end that way?
US-258 ends at what was the front gate of Fort Monroe. Now most of the land is owned by the City of Hampton, with only a smaller interior portion used as a national monument.
US-64 and US-158 both end at the entrance to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: hbelkins on February 09, 2020, 05:54:15 PM
Quote from: Thing 342 on February 09, 2020, 03:02:17 PM

US-64 and US-158 both end at the entrance to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

US 264 used to end there too, as it was concurrent with US 64.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: sbeaver44 on February 09, 2020, 06:36:23 PM
Both segments of US 422 have a Western end at US 322.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 09, 2020, 06:49:37 PM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on February 09, 2020, 06:36:23 PM
Both segments of US 422 have a Western end at US 322.
Also, US 422 never directly touches US 22--it stops short at US 119.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: fillup420 on February 09, 2020, 07:49:40 PM
the eastern end of US 76 is 1.7 miles long

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 09, 2020, 07:53:13 PM
The eastern terminus of US 466 in Kingman was the only place it touched US 66 as they didn't meet in Barstow.  Also the eastern terminus was somewhat well known for being co-signed with US 93 but US 466 was there first and was the first US Route to cross the Hoover Dam.

US 399 had an odd north terminus which multiplexed US 99 north into downtown Bakersfield to US 466.   
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 10, 2020, 07:39:46 AM
Back when US 6 ran to Long Beach, it ended going the wrong way at both termini. It still does so at its Eastern end (going physically West).

US 30's ends haven't moved much ever since the US Route system was created. They have always been in Astoria OR (where the Columbia river enters the Pacific) and Atlantic City NJ (logically on the Atlantic shore) respectively, making it the only US Route that has always run coast to coast.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Some one on February 10, 2020, 04:28:03 PM
US 52 is the only east-west US highway that officially ends at the Canadian border.  3 of the 4 US 2's ends are near the border and US 62 ends at NY 104, less than 1 mile from the border.

Speaking of US 62, I know someone mentioned it earlier, but it's the only east-west US highway that ends at the Mexican border.

US 81 is not only concurrent with I-29 throughout most of North Dakota, but they're also co-signed all the way to the Canadian border. I'm just surprised about that considering the fact that they rarely sign US 52 on I-94 and they truncated US 10 to Fargo. That, and the fact that it's southern end was truncated to I-35W/US 287.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: texaskdog on February 10, 2020, 04:40:33 PM
US 285 ends in Sanderson, TX, the name of the person probably most interested in the endpoint.  The other end is right where he lives.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: cl94 on February 10, 2020, 04:42:20 PM
The northern end of US 220 is at the NY/PA state line. Until it was truncated a few years ago, it ended just inside New York at a local street that is old NY 17.

Interestingly, one of the other state line termini also involves New York. US 46 ends at the NJ/NY state line in the middle of the George Washington Bridge.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 10, 2020, 05:12:04 PM
Quote from: cl94 on February 10, 2020, 04:42:20 PM
The northern end of US 220 is at the NY/PA state line. Until it was truncated a few years ago, it ended just inside New York at a local street that is old NY 17.

Interestingly, one of the other state line termini also involves New York. US 46 ends at the NJ/NY state line in the middle of the George Washington Bridge.

US 46 also ends at a state route, NJ 94, which is usually frowned-upon. It used to extend into PA along the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, but then US 611 was moved into New Jersey, truncating it.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 10, 2020, 05:29:29 PM
US 223 multiplexes US 23 just over the State Line into Ohio which maintains its interstate Route status. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: bugo on February 11, 2020, 02:55:45 AM
US 259 ends at US 59 at each end.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: jemacedo9 on February 11, 2020, 08:23:39 AM
PA has a few, some of which are mentioned above:

US 209 ends at a state route, PA 147 (mentioned above)
US 220 ends at the state line (mentioned above), but also never touches it's parent
US 206 never touches it's parent (at one time there was an implied multiplex of US 206 and US 209)
US 222 never touches it's parent
US 422 never touches it's parent (mentioned above) and both segments have a western terminus at the same route (US 322)
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Eth on February 11, 2020, 08:38:16 AM
US 25 ends at a route of the same number (GA 25), and does so while concurrent with another route of the same number (GA 25 Connector). And yes, they're all signed. (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1528109,-81.4783717,3a,75y,324.37h,99.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP6KbtHfsF3MPrf5cJ2M0Bg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 11, 2020, 09:23:51 AM
Quote from: bugo on February 11, 2020, 02:55:45 AM
US 259 ends at US 59 at each end.

Ditto with US 101 and I-5. 
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 11, 2020, 10:04:33 AM
Quote from: bugo on February 11, 2020, 02:55:45 AM
US 259 ends at US 59 at each end.

Not only that, it's also shorter than US 59, as pointed out by NE2 in that compilation of indirect US routes. The same used to happen with US 159.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: deathtopumpkins on February 11, 2020, 12:28:45 PM
Quote from: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 10, 2020, 05:12:04 PM
US 46 also ends at a state route, NJ 94, which is usually frowned-upon. It used to extend into PA along the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, but then US 611 was moved into New Jersey, truncating it.

US 46's western end is at I-80, not NJ 94. Consulting the NJDOT Straight Line Diagrams, it officially begins where the Exit 4B ramp leaves I-80 eastbound.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: cl94 on February 11, 2020, 12:34:01 PM
US 62 is the only even-numbered US route to run from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Both termini are within a couple blocks of the border. Southern end at the Mexican border concurrent with US 85, northern end is 2 blocks from the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: TheStranger on February 11, 2020, 01:33:36 PM
Quote from: sparker on February 09, 2020, 01:57:34 AM
Prior to the 1964 renumbering, no fewer than 8 US highways terminated at US 101 in CA (40,50,60,70,80,199,299,399); that was cut back to just US 199 after that year.  In addition -- again, prior to '64, all the fully cross-country US highways ending in "0" terminated at US 101 (adding US 20 and US 30 in OR).  And keeping in the pre-renumbering "101" family -- Alternate US 101 was the western terminus (1935-64) of US 66, and hosted the truly weirdest set of termini, that of US 6 and US 91, which terminated not at Alternate 101 but along that route, terminating at each other -- from opposite directions -- and the junction of SSR 15, which terminated there as well in Long Beach. 

I remember that thread about the 1969-1971 era San Diego videos that tossed around and US 395/Route 163's south terminus was hard to pin down (though I think the info based on several years of obscure legislative records and articles suggested the terminus was actually the Coronado Ferry terminal and not US 101 itself).

Was there a point where US 395 ended specifically at US 101 (as opposed to the Coronado Ferry terminal, or south of today's I-5 when US 101 used that alignment) at the same time as the other US routes listed above?
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: index on February 11, 2020, 02:09:55 PM
Quote from: fillup420 on February 09, 2020, 07:49:40 PM
the eastern end of US 76 is 1.7 miles long

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)


Is it actually designated like that, or is it just weird signage NCDOT is using saying the end is in that many miles?
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: fillup420 on February 11, 2020, 09:50:34 PM
Quote from: index on February 11, 2020, 02:09:55 PM
Quote from: fillup420 on February 09, 2020, 07:49:40 PM
the eastern end of US 76 is 1.7 miles long

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)


Is it actually designated like that, or is it just weird signage NCDOT is using saying the end is in that many miles?

who knows with NCDOT
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: frankenroad on February 12, 2020, 03:55:40 PM
Quote from: Eth on February 11, 2020, 08:38:16 AM
US 25 ends at a route of the same number (GA 25), and does so while concurrent with another route of the same number (GA 25 Connector). And yes, they're all signed. (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1528109,-81.4783717,3a,75y,324.37h,99.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP6KbtHfsF3MPrf5cJ2M0Bg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

At the north end, US-25 ends at the Ohio border on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, which carries US-42 and US-127 from Kentucky into Ohio, and US-25 up to the line.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: Flint1979 on February 12, 2020, 04:11:29 PM
Quote from: Eth on February 11, 2020, 08:38:16 AM
US 25 ends at a route of the same number (GA 25), and does so while concurrent with another route of the same number (GA 25 Connector). And yes, they're all signed. (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1528109,-81.4783717,3a,75y,324.37h,99.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP6KbtHfsF3MPrf5cJ2M0Bg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
US-25's northern terminus use to be at M-25 when it ended in Michigan.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 12, 2020, 05:02:31 PM
MN: US 8 originally ended at US 61 north of the Twin Cities. It was later extended to Minneapolis, but after I-35's completion it was truncated back to a spot three miles south of its original west terminus.

US 75 ends at a dead end on the Canadian border after Canada closed their customs station (the US followed suit later) due to redundancy to the I-29 station.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on February 12, 2020, 05:23:00 PM
In the vein of US 8, US 54 originally ended and currently ends at US 36 (even though that spot has been moved to the Northeast), but extended to Chicago in the interim.
Title: Re: Interesting things about specific US route terminuses
Post by: roadman65 on February 19, 2020, 09:41:46 PM
US 181 in TX ends at I-37 at both ends.  Not many US routes end at the very same interstate and both being intrastate routes also.