We have a thread for interstates, so why not make one for US highways too: are there any states you've been to that you have not been on any US routes in?
I'll use the same format I used in the other thread, where bold denotes a clinch in that state. Looks like my nontrivial answers would be Maryland, New York, and New Hampshire.
AL - 11, 43, 78, 80, 82, 84, 231, 278, 280, 431
AZ - 64, 89, 160, 180
AR - 49, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70, 79, 412
CA - 50, 101
CO - 6, 24, 34, 36, 40, 50, 84, 85, 87, 160, 285, 287, 491, 550
DC - 1, 29, 50
FL - 90, 98, 231
GA - 11, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 41, 76, 78, 80, 123, 129, 278, 411, 441
ID - 20, 26, 30, 89, 91, 93
IL - 40
IN - 31
IA - 6, 18, 275
KS - 54, 56, 69, 75, 160, 166, 169, 400
KY - 31, 31E, 31W, 42, 60, 150
ME - 1
MD - none
MA - 1, 3
MI - none, airport only
MN - none, airport only
MS - 45, 78
MO - 24, 40, 50, 56, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 71, 136, 159, 160
MT - 2, 12, 20, 89, 93, 191, 287
NE - 26, 34, 77, 81, 83, 275
NV - 6, 50, 93, 95
NH - probably none
NJ - none, boat only
NM - 60, 64, 70, 84, 85, 87, 160, 285, 491, 550
NY - none
NC - 13, 17, 19, 64, 74, 76, 129, 258, 301, 421
OK - 59, 60, 62, 64, 69, 75, 77, 169, 270, 412
OR - 30, 395
SC - 17, 52, 76, 78, 123, 501, 521, 701
SD - 18
TN - 11, 27, 41, 51, 61, 64, 70, 72, 74, 76, 79, 127, 411
TX - 59, 67, 70, 75, 77, 79, 82, 83, 84, 87, 90, 180, 183, 190, 277, 281, 283, 287, 290, 377, 380, 385
UT - 6, 40, 50, 89, 91, 189, 191, 491
VA - 1, 29
WA - 12, 97, 395
WY - 26, 30, 85, 87, 89, 189, 191, 287
CA, NM, OR, and possibly IL and ME. The only one of these that I have significant road mileage for is CA.
That would be none for me in all the Lower 48 States. I've been on at least one active US Route in all of them.
For me, This would only be Ohio & Maryland. If I were to count states with less than one mile of US-Highways traveled, I could include NE, IA, and PA. Including airport layovers this would also include NY and MN.
VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits
I've been to 49 states, all except Alaska. I believe in Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska I was only on US routes that had a concurrency with interstates, though.
I've been on US routes in all of them, except Hawaii. :D
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on January 29, 2020, 09:17:06 PM
VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits
Somebody's doin' it wrong.
RI, CT, SC, NC
Quote from: US 89 on January 29, 2020, 07:26:11 PM
We have a thread for interstates, so why not make one for US highways too: are there any states you've been to that you have not been on any US routes in?
I'll use the same format I used in the other thread, where bold denotes a clinch in that state. Looks like my nontrivial answers would be Maryland, New York, and New Hampshire.
Using the same format:
AL — 11, 29, 31, 72, 78, 80, 82, 84, 231, 278, 280, 431
AZ —
none, airport onlyCA — 101
CO —
none, airport onlyCT — 1, 5, 6
DE — 40, 202
DC —
1,
29,
50FL — 1, 17, 19, 27, 41, 90, 92, 98, 129, 192, 231, 301, 331, 441
GA — 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 41, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84,
123, 129, 221, 278, 280, 319, 341, 411, 441
HI — none, but mostly because there aren't any
LA — 190
ME — 1
MD — 1, 13,
15,
29, 40, 50, 219, 220, 301,
340, 522
MA — 1, 3, 44
NH — 1, 3, 4, 202
NJ — 1, 9, 40, 46, 206
NY — 1, 9
NC — 1, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 52, 64, 70, 74, 129, 158, 220, 301, 401, 421, 441, 501, 601
OH — none!
OK — 69, 70, 75, 77
PA — 15, 30, 202, 222, 322, 422
RI — 1, 6
SC — 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 76, 78, 123, 178, 301, 501, 601, 701
TN — 11, 11E,
19, 19W, 23, 25W, 27, 31, 31W, 41, 64, 70, 74, 421, 431
TX — 67, 69, 75, 77, 81, 287
VT — 2
VA — 1, 11,
11E, 13, 15, 17, 19, 29, 50, 52, 58, 60, 220, 250, 301, 340, 421, 460, 501
WA — none, unless I can count former 99
WV — 19, 50, 52, 60,
340So, leaving aside layovers and states that don't have any US routes, my answer would be Ohio and Washington.
I'm sure I've not been on a US highway in Nevada. Mostly just walking around Las Vegas Boulevard, and being shuttled around I-15.
So that means MT (not yet visited), NV, and Utah (airport-only).
North Dakota squeaks by because of the I-29/US 81 concurrency.
I've been to 33 states (counting DC as a "state"). I have been on US highway in each of them, save for the exceptions below:
Colorado, Missouri, and Texas - Airport only; never left the building.
Iowa - only SR 165, in Carter Lake
So my answer is either 1 or 4, depending whether airport only clinches are counted.
A couple of close calls:
CT - Couldn't remember any, although I probably was on US 6 and/or US 44 on a family vacation (1965) when I was too young to really notice. But I then noticed that I have grabbed a few recently via concurrencies with Interstate highways.
NY - Couldn't remember any, but in the same vacation above I was almost surely on US 9 and/or US 9W.
LA - A couple of blocks of US 190 in Slidell - not significant enough to place my Travel Mapping file.
I just don't have the 100% conclusive proof in my mind for CT and NY.
When I was in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama many years ago, I vaguely remember going on US 90. When going through Nevada, Arizona, and Utah to get to Zion, I just used I-15.
I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC and excluding Hawaii and Alaska.
Nebraska is the only state I've entered but not been on a US Highway, though there are several states where my only US highways are concurrencies with interstates.
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on January 30, 2020, 03:28:23 AM
I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.
Which one did you get in Hawaii?
Quote from: Rothman on January 30, 2020, 08:46:52 AM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on January 30, 2020, 03:28:23 AM
I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.
Which one did you get in Hawaii?
Weren't there highways signed with US Route shields during World War II in Hawaii since it was a recognizable marker for soldiers to follow?
My answer to this question is the same as the interstate one. Only state I've been to that I haven't been on a US highway in is Arizona, which was only an airport layover.
However, for several states this only includes interstate overlaps: LA, MS, AL, TN, AR, TX, NE, IA, KY.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 30, 2020, 09:50:45 AM
Quote from: Rothman on January 30, 2020, 08:46:52 AM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on January 30, 2020, 03:28:23 AM
I have been on a US Highway in every state, including DC.
Which one did you get in Hawaii?
Weren't there highways signed with US Route shields during World War II in Hawaii since it was a recognizable marker for soldiers to follow?
Yes (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/FAQs-page3.htm#old-route-shields). At least one wartime route marker was still posted in the 1950s, around the time Hawaii Territory developed the precursor to the current route system, in preparation for statehood.
As for Alaska, it got conditional approval in 1964 for US 97, from the Canadian border to Fairbanks. But the condition was that Yukon renumber its part of the Alaska Highway to 97, which never happened. I've seen photos of an Alaska US 97 marker in a museum, but I don't know if it was ever posted iin the wild.
Of my 48 states visited + DC, the only one I can think of would be Mississippi, which I've crossed on I-10, and once went all of two exits into on I-55 from Memphis and back....so no US routes there.
I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.
Quote from: Rothman on January 29, 2020, 09:36:50 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on January 29, 2020, 09:17:06 PM
VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits
Somebody's doin' it wrong.
I did that to illustrate how I used no US routes in those states.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 30, 2020, 01:31:15 PM
I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.
If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.
For me it's Alaska, Hawaii, and Minnesota. A harder task, and one I don't care about doing right now, would be to figure out whether there are any states in which my US Highway travel was solely on routes running concurrently with an Interstate. I'm pretty sure that's how I got US Highway mileage in Illinois, for example, as my only non-Interstate travel in that state was in cabs (or a hotel van) between O'Hare or Midway and the Chicago Loop area.
But I can't be bothered to look that up.
Quote from: Rothman on January 30, 2020, 02:21:33 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 30, 2020, 01:31:15 PM
I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.
If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.
And the short US 6 concurrency too.
For me it would be two different states from the interstate thread.
NH - only on I-95
MI - only on I-75 between Detroit and OH.
Quote from: Rothman on January 30, 2020, 02:21:33 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 30, 2020, 01:31:15 PM
I'd have to go back and check, but the only possibility for me would be Rhode Island. But I'm not definite on that.
If you've been on I-95 over the bridge in Providence, there's a concurrency there with US 1.
I have. I have 95 in RI clinched. So I guess I've been on a US route in every state I've been in.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on January 30, 2020, 02:00:28 PM
Quote from: Rothman on January 29, 2020, 09:36:50 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on January 29, 2020, 09:17:06 PM
VA - I-66 and I-495 for a short visit
KY - I-24 and I-65 clinched in the state on two visits
AL - I-20 clinched in only visit
GA - I-75 clinched, parts of I-20 and I-85 used in two visits
Somebody's doin' it wrong.
I did that to illustrate how I used no US routes in those states.
In that case, Georgia doesn't count. If you clinched I-75, then you used a bit of US 41 just north of Valdosta.
Of the states where I've actually been in a car... None of them.
Texas. And the 38 states that I haven't been to. ("I haven't been to 38 states" sounds a lot worse than "I've been to 12 states". . . )
Quote from: thspfc on January 30, 2020, 05:29:59 PM
Texas.
That's quite different from me. When I drive through Texas, I go from the Oklahoma state line to the Mexican border, and only about 12 out of those 414 miles
aren't on a US Highway.
If you don't include Interstate concurrencies, which I don't because I don't like to, I have been on at least one US route in all but 10 states. (The list of the first US route I've traveled on in each state is below). If you do count concurrencies, then I've been on at least one US route in all of the contiguous 48 except for Alabama.
IA US-30
IL US-30
MO US-60
CA US-101
UT US-191
CO US-6
KS US-81
NE US-81
WI US-61/US-151
MI US-41
IN US-41
OH US-40
PA US-220
MD US-220
VA US-23
DE US-202
NJ US-206
CT US-5
RI US-1
NH US-302
ME US-302
VT US-302
NY US-9
AR US-49
LA US-190
MS US-49
FL US-41
SC US-601
NC US-25
TN US-23
KY US-27
SD US-281
WY US-14
OR US-97
WA US-101
ID US-26
MT US-12
ND US-52/US-281
The only state I've been to I was never on a US Highway in is Maryland. Mostly I-95 with I-395 at the end as went to Camden Yards to see the Orioles. FWIW, I believe I walked on the sidewalk alongside US 1 and US 50 in DC (I was never actually in a motor vehicle in DC except for the brief section of the old I-95 bridge).
In Arizona, I was only on the sections of US 60 and US 191 that overlap I-10.
According to Travel Mapping (http://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?units=km&u=7_8&sys=usaus), the only state I've been to without going on a US highway is Texas, and that's because I only had an airport layover.
I've only been to 20 states, and I was originally going to say none. Now that I think about it though, I don't believe I've been on any US Highways in West Virginia.
On second thought, I must have been on some, because our family would've had to use one to get between the north end of the Skyline Drive and I-70 towards Breezewood. Frankly, I forgot how we got between the two highways.
The only one I've been to that I never touched a US highway is Ohio.
CT: 1, 1A, 5, 6, 7, 44, 202
MA: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 20, 202
RI: 1, 6, 44
VT: 4, 5, 7
NH: 1, 3, 4, 202, 302
ME: 1, 201, 302
NY: 1, 4, 6, 9, 9W, 20, 20A, 44, 62, 202, 209, 219
NJ: 1, 9, 9W, 22, 30, 40, 46, 202, 206, 322
PA: 1, 6, 13, 15, 22, 30, 202, 209, 222, 322, 422 (Eastern portion only)
DE: 13, 40, 202, OLD 301
MD: 1, 11, 13, 15, 29, 40, 50, 301
DC: 50
VA: 11 (a few hundred feet), 13, 15, 58
WV: 11
FL: 1, 27, 192
SC: 301. 501 (to go to Pedro's)
MS: 90
LA: 61
NC/GA/IN/HI/ MO (airport only): NONE
The states I've been to as a driver, but never on a US route: Maryland and New York. Possibly Connecticut (may have been on US 1 briefly while in New Haven, can't recall)
Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. I've barely been on one or two tiny segments of US routes in Georgia, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia (they almost count).
For me? I would say Illinois. I was definitely on IL Route 50 by Midway Airport (MDW) and Chicago's MTA subway though. Possibly can add NC in the area of the Raleigh/Durham Airport (RDU) in Morrisville and Cary. I almost said Virginia, but the remembered that the Key Bridge between Rosslyn (Arlington) and Georgetown (Washington DC) carries US Route 29. I walked over that bridge in May 2015.
I'm now checking on Ohio. Probably crossed US Route 23 on foot near Nationwide Arena.
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on February 03, 2020, 07:40:19 PM
I was definitely on ... Chicago's MTA subway
Never heard of it.
Rhode Island, Georgia, and Colorado (just 4 miles on I-76 for that state "clinch").
West Virginia (unless I-81 overlaps with a US highway) and California for sure, maybe South Carolina.
Of my 47 states and DC, I have been on a US Highway on all but AK, HI and NE.
However, I have been on US 75 Business in Nebraska City NE, so NE gets a *.