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Title: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: Dough4872 on March 21, 2025, 12:15:12 PM
Has anyone clinched the entire length of a highway by walking along it?

For me I have clinched the Elkton section of MD 7, MD 268, MD 781, NJ 91, NJ 171, and NJ 172 by walking along it. I have also clinched DE 279 and MD 316 by walking and by vehicle.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: Max Rockatansky on March 21, 2025, 12:20:43 PM
I could swear we've done this topic before? 
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: hotdogPi on March 21, 2025, 12:29:07 PM
MA 108
MA 193
VT 119 before it got realigned

I have all but 700 feet of NH 38 by walking. (I have the other portion, just not on foot.)
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: Hunty2022 on March 21, 2025, 12:37:44 PM
Not entirely walking, but I completed VA-184 in September by walking the westernmost portion in Cape Charles. The same thing applies to the northernmost portion of MD-528 in Ocean City.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: 74/171FAN on March 21, 2025, 01:19:31 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 21, 2025, 12:20:43 PMI could swear we've done this topic before? 

I searched "walking" and did not find this specific thread, but similar ideas.

Anyway the only TM route I know I have fully walk-clinched is MD 45 BYP in Towson.  I have walked clinched some VA secondaries unsurprisingly by walking considering that I lived in a subdivision in a county as a child.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: kphoger on March 21, 2025, 01:36:24 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 21, 2025, 12:20:43 PMI could swear we've done this topic before? 

Yes we did, and you remember it because you're the one who started the thread.

Highways Clinched on foot (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30928.0)
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: Max Rockatansky on March 21, 2025, 01:40:47 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 21, 2025, 01:36:24 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 21, 2025, 12:20:43 PMI could swear we've done this topic before? 

Yes we did, and you remember it because you're the one who started the thread.

Highways Clinched on foot (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=30928.0)

Ah, that would make sense why it triggered my memory then. 
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: pderocco on March 21, 2025, 07:55:17 PM
Quote from: Dough4872 on March 21, 2025, 12:15:12 PMHas anyone clinched the entire length of a highway by walking along it?

For me I have clinched the Elkton section of MD 7, MD 268, MD 781, NJ 91, NJ 171, and NJ 172 by walking along it. I have also clinched DE 279 and MD 316 by walking and by vehicle.
Hmmm. Yes, I suppose that could be considered a valid kind of road geekery...
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: wanderer2575 on March 21, 2025, 10:51:14 PM
I walked the entire 1,000-foot length of OH-578 in Grand Rapids before it was redesignated as the end of the southern extension of OH-295.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: dgolub on March 22, 2025, 08:38:23 AM
Yes.  Westchester County (NY) has a whole batch of really short county routes that are near train stations, and I clinched a whole batch of them on foot before I had a car.  Also, NJ 64, NJ 62, and probably a few others in New Jersey.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on March 22, 2025, 09:02:04 AM
There was a provincial road I first did on foot which I've since done on a car.

Not really clinched, but my claim of the lowest number I have never been on being 29 involves having done a short section of a 28 on foot.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: froggie on March 22, 2025, 12:23:29 PM
Not walking, but I've clinched VA 400 by bike.  Probably a handful of others too but it was long ago.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: english si on March 22, 2025, 01:56:57 PM
I'd have to make a TM user to check, but I should have over 500 unique miles of roads mapped on TM travelled by foot.

Most notable clinch is the A101 - better known as the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Noteable as it probably took a good few months of my life. There was a spate of videos a while ago of people doing it, and I did it at the peak of the wave (first attempt foiled by the tunnel being closed)

Longest clinch is probably the A112 (done in pieces as part of several walks of about 12 miles) at 14.34 miles.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: DandyDan on March 25, 2025, 06:01:44 AM
I once walked the length of Iowa 165 when I was still living in the Omaha area. Not exactly the best idea (too much truck traffic), but it seemed like a good idea at the moment.
Title: Re: Clinching a highway by walking along it
Post by: catch22 on March 27, 2025, 09:37:20 AM
I've walked the entire 3/4 mile length of Michigan's M-212 when on a family vacation camping at Aloha State Park.

Like some others here, I've biked the entire length of M-185 on Mackinac Island.