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Title: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 11:12:13 AM
Quote from: kphoger on June 16, 2025, 09:12:37 AMI'd actually be more interested to see "longest" defined as "number of exits in a row" rather than "miles".

My longest stretch of 17 was undone by the addition of a couple of new exits.  Along the same stretch, I've also used the SB Goreville weigh station and the both Rend Lake rest areas, but not the Post Oak rest area.

I-57 in Illinois
#44 : I-24
#45 : IL-148
#53 : Main St, Marion
#54A : IL-13
#54B : The Hill Ave, did not exist back then
#59 :  (Herrin Rd), Johnston City
#65 : IL-149
#71 : IL-14
#77 : IL-154
#83 : (North Ave), Ina
#92 : EB I-64
#94 : Veterans Memorial Dr, did not exist back then
#95 : IL-15
#96 : WB I-64
#103 : (South St), Dix
#109 : IL-161
#116 : US-50
#127 : (Kinoka Rd), Kinmundy
#135 : IL-185
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: Rothman on July 21, 2025, 11:18:09 AM
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 11:12:13 AM
Quote from: kphoger on June 16, 2025, 09:12:37 AMI'd actually be more interested to see "longest" defined as "number of exits in a row" rather than "miles".

My longest stretch of 17 was undone by the addition of a couple of new exits.  Along the same stretch, I've also used the SB Goreville weigh station and the both Rend Lake rest areas, but not the Post Oak rest area.

I-57 in Illinois
#44 : I-24
#45 : IL-148
#53 : Main St, Marion
#54A : IL-13
#54B : The Hill Ave, did not exist back then
#59 :  (Herrin Rd), Johnston City
#65 : IL-149
#71 : IL-14
#77 : IL-154
#83 : (North Ave), Ina
#92 : EB I-64
#94 : Veterans Memorial Dr, did not exist back then
#95 : IL-15
#96 : WB I-64
#103 : (South St), Dix
#109 : IL-161
#116 : US-50
#127 : (Kinoka Rd), Kinmundy
#135 : IL-185

So...7.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: JayhawkCO on July 21, 2025, 11:27:31 AM
From the stretch in my thread you're referencing, 63 consecutive exits on eastbound I-70 from Exit 171 (US6/US24) to Exit 295 (BL70 - Watkins).
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: jlam on July 21, 2025, 11:37:55 AM
Mine is probably the same stretch as in the other thread, between (but not including) I-25 CO exits 221 and 293.

Exit 223: 120th Avenue
Exit 225: 136th Ave
Exit 226: 144th Ave
Exit 228: E-470
Exit 229: CO 7
Exit 232: Erie Pkwy
Exit 235: CO 52
Exit 240: CO 119
Exit 243: CO 66
Exit 245: CR 34
Exit 250: CO 56
Exit 252: CO 60 East
Exit 254: To CO 60 West
Exit 255: CO 402
Exit 257: US 34
Exit 259: Crossroads Blvd
Exit 262: CO 392
Exit 265: Harmony Rd
Exit 268: Prospect Rd
Exit 269A: CO 14 EB
Exit 269B: CO 14 WB
Exit 271: Mountain Vista Dr
Exit 278: CO 1
Exit 281: Owl Canyon Rd
Exit 288: Buckeye Rd

So 25 exits.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: Rothman on July 21, 2025, 12:04:54 PM
Looks like 150 exits along my stretch from Logan Airport to the Ohio Turnpike on I-90.  Quick and dirty.  Probably off by a couple.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: formulanone on July 21, 2025, 02:55:05 PM
100 exits, from the end of I-95 in Miami, north to Palm Coast Parkway. Easy enough to do if you lived in America's Cul-de-Sac.

34 exits on I-65 between TN 129 and Daniel Payne Drive in Birmingham might be next, a few exit gaps might shoot that one up close to the previous mark.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 21, 2025, 09:14:56 PM
I've been on every entrance and exit ramp along CA 99 from Wheeler Ridge to Exit 200 for Sultran Drive/Liberty Avenue north of Atwater.  I've never bothered to count how many exits that is.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: cockroachking on July 21, 2025, 09:47:37 PM
I count 31 exits along I-84 (East) between I-81 in Scranton and Exit 69 in NY (which I can't ever recall using).
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: CoreySamson on July 21, 2025, 10:26:55 PM
My answer depends on if restrict it to freeway or if you allow expressways as well. I have been on 14 straight exits on TX 288 from the TX 332 interchange in north Freeport to FM 1462 in Rosharon, but part of that route is expressway. If you exclude the expressway portion, my number drops to 13 (or if you exclude this stub (https://maps.app.goo.gl/81EAVojH2qFCkXnbA), 7).

For US highways, I have been on 7 exits of US 75 between I-44 and 121st Street in Tulsa, OK (soon to be 9 once the 141st interchange opens). For interstates, my answer is also 7, as I have been on exits 12B through 18 on I-40 in Memphis, TN.

Honestly, living in Texas, with its myriad of slip ramps and redundant exits in rural areas, makes this exercise difficult.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: bassoon1986 on July 21, 2025, 11:20:32 PM
66 exits between exit 610 on I-20 west of Marshall to exit 138 in Louisiana in Rayville at US 425


2nd Longest: 57 exits on I-49 between I-10 and I-20. If I'm allowed to bridge the gap, then 62 exits total up to exit 221.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 09:12:40 AM
100 - formulanone
66 - bassoon1986
63 - JayhawkCO
31 - cockroachking
25 - jlam

honorable mention
Rothman - probably off by a couple
Max Rockatansky  never bothered to count how many
CoreySamson - answer depends
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: epzik8 on July 22, 2025, 09:14:59 AM
I have 17 in a row on I-95 between east Baltimore (I-895) and just south of Wilmington (I-495).
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: sprjus4 on July 22, 2025, 09:41:43 AM
VA I-264:

I-664 / I-64 interchange (unnumbered)
2: Greenwood Dr
3: Victory Blvd
4: Portsmouth Blvd
5: US-17 Frederick Blvd
6: VA-164 MLK Freeway
7: Effingham Ave
8: I-464
9: St Paul's Blvd / Waterside Dr
10: Tidewater Dr
11: Campostella Rd
12: Ballentine Blvd
13: US-13 Military Hwy
14: I-64
15: Newtown Rd
16: Witchduck Rd
17: VA-225 Independence Blvd
18: Rosemont Rd
19: Lynnhaven Pkwy
19C: London Bridge Rd
20: US-58 Va Beach Blvd
21: First Colonial Rd
22: Birdneck Rd

That's off the top of my head right now, so 23 exits.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 09:45:21 AM
FYI, I don't plan to maintain this list regularly.  Feel free to, anyone else, if you like.



100 - formulanone
66 - bassoon1986
63 - JayhawkCO
31 - cockroachking
25 - jlam
23 - sprjus4
17 - epzik8

honorable mention
Rothman - probably off by a couple
Max Rockatansky  never bothered to count how many
CoreySamson - answer depends
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: formulanone on July 22, 2025, 09:47:16 AM
Quote from: sprjus4 on Today at 09:41:43 AM16: Witchduck Rd
I hope there's suitable historical marker near this exit which explains this road's name...it seems to conjure up a spell gone wrong on a very rainy day.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 09:52:13 AM
Quote from: sprjus4 on Today at 09:41:43 AM16: Witchduck Rd
Quote from: formulanone on Today at 09:47:16 AMI hope there's suitable historical marker near this exit which explains this road's name...it seems to conjure up a spell gone wrong on a very rainy day.

— Turn onto Duck Road.
— Turn onto which Duck Road?
— ... and the rest is history ...
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: Jim on July 22, 2025, 10:14:11 AM
Looks like it's 44 consecutive exits, same stretch as my longest distance, I-90 from Thruway Exit 36 to Mass Pike Exit 94.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 10:31:55 AM
Looks like my longest is 47 on I-65 in KY/IN from KY 44 to MLK St

Others at 30+:
35 on I-65 in IN from 38th St to I-90
30 on I-80 from I-294 to OH 49
30 on I-465 (all of them)

I'm missing three exits in Indy that would join my two longest and make mine 85.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 11:01:43 AM
100 - formulanone
66 - bassoon1986
63 - JayhawkCO
47 - NWI_Irish96
44 - Jim
31 - cockroachking
25 - jlam
23 - sprjus4
17 - epzik8
14 - kphoger
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 11:17:18 AM
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 11:12:13 AMMy longest stretch of 17 was undone by the addition of a couple of new exits.
Quote from: Rothman on July 21, 2025, 11:18:09 AMSo...7.

I'm actually not sure anymore, but it's probably I-35 here in Kansas.  14 exits.

I'm not counting the Bazaar cattle pens, because they shouldn't count as an exit.

Funny enough, this was only possible because I recently took the wrong exit from KTA to Wichita;  otherwise, I'd never have used Exit #53B.  I'd used the K-96 portion of the double-trumpet-like-thing-y a few times, but not the I-35 portion till then.

39 : (71st St), Haysville
42 : I-135
45 : K-15
50 : Webb Rd, Wichita
53A : US-54/US-400
53B : K-96
57 : (21st St), Andover
71 : K-254
76 : US-77
92 : K-177
127A : I-335
127B : US-50
128 : Industrial Rd, Emporia
130 : K-99
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 11:39:24 AM
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 11:17:18 AM
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 11:12:13 AMMy longest stretch of 17 was undone by the addition of a couple of new exits.
Quote from: Rothman on July 21, 2025, 11:18:09 AMSo...7.

I'm actually not sure anymore

Ok.
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: sprjus4 on July 22, 2025, 12:41:56 PM
Quote from: formulanone on Today at 09:47:16 AMI hope there's suitable historical marker near this exit which explains this road's name...it seems to conjure up a spell gone wrong on a very rainy day.
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 09:52:13 AM— Turn onto Duck Road.
— Turn onto which Duck Road?
— ... and the rest is history ...

Here's an article regarding the history of name:
QuoteIf you've driven around Virginia Beach, you've probably seen or heard the word "Witchduck" so often, you probably don't think about its origins.

You know Witchduck as an exit, a road, or maybe even a neighborhood. But if you go back to the late 1600s, there's a much darker meaning to the name.

It was the era of the Salem witch trials, and one local woman became known as "The Witch of Pungo." Although, she certainly didn't deserve the title.

Grace Sherwood was an unconventional woman living in Pungo at the time. Because of her good looks and knack for farming, people around town blamed her for bad weather and their dying crops and animals. She was called a witch and forced into a trial with an impossible outcome.

With her thumbs tied to her toes, she was "ducked" into the Lynnhaven River. If she was able to escape, they'd call it witchcraft. If she drowned. she would be proven innocent.

Sherwood chose to save herself and spent nearly eight years in jail, before returning to her sons and living a long life. She died at the age of 80 at her farm in Pungo.

Today, a bronze statue of Sherwood stands at the corner of Independence Boulevard and North Witchduck Road.

In 2006, 300 years after her trial, she was exonerated by then-Governor Tim Kaine.

Legend has it, every year on the anniversary of Sherwood's trial, people reportedly see a moving light -- believed to be her spirit -- over the place where she was thrown into the water in Witchduck Bay.

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/13news-now-vault-dark-haunting-past-of-witchduck-grace-sherwood/291-0c51976a-8481-4334-923a-c07ece729eef
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 12:46:00 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on Today at 12:41:56 PMHere's an article regarding the history of name:
QuoteToday, a bronze statue of Sherwood stands at the corner of Independence Boulevard and North Witchduck Road.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mgk9iT4wdrMRiQTt7
Title: Re: Greatest number of exits in a row you've clinched on one highway
Post by: formulanone on July 22, 2025, 01:22:18 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on Today at 12:41:56 PM
Quote from: formulanone on Today at 09:47:16 AMI hope there's suitable historical marker near this exit which explains this road's name...it seems to conjure up a spell gone wrong on a very rainy day.
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 09:52:13 AM— Turn onto Duck Road.
— Turn onto which Duck Road?
— ... and the rest is history ...

Here's an article regarding the history of name:
QuoteIf you've driven around Virginia Beach, you've probably seen or heard the word "Witchduck" so often, you probably don't think about its origins.

You know Witchduck as an exit, a road, or maybe even a neighborhood. But if you go back to the late 1600s, there's a much darker meaning to the name.

It was the era of the Salem witch trials, and one local woman became known as "The Witch of Pungo." Although, she certainly didn't deserve the title.

Grace Sherwood was an unconventional woman living in Pungo at the time. Because of her good looks and knack for farming, people around town blamed her for bad weather and their dying crops and animals. She was called a witch and forced into a trial with an impossible outcome.

With her thumbs tied to her toes, she was "ducked" into the Lynnhaven River. If she was able to escape, they'd call it witchcraft. If she drowned. she would be proven innocent.

Sherwood chose to save herself and spent nearly eight years in jail, before returning to her sons and living a long life. She died at the age of 80 at her farm in Pungo.

Today, a bronze statue of Sherwood stands at the corner of Independence Boulevard and North Witchduck Road.

In 2006, 300 years after her trial, she was exonerated by then-Governor Tim Kaine.

Legend has it, every year on the anniversary of Sherwood's trial, people reportedly see a moving light -- believed to be her spirit -- over the place where she was thrown into the water in Witchduck Bay.

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/13news-now-vault-dark-haunting-past-of-witchduck-grace-sherwood/291-0c51976a-8481-4334-923a-c07ece729eef

I'll get my largest scales.