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We often post about routes we have clinched, but what about the main arterial routes in your town?

Locally, I've clinched about 90% of my town's major roads.

I've clinched 90-100% of the arterial roads in the following Indiana cities:

Hammond
Gary
Munster
Highland
South Bend
Mishawaka
Elkhart
Goshen
Jeffersonville
Clarksville
New Albany

I grew up Atwood KS, which had a population of about 1300 at the time.  I spent a lot of time riding my bike as a kid, so I've definitely been on every block of every street, plus every alley, in the whole town.

Quote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 02:38:44 PMI grew up Atwood KS, which had a population of about 1300 at the time.  I spent a lot of time riding my bike as a kid, so I've definitely been on every block of every street, plus every alley, in the whole town.

Yeah, I grew up in a subdivision in VA so there was a time in which I basically clinched at least one secondary route in Prince George County, VA, daily.

(I will not say which one because my parents still live there.)

More than one and fewer than a million.

Probably a lot but that is way too exacting of a topic to keep track of for me.  Baseline Road in Phoenix comes to mind as being something significant given I drove the whole thing, and it happens to be very lengthy.

Due to my extensive biking throughout my neck of the woods (paused as of last weekend due to an inattentive driver), I pretty much have every through surface road clinched. Whatever gaps I have in biking due to the road being a major highway (where cycling may be outright prohibited) or private roads, I have clinched in cars.

I have clinched every public road in the following NJ municipalities:

Burlington County: Springfield Township Wrightstown New Hanover Township (excl. military base roads) North Hanover Township	Monmouth County: Upper Freehold Township Allentown Millstone Township Roosevelt Shrewsbury Township
Mercer County: East Windsor Township Hightstown Pennington Somerset County: Rocky Hill Millstone Borough	Hunterdon County: East Amwell Township West Amwell Township Delaware Township Stockton Kingwood Township

I've clinched Cheyenne Avenue and Lake Mead Boulevard, mostly because I've had reason to use their western halves in my day to day and their eastern halves are both state routes (NV 574 and NV 147 respectively). I've also clinched the Fremont Street/Boulder Highway combo (which was formerly the route of US 93). Blue Diamond Road is entirely coterminous with NV 160, and Lake Mead Parkway is entirely coterminous with NV 564, both of which I've clinched.

A few arterials I've clinched because they're relatively short and blend into other arterials: Rampart Blvd., an odd diagonal connector between Ft. Apache Rd. and Durango Dr. that's only necessary because Summerlin was laid out stupidly; Antelope Way, which is a snippet of Tenaya Way; and Sands Avenue which is a connector between Spring Mountain Road and the eastern instance of Twain Avenue.

Frank Sinatra and Koval Lane, being the back service drives of the Strip (on the west side and east side respectively), are too useful to not have clinched.

I'm not going to bother trying to figure out if I have any in Oklahoma, Kansas, or Missouri, since there the arterials basically stretch out to more or less infinity and are only stopped by rivers some county didn't feel the need to bridge. Given that, I don't think that any of them really make a whole lot of sense as a clinch target. One exception is Main Street in Norman, OK, which has very definite termini and which I have clinched.

Here's some visual depictions of the roads I've been on in both Tulsa and the Brazosport area (arterials are in the orange):

(https://imgur.com/uUfIJS0.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/aqr0CSh.jpg)

I don't think I've clinched anything really in the Tulsa area aside from Delaware Avenue, but I have clinched basically all the arterials in the Brazosport area, except for Freeport, where I'm missing a couple.

(Let's see who can figure out the color key first...)

Not just arterials, but all roads: I keep track of which roads I've walked. I have 75% of one municipality, 67% of another, and between 20% and 40% of six others. Municipalities here typically have between 50 and 250 miles of walkable roads (excluding private roads and freeways).

I won't say which ones simply because it would reveal where I live a bit too closely.

Quote from: CoreySamson on September 15, 2025, 12:26:17 AMHere's some visual depictions of the roads I've been on in both Tulsa and the Brazosport area (arterials are in the orange):

Those maps look great. Out of curiosity how did you create them?

Quote from: webny99 on September 15, 2025, 10:03:17 PM

Quote from: CoreySamson on September 15, 2025, 12:26:17 AMHere's some visual depictions of the roads I've been on in both Tulsa and the Brazosport area (arterials are in the orange):

Those maps look great. Out of curiosity how did you create them?

I created a map on Google MyMaps and then just traced lines over the roads I've been on with the "Draw a line" feature. It's a bit time-consuming, but the end result looks pretty great.

I have a similar map for area streets that my family has walked in the evenings.  We've got almost every block in the Fabrique neighborhood clinched, plus several in adjacent neighborhoods.  For that one, I simply copied-and-pasted from Google into Paint and draw lines on that file instead.

Quote from: CoreySamson on September 15, 2025, 11:54:49 PM

Quote from: webny99 on September 15, 2025, 10:03:17 PM

Quote from: CoreySamson on September 15, 2025, 12:26:17 AMHere's some visual depictions of the roads I've been on in both Tulsa and the Brazosport area (arterials are in the orange):

Those maps look great. Out of curiosity how did you create them?

I created a map on Google MyMaps and then just traced lines over the roads I've been on with the "Draw a line" feature. It's a bit time-consuming, but the end result looks pretty great.

Wow, well done. I thought Travel Mapping was tedious, but I think that would be one worse.  :D