I recently had to go pick up some rental items in San Bernardino for my job in Palos Verdes, and on the way back I took the following route:
(local streets)
CA-18 south
CA-210 west
(unsigned) CA-259 south
I-215 south
I-10 west
I-15 south
CA-60 west
I-605 south
I-105 west
I-710 south
CA-91 west
I-110 south
CA-1 west
CA-213 south
(local streets)
So that's 14 routes in about 85 highway miles, or a new route every 6 miles. I couldn't find a topic like this before, so my question would be:
What's the most routes you've been on in the shortest distance?
Here are the parameters:
-Must be a trip of at least 50 miles.
-Must be a one-way trip.
-Route must make sense for the trip you're taking. No getting off and back on a freeway just to grab another route, no crazy circuitous routes, no doubling back, etc.
-Ideally, trip would have a purpose other than roadgeeking.
I was coming home (to Seattle at the time) from Longview, and there was major construction on I-5 through Seattle at the time -- so this is circuitous, but not crazy circuitous, and not without reason.
I-5 north
SR 512 east (plus a brief multiplex with SR 161)
SR 167 north
I-405 south (compass west)
SR 518 west
SR 509 north
SR 99 north
Not quite as impressive as yours (seven -- eight counting the multiplex -- over about 54 miles) , but fun none the less.
One route from me to Long Island would be 511-287-80-(23, or a ramp therefrom)-46-3-495-NY 495-local streets-25-25A. (If I were going to Shea.) That would be 9 or 10 routes in about 50 miles.
Once I left Santa Ana, and went to the desert, and took,
22 East
55 North
91 East
60 East
10 East
62 North/East.
Also if you count I-215, because of it being multiplexed with the 60 for 5 miles.
I'm sure I could find more for random places I've gone in Dallas or Fort Worth, but going just from my place to Grapevine picks up quite a few for just 25 miles.
US 77 south
wrong way multiplex with US 377 for a couple blocks
I-35E south
Bus. TX 121 south
TX 121 south
114 multiplex
TX 26/Bus TX 114
Allendale to 28th Street in Grand Rapids:
M-45 east
I-196 east
I-96 east
M-37 south/M-44 west
M-11 east
I've used this route from time to time depending on congestion at the I-580/I-680 interchange in Dublin...
Tracy to Cupertino...
* I-205 west
* I-580 west
* CA-84 west
* I-680 south
* CA-262 west
* I-880 south
* CA-237 west
* CA-85 south
Total distance is about 60 miles.