CA 151
CA 263
What else can anyone think of?
What is the point of having highways that are incredibly short and could easily be replaced with a business loop but most of the time are just signed with them?
SR 433 (WA) - 0.94 mi
SR 543 (WA) - 1.03 mi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-575 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-575)
31 miles long.
A lot of times they'll serve a bridge, correctional facility, state park, dam, or other governmental facility. Also lots of old alignments along freeways ends up getting state highway designation once downgraded from their former status.
WYO 74 in Wyoming only exists so that the bridge in Saratoga Wyoming is under state maintenance, WYO 14 serves the Laramie Airport, WYO 376 serves the Rock Springs Airport, and there are several other instances. All of those are less than half a mile long.
Wyoming itself has a ton of routes with no functional purpose that are short and dead end. It's almost like every paved county highway is state maintained, because the pavement always ends at the end of these roads, although in many instances it is very unclear as to why they are paved.
Washington State has several short spurs to state parks (SR 300), correctional facilities (SR 102), DOT yards (SR 504 Spur), viewpoints (SR 174 Spur), ferry terminals (SR 163), and things like that.
Idaho is incredibly good about not having ANY of these.
As far as the business loop question, a lot of old frontage roads don't serve anything of significant size to get AAHSTO approval as a business loop, but are still within state jurisdiction. I'd assume the multiplexed ones don't really need to be signed but are because most states categorize their business loops under separate reference designations to avoid confusion, and sometimes those signs bleed out to the public, either on purpose or on accident.
From the North Carolina DOT map:
North Carolina 400 at 0.93 miles in Manteo.
SR 331 (Forest Parkway) - This route is 3 miles long, connecting SR 85 and I-75 with SR 54 (Jonesboro Road). It also provides access to the State Farmer's Market. The road continues east of SR 54, as a county road, to East Atlanta Road -- changing names to Panola (Clayton County) and West Panola Roads (Henry County) respectively. The route continues west past SR 85 (as a county/city road), down old Sullivan Road, dead-ending into I-85. It changes names to Phoenix Boulevard and Godby Road in the process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfa0j8rQyOQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfa0j8rQyOQ)
Be welll,
Bryant
Florida 145 in Fort Walton Beach: 0.50 miles.
LA 805, Athens, LA: .4 mi short :-D
^^ Seriously? Wow! :-D
Be well,
Bryant
The shortest Interstate x0 is I-30 at 367 miles, from just west of Fort Worth, TX to North Little Rock, AR.
What about I-97?
N.J. 59, at 0.15 miles.
Well Ontario's shortest is quite long (about 50km), but the historical shortest was deleted in 1997, it was 12 km long.
VA 283(its already posted only as US 58 ALT Business so why can't it just be US 58 ALT Business)
Nevada's shortest highway is SR 646/Prater Way in Sparks. From just west of N. McCarran Blvd to N. McCarran Blvd, it is 0.090 mi (~475.2 ft) long. I believe the only reason it is in the system as a state route is because NDOT owns that little bit of road, and it not near an interchange or other facility that could qualify it as a frontage road.
Another short one, actually shorter, is what's left of SR 663/Sierra Street in Reno. At 0.055 mi (~290.4 ft), it now solely consists of the Sierra St bridge over I-80.
Shortest for Nebraska is Spur 89A, from US 30 to Kennard, at 0.03 miles. Streetview:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kennard,+ne&sll=41.357484,-95.9515&sspn=0.118541,0.351562&ie=UTF8&ll=41.471826,-96.200505&spn=0.003698,0.007424&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.471764,-96.200586&panoid=YjLDPKBmRshPN8u-2aql4w&cbp=12,40.17425712639915,,0,10.462427745664742 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kennard,+ne&sll=41.357484,-95.9515&sspn=0.118541,0.351562&ie=UTF8&ll=41.471826,-96.200505&spn=0.003698,0.007424&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.471764,-96.200586&panoid=YjLDPKBmRshPN8u-2aql4w&cbp=12,40.17425712639915,,0,10.462427745664742)
Aerial:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kennard,+ne&sll=41.357484,-95.9515&sspn=0.118541,0.351562&ie=UTF8&ll=41.47226,-96.20043&spn=0.003698,0.007424&t=h&z=17 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kennard,+ne&sll=41.357484,-95.9515&sspn=0.118541,0.351562&ie=UTF8&ll=41.47226,-96.20043&spn=0.003698,0.007424&t=h&z=17)
Runners up are Link 1E at 0.1 miles from US 281 to NE 74 at 0.1 miles, and Spur 5A, from NE 2 to Dunning also at 0.1 miles:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Dunning,+NE&sll=40.43723,-98.401859&sspn=0,359.978027&ie=UTF8&ll=41.82857,-100.100083&spn=0.003677,0.010986&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.828662,-100.100066&panoid=Mm-3hdrs1KkIq-rFY61Upg&cbp=12,244.45430802125668,,0,13.876953125 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Dunning,+NE&sll=40.43723,-98.401859&sspn=0,359.978027&ie=UTF8&ll=41.82857,-100.100083&spn=0.003677,0.010986&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.828662,-100.100066&panoid=Mm-3hdrs1KkIq-rFY61Upg&cbp=12,244.45430802125668,,0,13.876953125)
US 220 in New York is 394 feet long (map (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Chemung+St&daddr=42.000068,-76.548891&hl=en&geocode=FfTigAIdRvRv-w%3B&mra=mi&mrsp=1&sz=19&sll=42.00022,-76.548896&sspn=0.001371,0.002414&ie=UTF8&ll=42.000574,-76.5487&spn=0.001371,0.002414&z=19)). Gribblenation has a picture gallery (http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/jct/220u.htm) and history (http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/220_229.htm#220u) of US 220 in NY.
The shortest state route in Michigan is:
M-212 at 0.72 mile
Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=aloha,+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.176059,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=45.525713,-84.455509&spn=0.029525,0.054932&z=14 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=aloha,+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.176059,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=45.525713,-84.455509&spn=0.029525,0.054932&z=14)
M-212 runs from M-33 to Aloha State Park. Many of Michigan's shortest state routes end at state parks.
Florida 61A unsigned connector between Florida 61 and 363 at 0.103 miles.
Florida 537 in Ocoee at 0.106 miles where its merged with Florida 438.
Florida 294 Chiefs' Way in Pensacola at 0.209 miles.
Florida 157 at Florida State University at 0.41 miles.
Florida 159 within Havana at 0.45 miles.
Florida 162 in Tallahassee at 0.292 miles.
Florida 399 at Gulf Breeze is 0.319 miles (it is pretty much the overpass and approach road at the trumpet interchange with U.S. 98)
Florida 913 in Miami at 0.373 miles.
Florida 557 consists of .499 within the Interstate 4 interchange.
Florida 579 also at 0.499 miles north of Tampa (between U.S. 41 and U.S. 41 Business).
Florida 2A (not signed) at 0.518 miles in Campbellton.
Florida 970 the freeway spur from Interstate 95 at 0.563 miles.
Florida 604 west of St. Lucie Village at 0.569 miles
Florida 800 within Boca Raton at 0.574 miles.
Florida 114 in Jacksonville at 0.584 miles.
Florida 327 consists of 0.589 between county maintained portions in Panama City.
CT 910 and CT 920 are both 0.04 miles long, tied for shortest state route in Connecticut.
Neither are signed (no routes numbered 400+ are).
The shortest signed state route in Connecticut is CT 125, at 1.24 miles.
Don't forget FL 678, FL 437, FL 876, FL 129, FL 548 (before it's now-in-progress extension), FL 228A, and FL 620.
shortest route to my knowledge in Ohio is US 25....crosses the Ohio River from Covington KY to Cincinnati...and dies right at the end of the bridge, just a couple hundred feet into Ohio!
Quote* The shortest farm-to-market Road is FM 742, at 0.175 miles (0.282 km).
Wikipedia
The shortest (non letter-spur) Maryland state route I know of is MD 963, which is 0.01 mi long, or about 50 ft.
US 95 - 0.95 mi long in WA before 1970's.
Shortest U.S. Hwys. in Illinois
U.S. 60, U.S. 62
McKinley Street in Bellefontaine, Ohio. 15 feet long. Claims to be the world's shortest street.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mckinley+street,+bellefontaine,+oh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=JsP1Sd6qGJe-M8a6gLkP&ll=40.36178,-83.764004&spn=0.001937,0.004667&t=h&z=18 (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mckinley+street,+bellefontaine,+oh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=JsP1Sd6qGJe-M8a6gLkP&ll=40.36178,-83.764004&spn=0.001937,0.004667&t=h&z=18)
Sykotyk
I-535 in Duluth/Superior for 3-dis.
For state roads, formerly MN-322 in Brainerd, MN.
From http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r288-694.htm (http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r288-694.htm) :
"This may have been the shortest trunk highway. It was a one-block long connector between 371 (now Business 371) and the former route of 18 in Brainerd. At either end from its joining routes, it was marked "To 18" and "To 371", but was also signed as 322. This was turned back (along with TH-18 through Brainerd) after the TH-371 bypass was completed in late 2000. "
There are also plenty of these short connecting state highways, mostly to state facilities.
I'd mention Wisconsin highways, but I think Master son has that covered. :)
There are something like over 200 designated state routes in Louisiana which are shorter than 1 mile in length.
New York has many short (and sometimes long) reference routes. See the list on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reference_routes_in_New_York).
I-980 in Oakland.
There's a Tennessee 300, that runs from U.S. 51 to the I-40/240 multiplex in northwest Memphis. However, it doesn't appear to be anymore than a mile or two in length on the map of Memphis that I have. Is there another part of this highway that I don't know about?
I think there is some highway in Kentucky that is 37 feet long. I don't know what the shortest *signed* highway is.
S.R. 331/Forest Pkwy. (length 3 mi.) - This highway runs from I-75 to S.R. 54/Jonesboro Road, facilitating traffic to and from the Farmers Market in Forest Park, Georgia.
S.R. 3 Connector (length 0.5? mi.) - The portion of Tara Blvd. not co-signed with U.S. 19/41/S.R. 3, which is between Arrowhead Blvd. and Upper Riverdale Rd./I-75 North ramp.
S.R. 14 Connector (length 1 mi.) - This state route is co-signed with the portion of South Fulton Parkway between U.S. 29/S.R. 14 (Roosevelt Hwy.) and I-285 North/Bob A. Holmes Fwy.
Be well,
Bryant
FL 61A - 0.103 miles
FL 437 - 0.106 miles
Interstate 380 near San Francisco, CA is only 1.6 miles long. Anyone have an interstate shorter than that?
I-587 of exit 19 of the Thruway(I-87) in Kingston, NY is 1.2 miles long. And it is not referenced on I-87. You don't know it is even there until you get off the exit and go through the toll booths.
Quote from: myosh_tino on October 06, 2009, 08:43:13 PM
Interstate 380 near San Francisco, CA is only 1.6 miles long. Anyone have an interstate shorter than that?
There are several shorter than that. Check this out:
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/long3di.html (http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/long3di.html)
Oregon's shortest highway is OR 52, weighing in at a whopping 1.65 miles. It connects OR 201 to Idaho at Payette and continues as ID 52.
And for many more posts on the subject, see this thread (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=778.0). :nod:
solid enough for a merge, please use your signal despite the other cars knowing you're out of choices. :P
shortest in WI is SPUR WIS 42. 400 feet
Where is FL 61A ? Is it in Leon County? Shortest Hwys that come to my mind: M-201 that serves Northport, M-212 that serves Aloha State Park,and M-217 all in Michigan.
Quote from: dpatrickallen on April 20, 2009, 02:23:25 PM
The shortest state route in Michigan is:
M-212 at 0.72 mile
Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=aloha,+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.176059,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=45.525713,-84.455509&spn=0.029525,0.054932&z=14 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=aloha,+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.176059,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=45.525713,-84.455509&spn=0.029525,0.054932&z=14)
M-212 runs from M-33 to Aloha State Park. Many of Michigan's shortest state routes end at state parks.
Just for the record, M-212 has been Michigan's shortest highway only since 1996. The honor for shortest Michigan highway was originally M-209, 2/5 mile long, top speed limit 25 mph, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore from the 1920's to 1996. :coffee:
You mean, M-209 was shorter than M-110? Don't know about that one.
According to http://www.michiganhighways.org/master_list.html (http://www.michiganhighways.org/master_list.html) M-110 was 1 4/5 miles long verses M-209's 2/5 mile. :coffee:
Washington State Route 213, located in Malott, WA is unsigned and currently .35 miles long.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/roadway/pdf/HwyLog2014Statewide.pdf
(Page 1271)
Wow... talk about bringing a thread back from the dead :wow:
Anyway, MB 29 was the shortest around here. It was 0.5 km (1600 ft or 0.31 mi) long and ran from I-29 to MB 75. It's gone now though. Decommissioned in 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Highway_29
My favorite consecutive pairs of short highways is near Lowell, OH (between Clyde and Bucyrus) along OH-19 and OH-101:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bucyrus,+OH+44820/@41.217547,-83.0449102,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8839743e0dddf78f:0x20cd81e374f74d9c?hl=en
OH-228 and OH-778 are "short cuts" between OH-19, which "stairsteps" across the diagonal OH-101. 228 is under 1-1/2 miles while 778 is only 2264 feet.
Quote from: xonhulu on October 06, 2009, 09:17:36 PM
Quote from: myosh_tino on October 06, 2009, 08:43:13 PM
Interstate 380 near San Francisco, CA is only 1.6 miles long. Anyone have an interstate shorter than that?
There are several shorter than that. Check this out:
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/long3di.html (http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/long3di.html)
Oregon's shortest highway is OR 52, weighing in at a whopping 1.65 miles. It connects OR 201 to Idaho at Payette and continues as ID 52.
I see your OR 52 and raise you OR 204 Truck in Elgin. ~.05 miles. OR 131 Truck in Tillamook clocks in around .3-5 miles.
6 year resurrected thread lol
I-190 IL
In the Mid-Atlantic message area is this thread: Favorite short (or very short) Virginia primary system highways (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12029.0)
Thread reanimated (a second time): in Japan, a neat sign commemorating the shortness of Route 174 made a Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/JapaneseInTheWild/comments/92fxyf/intermediate_what_makes_this_location_unique/
Sign text: 日本で一番短い道路です (This is the shortest highway in Japan) - L = 187.1 m
It's a spur connecting Route 2 to the port of Kobe.
Start: https://goo.gl/maps/pZMNTdET3F12
End and view of sign: https://goo.gl/maps/rkG1kLZp2kK2
The highway in my avatar is just one mile long. It runs between US 281 and the Geographic Center of the Contiguous US in Lebanon. Spur highways like that are common in Kansas to connect parks, psychiatric hospitals, and historic sites to main highways. The shortest one is K-247 in Ellis, which is about 650 feet long.
Funny no one's mentioned the shortest CA state highways:
Shortest with any signage other than bridge ID's/mileposts: CA 153, 0.50 miles,
from CA 49 near Coloma to Marshall State Park (where gold was ostensibly first
found). One standard reassurance shield; no trailblazers.
Shortest, period: CA 283, 0.36 miles, from US 101 near Rio Dell to the north end
of the Eel River bridge. It's there just to keep state maintenance on the old US 101
truss bridge, the sole south access point to the town.
Quote from: V'Ger on April 19, 2009, 06:26:14 PM
CA 151
CA 263
What else can anyone think of?
What is the point of having highways that are incredibly short and could easily be replaced with a business loop but most of the time are just signed with them?
I-705 Washington State only 1.5 miles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_375_(Michigan)
I-375 in Michigan is the shortest freeway In the country.
CA-244 is Sacramento's shortest freeway that was originally going to be an extension of Beltline Freeway but instead became a ramp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_380_(California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_380_(California))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_244 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_244)
I-380 the shortest interstate in California with the original intent of expanding to Pacifica and part of rumored extension to Southern Crossing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_103 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_103)
Terminal Island Freeway is Los Angeles area's shortest freeway.
CA-480 San Francisco was the Bay Areas shortest freeway with the original intent to connect to I-280 and also connecting to Presidio Parkway/ Doyle Drive area.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 06, 2009, 08:24:26 PM
I think there is some highway in Kentucky that is 37 feet long. I don't know what the shortest *signed* highway is.
What What only 37 feet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kentucky_shorter_than_one_mile
But Kentucky 410 is the shortest signed route in the state.
Hawaii's HI 442 is a spur from Lanai's main drag HI 440 to Lanai City. It's only 0.03 mile long. GMSV shows it signed as part of HI 440, but 442 might've been established after GMSV's camera car visited the island in 2011.
Shortest signed route in Hawaii is HI 32A (short spur to Kahului Harbor), at 0.41 mile.
I'll skip over Michigan and do Indiana's instead.
SR-520 is simply a connector between US-12 and US-20 and is only about 1,000 feet long.
I chose Indiana because I've actually drove on this highway and I'm pretty sure it's shorter than Michigan's shortest highway.
Quote from: bing101 on July 29, 2018, 02:17:02 PM
Quote from: V'Ger on April 19, 2009, 06:26:14 PM
CA 151
CA 263
What else can anyone think of?
What is the point of having highways that are incredibly short and could easily be replaced with a business loop but most of the time are just signed with them?
I-705 Washington State only 1.5 miles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_375_(Michigan)
I-375 in Michigan is the shortest freeway In the country.
CA-244 is Sacramento's shortest freeway that was originally going to be an extension of Beltline Freeway but instead became a ramp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_380_(California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_380_(California))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_244 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_244)
I-380 the shortest interstate in California with the original intent of expanding to Pacifica and part of rumored extension to Southern Crossing.
I-375 is the shortest signed Interstate, it's part of the Chrysler Freeway. I-75 is actually the Interstate that switches freeways and I-375 just continues as the Chrysler which is what I-75 is north of downtown.
This is a stretch but WA SR 168: 0 inches, it is a "highway" over Naches pass however isn't built nor are there plans to. It is a highway by law. This was also supposed to be the alignment of I-82 originally according to some sources.
LG-TP260
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 29, 2018, 03:41:09 PM
I-375 is the shortest signed Interstate, it's part of the Chrysler Freeway. I-75 is actually the Interstate that switches freeways and I-375 just continues as the Chrysler which is what I-75 is north of downtown.
Actually, I-110 in Texas is shorter (0.92 mi. v. 1.06 mi.), and now signed.
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 29, 2018, 03:37:14 PM
I'll skip over Michigan and do Indiana's instead.
SR-520 is simply a connector between US-12 and US-20 and is only about 1,000 feet long.
I chose Indiana because I've actually drove on this highway and I'm pretty sure it's shorter than Michigan's shortest highway.
The shortest signed highway in Michigan is M-212 at 0.732 mi., beating out Bus. M-32 (0.738 mi._ by 0.006 mi. The shortest unsigned designation is BS I-375 at 0.167 mi., unless you want to count Old M-55 west of Cadillac at 0.044 mi.
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 30, 2018, 01:01:19 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 29, 2018, 03:37:14 PM
I'll skip over Michigan and do Indiana's instead.
SR-520 is simply a connector between US-12 and US-20 and is only about 1,000 feet long.
I chose Indiana because I've actually drove on this highway and I'm pretty sure it's shorter than Michigan's shortest highway.
The shortest signed highway in Michigan is M-212 at 0.732 mi., beating out Bus. M-32 (0.738 mi._ by 0.006 mi. The shortest unsigned designation is BS I-375 at 0.167 mi., unless you want to count Old M-55 west of Cadillac at 0.044 mi.
Yeah most of the three digit state highways are shorter. I think M-115 is one of the longer three digits without looking it up but it seems like most of the time the three digit state highways serve state parks or destinations rather than ending at another highway. M-247 is probably the closest example of that to me and M-212 serves the same purpose M-247 does. The only thing is M-247 is about 3 miles long compared to M-212 being about 3/4 of a mile long.
I've known about Indiana SR-520 and didn't think Michigan had a shorter highway.
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 30, 2018, 10:40:33 AM
Quote from: bulldog1979 on July 30, 2018, 01:01:19 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on July 29, 2018, 03:37:14 PM
I'll skip over Michigan and do Indiana's instead.
SR-520 is simply a connector between US-12 and US-20 and is only about 1,000 feet long.
I chose Indiana because I've actually drove on this highway and I'm pretty sure it's shorter than Michigan's shortest highway.
The first assigning of numbers in Michigan was done in decreasing order of length. M-10 through M-61.
The shortest signed highway in Michigan is M-212 at 0.732 mi., beating out Bus. M-32 (0.738 mi._ by 0.006 mi. The shortest unsigned designation is BS I-375 at 0.167 mi., unless you want to count Old M-55 west of Cadillac at 0.044 mi.
Yeah most of the three digit state highways are shorter. I think M-115 is one of the longer three digits without looking it up but it seems like most of the time the three digit state highways serve state parks or destinations rather than ending at another highway. M-247 is probably the closest example of that to me and M-212 serves the same purpose M-247 does. The only thing is M-247 is about 3 miles long compared to M-212 being about 3/4 of a mile long.
I've known about Indiana SR-520 and didn't think Michigan had a shorter highway.
When Michigan originally numbered the highways the numbers were assigned in order of decreasing length, from M-10 through M-61.
Then as routes were added, they were numbered roughly in order. There's a few exceptions, probably when a route was proposed and numbered, but didn't get commissioned for a year or two later.
When the US highways were commissioned, a few routes were numbered in conjunction with the US routes. E.g. M-131 was added as an extension of US-131.
When we get into the 1930's, the pattern breaks down somewhat, although as the lower numbers were mostly already in use, the numbers are still increasing. But as routes get changed, decommissioned, combined, etc. the new routes sometimes were given older numbers that were no longer in use.
And in later years, numbers were sometimes assigned based on some relationship to other roads. Examples M-143 replaced part of M-43; M-121 was used when Chicago Drive was assumed back into the numbered system (it had been M-21 before that route number was truncated.) M-553 took over the county highway numbers the road previously had. And some routes were given Interstate-style "spur" or "bypass" numbers like M-199 (near M-99), M-294 and most recently M-231.
So having longish 3-digit routes like M-115 and M-123 shouldn't be surprising. It just reflects what numbers were available at the time they came about.
Quote from: sparker on July 28, 2018, 04:34:06 PM
Funny no one's mentioned the shortest CA state highways:
Shortest with any signage other than bridge ID's/mileposts: CA 153, 0.50 miles,
from CA 49 near Coloma to Marshall State Park (where gold was ostensibly first
found). One standard reassurance shield; no trailblazers.
Shortest, period: CA 283, 0.36 miles, from US 101 near Rio Dell to the north end
of the Eel River bridge. It's there just to keep state maintenance on the old US 101
truss bridge, the sole south access point to the town.
Ca-114 in Palo Alto, ca it's .9 miles long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_114
Mississippi seems to have dozens of little highways in the 700-900 range, although few are signed. (700s usually appear, but 800s are rare birds, and 900s are coelacanths.) Some of them appear to be no more than a block or two long, which connect a post office or town center with another state/US highway, or to a state park entrance.
I found a map on MDOT, but can't find a mileage log.
Interesting to see the first three posters back in 2009 have all become unpersons....
Anyways, something I noticed in the original post was that OP was way wrong about California. The shortest state highway here is CA 275 which is the Tower Bridge at 0.14 miles.
https://www.cahighways.org/stats1.html#Shortest_Hwy
Interestingly the shortest "Signed" State Highway is CA 153 but it is third overall behind CA 275 and 283:
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4237/35408757141_3cfc00b810_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VWX8SM)153CAa (https://flic.kr/p/VWX8SM) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
I like to take my bicycle out to the Smith Valley, and one that has always baffled me out there is NV 825. It's part of Smith Gage Road. The state highway starts at the intersection of NV 824, right in front of Smith Valley High School. It goes west for 0.415 mile (per state highway log) to somebody's driveway, at which point the state highway ends and Smith Gage Road continues as a paved county road. My best guess is that the driveway owner at some point had some pull with the local politician and was tired of hitting potholes in the county road, but really I have no idea what the history of that would be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_109
CA-109 another route that's considered Palo Alto's shortest state Highway after CA-114.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_262
CA-262 is a 1.070 mi state route in Fremont
CA-242 is a short freeway in Walnut Creek,CA only 3.3 miles long.
NJ 59, at 0.15 miles, is the shortest numbered state highway in New Jersey, and it is signed at least in one place:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6548598,-74.313477,3a,75y,243.74h,96.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHrbFv5JffZWWlpMqOmLVzQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
NJ 76C (unsigned) is the shortest numbered freeway at 1.22 miles. NJ 90, at 3.22 miles, is the shortest signed freeway, though it enters PA and continues as an unnumbered freeway for about a mile to I-95. If that distance is counted, NJ 133 becomes the shortest freeway at 4.06 miles.
Quote from: formulaoneI found a map on MDOT, but can't find a mileage log.
A route log, including mileages, is in their Selected Statistics book (http://mdot.ms.gov/documents/planning/Programs/Statistics%20Book/2016%20MDOT%20Public%20Roads%20Statistics%20Extent%2C%20Travel%2C%20and%20Designation.pdf). Note: listed mileages do not include concurrencies.
Quote from: froggie on August 01, 2018, 01:09:40 PM
Quote from: formulaoneI found a map on MDOT, but can't find a mileage log.
A route log, including mileages, is in their Selected Statistics book (http://mdot.ms.gov/documents/planning/Programs/Statistics%20Book/2016%20MDOT%20Public%20Roads%20Statistics%20Extent%2C%20Travel%2C%20and%20Designation.pdf). Note: listed mileages do not include concurrencies.
Thanks! I'd given up at around page 120 or so the first time I downloaded it.
(Because of course it's Section F-1...page 161 and further.)
VT 26. I think it's 69 feet long.
Quote from: algorerhythms on April 27, 2009, 01:12:28 AM
The shortest (non letter-spur) Maryland state route I know of is MD 963, which is 0.01 mi long, or about 50 ft.
What is the point of this highway, if it even exists amymore
Utah's shortest signed state highway is SR 103, which is a 0.225-mile long connector from SR 126 to I-15. However, there are unsigned routes that are even shorter: SR 304 is a 0.086 mile spur into Hyrum State Park.
Tennessee has TN-51 at 1.91 miles.
Delaware- DE-491, 0.36 mi. Not signed.
In Pennsylvania, PA-299 is .052 mi. It only covers one bridge in Erie. It's baffling to me why, when its old route was destroyed by the airport, it was kept on this tiny segment instead of fully decommissioned. If PADOT really wanted to keep it around, they could have designated Powell Ave-20th Street-Marshall Dr as the highway, seeing that it does what the route's old alignment did.
Kentucky's shortest is KY-410 in Greenup near the Ohio border.
Miller Park Way in Milwaukee has a 1.0 mile freeway segment that used to have an unsigned designation as WIS 341, back before it was decommissioned in 2015. It basically links I-94 with Miller Park and WIS 59 (National Ave), before continuing on as a surface street. The freeway is still there, but the highway number was removed.
Also in Milwaukee is WIS 119, which connects I-94/41 to the Mitchell Airport. At a length of only 1.89 mi, I believe this is the shortest highway in Wisconsin.
Another really short highway in Wisconsin would have to be WIS 30, which connects US 151 with I-39/90 and I-94, and serves as a direct route from I-94 into Madison.
The shortest TX....
Interstate -- I-110 in El Paso (.891 mile)
US highway -- US 71 north of Texarkana (2.9 miles)
Primary SH (signed) -- TX 168 in Galveston (.87 mile)
Primary SH (unsigned) -- TX 165 in Austin (.51 mile)
Farm to Market -- FM 742 just east of Waco (.175 mile)
Ranch to Market -- RM 3474 just NW of Borger (.694 mile)
Loop -- Loop 168 in Tenaha (.074 mile or 391 ft.)
Spur (signed) -- Spur 80 in Arp (.11 mile)
Spur (unsigned) -- Spur 200 in Roma (.05 mile)
Quote from: txstateends on September 03, 2018, 04:36:27 AM
The shortest TX....
Interstate -- I-110 in El Paso (.891 mile)
US highway -- US 71 north of Texarkana (2.9 miles)
Primary SH (signed) -- TX 168 in Galveston (.87 mile)
Primary SH (unsigned) -- TX 165 in Austin (.51 mile)
Farm to Market -- FM 742 just east of Waco (.175 mile)
Ranch to Market -- RM 3474 just NW of Borger (.694 mile)
Loop -- Loop 168 in Tenaha (.074 mile or 391 ft.)
Spur (signed) -- Spur 80 in Arp (.11 mile)
Spur (unsigned) -- Spur 200 in Roma (.05 mile)
TX 165 is signed in 2 places:
https://goo.gl/maps/6orKEEbF7DP2
https://goo.gl/maps/XHcAxqE5p7J2
Here is a really short highway in Nebraska that a fellow road enthusiast and i found in 2002.
http://nbratney.tripod.com/040602/
Whenever I see a topic like this, I'm instantly reminded of IN-520. Glad people covered that upthread.
In Illinois, it's probably Wisconsin 35's connector road, IL-35. It's about 2 miles long. IL-136 is a similar situation connecting to IA-136, and it's also very short.
Quote from: bing101 on July 29, 2018, 02:29:54 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 06, 2009, 08:24:26 PM
I think there is some highway in Kentucky that is 37 feet long. I don't know what the shortest *signed* highway is.
What What only 37 feet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kentucky_shorter_than_one_mile
But Kentucky 410 is the shortest signed route in the state.
"Special route?" That must be a Wiki-made-up term because never, ever, in my life have I heard that term used. Has anyone else ever heard of such a thing?
Current MA 15 (not the one that is I-84) in Seekonk: an 0.23 mi unsigned continuation of RI 15 in Seekonk. Shortest signed MA route is MA 108, a continuation of NH 108, at 0.91 mi. Didn't see a reassurance shield on the route itself, but there is an LGS on MA 110. NH 121A has a 260 foot section that ducks into MA, so it would technically be the shortest route overall in MA, and there is even a MA style LGS with a MA 121A route shield on MA 125, but the signage at the southern terminus, despite being in MA, is NH type signage, so I would imagine NHDOT would be responsible for maintenance.
RI 114A is the shortest route in RI and is signed on RI 114 and River Rd at intersections, but not on the road itself. You can see the white paddle town MA town line sign from its terminus.
NH is NH 10A at 0.547 mi. There is a reassurance shield eastbound, and when combined with the 0.522 mile VT 10A (which also has a reassurance shield), it has to be the shortest multi-state route at about 1.07 mi. All 69 feet of VT 26 isn't signed on the route itself (there is a NH 26 shield within view), but there are VT 26 shields on VT 102; a green and white one NB and a black and white one SB.
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 03, 2018, 05:32:37 PM
Quote from: txstateends on September 03, 2018, 04:36:27 AM
The shortest TX....
Interstate -- I-110 in El Paso (.891 mile)
US highway -- US 71 north of Texarkana (2.9 miles)
Primary SH (signed) -- TX 168 in Galveston (.87 mile)
Primary SH (unsigned) -- TX 165 in Austin (.51 mile)
Farm to Market -- FM 742 just east of Waco (.175 mile)
Ranch to Market -- RM 3474 just NW of Borger (.694 mile)
Loop -- Loop 168 in Tenaha (.074 mile or 391 ft.)
Spur (signed) -- Spur 80 in Arp (.11 mile)
Spur (unsigned) -- Spur 200 in Roma (.05 mile)
TX 165 is signed in 2 places:
https://goo.gl/maps/6orKEEbF7DP2
https://goo.gl/maps/XHcAxqE5p7J2
So odd. It almost looks like somebody swiped the shield and hung it up at the gate. Why TxDOT would leave it as a floating/unconnected SH, just baffles me. But both links are the same spot.
Quote from: jp the roadgeekAll 69 feet of VT 26 isn't signed on the route itself (there is a NH 26 shield within view), but there are VT 26 shields on VT 102; a green and white one NB and a black and white one SB.
VTrans replaced all signage at the 26/102 junction two years ago. All shields are now the modern green-on-white standard.
Quote from: txstateends on September 09, 2018, 12:39:41 AM
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 03, 2018, 05:32:37 PM
Quote from: txstateends on September 03, 2018, 04:36:27 AM
The shortest TX....
Farm to Market -- FM 742 just east of Waco (.175 mile)
TX 165 is signed in 2 places:
https://goo.gl/maps/6orKEEbF7DP2
https://goo.gl/maps/XHcAxqE5p7J2
So odd. It almost looks like somebody swiped the shield and hung it up at the gate. Why TxDOT would leave it as a floating/unconnected SH, just baffles me. But both links are the same spot.
A state cemetery road is signed, but not the roads immediately surrounding the state capitol. Keep Austin Weird.
I just walked the length of FM 742 last week, so along with Mississippi Highway 702, and Florida State Road 800, I have a short list of clinched-on-foot routes.
The shortest AZ Signed Road:
AZ 24 Williams Gateway Freeway 1 Mile/1.6 km Loop 202 to Ellsworth Road
Quote from: mrcmc888 on September 03, 2018, 01:23:25 AM
Tennessee has TN-51 at 1.91 miles.
Delaware- DE-491, 0.36 mi. Not signed.
In Pennsylvania, PA-299 is .052 mi. It only covers one bridge in Erie. It's baffling to me why, when its old route was destroyed by the airport, it was kept on this tiny segment instead of fully decommissioned. If PADOT really wanted to keep it around, they could have designated Powell Ave-20th Street-Marshall Dr as the highway, seeing that it does what the route's old alignment did.
Kentucky's shortest is KY-410 in Greenup near the Ohio border.
PennDOT owns the bridge, and all PennDOT-owned bridges keep an unsigned SR number...usually a quadrant number (1000-4999). In this case, since the bridge was already assigned SR 0299 as part of the signed route, the route became unsigned but the bridge kept the SR 0299 unsigned inventory number.
Quote from: mrcmc888 on September 03, 2018, 01:23:25 AM
Delaware- DE-491, 0.36 mi. Not signed.
I wouldn't say it's completely unsigned. There is only a single DE 491 shield, however, and it's posted along DE 92 (Naamans Road) approaching the routes southern end.
https://goo.gl/maps/NsYoFiEeWNH2
Quote from: MantyMadTown on September 03, 2018, 03:45:51 AM
Miller Park Way in Milwaukee has a 1.0 mile freeway segment that used to have an unsigned designation as WIS 341, back before it was decommissioned in 2015. It basically links I-94 with Miller Park and WIS 59 (National Ave), before continuing on as a surface street. The freeway is still there, but the highway number was removed.
Also in Milwaukee is WIS 119, which connects I-94/41 to the Mitchell Airport. At a length of only 1.89 mi, I believe this is the shortest highway in Wisconsin.
Another really short highway in Wisconsin would have to be WIS 30, which connects US 151 with I-39/90 and I-94, and serves as a direct route from I-94 into Madison.
WI243 is the shortest highway in Wisconsin. It is less than a half-mile long.
Quote from: txstateends on September 09, 2018, 12:39:41 AM
So odd. It almost looks like somebody swiped the shield and hung it up at the gate. Why TxDOT would leave it as a floating/unconnected SH, just baffles me. But both links are the same spot.
They come up in 2 different spots when I click them - one is the Comal St gate and the other is off 11th.
Quote from: Mrt90 on September 12, 2018, 06:18:38 PM
Quote from: MantyMadTown on September 03, 2018, 03:45:51 AM
Miller Park Way in Milwaukee has a 1.0 mile freeway segment that used to have an unsigned designation as WIS 341, back before it was decommissioned in 2015. It basically links I-94 with Miller Park and WIS 59 (National Ave), before continuing on as a surface street. The freeway is still there, but the highway number was removed.
Also in Milwaukee is WIS 119, which connects I-94/41 to the Mitchell Airport. At a length of only 1.89 mi, I believe this is the shortest highway in Wisconsin.
Another really short highway in Wisconsin would have to be WIS 30, which connects US 151 with I-39/90 and I-94, and serves as a direct route from I-94 into Madison.
WI243 is the shortest highway in Wisconsin. It is less than a half-mile long.
With a designation of 243 I would think it would be in the Milwaukee area, next to I-43. There's also a 1.2 mile long segment of 243 in Minnesota as well. Still, I was just going off of my personal knowledge, and I've never been to that part of Wisconsin/Minnesota so I wouldn't know.
Quote from: MantyMadTown on September 13, 2018, 03:03:02 PM
With a designation of 243 I would think it would be in the Milwaukee area, next to I-43. There's also a 1.2 mile long segment of 243 in Minnesota as well. Still, I was just going off of my personal knowledge, and I've never been to that part of Wisconsin/Minnesota so I wouldn't know.
It's numbered for MN-243, which is also the legislative route number for the Minnesota portion of the highway.
Speaking of short state highways, just did a feature on NM 2001 which was/is only 0.3 miles long. It isn't really clear if NM 2001 still technically exists but it would be the second shortest state route in New Mexico only behind NM 446:
http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-mexico-state-route-2001-and-new.html
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 12, 2018, 09:07:40 PM
Quote from: txstateends on September 09, 2018, 12:39:41 AM
So odd. It almost looks like somebody swiped the shield and hung it up at the gate. Why TxDOT would leave it as a floating/unconnected SH, just baffles me. But both links are the same spot.
They come up in 2 different spots when I click them - one is the Comal St gate and the other is off 11th.
OK, I'll look again. May be my computer. Or me. :cool: ;-)
Quote from: mapman1071 on September 10, 2018, 09:56:06 PM
The shortest AZ Signed Road:
AZ 24 Williams Gateway Freeway 1 Mile/1.6 km Loop 202 to Ellsworth Road
Didn't occur to me until today but both AZ 95S routes are slightly shorter than AZ 24:
http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2018/09/arizona-state-route-95s-along-former-az.html
Quote from: jemacedo9 on September 11, 2018, 08:15:47 AM
Quote from: mrcmc888 on September 03, 2018, 01:23:25 AM
Tennessee has TN-51 at 1.91 miles.
Delaware- DE-491, 0.36 mi. Not signed.
In Pennsylvania, PA-299 is .052 mi. It only covers one bridge in Erie. It's baffling to me why, when its old route was destroyed by the airport, it was kept on this tiny segment instead of fully decommissioned. If PADOT really wanted to keep it around, they could have designated Powell Ave-20th Street-Marshall Dr as the highway, seeing that it does what the route's old alignment did.
Kentucky's shortest is KY-410 in Greenup near the Ohio border.
PennDOT owns the bridge, and all PennDOT-owned bridges keep an unsigned SR number...usually a quadrant number (1000-4999). In this case, since the bridge was already assigned SR 0299 as part of the signed route, the route became unsigned but the bridge kept the SR 0299 unsigned inventory number.
Makes more sense but it's still pretty confusing why PA-299 wouldn't still be assigned to the whole road the bridge is currently on since it covers much the same route the old one did.
https://www.cahighways.org/137-144.html
CA-141 in Vallejo it was once part of alignment of Curtola Parkway, the western terminus of I-780, Mare Island Parkway and Wilson Ave. It's the shortest CA route in Vallejo.
Quote from: bing101 on October 02, 2018, 08:25:08 PM
CA-141 in Vallejo it was once part of alignment of Curtola Parkway, the western terminus of I-780, Mare Island Parkway and Wilson Ave. It's the shortest CA route in Vallejo.
That former routing appears to be about four miles long. Even if it weren't decommissioned three decades ago, hardly worth mentioning since there are existing routes just in California that are much shorter (including signed CA 153 and unsigned CA 275 and CA 283, all less than one mile long).
Quote from: oscar on October 02, 2018, 08:54:46 PM
Quote from: bing101 on October 02, 2018, 08:25:08 PM
CA-141 in Vallejo it was once part of alignment of Curtola Parkway, the western terminus of I-780, Mare Island Parkway and Wilson Ave. It's the shortest CA route in Vallejo.
That former routing appears to be about four miles long. Even if it weren't decommissioned three decades ago, hardly worth mentioning since there are existing routes just in California that are much shorter (including signed CA 153 and unsigned CA 275 and CA 283, all less than one mile long).
California actually has a lot of small little connector routes of similar length. 218, 219, and 233 all come to mind somewhat locally to me. Most were unsigned until 1964.
Quote from: hbelkins on September 08, 2018, 05:22:13 PM
Quote from: bing101 on July 29, 2018, 02:29:54 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 06, 2009, 08:24:26 PM
I think there is some highway in Kentucky that is 37 feet long. I don't know what the shortest *signed* highway is.
What What only 37 feet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Kentucky_shorter_than_one_mile
But Kentucky 410 is the shortest signed route in the state.
"Special route?" That must be a Wiki-made-up term because never, ever, in my life have I heard that term used. Has anyone else ever heard of such a thing?
I hate to reply to a comment that is almost a month old but I was curious about that myself, and as it turns out the term "special route" does appear in an AASHTO document (http://sp.route.transportation.org/Documents/HO1_Policy_Establ_Develop_USRN.pdf) used as one of the references on the Wikipedia article on special routes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route), although honestly from the looks of things the article only uses that term because "bannered route" isn't an official term either and "special route" is about as close to one as it gets.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on September 08, 2018, 06:37:20 PMRI 114A is the shortest route in RI and is signed on RI 114 and River Rd at intersections, but not on the road itself. You can see the white paddle town MA town line sign from its terminus.
Further north, there's another segment of RI 114A that runs from the MA State Line at Ledge Rd. to Pawtucket Ave. (RI 1A/114) (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8331718,-71.3476582,3a,75y,136.37h,76.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRR-x9mE52IPrkXygx1-XEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in East Providence.
Upshoot: not only is RI 114A the shortest route in RI; its total mileage (of 0.4 miles) consists of two separate segments (separated by a 3-mile stretch in MA).