Welcome to signs/displays

[OCGuy81]

 When entering a new state, sometimes you receive just a sign welcoming you to the state such as the California sign below (maybe I'm bias, but I've always liked these)



Other times, you have pretty elaborate displays, like the Welcome to Washington State picture below.



Which states have cool signs and/or decorative welcome landscaping that you enjoy seeing?

[1995hoo]

South Carolina has a pretty neat-looking wall setup that looks sort of like a gated entryway on northbound I-95 after you cross over from Georgia. Picture from Wikipedia (Street View image is kak):

[US71]

Texas has little concrete monuments as does Louisiana, though not always directly at the state lines.

[hobsini2]

Wisconsin has recently changed their sign.
The new one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Wisconsin_welcome_sign.JPG/799px-Wisconsin_welcome_sign.JPG
The old one: http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/19990723/wisconsin.jpg

[OCGuy81]

I like the new one a lot better! Looks similar to the design on the top of their license plates.  Is that along the 94 coming across from Illinois?

[SP Cook]

Where is there a time zone line at the California state line?  Arizona?

[pianocello]

I like the Welcome to Illinois signs a lot more now that they don't have Blago's name on it.

[architect77]

Individually, I couldn't find a good photo of NC's welcome sign, so I apologize in advance...

[corco]

Where is there a time zone line at the California state line?  Arizona?

Yep- AZ is on Mountain Standard Time year round, so we observe PDT half the year, but we're still officially MST

[OCGuy81]

Where is there a time zone line at the California state line?  Arizona?

I looked that up on google images as I didn't have my camera.  I'm guessing it's either I-8 or I-10 leaving Arizona.

[tdindy88]

I would have liked to see California's when I crossed the border from Nevada on I-15 in 2009, but there was no sign to be seen . Indiana's signs I guess are alright, except for the fact that they all have to remind you that Lincoln spent 10 years of his childhood in our state back in the 1800s.

[SSOWorld]

Wisconsin has recently changed their sign.
The new one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Wisconsin_welcome_sign.JPG/799px-Wisconsin_welcome_sign.JPG
The old one: http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/19990723/wisconsin.jpg

here's the lesser known welcome sign for WI - on minor highways - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/USRoute10WelcomeToWisconsin.jpg

Here's reality in WI: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wisconsin-koch-industries.png

On the California sign - must have been stolen - I've seen it once in 1997.

[corco]

Wyoming recently changed their sign too- from

to



-both match the contemporary license plate.

There's also at least two "Leaving Wyoming" signs- one at the southern terminus of WYO 430

and one where WYO  70 dips into Colorado



Washington has two sign variations. Western Washington by and large uses this

while Eastern Washington uses this


Utah uses a variation of signs as well, depending on where you are in the state-
(US-91)

my favorite being the badass Dinosaur sign on US-40 near Dinosaur monument


and then the old model of sign that may or may not have been standardized around the state that disappeared in 2009


Arizona is pretty boring

[Ian]

Maine. Exciting, right?

[agentsteel53]

["Leaving Wyoming" with two broncos]

that's a great sign because it mimics some very early white embossed signs.  I have a photo of a sign in a collection that is WYOMING STATE LINE with a very similar configuration.  black on white, two broncos, block fonts, likely a lot smaller (36x21 or so if I recall correctly) but same basic idea.

[agentsteel53]

I would have liked to see California's when I crossed the border from Nevada on I-15 in 2009, but there was no sign to be seen .

that is really strange because I remember it being a fixture... and a sign style that seems to me to date to the 80s: the gold-on-blue style with italics and a graphic of poppies.

it is set back a few miles from the state line, I think.  I barely remember, exactly because it is something I pass by so often ...

if it is gone, I would be very surprised - especially since it would imply that my powers of observation failed me quite exquisitely.

[myosh_tino]

According to Google's Streetview, the sign is still there just past the stateline...

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Primm,+NV&hl=en&ll=35.607409,-115.39148&spn=0.002477,0.003723&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.456673,60.996094&vpsrc=6&hnear=Primm,+Clark,+Nevada&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=35.60766,-115.391374&panoid=BO8nV4N9bz4wEhuKZNHscA&cbp=12,213.3,,1,2.79

Of course, I'm not sure when Streetview was last in the area.  I will be in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks so I can personally go check to see if the welcome sign is there or not.

[tdindy88]

That looks like it may have been after I drove through the area, since I did not see a county line sign either. It must have just been in the process of being replaced or temporarly missing then, probably bad timing on my part more than anything else.

[vtk]

Maine. Exciting, right?

Change that to FHWA fonts, make the bottom line upper-case, and it would be perfect!

[gonealookin]

I think Nevada has probably removed most of these:

(Edit:  Image posted on Photobucket deleted)

[OCGuy81]

@gonealookin.  That is a great find! I think the no income and no corporation tax are still in effect, but that whole debt free thing.....with the foreclosure rate in metro LV and all...

[Ian]

West Virginia's welcome sign has to be one of my favorites:


Somewhat closer shot:

[Mr. Matté]

I don't like the ones that have the governor's name on them but it makes it fun when the person changes and all the crews have to go around making all the changes to all the signs.

It's especially fun if you have to do it right away to save your state from corruption embarrassment:

[tdindy88]

I've always wondered how much a state, or city for that matter, saves on not having their governor's/mayor's name on it. It was in Mt. Vernon, Indiana off SR 66 where I saw their sign, which was more of a monunment in which the mayor's name was formed by individual letters that were on the monument. Maybe it isn't as labor-intensive or costly, but that to me sounds like overkill.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Québec has three types of signs. First, there is the fancy one on

(behind the "THAW" sign)

IMG_5817 par Dr Frankenstein, sur Flickr

It also lights up at night: (close-up) http://www.panoramio.com/photo/24279085

The other artery crossings which see less traffc have these more conventional signs:
http://maps.google.ca/?ll=45.414313,-75.766525&spn=0.004692,0.008755&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=45.414413,-75.766538&panoid=4azVw2CqYLJmvc9ErKkcvw&cbp=12,342.85,,1,11.42

The minor crossings – local roads and such – have these smaller signs.
http://maps.google.ca/?ll=45.207183,-74.338388&spn=0.009418,0.017509&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=45.207317,-74.337624&panoid=wlFt8XKh35REAACc75CLGA&cbp=12,106.49,,2,3.67