Last previously-untraveled road you were on?

[hbelkins]

Just so we're clear: you're allowed to have previously traveled on other portions of the route, correct?

Yes, I had been on parts of all three of the examples I gave. This was new mileage for me -- and in the case of US 219, recently-constructed new mileage.

[hbelkins]

Gaah. I'd forgotten about OH 823, the Portsmouth Bypass, which I was on back around Christmas, even more recently than the Pennsylvania examples I first cited. It also fits perfectly in the new thread.

[US 89]

Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30

State or US?

State maintained.

State maintenance has nothing to do with route numbering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Why must we get so hung up over this? The idea is to keep responses to numbered routes on a state or higher-level route network, so that we don't count irrelevant routes like county roads and city streets.

[1995hoo]

MD-17 between US-40 and I-70. We were on our way home from Toronto in June when we hit a traffic backup on I-70, so I bailed to US-40 to detour around the problem, then cut back to the Interstate via Route 17.

[csw]

Has to be a state route...US 219...US 30

State or US?

State maintained.

State maintenance has nothing to do with route numbering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Why must we get so hung up over this? The idea is to keep responses to numbered routes on a state or higher-level route network, so that we don't count irrelevant routes like county roads and city streets.

Is it really an AARoads forum topic if we don't get hung up on the rules?

[sprjus4]

For me, it'd have to be I-75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville, then before that was I-59 between Chattanooga and Birmingham & I-24 around Chattanooga, recently clinched this summer. Been on I-59 south of Birmingham, and I-40 east of Knoxville to I-81.

[stevashe]

For me this is the southern half or so of I-405 in Portland, which I drove on last Tuesday to clinch the route.

[US71]

IL 251 if you're talking about a complete road.

[deathtopumpkins]

I-481, Syracuse, NY - 8/25/19

[catch22]

Ohio 108 between Napoleon and Wauseon.

[paulthemapguy]

Ohio 46 off of I-80 to grab Wendy's on the drive home from Maine.

[epzik8]

PA-903 in the Poconos heading up to the NASCAR track.

[US 81]

Stanford Univ - CA 82/ El Camino Real

[ftballfan]

M-43 between Hastings and M-66

[7/8]

My latest new road segment is Iceland Route 49 from Suðurgata to Route 40 in Reykjavík.

[The High Plains Traveler]

CA 70. I have long wanted to drive the Feather River Canyon, and managed to get to California in September, mostly before the state started burning like crazy again. I have now driven it from Quincy south to where it ends at CA 99 near Sacramento.

[US 89]

Mine is the segment of Utah SR 30 between SR 23 and US 89/91 in Logan. Despite its state route status, it felt like a US highway when I drove on it. Lots of traffic and slightly better design standards than your typical SR.

[webny99]

Despite its state route status, it felt like a US highway when I drove on it.

It seems funny to me to distinguish between an "average" US and an "average" state route, I guess because New York has so few US routes that I see them as functionally pretty much identical.

I've never thought about US routes carrying more long distance traffic, or being built to higher standards; there is not really any correlation among the US routes that I've been on. Around here it seems like for every US route that is a long-haul super-2 (US 20) there are at least 2 state routes (NY 14, NY 104) that fit the bill as well.

[okroads]

OH 115 southbound between OH 15 & OH 12/OH 198, the last new section of road of many I drove in western/northwestern Ohio this past Sunday.

[Super Mateo]

I can't remember which order they happened in, but the most recent are:

I-90 from where it splits off the Ohio Turnpike to the second exit in New York.  I didn't do my research beforehand well, so the reversed mile markers, sequential exit numbers, and tolls threw me off.

NY/PA 5 from Barcelona to Erie.  I ended up here so I can say I've driven in New York, and found a nice, quiet road along Lake Erie.

US 19 in Erie.  This includes US 19's northern terminus.

Plus US 20, PA 97, PA 832, OH 2, I-79, I-480, I-71 Cleveland, NY 394, and possibly others?

However, I think my answer is westbound I-90 from I-71 to I-80, as Waze steered me around that segment going eastbound on the way to Erie.  TL;DR:  I-90 in the Cleveland area.

[kphoger]

I just had a bunch of new roads on a recent family trip to Iowa.  The most recent state route chronologically was IA-164–all 3.79 miles of it.

[DJ Particle]

The last state-or-higher highway I've been on for the first time...hmm...

Last Christmas Eve, I took the US-8 exit off I-35.  Took US-8 to WI-35, then WI-35 to WI-64 across the new St. Croix River bridge.The US-8, WI-35, and (past Exit 1) WI-64 stretches I'd never been on before that day.

The day before, I drove MN-25 between US-212 and I-94, most of which I'd never been on.

[TheGrassGuy]

Assuming you're just talking about my home state, US 202 expressway west of NJ 179.

[DandyDan]

On my latest Twin Cities trip, new roads include MN 5 west from 494 to Audubon Rd (the intersection Paisley Park is at), US 212 from Powers Road to its east end at US 169, MN 100 between MN 62 and 494, the short segment of US 63 in Red Wing that goes over US 61 and into Wisconsin and WI 35 between US 63 and US 10. I also got the short segment of US 61 north of I-94 to MN 5 and MN 5 westward to the Xcel Energy Center, which may or may not have been used in the past.

[TheGrassGuy]

That would have to be the brief NJ 62.