Unpaved state highways

[Max Rockatansky]

I don't know if it stands but the worst US Route in term of surface quality I ever drove was US 89 north of MT 49.  That pavement was so woefully bad when I drove it in 2015 that a top layer of dirt or gravel would have been a considerable upgrade.  A large portion of US 287 (about 20 miles south of Browning was stripped down to gravel at the time while it was being rebuilt.

[3467]

I can't think of any numbered in Illinois or Iowa Wisconsin Indiana. I think Indiana may have some oil and chip. Iowa used to. I consider oil and chip to be paved but gravel and dirt unpaved though there seems to be some disagreement over definition of paved .I have seen the term surfaced used too.

[froggie]

Vermont has 4, one of which (VT 65) is state-maintained. The other 3 (35, 58, 121) are town maintenance.

Vermont has a 5th, a state-maintained unnumbered state highway in Averill.

[MikieTimT]

Arkansas has a few, I'm pretty sure.

Oklahoma paved its last state highway in the mid 2000s.

For Arkansas, I can't think of any that remain unpaved.  I was raised in Frankin County, AR, which had 3 of the unpaved roads, all of which were actually partially paved.  AR-60 was completely paved in the 90's, AR-215 had its dirt portion turned over to Franklin County, which finally paved it just this past year to AR-41.  AR-398 connected AR-41 to AR-23, but the unpaved portion of it was turned over to Franklin County, which finally paved it in the early '00's.  The only other unpaved state highway was AR-220 from AR-59 north of Cedarville to AR-170 in Devil's Den State Park, with the remote Washington County portion being unpaved for decades.  It was finally paved a few years ago, but a couple of landslides have resulted in long-term lane closures as there isn't much traffic or apparently money to make lasting repairs.  It's been fixed a few times now, and with the wet past couple of years we've had, another slide forms in the area shortly after repairs are done.  Got to love the feudal district-based road departments we have in this state.

[JayhawkCO]

Despite others posting differently, it looks like Colorado only has three:

CO78 near Beulah
CO170 near Eldorado Springs
CO394 near Craig

I've seen some say that CO317 is unpaved near its eastern terminus, but I just drove it this summer and it's completely paved.

Chris

CO 394 is paved now! I drove it a month ago and it is now paved all the way to its terminus. The paving job east of where pavement used to end is quite bad...looks like it was done by the county or possibly even local landowners. Doesn't look that old and it's already falling apart.



Also drove 317 on the same trip and it's...definitely unpaved a few hundred feet after it enters Routt County - this photo is just past the county line:

and this is a mile or so east at the terminus:


Oddly, if you look at (old) street view it is paved in those exact locations\(https://goo.gl/maps/TxmogWrhv4XFLEed6,  https://goo.gl/maps/NuGiEnriUx955ksR9) - so I think the roadway was reverted to gravel at some point recently - or it was under construction when I drove it (though I don't recall any evidence of that) - I drove it on July 4th. When did you drive it?

I must have transposed them in my notes.  I drove them both around Memorial Day.  Consider me corrected. 

Chris

[dvferyance]

South Dakota still has a couple, right?  SD-63, for example.

More than a couple and I am sure North Dakota has plenty too.