Top 10 most important state routes in your state

[hbelkins]

Inspired by a number of threads currently underway on Freewayjim's Facebook page and someone talking about most important state routes since US routes, 2di's and 3di's are being ranked.

What are the top 10 most important state highways in your state?

This obviously means NOT interstates and NOT US numbered routes, but I'm not sure whether routes like Kentucky's parkways should be included or not. I may do a list with them and without them, because in a list with them, they'd dominate and there'd be few slots left for state-numbered routes.

[hotdogPi]

Massachusetts:

MA 2
MA 128
MA 3
MA 24
MA 28
MA 146
MA 9
MA 140
MA 12
MA 1A

New Hampshire:

NH 101
NH 16
NH 9
NH 125
NH 28
NH 12
NH 10
NH 112
NH 3A
NH 108

[PHLBOS]

Massachusetts:

MA 2
MA 128
MA 3
MA 24
MA 28
MA 146
MA 9
MA 140
MA 12
MA 1A

Given that all of MA 1A is parallel w/US 1 and/or I-95 throughout its entire length; I personally wouldn't include that one.  MA 8 in the western part of the state would be more fitting IMHO.

[empirestate]

NY 3
NY 5
NY 9A
NY 12
NY 14
NY 17
NY 27
NY 28
NY 30
NY 104

[hotdogPi]

NY 3
NY 5
NY 9A
NY 12
NY 14
NY 17
NY 27
NY 28
NY 30
NY 104

22!

[Zeffy]

Including Turnpikes / Parkways for New Jersey:

1) New Jersey Turnpike
2) Garden State Parkway
3) NJ 440
4) NJ 29
5) NJ 42
6) NJ 3
7) NJ 17
8) NJ 23
9) NJ 18
10) NJ 139 (IF it counts due to it being in close proximity to I-78)

Without the NJTP and GSP:

1) NJ 440
2) NJ 29
3) NJ 42
4) NJ 3
5) NJ 17
6) NJ 23
7) NJ 18
8) NJ 139 (IF it counts due to it being in close proximity to I-78)
9) NJ 90
10) NJ 495 

Feel free to disagree with me on any (or all) of these here - this is based on my own observations.

[hotdogPi]

RI 146
RI 138
RI 114
RI 24
RI 10
RI 4
RI 37
RI 78
RI 102
RI 2


For some reason, out of all of these, only 37 is odd.

[hobsini2]

Wisconsin, in no particular order with the most important stretch highlighted:

Wis 11 Dubuque IA to Racine
Wis 13 Wis Dells to Ashland
Wis 21 Tomah to Oshkosh
Wis 26 Janesville to Oshkosh
Wis 29 Elk Mound to Green Bay
Wis 30 Madison
Wis 35 Dubuque IA to Superior
Wis 57 Port Washington to Sister Bay
Wis 64 Stillwater MN to Marinette
Wis 172 Green Bay

Honorable mentions:
Wis 16 Tomah to Waukesha
Wis 23 Wis Dells to Sheboygan
Wis 33 La Crosse to Port Washington
Wis 50 Delavan to Kenosha
Wis 60 Spring Green to Grafton
Wis 100 Milwaukee County
Wis 119 Milwaukee

[jemacedo9]

...as posted in the original Top 10 Important Roads in Your State thread...except I made one change:

(and this is in no particular order):

1.  PA 28
2.  PA 309
3.  PA 56
4.  PA 611
5.  PA 65
6.  PA 51
7.  PA 283
8.  PA 61
9.  PA 33
10.  PA 581

Honorable mentions to PA8, PA 41, PA 100, and PA 462.

[Alps]

AK 1
AK 2
AK 3
AK 4
AK 5
AK 7
AK 8
AK 9
AK 11
AK 98

[Rover_0]

UT-201
UT-67
UT-154
UT-85
UT-152
UT-71
UT-12
UT-9
UT-20

Honorable mentions: UT-68, UT-10, UT-24, and UT-28.

[corco]

Idahooooo is hard:

In no real order:
1. ID 55
2. ID 75
3. ID 16
4. ID 53
5. ID 33
6. ID 44
7. ID 3
8. ID 34
9. ID 8
10. ID 21

but who knows

[JawnwoodS96]

(In no order)

Pennsylvania

1. 8
2. 611
3. 309
4. 33
5. 28
6. 51
7. 100
8. 283
9. 581
10. 65

Honorable mentions: 228, 31, 3, 462, 43

Maryland

1. 32
2. 200
3. 295
4. 355
5. 2
6. 3
7. 4
8. 5
9. 10
10. 100

Honorable mentions: 129, 140, 26, 24, 97

[NE2]

DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295
DC 295

[tdindy88]

Here's some ones I've come up for Indiana. There's no order to this list (other than numeric order) and there is very much discussion about whether or not some of these are important. I've just based this by looking at a state map and looking for long corridors that seem like they connect a lot of areas or travel a good swath of the state. Very subject to debate.

1) SR 3
2) SR 9
3) SR 25
4) SR 26
5) SR 37
6) SR 46
7) SR 56
8) SR 63
9) SR 66 (Evansville area only, from Mt. Vernon to Boonville)
10) SR 67

[mukade]

Here's some ones I've come up for Indiana. There's no order to this list (other than numeric order) and there is very much discussion about whether or not some of these are important. I've just based this by looking at a state map and looking for long corridors that seem like they connect a lot of areas or travel a good swath of the state. Very subject to debate.

1) SR 3
2) SR 9
3) SR 25
4) SR 26
5) SR 37
6) SR 46
7) SR 56
8) SR 63
9) SR 66 (Evansville area only, from Mt. Vernon to Boonville)
10) SR 67

I would generally agree with most, but...
- Now that SR 26 is split in Lafayette, SR 32 is a better choice as it goes all the way across the state. Moreover, the western part of SR 26 is a narrow, sub-standard, low traffic road
- SR 56 wanders all over the place so it is not a major route
- SR 62 is the major road west of Evansville to Mt. Vernon. Of the two, SR 62 is more major than SR 66 IMO
- SR 63 is a nice expressway, but it does not carry much traffic

Why not SR 49 (expressway/freeway) in Porter County, SR 331 (expressway in Mishawaka), SR 912 (mainly a freeway in a large urban area), SR 930 (a major road in Fort Wayne)?

[tdindy88]

Actually, I did mean to say SR 62, not sure why 66 came out. The highways are just a little confusing there. I included 26 because in was in the NHS and is a major route from Kokomo to Lafayette, but west of there the highway is very lightly traveled. I considered 32 and also 28, as both cross the state and connect several county seats along the way, any of those three could have counted. I'm not sure now why I placed 56, I was probably thinking of the fact that it too connected several county seats from Rising Sun, Vevay, Madison, Scottsburg, Salem, Paoli, Jasper and Petersburg. It can be stricken from the list perhaps. Of the urban ones, I'd put 49 and 912 over the other two, but on a statewide level neither highway does much. That's just my reasoning though, and SR 63 was because people were arguing that US 41/SR 63 should have been among the top 10 highways period in the state. It serves a nice regional route but yes, is a very dead highway in terms of traffic.

[Takumi]

In no particular order, except maybe the first one
VA 7
VA 143
VA 168
VA 123
VA 27
VA 76
VA 288
VA 267
VA 120
VA 337

Honorable mentions: VA 110, VA 165, VA 170, VA 150, VA 236, VA 237, VA 286, VA 289, VA 294, VA 234, VA 28. Had VA 44 still existed (now I-264 east of Military Circle) it would have made the top 10. Last place: VA 162.

[TheStranger]

My (admittedly subjective) California list:

99
1
58
152
91
14
37
41
60
(for now) 210

24 would be honorable mention if I include the much longer 14

A little biased towards urban areas, as 99 and 58 and 1 are the only ones I can think of that maintain their importance across regions.

If 65 is ever completed between Exeter to at least the area east of Chowchilla, I'd easily add that to the list.

[SD Mapman]

In a somewhat arbitrary order...
SD 34
SD 20
SD 44
SD 79
SD 37
SD 50
SD 42
SD 115
SD 11
SD 53
SD 17
SD 43
SD 73?

[Pete from Boston]

Including Turnpikes / Parkways for New Jersey:

1) New Jersey Turnpike
2) Garden State Parkway
3) NJ 440
4) NJ 29
5) NJ 42
6) NJ 3
7) NJ 17
8) NJ 23
9) NJ 18
10) NJ 139 (IF it counts due to it being in close proximity to I-78)

Without the NJTP and GSP:

1) NJ 440
2) NJ 29
3) NJ 42
4) NJ 3
5) NJ 17
6) NJ 23
7) NJ 18
8) NJ 139 (IF it counts due to it being in close proximity to I-78)
9) NJ 90
10) NJ 495 

Feel free to disagree with me on any (or all) of these here - this is based on my own observations.

Again, the lowly Atlantic City Expressway labors in obscurity.

[golden eagle]

Not sure if I can name the top ten...

MS 15: the only one that runs from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast

MS 67: runs from Pascagoula to Waynesboro; important hurricane evacuation route.

MS 25: direct route from Jackson to Starkville & Mississippi State University.

MS 8: one of the few state routes that run from the Alabama line to the Mississippi River. Depending on who you believe, blues guitarist Robert Johnson (according to legend) sold his sold to the devil somewhere near MS 8 (though US 49/61 is the most accepted location).

Ms 607: connects Stennis Space Center to I-10 & 59.

[empirestate]

NY 3
NY 5
NY 9A
NY 12
NY 14
NY 17
NY 27
NY 28
NY 30
NY 104

22!

Definitely considered it, but although I love NY 22, I found it's largely redundant to US 9, I-87, and others. If this were the Top 10 for awesomeness rather than importance, it would definitely make the cut.

[dfilpus]

NC:
NC 12
NC 16
NC 24/27
NC 42
NC 49
NC 50
NC 55
NC 58
NC 87
NC 150

North Carolina is tough, since all of the original through state highways were converted to US Highways. Many of the remaining long state highways just wander all over the state.

[hbelkins]

Kentucky, with the parkways, in order:

1.) Western Kentucky Parkway
2.) AA Highway (KY 9/portion of KY 10)
3.) Mountain Parkway/KY 114 (one corridor)
4.) KY 80/Cumberland Parkway/Hal Rogers Parkway (one corridor)
5.) Pennyrile Parkway
6.) KY 15
7.) KY 55
8.) Bluegrass Parkway
9.) KY 90
10.) KY 61

Without the parkways:

1.) AA Highway (KY 9/portion of KY 10)
2.) KY 80
3.) KY 15
4.) KY 55
5.) KY 90
6.) KY 61
7.) KY 114
8.) KY 461
9.) KY 11
10.) KY 4