Highways You Have Clinched

[CoreySamson]

Over the weekend, I clinched 8 new routes. Here are the highlights...
- I-35W in Texas
- 3 business routes of TX 6
- 2 Loop routes in Waco
- My 33rd FM clinch

[TheHighwayMan3561]

A week and a half ago I finished US 2 in MN finally. What a pain that was to get because for years I never had cause to clinch the independent segments between TH 371 and TH 200.

[Max Rockatansky]

I clinched NV 720 today was part of a work function. 

[NWI_Irish96]

Added today:

IL portion of US 136 [only 3 US highways in IL I haven't clinched yet are 40, 50 and 67]
IL 164
IL 117
IL 89

[NWI_Irish96]

Added today:

IL portion of US 136 [only 3 US highways in IL I haven't clinched yet are 40, 50 and 67]
IL 164
IL 98
IL 117
IL 89

[Max Rockatansky]

In the numbered realm of things I've mopped up quite a lot of low hanging fruit in Nevada.  The list includes:

-  NV 206
-  Old NV 79 (Six Mile Canyon Road)
-  NV 115
-  NV 116
-  NV 117
-  NV 118
-  NV 119
-  NV 120
-  NV 715
-  NV 822
-  NV 170
-  NV 613
-  Clark County Route 215

I also finished up the eight miles of Mohave County Route 91 (former US 91) I was missing between the Nevada state line and I-15 Exit 8.  Aside from Lettered County Routes and an expanding CA 11 I don't have any numbered clinches left to do in California.  I have completed several notable mountain roads this year:

-  Hites Cove Road (an 1860s stage road)
-  Jose Basin Road (the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad grade)
-  Whitaker Forest Road (the original roadway to Redwood Mountain in what is now Kings Canyon National Park)
-  Mountain Charlie Road (the one-lane ancestor to CA 17 north of Scotts Mountain)
-  Eureka Canyon Road/Highland Road (a Redwood lined continuous roadway in the Santa Cruz Mountains)
-  Sutter Creek Road (an old branch of the Carson Pass Highway west of Volcano)
-  Cienega Road (an approximately 20 mile long alternate to CA 25 in the Gabilan Range following the San Andreas Fault)

[freebrickproductions]

I can definitely add I-22 now to the list of highways I've clinched.

[pderocco]

In the numbered realm of things I've mopped up quite a lot of low hanging fruit in Nevada.  The list includes:

-  NV 206
-  Old NV 79 (Six Mile Canyon Road)
-  NV 115
-  NV 116
-  NV 117
-  NV 118
-  NV 119
-  NV 120
-  NV 715
-  NV 822
-  NV 170
-  NV 613
-  Clark County Route 215

I also finished up the eight miles of Mohave County Route 91 (former US 91) I was missing between the Nevada state line and I-15 Exit 8.  Aside from Lettered County Routes and an expanding CA 11 I don't have any numbered clinches left to do in California.  I have completed several notable mountain roads this year:

-  Hites Cove Road (an 1860s stage road)
-  Jose Basin Road (the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad grade)
-  Whitaker Forest Road (the original roadway to Redwood Mountain in what is now Kings Canyon National Park)
-  Mountain Charlie Road (the one-lane ancestor to CA 17 north of Scotts Mountain)
-  Eureka Canyon Road/Highland Road (a Redwood lined continuous roadway in the Santa Cruz Mountains)
-  Sutter Creek Road (an old branch of the Carson Pass Highway west of Volcano)
-  Cienega Road (an approximately 20 mile long alternate to CA 25 in the Gabilan Range following the San Andreas Fault)

You got all the state highways? Congrats.

Isn't that bit of old US-91 in Arizona nice? I always detour through that if I have time.

Cienega Rd looks interesting. Really wanders around.

[Max Rockatansky]

In the numbered realm of things I've mopped up quite a lot of low hanging fruit in Nevada.  The list includes:

-  NV 206
-  Old NV 79 (Six Mile Canyon Road)
-  NV 115
-  NV 116
-  NV 117
-  NV 118
-  NV 119
-  NV 120
-  NV 715
-  NV 822
-  NV 170
-  NV 613
-  Clark County Route 215

I also finished up the eight miles of Mohave County Route 91 (former US 91) I was missing between the Nevada state line and I-15 Exit 8.  Aside from Lettered County Routes and an expanding CA 11 I don't have any numbered clinches left to do in California.  I have completed several notable mountain roads this year:

-  Hites Cove Road (an 1860s stage road)
-  Jose Basin Road (the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad grade)
-  Whitaker Forest Road (the original roadway to Redwood Mountain in what is now Kings Canyon National Park)
-  Mountain Charlie Road (the one-lane ancestor to CA 17 north of Scotts Mountain)
-  Eureka Canyon Road/Highland Road (a Redwood lined continuous roadway in the Santa Cruz Mountains)
-  Sutter Creek Road (an old branch of the Carson Pass Highway west of Volcano)
-  Cienega Road (an approximately 20 mile long alternate to CA 25 in the Gabilan Range following the San Andreas Fault)

You got all the state highways? Congrats.

Isn't that bit of old US-91 in Arizona nice? I always detour through that if I have time.

Cienega Rd looks interesting. Really wanders around.

Yes, in 2019 I got to the current point I'm at after a trip to San Diego.  The only other segments I don't have fully is hiking the closed sections of CA 39 and 173.  I had Arizona finished for a long time until AZ 24 was added. 

That segment of US 91 in Arizona is seriously underrated.  I've driven over the Beaver Dam Mountains a bunch to get to Gunlock and Snow Canyon.  I didn't think that part near Mesquite would be much of anything but I was wrong. 

Cienega Road is very nice in winter when it is green from the grass blooming.  Personally I prefer La Gloria Road which is further down CA 25 near Pinnacles National Park. 

[Buster Cannon]

I added I-68 to my clinch list about a month ago; that side of Maryland is a really pretty drive.

[Hunty2022]

Here's my first road clinches of 2026:

VA-224
VA-381
I-381

[webny99]

Last week I clinched I-83, which became my third-longest 2di clinch. Prior to this I somehow had three 3dis in my top five interstate clinches overall (I-495 MA, I-287 NY/NJ, and I-390 NY), but I-83 has now bumped I-390 off the list.

Less notably, I also clinched VA 110.

[epzik8]

I completed a clinch of I-76 east and clinched Ohio's iteration of I-277 in one shot this week.

[ElishaGOtis]

I'm too lazy to update my list right now, so here's a few new ones I've done on a random road trip to Texas:

2di:
- I-45

Louisiana:
- I-110
- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Texas:
- LP-1
- BL-35 New Braunfels
- I-35E
- I-35W
- SH-45
- I-69 within state as signed 2026 (not including branches, due to the mile markers)
- SP-97
- SH-99
- SH-130
- TL-183
- TL-183A
- FM-306
- I-345
- I-410
- FM-484
- I-635
- Hardy Toll Rd

[JayhawkCO]

Got the following clinched on my Florida trip:

FLA1A (Key West)
FL998
FL997
FL869
I-595
I-195
FL907A
I-395
FL874

[fwydriver405]

Got to clinch Interstate 84 (PA-MA portion) fully on a recent road trip to York, PA last week, was kinda of a last second detour to I-84 via I-691 in Meriden, CT due to a crash and heavy traffic on both the Merritt & Wilber Cross Pkwys as well as on I-95. Ended up getting to York via I-81 and I-83, both of which I got some significant mileage on.

Previously only had I-84 travelled from I-684 in Brewster, NY to the Mass Pike (I-90) in Sturbridge, MA for quite some time (first travelled in segments between 2008 and 2022, then traveled frequently in 2024-25).

Other clinches in the first quarter of 2026 include:

Lunar New Year Trip (Bay Area + SoCal) 2026:
I-980
CA 85

[Buster Cannon]

Decided to sit down and take inventory of every clinch I've done: Interstates, US Highways, and State Routes. The more I think about it, clinching any US Highway feels radically more difficult. If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

Full Length 2DI

• Interstate 66
• Interstate 68
• Interstate 83
• Interstate 97

Full Length 3DI

• [DMV] Interstate 495 - Capital Beltway
• [DMV] Interstate 295
• [DMV] Interstate 395
• DC Interstate 695
• Maryland Interstate 195
• Maryland Interstate 395
• Maryland Interstate 595 [unsigned]
• Maryland Interstate 695 - Baltimore Beltway
• Maryland Interstate 795
• Maryland Interstate 895
• Maryland Interstate 270
• Virginia Interstate 195
• Virginia Interstate 295
• Delaware Interstate 495
• Pennsylvania Interstate 470
• Pennsylvania Interstate 476
• North Carolina Interstate 578
• Florida Interstate 395
• Florida Interstate 595

Full Length US Highways

• None!

State Highways
Maryland

• MD 2
• MD 3
• MD 5
• MD 10
• MD 99
• MD 162
• MD 185
• MD 186
• MD 193
• MD 197
• MD 198
• MD 200
• MD 201
• MD 202
• MD 210
• MD 212
• MD 218
• MD 223
• MD 227
• MD 228
• MD 234
• MD 235
• MD 258
• MD 259
• MD 260
• MD 295
• MD 320
• MD 337
• MD 373
• MD 414
• MD 458
• MD 410
• MD 424
• MD 433
• MD 458
• MD 500
• MD 501
• MD 586
• MD 717
• MD 725
• MD 950
• MD 953
• MD 980D

Washington DC

• DC 295

Virginia

• VA 110
• VA 207
• VA 267

Pennsylvania

• PA 456

North Carolina

• NC 27

[JayhawkCO]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

[Max Rockatansky]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

[JayhawkCO]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

Yeah. When I just did the Overseas Highway, I thought for a second to try to go for a clinch of US1 in Florida, and then I thought that sounded hellish.

[Max Rockatansky]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

Yeah. When I just did the Overseas Highway, I thought for a second to try to go for a clinch of US1 in Florida, and then I thought that sounded hellish.

I only ever did it because I was living in the center of the state and had a lot of time on my hands.  Fortunately there is a fair bit of interesting roads in eastern Florida that I could dissect US 1 into 30-50 mile chunks at a time.  US 1 and US 41 are the most difficult US Routes to clinch for Florida.  27, 27A, 129, 301, 231, 192 and 319 are all relatively easy to finish given they are either short or mostly rural.  441, 19, 90 and 17 all have some awful urban mileage but are relatively easy once you get out of the big cities.  92 is short enough that I was able to finish it on a day trip even though it is highly urbanized.  98 and 90 just take a long time but I don't recall either being especially frustrating.  90 mostly fronts I-10 and doesn't make a lot of sense to take most of the time.

[NWI_Irish96]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

Yeah. When I just did the Overseas Highway, I thought for a second to try to go for a clinch of US1 in Florida, and then I thought that sounded hellish.

I only ever did it because I was living in the center of the state and had a lot of time on my hands.  Fortunately there is a fair bit of interesting roads in eastern Florida that I could dissect US 1 into 30-50 mile chunks at a time.  US 1 and US 41 are the most difficult US Routes to clinch for Florida.  27, 27A, 129, 301, 231, 192 and 319 are all relatively easy to finish given they are either short or mostly rural.  441, 19, 90 and 17 all have some awful urban mileage but are relatively easy once you get out of the big cities.  92 is short enough that I was able to finish it on a day trip even though it is highly urbanized.  98 and 90 just take a long time but I don't recall either being especially frustrating.  90 mostly fronts I-10 and doesn't make a lot of sense to take most of the time.

Since INDOT rerouted all the US highways around Indy on I-465, none have been very difficult to clinch in Indiana. US 20 would probably be the most challenging considering the portion west of Michigan City.

[Max Rockatansky]

If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I hadn't even looked at your list and this sentence told me you lived far east of the Mississippi. Out west, US routes aren't just the "alternative interstates" with a couple exceptions (US30, US6, US85/87 through Colorado, etc.).

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

Yeah. When I just did the Overseas Highway, I thought for a second to try to go for a clinch of US1 in Florida, and then I thought that sounded hellish.

I only ever did it because I was living in the center of the state and had a lot of time on my hands.  Fortunately there is a fair bit of interesting roads in eastern Florida that I could dissect US 1 into 30-50 mile chunks at a time.  US 1 and US 41 are the most difficult US Routes to clinch for Florida.  27, 27A, 129, 301, 231, 192 and 319 are all relatively easy to finish given they are either short or mostly rural.  441, 19, 90 and 17 all have some awful urban mileage but are relatively easy once you get out of the big cities.  92 is short enough that I was able to finish it on a day trip even though it is highly urbanized.  98 and 90 just take a long time but I don't recall either being especially frustrating.  90 mostly fronts I-10 and doesn't make a lot of sense to take most of the time.

Since INDOT rerouted all the US highways around Indy on I-465, none have been very difficult to clinch in Indiana. US 20 would probably be the most challenging considering the portion west of Michigan City.

Even Michigan has a pretty tame US Route System to get through.  A lot of it is freeway or expressway nowadays in the lower peninsula.  Even US 24 isn't all that difficult with the lights being timed so well on Telegraph Road. 

[JayhawkCO]

Colorado's isn't the most exciting, but it's not that tedious either.

US 6 - Easy enough from Golden and east. Literally impossible to follow via signage through the mountains as it sometimes multiplexes with I-70 and sometimes runs just parallel with little signage

US24 - Easy to follow with the exception of the impossible-to-drive-straight-through portion just west of Burlington

US34 - Easy to follow and the only real overlap part that's hard and/or parallels the interstate is from Fort Morgan to Brush

US36 - Really hard to follow through the Denver metro, but otherwise doesn't parallel any interstates.

US40 - Easy to follow but parallels I-70 from Floyd Hill to Golden

US50 - Very easy to follow with only paralleling I-70 west of Grand Junction

US84 - Completely "independent"

US85 - Now only officially one segment that isn't multiplexed with I-25 (from Castle Rock to near downtown Denver)

US87 - Completely multiplexed with I-25

US138 - Runs parallel to I-76 for its entirety. Definitely just an "interstate alternate"

US160 - 99% independent

US285 - Completely independent

US287 - Mostly easy to follow, but parallel to I-25 from Fort Collins through Denver, then multiplexed with I-70 until Limon

US350 - Completely independent

US385 - Completely independent

US400 - Completely independent (and useless)

US491 - Completely independent

US550 - Completely independent

[Rothman]

Got I-670, I-435, I-635, I-335, and I-135 on this recent trip to KS/MO/NE/CO.  Already clinched I-235 in the past.