County roads that are 4 lanes.

[PenguinXL2]

Does anybody know of county roads anywhere that reach up to 4 lanes? I never saw one in my life , but I believe that there is a county road somewhere that has 4 lanes.

[Scott5114]

Clark County, NV's CR 215 is a freeway, so there's at least that one.

[Roadrunner75]

Lots of them in NJ...

[doorknob60]

The Delta Highway in Eugene, OR is a 4 lane freeway, and I believe is a county highway, although i can't find confirmation right now. The Beltline is a state highway (I think it used to be country maintained), but I'm pretty sure the Delta is maintained by Lane County.

[pianocello]

I can think of 2 off the top of my head: Brady St north of Davenport, IA, and Red Arrow Hwy in Southeast Michigan. Both are old alignments of US highways, though (61 and 12, respectively), so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

EDIT: Looks like the intersecting road in the Brady St example (90th St/210th St/Mt. Joy Rd) is also 4 lanes. The stretch just east of US 61 is actually 5 lanes, with 3 lanes going eastbound toward John Deere Davenport Works.

[on_wisconsin]

Too many in too many towns, villages, and cities to count...

[jeffandnicole]

4 lanes, as in total, or 4 lanes, as in 4 lanes each way?

If 4 lanes total, as mentioned, NJ is loaded with them.  In some cases, they can carry more traffic than nearby state routes.

[Brandon]

Does anybody know of county roads anywhere that reach up to 4 lanes? I never saw one in my life , but I believe that there is a county road somewhere that has 4 lanes.

A really good number of county highways in Illinois are 4 (or more) lanes.

Here's some examples:

Weber Road, Will County
Randall Road, McHenry County
Kirk Road, Kane County
75th Street, DuPage County
Roselle Road, Cook County

[Doctor Whom]

Do you mean numbered county routes or any road maintained by a county?  If it's the latter, then in Maryland, and presumably in other states where counties maintain the non-state roads in unincorporated areas, it's easy to find county roads with four or even six lanes.

[xcellntbuy]

In upstate New York, they exist in Albany County.  In downstate New York, they exist all over Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.

Here in Florida, specifically Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, six lanes is not unusual.

[PenguinXL2]

Wow, a lot more than I expected!

[Big John]

Even got 6 lanes on County VK in Brown County WI.

[kkt]

There's a ton in Santa Clara County, California.  San Jose and its metro area loves making country road expressways.

[TEG24601]

It depends on what you mean by county road.


Many places extend their grids beyond current population areas, and therefore could qualify.  Same for pretty much anyplace that builds the infrastructure before demand.

[bugo]

There are literally thousands of these all over the country. 

[cl94]

In a state as populated as New York, there are tons all over the place. Albany, Erie, and Monroe Counties each have several due to their urbanized nature. Warren County has one (the county-maintained section of NY 254). Westchester and Rockland have quite a few, as do Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Suffolk and Westchester even maintain limited-access highways, sometimes greater than 4 lanes. A county limited-access highway in Suffolk has one of the state's only SPUIs. Downstate, especially on the Island, very few of the major surface roads are state-maintained. In Nassau, just about every road busy enough for county maintenance has 4 or more lanes.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Since most arterials in the Twin Cities area are part of the County State-Aid Highway system, there are many 4+ lane streets there. They are posted with their county route numbers and for some the route number is the name by which they are best known.

[SSOWorld]

Many in larger cities of Wisconsin have county highway designations especially in Madison and Milwaukee.  Otherwise, they usually don't cross city limits.

[froggie]

Off-topic here, but given the threads he's started, I'm getting the impression that the OP is either very young, or just hasn't gotten out of Pennsylvania at all in his life.  Possibly both.

[cl94]

Off-topic here, but given the threads he's started, I'm getting the impression that the OP is either very young, or just hasn't gotten out of Pennsylvania at all in his life.  Possibly both.

If he hasn't gotten out of Pennsylvania, how would he even know about county routes? Everything there is state or locally maintained, IIRC.

Let me rephrase that. PA does have county routes, yet they serve a different function than such routes in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, etc. From what I can tell, county routes are mainly minor roads in unincorporated areas. Quadrant routes serve the purpose of county routes in neighboring states. As such, few county routes in PA get enough traffic to warrant 4 lanes. If he were to look at the three states forming the northern, eastern, and western borders of PA, he would know that county routes do often get to 4 lanes in suburban areas.

[dgolub]

Does anybody know of county roads anywhere that reach up to 4 lanes? I never saw one in my life , but I believe that there is a county road somewhere that has 4 lanes.

Oh, yes, there's a ton of them on Long Island.  Here are some that come to mind:

Suffolk CR 4 (Commack Road)
Suffolk CR 46 (William Floyd Parkway)
Suffolk CR 48 (Middle Road)
Suffolk CR 66 (East Deer Park Road)
Suffolk CR 93 (Lakeland Avenue, Ocean Avenue, Rosevale Avenue)
Suffolk CR 97 (Nicolls Road)
Suffolk CR 105 (Cross River Drive)
Suffolk CR 111 (Captain Daniel Roe Highway)

CR 46, CR 97, CR 105, and CR 111 are divided highway with 55 MPH speed limits and grade-separated interchanges in some places.  Nassau County also had unsigned county routes, and most of the numbered county routes in that county have four lanes for at least some of their length, if not the entire length.

[Zeffy]

Let me rephrase that. PA does have county routes, yet they serve a different function than such routes in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, etc.

The numbered county route system in New Jersey, and probably Florida as well, are much more major compared to the other states with them. In New Jersey, they are basically the last classification of numbered routes, right after state routes. They form the core of New Jersey's roadway infrastructure, hence why there's so many of them in the state. In Florida, I would guess that they function in a similar way, from what I've seen.

[bulldog1979]

For Michigan, any roadway that isn't a state highway or a city/village street is going to be a county road. To find a few four-lane county roads, all someone has to do is look in areas near Grand Rapids or Detroit that are townships. The major roads on the section lines like 68th Street in Byron and Gaines townships  or Byron Center Avenue in Byron Township south of Grand Rapids pop to mind right away. If you want to limit to numbered county roads, Division Street in Gaines Township is four lanes, and that's part of A-45.

From its construction in 1942 until 1993, the Davison Freeway in Highland Park and Detroit was county-maintained.

[mapman1071]

Maricopa County AZ Cr85 4 to 6 lanes with 2 Way Left turn Lane

[Roadrunner75]

We even have County routes with short freeway segments in NJ:

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.74762,-74.337979&spn=0.000003,0.001635&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=40.74762,-74.337979&panoid=_oCkT9wvAGj7g9FnDW461A&cbp=12,49.82,,0,1.11

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.524439,-74.33429&spn=0.000008,0.006539&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.524308,-74.334571&panoid=p_HAxdQGzRX-CIoiGRLSqA&cbp=12,48.27,,0,6.2

We like our County roads.

Begin argument over what constitutes a short freeway segment: