What are your favorite state welcome signs?

[vdeane]

It appears in street view, at least.

[CtrlAltDel]

Any height warning? Some tall trucks will hit it!

Didn't see one. To my eye at the moment, the sign seemed to be at the "normal" height. I passed underneath with no problem, but I was in a Honda Civic. . . .

[OCGuy81]

Maybe it's just me being a homer, but I really like California's.  Simple, but enough to stand out from other guide signs.

http://goo.gl/maps/Orwwl

This is the welcome sign greeting passengers on SB 5.  I swear there used to be a Siskiyou County Line sign attached to this, but don't recall when it was removed.

[doogie1303]

I do a lot of work down in Kings Bay, GA so I normally fly into Jacksonville, FL. I've always liked the Georgia welcome sign on I-95 as it's one of the few/if only examples I know of that uses lyrics from a song.



Although I think they need to find something new to tout about ... the Atlanta games were almost 20 years ago.

[tdindy88]

I suppose "Site of the 2014 Snowpocalypse" won't do?

[ET21]

Not Illinois 

I've always liked Wisconsin's, Michigan is 2nd

[tdindy88]

Not to be posting too much on this thread, but it just happens to be a coincidence that Illinois stopped putting the governor's names after Blago right? Illinois' older signs were better IMO, it highlighted the different parts of the state.

[MASTERNC]

It's easy for people travelling on the Throughway from the mid-west to tell they're entering Western N.Y  The very first sign you see isn't a welcome sign, but the world famous 'TOLL BOOTH 1 MILE".   No need for any lovey-dovey, feel good stuff; just pay the meter maid and keep moving.

Thought there used to be a "Welcome to the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway" sign in the median

[ET21]

Not to be posting too much on this thread, but it just happens to be a coincidence that Illinois stopped putting the governor's names after Blago right? Illinois' older signs were better IMO, it highlighted the different parts of the state.

I haven't seen a governor's name on welcome signs/highway signs since they took Blago's name off the I-PASS gantries for the open-road tollbooths before his trial.

[vdeane]

It's easy for people travelling on the Throughway from the mid-west to tell they're entering Western N.Y  The very first sign you see isn't a welcome sign, but the world famous 'TOLL BOOTH 1 MILE".   No need for any lovey-dovey, feel good stuff; just pay the meter maid and keep moving.

Thought there used to be a "Welcome to the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway" sign in the median

According to Google, there still is, but it's definitely not the first sign.