10 most well-known state routes in the US

[Molandfreak]

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[Scott5114]

CA 1 is the only one of the choices I have ever heard the general public discuss. Usually it's in the same breath as US 66. People might not know it by number, though–I read one Reddit thread where someone somehow mangled it to "highway 64" and it took them four comments before it was clarified that they were referring to CA 1.

[english si]

I've got two CA1 t-shirts that my parents got from a recent trip to California. One's a Pismo Beach one that has a no-green CA1 shield in the centre, with PISMO BEACH in large letters above it and facts about the Pacific Coast Hwy (using that term) under, left and right of it (length to 1/1000 of a mile, Est.1934, end points). The other's got a green CA1 shield with Sausalito underneath it.

Does any other state route get that? A brand recognition that very few US and I- routes get.

I'm surprised AK2 is on there - I don't think it's well known in Alaska, let alone elsewhere. The Alaska Highway, on the other hand, but that's like saying that the A40 is really famous as it's Oxford St's road number.

[hotdogPi]

I'm surprised AK2 is on there - I don't think it's well known in Alaska, let alone elsewhere. The Alaska Highway, on the other hand, but that's like saying that the A40 is really famous as it's Oxford St's road number.

The choices I put on there were the ones mentioned at least twice in this thread at the time I created the poll.

[oscar]

I've got two CA1 t-shirts that my parents got from a recent trip to California. One's a Pismo Beach one that has a no-green CA1 shield in the centre, with PISMO BEACH in large letters above it and facts about the Pacific Coast Hwy (using that term) under, left and right of it (length to 1/1000 of a mile, Est.1934, end points). The other's got a green CA1 shield with Sausalito underneath it.

Does any other state route get that? A brand recognition that very few US and I- routes get.

The Dalton Highway (AK 11) has lots of T-shirts available for it, most or all of which I've bought.  One of them, the "Ice Road Truckers" version, prominently features an authentic-looking AK 11 route marker.  I wore it to the second Ottawa road meet in 2012, so you can see it in the thread for that meet.

I'm a few thousand miles away at the moment from most of my T-shirt collection, which might have more examples.  I know I have many T-shirts for the Hana Highway on Maui, and the Alaska Highway, none of which show their route markers.

I have a coffee mug for Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway, which includes an inauthentic NV 375 marker.

[vdeane]

NV 375 is well know among UFO buffs and conspiracy theorists.

[PHLBOS]

MA 128 (heard some people talk about 128 in MA)

Many non-road people in New England (and even beyond) talk about MA 128 mainly because of the High-Tech industry boom that dotted the highway during the 1980s.  Such is likely one reason (out of many) why most (mainly locals) won't let go of the Route 128 moniker along the I-95 & 93 portions of the Yankee Division Highway despite such Interstate designations being present along that corridor for nearly 40 years.

Heck, during her speech at the 2012 GOP convention; Former-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made reference to Route 128 in terms of the Tech-boom.