Alternate Routes

[Michael]

I just saw a post talking about an alternate route that most people don't know about, so I thought I'd start a thread dedicated to these routes.  Here are a few of mine:

Town of Throop, NY to Port Byron, NY
Common
Alternate

Carousel Center to Fairmont Fair, Syracuse, NY
Common
Alternate

NY 34/13 Interchange to Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY
Common
Alternate

Auburn NY to Selinsgrove, PA (a few options)
Common (I-81, used the first time I went)
I-81 via Cortland
Alternate (mostly US 15, my usual route)
Google suggested other routes, but I've never tried them.  The NY 414 suggestion seems out of the way to me.

[corco]

Laramie WY to Front Range/I-25 Corridor Colorado

(I-80 to I-25 or 287 S to SH-14 would be the common routes- this mostly alleviates the reason why some folks don't take the 287 to 14 route by cutting out the bulk of FoCo traffic, which can slow it down to taking as long as 80 to 25 (when traffic is light, 287 to 14 saves 12 minutes or so))

[TheStranger]

Santa Maria to Santa Barbara

Common
Shorter Alternate

[The Premier]

For I-77 (traveling southbound) in in Akron:

SR 21 to I-76/U.S. 224 EB
Stay on 224 EB to I-77

[sandiaman]

Here's  a good alternative  to  I 84  in southern Idaho:  Take exit 111 to US 30 , a parelell  route down to the Snake  River and  be totally  blown   away  by the Thousand Springs,  underground rivers   forming  thousand of waterfalls on lava  cliffs into the river below.  You then follow 30 into Twin Falls.  It is well worth the  detour  from  a typical interstate  where  everyone  is going 85  or faster!
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[F350]

I-70 - MD/WV/PA

Common

Toll & PA Turnpike free alternative

[Rover_0]

Well, here's a couple up here in Utah's (and Idaho's) Cache Valley:

--UT-252 from US-89/91, back to US-91, north of Logan.  While you go as slow as 30 MPH in one spot, you avoid the pain in the neck that is downtown Logan.  The people at UDOT I converse with say that the purpose of establishing this highway was that it could be a truck route, serving the industrial section in western Logan and avoiding downtown Logan.

--UT-23/Westside Hwy. Franklin County Route D1 (was ID-23), from US-89/91 in Wellsville, UT, through Mendon, UT, Weston, ID, and Clifton, ID, ending at US-91 near Swanlake, ID.  Honestly, this could be a legitimate US alternate route.

Main--http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Wellsville,+UT&daddr=Swanlake,+ID&hl=en&geocode=FY9aewIddgZU-SlRIT3OO35ThzEDDwUd3FXv-Q%3BFRClhQId-fRS-SlVRmge2ANVhzEb3ACzb96K3A&mra=ls&sll=41.672912,-111.796875&sspn=11.91094,19.709473&ie=UTF8&z=10

Alternate--http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Wellsville,+UT&daddr=42.002366,-111.958923+to:Swanlake,+ID&hl=en&geocode=FY9aewIddgZU-SlRIT3OO35ThzEDDwUd3FXv-Q%3B%3BFRClhQId-fRS-SlVRmge2ANVhzEb3ACzb96K3A&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&sll=41.975925,-111.903965&sspn=0.741203,1.231842&ie=UTF8&z=10

This brings me to another question, somewhat unrelated--was there ever an ID-23 connecting to UT-23?  I've seen a Cache Valley phone book which shows the Idaho portion as ID-23; would it be outdated or a typo of sorts?