Longest Distance From An Actual Exit...

[thenetwork]

Here is an interesting question:  What is the furthest distance from a mileage sign to an actual named exit (or a specific junction with an actual route number), and not just a city or vague endpoint?

For example, just west of Dotsero, CO on I-70, the junction with I-15 (the western terminus of I-70) is listed as being 366 Miles away  http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtual_freeway_tours/3484824509/.  Can that be beaten?

[agentsteel53]

Here is an interesting question:  What is the furthest distance from a mileage sign to an actual named exit (or a specific junction with an actual route number), and not just a city or vague endpoint?

For example, just west of Dotsero, CO on I-70, the junction with I-15 (the western terminus of I-70) is listed as being 366 Miles away  http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtual_freeway_tours/3484824509/.  Can that be beaten?

if I recall correctly, on the Cassiar Highway (BC-37), the final northbound "control city" is consistently Alaska Highway, and the mileages get as high as 700km.

[JustDrive]

I-15 south of Halloran Springs has a mileage sign that has the junction with I-10, 142 miles away.

[Bickendan]

Here is an interesting question:  What is the furthest distance from a mileage sign to an actual named exit (or a specific junction with an actual route number), and not just a city or vague endpoint?

For example, just west of Dotsero, CO on I-70, the junction with I-15 (the western terminus of I-70) is listed as being 366 Miles away  http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtual_freeway_tours/3484824509/.  Can that be beaten?

if I recall correctly, on the Cassiar Highway (BC-37), the final northbound "control city" is consistently Alaska Highway, and the mileages get as high as 700km.

About 437 miles then. Not bad, not bad at all.

[NE2]

I-15 on I-70 is being used as a name of a control point, not the highway itself. It's like saying "Downtown Exit 5 mi". It's still referring to downtown, just in a different way.

[Interstate Trav]

I-15 south of Halloran Springs has a mileage sign that has the junction with I-10, 142 miles away.

Does this sign date back to when I-15 ended at I-10 in San Bernardino.  i have passed that sign many times and now it just hit me if that was why.

[Henry]

I-15 on I-70 is being used as a name of a control point, not the highway itself. It's like saying "Downtown Exit 5 mi". It's still referring to downtown, just in a different way.

So they decided that I-15 would make a better control point than Cove Fort?

I-15 south of Halloran Springs has a mileage sign that has the junction with I-10, 142 miles away.

Does this sign date back to when I-15 ended at I-10 in San Bernardino.  i have passed that sign many times and now it just hit me if that was why.

Probably so...and even when they extended I-15 to San Diego, they decided to leave it in. Amazing!

[NE2]

I-15 on I-70 is being used as a name of a control point, not the highway itself. It's like saying "Downtown Exit 5 mi". It's still referring to downtown, just in a different way.

So they decided that I-15 would make a better control point than Cove Fort?

Yep. Who the hell knows what Cove Fort is (other than the end of I-70)?

[agentsteel53]

Probably so...and even when they extended I-15 to San Diego, they decided to leave it in. Amazing!

does that mean that that sign has the distance via I-15 and I-215, as I-215 was the original I-15?

[JustDrive]

Here's the pic of the I-10 sign

Interstate 10 is equidistant along both current I-15 and I-215.