Non-freeway beltways

[Mapmikey]

South Carolina has:

Chester bypasses form a near-complete loop (a spiral, really)
SC 16 runs more than halfway around Columbia
SC 118 Aiken is a full loop


Mapmikey

[US81]

TX 183 around Ft. Worth (sm freeway segment)

[NE2]

M-185.

[hbelkins]

SR 155 Nashville TN

Most of it is freeway.

[Chris]

A108 around Moscow, Russia. It is 560 kilometers long (350 miles).

[akotchi]

NJ 439 and North Ave. form a 3/4 beltway around Elizabeth, NJ.  NJ 81 and the Turnpike complete the loop.

[agentsteel53]

Moscow: those other two beltways appear to be non-freeway as well.


A108 appears to be the largest beltway so far discussed.  any larger ones?

[TheStranger]

McCarran Boulevard  (NV 659) in Reno is one notable example out west.

Too small to really be a beltway, but there is Grand Boulevard in Corona, CA (which actually inspired the city's name).

Shore Road and Fairview Road serve as a half-beltway of Hollister, CA (bypassing Route 25).

[cpzilliacus]

Helsinki, Finland: Ring I and Ring III (Ring II is not complete).

EDIT:  Ring I is the busiest highway in Finland, AADT exceeding 110,000.  In the U.S. it would be functionally classified as an urban expressway.  Much of Ring III is full motorway, but there are some expressway segments and the westernmost segment is Super-2.

Ring I:


Ring III:

[JREwing78]

Madison, WI has W. Beltline Highway, but a glance at Google Maps suggests it was upgraded to full freeway.  Not sure when this upgrade took place.  Abandonment of at least 2 at-grade RR crossings might have helped.

The Beltline has been upgraded in bits and pieces since it opened in the 1950's. The railroad crossing just west of Fish Hatchery Rd was removed in 2007, though this was the only at-grade intersection on the highway east of Middleton since the late 1980's.

[Molandfreak]

CSAH 22 makes 3/4 of a beltway around Rochester, MN. It's a divided highway with no interchanges and speed limits of 45-55.

[FreewayDan]

TX Rte. 6 in Houston

Its longer if you include F.M. 1960.

Add Loop 336 in Conroe to the list as well.

[PHLBOS]

In Bucks County, PA; the Newtown Bypass (which carrys segments of PA 332, 413 & 532).  Those who were at last year's Doylestown Meet ventured on this road.
Newtown Bypass

[jdb1234]

Boll Weevil Circle - Enterprise, AL

[Henry]

TX 335 in Amarillo

[Alps]

Lansing, MI's Capitol Loop

[Occidental Tourist]

Tramway Rd/Blvd in Albuquerque, NM.  Other roads in the metro area might also qualify (like Coors or Paseo Del Norte), but Tramway, which covers the northeast quadrant, is the most obvious.

[NE2]

Lansing, MI's Capitol Loop

More of a business route than a beltway.

Providence's Downtown Ring Roads. Pawtucket's Downtown Circulator.

[Thing 342]

Moscow: those other two beltways appear to be non-freeway as well.


A108 appears to be the largest beltway so far discussed.  any larger ones?

Moscow actually has 5 coincentric beltways, with the center at the Kremlin.

[agentsteel53]

I had a dream last night that someone answered my question about beltways larger than Moscow's with "the asteroid belt".

alas, this appears not to have come to pass.

the asteroid belt is, indeed, larger than Moscow's ring road, and is also not a freeway.  just thought I'd throw that out there because I seriously checked this topic this morning wondering if it was something I vaguely remembered.

[Brandon]

Lansing, MI's Capitol Loop

It's not really a beltway.  It's a business loop (BL-496).

Now, Outer Drive and Grand Boulevard in Detroit are examples of older non-freeway beltways.

[hobsini2]

Some may not look at it as such but Illinois 83 does act as that kind of a bypass around Chicago.

US 151 around Fond du Lac at this time is an at grade bypass.

[bugo]

According to the anal road "geeks" the Creek Turnpike isn't a freeway, so it would count under their rules.

[NE2]

The Creek Turnpike is neither a creek nor a turnpike. Discuss.

[corco]

If you use a loose definition of Creek that excludes the whole water part and is just a pathway that has the capacity to transport things and can overflow and that has the potential to subtly reshape surrounding topography, then yes, it is a creek.