Highways You Have Clinched

[kphoger]

US24 - Easy to follow with the exception of the impossible-to-drive-straight-through portion just west of Burlington

Depends on your vehicle's ground clearance.  Looks like you can get around the fence here.

[pderocco]

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

How long do you think it would take to drive all 550 miles of US-1? A couple long days? How about all the bits of A1A? That might be more interesting since it stays close to the beach.

[Max Rockatansky]

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

How long do you think it would take to drive all 550 miles of US-1? A couple long days? How about all the bits of A1A? That might be more interesting since it stays close to the beach.

I would need to sit down and figure that out.  For US 1 I would think they really would depend on how many hours of slogging through urban surface traffic you're willing to put up with.  Several segments of A1A are actually pretty scenic and get into sparsely populated areas.   

[Rothman]

Reminds me of anyone who wants to drive US 1 (Boston Post Road) between NYC and Boston.  "Well, whatever floats your boat..."

[pderocco]

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

How long do you think it would take to drive all 550 miles of US-1? A couple long days? How about all the bits of A1A? That might be more interesting since it stays close to the beach.

I would need to sit down and figure that out.  For US 1 I would think they really would depend on how many hours of slogging through urban surface traffic you're willing to put up with.  Several segments of A1A are actually pretty scenic and get into sparsely populated areas. 

One solution to clinching roads with hundreds of traffic lights is to do it in the middle of the night. That's how I did CA-82 in a little over an hour, starting at about midnight. I normally go for clinches during the day when you can see the scenery, but in urban areas there's enough lighting that you can still see plenty of stuff at night.

[pderocco]

Reminds me of anyone who wants to drive US 1 (Boston Post Road) between NYC and Boston.  "Well, whatever floats your boat..."

That would be me. I've driven almost none of it in from NYC to Providence, but at least some of the towns along the way are pretty nice. I'm tackling that in a New England trip next month.

[Max Rockatansky]

The east coast is way too full of inhabited places to often make US Route clinching practical.  The amount of effort took me to finish just US 1 in Florida was far more taxing than finishing the entire US Route system in states like Nevada and Arizona.

How long do you think it would take to drive all 550 miles of US-1? A couple long days? How about all the bits of A1A? That might be more interesting since it stays close to the beach.

I would need to sit down and figure that out.  For US 1 I would think they really would depend on how many hours of slogging through urban surface traffic you're willing to put up with.  Several segments of A1A are actually pretty scenic and get into sparsely populated areas. 

One solution to clinching roads with hundreds of traffic lights is to do it in the middle of the night. That's how I did CA-82 in a little over an hour, starting at about midnight. I normally go for clinches during the day when you can see the scenery, but in urban areas there's enough lighting that you can still see plenty of stuff at night.

Yes, trouble in my case is that I wouldn't have any photos to harvest for our page.  The only quality nighttime shots that I've ever really consistently gotten were from standing position outside my car.

[SkyPesos]

Only counting Interstates, as I lost track of state routes and don't think I've clinched any US routes.

2di: I-57, I-71, I-78, I-88 NY
3di: I-640 (TN), I-465, I-865, I-170, I-270 (MO/IL), I-470 (OH/WV), I-670 (OH), I-271, I-471, I-275 (MI, OH/KY/IN, TN), I-475 (GA), I-675 (GA, OH), I-684, I-295 (NY)

[dlsterner]

The more I think about it, clinching any US Highway feels radically more difficult. If nothing else, you have to go out of your way to do it, as you're more likely to take the faster, parallel running interstate if it's available.

I definitelyy noticed that myself when compiling my list.  Was surprised when at the end, I didn't have a single US Highway clinched.

I've since clinched US 192, US 222, US 331, and US 340, but had to go a bit out of my way to get the last pieces.  Still don't have a 100% clinched 2dus.  Thinking that US 13 may be the closest for me, but not in a hurry to clinch that one.

[Buster Cannon]

Added VA I-195 and NC I-587 to my list on a road trip this weekend. 195/VA-76/VA-150 is a pretty solid downtown Richmond bypass, hadn't thought to jump on it despite having run through that area countless times.