Largest towns spurned by Interstates

[empirestate]

What are some of the bigger towns that an Interstate has no exit for, despite passing directly through the town (or very nearly so, close enough to be practicable)? Can you guess the largest such town for each Interstate?

Certainly, the most obvious cases of this will be on the older toll roads, which tended to have fewer exits farther between. For example, I-90 along the NYS Thruway has no exits in Fort Plain, St. Johnsville, Oneida, Port Byron, or Phelps, though each of these would easily warrant an interchange on a typical free-era Interstate. Of these, the largest by far is Oneida, which is a city of over 11,000. It's served by a nearby interchange in Canastota, but has none of its own.

By contrast, for something like I-81 in New York, I can't find any settlement worth shaking a stick at that doesn't get an interchange from it. Are there any glaring examples on other free Interstates?

Remember, this doesn't include cases where the Interstate avoids the town altogether (like Auburn or Rome for I-90). However egregious a snub this may be, it's a topic for a different thread.

[NE2]

I-95 DC.

Really, this is almost always a fluke of city limits rather than anything meaningful.

[pianocello]

The only examples I can think of are pretty much just podunk towns in north or central Illinois that aren't quite big enough to warrant an exit from I-74 or I-80 in the first place (specifically Deer Creek on I-74 between Peoria and Bloomington-Normal, and Wyanet, Sheffield, and Mineral on I-80 near Princeton).

Well, I guess the suburb of Country Club Hills, IL (pop. 16000) might qualify because I-80 runs through the city limits without an interchange, but I wouldn't count it because it's basically a giant neighborhood, and it sits at the interchange between 80 and 57. I-57 does have an interchange (barely) at the northwestern corner of the city at 167th St.

[jp the roadgeek]

Bristol, CT
Poughkeepsie, NY
Atlantic City, NJ
Lancaster, PA
Reading, PA
Nashua, NH

[cl94]

I-87 lacks a direct interchange for Ravena (pop. 3268) [but places interchanges at smaller settlements flanking it] and New Windsor/Washingtonville/West Point (pop. near 30,000, plus major military installation)s. Yeah, Exit 17 is ~4 miles north of the latter, but certainly justifies its own interchange).

On the Mass Pike, I-90 blows by US 7 and Stockbridge.

I could think of a bunch of settlements along the Ohio Turnpike east of I-475 (which it blows past) that could warrant an exit.

[empirestate]

Bristol, CT
Poughkeepsie, NY
Atlantic City, NJ
Lancaster, PA
Reading, PA
Nashua, NH

Bristol isn't quite reached by I-84, in my estimation, but there are interchanges as close as that route does get. Poughkeepsie, Atlantic City, Lancaster and Nashua don't have any Interstates passing through. I-176 nearly reaches Reading, and there's an interchange (its terminus) at the closest possible approach.

So I can't see how you'd qualify any of those.

Really, this is almost always a fluke of city limits rather than anything meaningful.

Well, in those cases I'm inclined to discount the Interstate as not passing through the town, in the same way you'd say it does pass through even if the Interstate misses the actual city limits (see St. Johnsville, NY, for example).

[KEVIN_224]

Bristol, CT is reached by I-84 Exit 31 (CT Route 229) in Southington, which is one town over. I-84 does enter New Britain's west edge, but not by much. Exit 35 (CT Route 72 East) skirts the Plainville town line while the western loop on the Exit 36 ramp for Slater Road (from I-84 West) briefly touch Plainville.

[froggie]

I would anticipate that this question applies much more to the legacy toll roads than the free Interstates that were built later.

There are several examples of towns in Vermont where the adjacent Interstate doesn't have an exit, but most of these are lightly populated.  The biggest one I can think of would be Bolton (along I-89), with a population of around 1200.

[Pete from Boston]

I would anticipate that this question applies much more to the legacy toll roads than the free Interstates that were built later.

There are several examples of towns in Vermont where the adjacent Interstate doesn't have an exit, but most of these are lightly populated.  The biggest one I can think of would be Bolton (along I-89), with a population of around 1200.

I would like an exit at South Royalton that does not currently exist.  Not the biggest skipped town, but the Worthy Burger is, well, worthy of it. 

[froggie]

I would like an exit at South Royalton that does not currently exist.  Not the biggest skipped town, but the Worthy Burger is, well, worthy of it.

I don't disagree, but technically the 107 exit is in Royalton.

[Chris19001]

Really, this is almost always a fluke of city limits rather than anything meaningful.

Agreed.  I'd throw in Baltimore's I-70 for that qualification as well.

[vdeane]

The biggest one I can think of would be Bolton (along I-89), with a population of around 1200.

That one's also interesting because it's in the middle of very large gap between exits 10 and 11 on I-89.

[MrDisco99]

Princeton, NJ   

[NE2]

Juneau. Now can we read the first post before commenting?

[BrianP]

The best I could come up for in MD would be on US 50/UI-595 since it has no exit for MD 193 to serve the Woodmore and Mitchellville areas.  Although they're nto really towns since they're not incorporated.  They're just CDP's.  Together they're about 15k pop.

[empirestate]

Princeton, NJ   

There's no Interstate through Princeton; the closest I-95 gets is Princeton Pike, and there is an interchange there. Doesn't count.

[jeffandnicole]

I'm giving this a 'good enough' status:

I-295 goes thru Deptford, NJ, population of over 30,000.  On 295 Southbound, there is one interchange.  But on 295 Northbound, there are no exits for the town, nor is there signage indicating what exit to take as an alternative.

[Revive 755]

Another for Illinois is Orion off of I-74 (population 1,847).

[US 41]

I-70/76 has no interchange for Everett, Pennsylvania. Everett is large enough to have a bypass on US 30.

[odditude]

I'm giving this a 'good enough' status:

I-295 goes thru Deptford, NJ, population of over 30,000.  On 295 Southbound, there is one interchange.  But on 295 Northbound, there are no exits for the town, nor is there signage indicating what exit to take as an alternative.

More "barely scrapes the edge of" than "goes through," but Missing Moves will resolve that - Deptford is directly served by 42/55.

[sbeaver44]

Yes, the old toll roads take the cake here for their lack of exits:

I-80 as the Ohio Turnpike would probably otherwise have an interchange at SR 3, SR 94, or SR 82 for North Royalton, OH (pop 30,367)

I-76 as the Ohio Turnpike also passes right by Canfield, OH (pop 7,412) with no exit.  I would think any non-toll road would have an interchange with either US 224, US 62, or SR 11.

At first I was thinking about adding I-76 for Mechanicsburg, PA (pop 8,982), but I guess the US 15 exit qualifies.  I do think an interstate that is not the turnpike might have an additional interchange for SR 641.

[golden eagle]

Fresno, CA.

[Pete from Boston]

Fresno, CA.

Yes, it's well known that Fresno is the largest city off the Interstate system, but it doesn't have an Interstate in or near it without an exit as the OP is asking for.

[DevalDragon]

I'm surprised none of my fellow Buckeyes have thrown out Hamilton Ohio - population 62,447 in the 2010 census.

[NE2]

I'm surprised none of my fellow Buckeyes have thrown out Hamilton Ohio - population 62,447 in the 2010 census.

Oh, they threw it out (of the running). Why would it count?