Shortest US Highway in your state

[robbones]

US 271 in Arkansas is only 3 miles long before entering Oklahoma. What is the shortest US Highway in your state excluding Hawaii and Alaska?

[Zeffy]

Is this counting bannered routes, or just mainline ones? For NJ, I believe the shortest would be US 9W, with only 11 miles of roadway within the Garden State.

[Sam]

US 220 in New York is about 1/10 mile long.

[texaskdog]

I guess US 85 in El Paso that disappears into a duplex.

[hotdogPi]

Massachusetts is surprisingly high for a small state. (US 3, 36 miles)

[dfilpus]

I guess US 85 in El Paso that disappears into a duplex.

US 71 is shorter than US 85.

[dfilpus]

In North Carolina, US 521 is down to 3.5 miles.

[Thing 342]

Virginia is either US-11E at 0.58 miles or US-219 at 1.73 miles.

[Charles2]

Tennessee: US 58 is 6/10 of a mile long.
Alabama: US 90 is 70 miles long, but is US 45 shorter?

[pianocello]

I guess US 85 in El Paso that disappears into a duplex.

US 71 is shorter than US 85.

That's debatable, the northbound lanes don't even enter the state. But yeah, the southbound lanes are shorter than US 85's length.

EDIT: Wait, is that alignment north of Texarkana new? I stand corrected, I think.

As for my own states, US 77 enters Iowa for about a quarter mile before it ends at I-29 in Sioux City. Honorable mention goes to US 136 in Keokuk (3 or 4 miles)
For Illinois (I'll claim it), US 60/62 has about a mile and a half in Cairo between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
In Indiana, I think it's US 12 at 45 miles. Taking a quick glance at a list of the US highways in Indiana, it looks like US 12 is the only one that doesn't make it at least halfway across the state.

[tdindy88]

Indiana actually would be US 131, which takes up a very short distance (tenth of a mile or so) from the Michigan state line to the Indiana Toll Road.

[jp the roadgeek]

Massachusetts is surprisingly high for a small state. (US 3, 36 miles)

CT is smaller and higher: US 5 at 54.59 mi.   That is, if you don't count 1A at 1.93 mi.
RI: US 44 (26.3 mi) US 1A is 14 mi.
MD: US 222 3.61 mi. 
NH: US 2 35.4 mi.
PA: US 206 (0.46 mi)
VT: US 302 (35.6 mi)

[bulldog1979]

Indiana actually would be US 131, which takes up a very short distance (tenth of a mile or so) from the Michigan state line to the Indiana Toll Road.

It's 0.67 miles, actually. The length of US 223 in Ohio is slightly shorter: 0.66 miles.

For Michigan, the shortest is US 8 at 2.32 miles.


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[Darkchylde]

I'd think US 56 for Missouri. Not sure on mileage. Can't be more than 4.

[Bickendan]

199 for California and Oregon.
197 for Washington.

[TheCatalyst31]

The shortest in Wisconsin is US 141 at 117.33 miles, which is a lot higher than I would have guessed. Which raises the related question: what state has the longest "shortest U.S. route"? There's got to be a Western state with a longer one, I would think.

[dfwmapper]

Arizona: US 64, 4 miles
New Mexico: US 160, 1 mile
Utah: US 89A, 3 miles, or US 491, 17 miles

[froggie]

Alabama: US 90 is 70 miles long, but is US 45 shorter?

Yes...about 59 miles.  US 411 is also slightly shorter than US 90 at 88 miles.

Mississippi's shortest is US 425 at just under 3 miles (all in Natchez, and all concurrent with US 84).

Minnesota's shortest is US 8 at just over 22 miles.

JP mentioned US 222 for Maryland.  But US 522 is even shorter, at just over 2 miles (over half of that a concurrency with I-70).

He also mentioned US 2 for New Hampshire, but US 1 is half as short at just under 17 miles.

[Mapmikey]

In Virginia, all of these are under 10 miles:
US 11E, US 11W, US 219, US 311

In South Carolina the shortest is US 276 at around 45 miles

In North Carolina it is US 178 at under 10 miles.

Mapmikey

[PHLBOS]

Massachusetts is surprisingly high for a small state. (US 3, 36 miles)

Since MA & PA (my respective homestates) were already mentioned; I'll chime in on neighboring Delaware, US 9 202 in the Diamond State is just under 31 over 13 miles.

[dfilpus]

In North Carolina it is US 178 at under 10 miles.

Mike,
How can you forget US 521 at 3.5 miles?

[bassoon1986]

Louisiana is US 11.  24.6 miles

[elsmere241]

Since MA & PA (my respective homestates) were already mentioned; I'll chime in on neighboring Delaware, US 9 in the Diamond State is just under 31 miles.

US 202 has to be shorter than that.

[Zeffy]

Since MA & PA (my respective homestates) were already mentioned; I'll chime in on neighboring Delaware, US 9 in the Diamond State is just under 31 miles.

US 202 has to be shorter than that.

I think US 202 is the shortest, but US 40 and US 301 are also both very short highways (both < 15 miles) in Delaware.

[SD Mapman]

SD: US 16A: 39 miles
That's pretty good for a state with long crossing highways.