Named Routes and their Unique Shields: A Picture Challenge

[Jim]

I think I'm good to go again here now.  Here's the Palisades Interstate Parkway, this at its northern terminus.

[Alex]

One of the few trailblazers posted for the Southern Connector toll road (Interstate 185 south of Greenville, SC).

[empirestate]

I think I'm good to go again here now.  Here's the Palisades Interstate Parkway, this at its northern terminus.

Which I've just now noticed is designed by placing a leaf of NJ's state tree (red oak) over that of NY (sugar maple).

(Although NY's looks more like a red maple...)

[Pete from Boston]

I think I'm good to go again here now.  Here's the Palisades Interstate Parkway, this at its northern terminus.

Which I've just now noticed is designed by placing a leaf of NJ's state tree (red oak) over that of NY (sugar maple).

(Although NY's looks more like a red maple...)

New York's now look horrendous with the oversized mixed-case type.  This design was elegant (and still is, in New Jersey).

[US71]

Courtesy Jefferson Highway on Facebook.

[jbnv]

Anyone recognize the brown marker on this assembly? (Credit Flickr user Doug Kerr.)

[cl94]

Anyone recognize the brown marker on this assembly? (Credit Flickr user Doug Kerr.)

Southern Adirondack Trail. Diamond represents the "Herkimer Diamonds" found in the region.

[Big John]

Wisconsin Rustic Road

Photo by Ben Prepelka

[formulanone]

Florida's Turnpike shield -- usually the words do not use mixed-caps:



Subtle variations on this sign include no line denoting the route, inverted colors, ALL CAPS, and other assorted one-off-weirdness...

[hbelkins]

Kentucky's original Cumberland Parkway sign.

[Michael]

I'm surprised that the NY Thruway hasn't been posted yet!


When NYSDOT replaced the signs along the Arterial in Auburn in the summer of 2013, I went out and took pictures of the old signs before they were removed.  Unfortunately, about 5 minutes after I moved the pictures to my external hard drive, the drive died (Seagate drives used to be good, but now they're crap!).  I was able to undelete some of the pictures from my camera's SD card, and this was one of them.  I took a picture of the instillation date sticker on the back, but that image is corrupt.  I was able to at least see the thumbnail in the EXIF data, and kind of make out the date.  It looks like the installation date was 8/8/1991.

Here's an old Street View image of the sign.

[Jim]

To Oregon, where I have two in one.  I'll say this one counts for the Historic Columbia River Highway.

[cu2010]

Mildly surprised this one hasn't been posted yet:

[Alex]

Trailblazer for the Red Ball Route in Ainsworth, IA. This route was the predecessor to the Avenue of the Saints.

[empirestate]

Mildly surprised this one hasn't been posted yet:

And I'm mildly surprised by how that shield looks. That's not the Seaway Trail marker I'm familiar with!

[ctsignguy]

An oldie but goodie from 1993

[kphoger]

Am I missing it, or has no one posted the Great River Road yet?

[Big John]

Am I missing it, or has no one posted the Great River Road yet?

Posted near the bottom of page 2.

[Jim]

Mildly surprised this one hasn't been posted yet:

And I'm mildly surprised by how that shield looks. That's not the Seaway Trail marker I'm familiar with!

This is the only style of marker I've ever seen for the Seaway Trail:

[cu2010]

The new Great Lakes Seaway Trail shield was introduced a few years ago. R7 aggressively replaced virtually all of them last fall. Very few of the old ones remain, sadly.

[cl94]

The new Great Lakes Seaway Trail shield was introduced a few years ago. R7 aggressively replaced virtually all of them last fall. Very few of the old ones remain, sadly.

R5 replaced most of theirs within the past 2-3 years as well. Few, if any, of the old ones remain.

[formulanone]

Iowa's Dragoon Trail:

[kphoger]

Does anyone have a picture of the Camino Colombia Toll Road shield from before it became TX-255?

[hbelkins]

Here's a two-for-one. The Green River Parkway marker and the first-generation William H. Natcher Parkway sign that replaced it.

1990s Negative Scans - 44 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[Jim]

Another double, this one I'll submit as Fundy Drive, since that's the one we drove most of on our Maine-New Brunswick trip a couple summers ago.