Longest US Highway that you have not been on

Started by Roadgeekteen, January 14, 2019, 10:18:33 AM

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drebbin37

Quote from: pderocco on August 27, 2025, 01:52:15 PMBut how do you get to that page from the home page? I've never seen that system.php page before, and I've poked around everywhere, or so I thought.

Hope y'all don't mind a third-party answer...
On your user page, scroll down to Stats by System (below the Stats by Region section) and click on United States Numbered Highways.  That's how I get there.


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Jim

Quote from: pderocco on August 27, 2025, 02:41:30 AMIn TravelMapping, I don't see an easy way to get an accurate answer to this

One way you can do this is to go to the system page for the "usaus" system with you selected as the user:

https://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?units=miles&u=pderocco&sys=usaus

Scroll to the bottom table which is by route rather than by region, sort the table by Total miles, and look down for your first dark red line with 0.00 miles.  It has your winner as US 183 with US 81 close behind.

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pderocco

Quote from: Jim on August 27, 2025, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: pderocco on August 27, 2025, 02:41:30 AMIn TravelMapping, I don't see an easy way to get an accurate answer to this

One way you can do this is to go to the system page for the "usaus" system with you selected as the user:

https://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?units=miles&u=pderocco&sys=usaus

Scroll to the bottom table which is by route rather than by region, sort the table by Total miles, and look down for your first dark red line with 0.00 miles.  It has your winner as US 183 with US 81 close behind.


Yes, I see that now. But my question is: how do you get to a "system" page from the home page, without bookmarking that link?

The home page really ought to have a list of links to all pages, perhaps in a sidebar. Some things aren't easy to find on the site.

pderocco

Quote from: drebbin37 on August 27, 2025, 04:58:06 PM
Quote from: pderocco on August 27, 2025, 01:52:15 PMBut how do you get to that page from the home page? I've never seen that system.php page before, and I've poked around everywhere, or so I thought.

Hope y'all don't mind a third-party answer...
On your user page, scroll down to Stats by System (below the Stats by Region section) and click on United States Numbered Highways.  That's how I get there.
Thanks. That's pretty obscure.

Jim

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Great Lakes Roads

Top three-

#1: US 285
#2: US 165
#3: US 411
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ModernDayWarrior

For me it appears to be US 281, which I have crossed multiple times but never driven. Originally I thought I would be yet another person answering US 12, but it turns out I've done a very small stretch of it in Chicago near O'Hare Airport.

Next ones on the list for me are US 395 and US 81, which I *may* have clipped in Wichita but can't remember for sure.

kphoger

Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on August 28, 2025, 01:43:53 PMUS 81, which I *may* have clipped in Wichita but can't remember for sure.

The most likely portion of US-81 to have 'clipped' in Wichita is probably this one.

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dlsterner

Quote from: dlsterner on July 29, 2021, 08:23:39 PMWe've had this thread before, back in 2019.  I'll just link my answer from then; it is still the same answer today.

Quote from: dlsterner on January 14, 2019, 11:40:25 PMLongest never driven would be US 12, but I have crossed it.  Never driven and never crossed would be the western US 2.

I decided to review my previous response to see if it was still correct.  Not so:

Back in 2023 I drove a portion of US 12, so my answer would now be the western US 2.

If you consider the two US 2 segments to be a single route (I have been on the eastern US 2), my answer would then be US 281.