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Lowest-numbered route you haven't been on

Started by hotdogPi, January 23, 2019, 07:39:50 AM

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CoreySamson

Quote from: Scott5114 on August 15, 2026, 12:44:52 PM
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Quote from: bwana39 on August 06, 2026, 08:17:40 PMScott5114, you have not been on Texas 121? It is overlapped on US-75 from the south side of McKinney to the south side of Melissa. It is also one of the main routes from DFW Airport to Fort Worth.

Nope, despite living in the next major metro to the north for decades, I've only visited the DFW area a half-dozen times or so. Didn't know anyone there and I'm not big on flying, so the only reason we visited was for concerts for acts that wouldn't come to Oklahoma City, or just passing through en route to elsewhere.

In the DFW area, I have mileage on I-20 east of I-635, I-30, I-35W, I-35E north of Spur 348, I-635, and Loop 12. That's it. The only bit of US-75 I have is between US-82 and TX-91.

I knew you never got down this far very much. It just struck me as  unlikely that you had somehow missed a freeway that has over 50 miles catty-cornered across DFW (on either SRT and SH-121 proper). But seeing how little of US-75 you have traveled, it makes perfect sense.

OH well!

Yep, since I lived right on I-35, that was a straight shot into DFW and thus the route I nearly always used. US-75 would have required a detour to the east, which wouldn't have made a whole lot of sense unless I was just doing it for clinching purposes. Had I had reason to visit more frequently, I probably would have gotten around to it eventually, but as it stands I never even got all the way through I-35E.

For what it's worth, I'm missing some pretty large chunks of US-75 in Oklahoma too. Just one of those roads that was never all that useful to me.
Meanwhile, there's me who clinched all of US 75 in TX and OK within 5 months of moving to OK for college. However, I never did get around to clinching all of I-40 in Oklahoma.
Buc-ee's and QuikTrip fanboy. Clincher of 43 FM roads. Proponent of the TX U-turn. Unabashed HAWK hater. ORU '26.

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Quote from: 74/171FAN on August 15, 2026, 08:15:56 AMI finally got a signed 432 (KY 432), but still need a signed 389. :pan:

389 was a tough one for me.  I ended up getting SC 389 (along with SC 394) on my annual holiday trip to Florida by detouring thru Columbia SC and heading south on (mostly) US 321.