Small towns with a lot of freeway exits

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I was thinking something like Limon, CO with 3 exits for a town of 2000.

[sbeaver44]

Briantroutman said basically exactly what I was thinking.  I was instinctively going to say Carlisle, PA, which has 6 exits on I-81 and 1 on I-76 that serve it. (Population according to Wikipedia is 19k for the borough and 38k for the "urban cluster" ).

81 gets a speed limit drop from 65 to 55 between miles 43-53 or so.

However, I'm not sure if any of those exits are in the borough of Carlisle proper.  Carlisle to me also doesn't feel like a small town necessarily because of all the warehouses and stores Carlisle has.

Gettysburg PA may also qualify.  It has 6 exits from US 15 that serve the town of 7600.

[Bruce]

Marysville, WA has 5 exits on I-5 (soon to be 6) because it hugs the freeway for quite a bit. Not a small town anymore (pushing over 70K), but most of those exits were built when the town had under 4,000 people.

[thspfc]

Marysville, WA has 5 exits on I-5 (soon to be 6) because it hugs the freeway for quite a bit. Not a small town anymore (pushing over 70K), but most of those exits were built when the town had under 4,000 people.

Six exits for a town of 70k seems sort of low to me.

[KCRoadFan]

Boonville, MO (pop. 8,319) has 3 exits along I-70 (4 if you count Exit 98 for MO 135 & 41, from which point you can follow Santa Fe Trail/old US 40 into town from the west).

In addition, there's Albert Lea, MN, with 3 exits on I-35 and one on I-90, as well as the 35/90 interchange itself, for a town of about 18,000.

[Konza]

I count five exits eastbound and four westbound off of Interstate 10 serving Benson, Arizona (population 4833).

[STLmapboy]

Comparisons involving small towns–and using population of the incorporated municipality as the basis for determining size–get kind of hairy because of the varying natures of municipal incorporation among different states. Cusseta, Georgia, with roughly 11,000 residents spread out over nearly 250 rural square miles is arguably more of a "small town"  than urban Darby, PA, with its similarly sized population packed into less than one square mile and bound on all sides by dense municipalities (including the City of Philadelphia).

With your Darby link you inadvertently introduced me to this visorless doghouse.

[Pink Jazz]

Moriarty, New Mexico has three exits for a population of 1,910.

[DandyDan]

Boonville, MO (pop. 8,319) has 3 exits along I-70 (4 if you count Exit 98 for MO 135 & 41, from which point you can follow Santa Fe Trail/old US 40 into town from the west).

In addition, there's Albert Lea, MN, with 3 exits on I-35 and one on I-90, as well as the 35/90 interchange itself, for a town of about 18,000.

There's 2 for Albert Lea along I-90.

[michravera]

I was thinking something like Limon, CO with 3 exits for a town of 2000.

It doesn't take much for a town to have three exits. Both ends of a bypass or Business Route and a "Downtown" exit will do it. This pattern is COMMON along US-101 and CASR-58 in California. However, we are talking about California here. Our "small towns" may not be so classified elsewhere.

[Jmiles32]

Altavista, Virginia a town with a population of 3,406, somehow has 6 exits on US-29 (4 if you don't count the southern two but still).

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