Rural Cloverleafs

[froggie]

I'm not the OP, but I don't think I'd include freeway-to-freeway cloverleafs in this thread.

Though not an actual cloverleaf, the I-91/US 2 interchange was originally intended to be one.  The two missing direct ramps (SB-to-WB and NB-to-EB) were intended "at a future date".  Given the lack of traffic in northeastern Vermont, I highly doubt they will ever be built.

[NWI_Irish96]

How rural?  The I-94/I-69 interchange is near Marshall, MI - but is in the midst of farm land.

The US30/31 interchange near Plymouth, IN, is very similar, immediately surrounded by farm land but near a small city.

[jeffandnicole]

New Jersey is filled with cloverleafs.  At the time many were built in rural areas that have now become heavily suburbanized or urbanized. It was basically the preferred design of NJDOT, and seemingly still is when you look at their jughandles and intersection-to-interchange redesigns, which usually have some sort of partial cloverleaf functions.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I-12 & I-55 in Louisiana.

[3467]

Once again edges of built up are I 74 and US 34 and 34 and 150 near Galesburg and 74 and Illinois 1 at Danville.
Could include 74 and 57 at edge of Champaign

[mgk920]

The OP does say "in the eastern US", but I'm guessing this isn't a hard-and-fast rule?

Though there's usually at least one thing in WA for each of these "unusual features" threads, I cannot think of any rural cloverleafs. Virtually all of the cloverleafs were built as part of early freeway construction (up to the 1970s, basically), and that was it. Freeway construction since 1980 really hasn't included any cloverleafs that I can think of, with only a couple close examples that are otherwise parclos (WA-167 @ WA-18, for example).

In Wisconsin a new cloverleaf between WI 29 and US 53 was completed in 2004.

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that new cloverleafs aren't being built elsewhere. I just haven't seen any new ones in WA.

I wouldn't consider US 53/WI 29 to be 'rural', either.

Mike

[ClaytonCarte]

I-81 at I-26 in eastern Tennessee. Absolutely nothing surrounding it.

[CtrlAltDel]

I-81 at I-26 in eastern Tennessee. Absolutely nothing surrounding it.

There's definitely not a lot going on there, but I'd hesitate to say there's absolute nothing.

[ClaytonCarte]

I-81 at I-26 in eastern Tennessee. Absolutely nothing surrounding it.

There's definitely not a lot going on there, but I'd hesitate to say there's absolute nothing.

Oh, that's interesting. I had no clue that was there. When you're driving, the trees do a great job of shielding everything.

[jakeroot]

The OP does say "in the eastern US", but I'm guessing this isn't a hard-and-fast rule?

Though there's usually at least one thing in WA for each of these "unusual features" threads, I cannot think of any rural cloverleafs. Virtually all of the cloverleafs were built as part of early freeway construction (up to the 1970s, basically), and that was it. Freeway construction since 1980 really hasn't included any cloverleafs that I can think of, with only a couple close examples that are otherwise parclos (WA-167 @ WA-18, for example).

In Wisconsin a new cloverleaf between WI 29 and US 53 was completed in 2004.

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that new cloverleafs aren't being built elsewhere. I just haven't seen any new ones in WA.

I wouldn't consider US 53/WI 29 to be 'rural', either.

I wouldn't think so either. Although I think the point of his example was to highlight a new cloverleaf (to rebut my misunderstood claim that they weren't being built anymore), not necessarily one that was rural.

[Rick1962]

Here's a good one, intersection of US-59, US-60 and I-44 access road northeast of Afton, Oklahoma.

SM-T580

[TheOneKEA]

Here's a good one, intersection of US-59, US-60 and I-44 access road northeast of Afton, Oklahoma.

SM-T580

Wow, that's a really good one! Were any C-D lanes considered for this cloverleaf?

[US 89]

This isn't eastern, but I-5 and SR 33 meet a cloverleaf in a very rural area in Merced County, California.

[Tom958]

TX 36 at TX 317. I stumbled across it detouring around congestion on I-35.
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1609685,-97.423149,1196m/data=!3m1!1e3

[Bobby5280]

Here's a good one, intersection of US-59, US-60 and I-44 access road northeast of Afton, Oklahoma.

I mentioned that rural cloverleaf on Page 1 of this thread in Post #17, along with pretty much every other rural cloverleaf in Oklahoma. A trumpet going into a cloverleaf is a pretty unusual thing though. I've driven past that particular one on many road trips out of Oklahoma into Missouri and points farther NE.

I'm not the biggest fan of cloverleaf interchanges but understand their use in rural locations (lower traffic counts, cost savings). I just wish Oklahoma could get on the ball at building directional stack interchanges in the more urban locations. ODOT always has to work in at least two or more cloverleaf loops in any new freeway to freeway interchange, even if it's an interchange that takes more than a decade to build (little jab at the I-44/I-235/B'way Extension project in OKC).

[DandyDan]

I-35 and US 18 in northern Iowa. US 18 isn't yet built west of I-35, but both highways have C/D lanes through the interchange.

Also I-35/US 20 and I-35/US 30 in Iowa.

Mike

The I-35/US 30 interchange, when originally built, was a rural cloverleaf, but now, it has a flyover ramp and Ames pretty much goes right to the interchange nowadays.

One Iowa cloverleaf that is rural that didn't get mentioned is I-29/I-680.

[SSOWorld]

The Big X (74/80/280) SE of the Quads.

[ilpt4u]

The Big X (74/80/280) SE of the Quads.

Big X? How about the Bump? Also I mentioned it on my reply on the 1st Page, in addition to the 80/88/IL 5/92 also in the Quad City area

Also for Illinois:
* I-72 at US 67
* I-57 at IL 16

Missouri
* I-55 at I-57/US 60
* I-70 at US 65

The I-57/IL 16 Cloverleaf exists because it is the exit for Eastern Illinois University, serving Mattoon and Charleston

The I-74/80/280 and I-80/88/IL 5/92 Cloverleaves on the Eastern Fringes of the Quad Cities Metro Area are still pretty rural in their immediate areas

The I-55/57/US 60 Cloverleaf leads right to developed areas of Sikeston, leading West/South on US 60/Future I-57

Illinois:
- I-39/80
- I-39/88
Mike

I-39/88 Cloverleaf is building up around it, as Rochelle grows with more Distribution Centers and the Union Pacific Intermodal Rail Yard. Probably doesn't hurt that both the I-39 and IL 251 Exits off I-88 are Free Exits

[Buck87]

US 31/US 24 in Indiana

[planxtymcgillicuddy]

I-77 and U.S. 421 near Hamptonville, NC comes to mind

[debragga]

US-281 & TX-71 south of Marble Falls, TX: https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5093735,-98.2974471,790m/data=!3m1!1e3