Exit signs with nothing but the exit number

[STLmapboy]

I wanna get as many examples as possible of exit signs with nothing but the exit number. Like this sign on I-40 in New Mexico:
https://www.google.pl/maps/@34.9924315,-105.3144271,3a,69.7y,130.95h,64.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYMUAISW3XDyn5chZ-_5qrg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Though another example is this profoundly unhelpful and redundant Idaho I-15 sign (Shelley is signed on 1-mile leadup signs though). It's a real "department of redundancy department" case:
https://www.google.pl/maps/@43.4359484,-112.1247947,3a,73.6y,88.76h,78.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMOwT1dG0hjPE0jUvAKvMPw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Share more examples below! They're more common on rural Western freeways.

[Big John]

North Dakota does that for sparsely traveled interchanges.

[paulthemapguy]

Here's a bunch I have photographed on a cross-country trip in August 2018.

I-94 exit 342, ND | I-94 exit 310, ND
I-94 exit 298, ND | I-94 exit 296, ND
I-94 exit 272, ND | I-94 exit 248, ND
I-94 exit 245, ND | I-94 exit 233, ND
I-94 exit 195, ND | I-94 exit 120, ND
I-94 exit 117, ND | I-90 exit 172, SD

[ErmineNotyours]

I-90 Exit 38.  This takes you to a bypassed section of the old highway, which was still named Sunset Highway when the new freeway was being built, so having that name on the sign would have been confusing.

[zzcarp]

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

[roadfro]

This concept is fascinating to me. In Nevada, no matter how rural or desolate, every freeway exit has some kind of name on the sign. If the exit is not in a populated townsite, then the exit is either named for a (often former) nearby site or a nearby geological feature, or might be named for a distant place accessible from that exit.

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

As an example, if this were in Nevada, the exit would have been named "Herman Gulch".

[JayhawkCO]

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

There used to be another nearer to Denver on I-25.  It was only northbound, but it was signed "Exit 191".  Then (apparently as I wasn't living here at the time to know the history) CDOT demolished it and created Exit 192 - RidgeGate Parkway in 2009 according to Wikipedia.

Chris

Chris

[zzcarp]

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

There used to be another nearer to Denver on I-25.  It was only northbound, but it was signed "Exit 191".  Then (apparently as I wasn't living here at the time to know the history) CDOT demolished it and created Exit 192 - RidgeGate Parkway in 2009 according to Wikipedia.

Chris

There were actually two sets of RIRO exits in the stretch south of Ridgegate prior to 2009. There was an exit 191 both north and south at Surrey Drive (the southbound exit was essentially here). Basically, Surrey Drive had the RIRO from/to SB 25, went through the current one-lane underpass and turned north to where it connected to a RIRO at NB I-25.



The second set of RIRO exits was approximately here. It was a pure RIRO on the southbound (west) side that dumped right onto the west frontage road. The northbound (east) side was a RIRO to an exit ramp. I believe they were marked "Exit 189", and I don't remember.



Both of these sets of exits were removed when CDOT constructed the S. Havana Street frontage road on the east side from Ridgegate to Castle Pines Parkway and I-25 was widened to 4 lanes circa 2009.

[sprjus4]

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

There used to be another nearer to Denver on I-25.  It was only northbound, but it was signed "Exit 191".  Then (apparently as I wasn't living here at the time to know the history) CDOT demolished it and created Exit 192 - RidgeGate Parkway in 2009 according to Wikipedia.

Chris

There were actually two sets of RIRO exits in the stretch south of Ridgegate prior to 2009. There was an exit 191 both north and south at Surrey Drive (the southbound exit was essentially here). Basically, Surrey Drive had the RIRO from/to SB 25, went through the current one-lane underpass and turned north to where it connected to a RIRO at NB I-25.

The second set of RIRO exits was approximately here. It was a pure RIRO on the southbound (west) side that dumped right onto the west frontage road. The northbound (east) side was a RIRO to an exit ramp. I believe they were marked "Exit 189", and I don't remember.

Both of these sets of exits were removed when CDOT constructed the S. Havana Street frontage road on the east side from Ridgegate to Castle Pines Parkway and I-25 was widened to 4 lanes circa 2009.

Interesting.

You can see these on old Street View from 2007.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5132098,-104.8696353,3a,48.9y,216.24h,86.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sL_y6EFz05es2XWroXUvDaQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

[stevashe]

This is an interesting one, the entire sign for Exit 59 on I-5 in Washington has been covered due to a wash out on the road that would normally appear on the sign (WA-506), so it temporarily displays just the exit number. There isn't even a distance given, as shown on this picture I took of the one mile advance sign northbound.



Here's a google streetview as well showing the sign at the exit: https://goo.gl/maps/uBJ8jvqbQKwvMhyJ7

[webny99]

North Dakota does that for sparsely traveled interchanges.

Yup. Some examples from I-94 were posted upthread, but there are several on I-29 as well, like Exit 193, for example. It doesn't even get so much as a BGS!

[kphoger]

North Dakota does that for sparsely traveled interchanges.

Yup. Some examples from I-94 were posted upthread, but there are several on I-29 as well, like Exit 193, for example. It doesn't even get so much as a BGS!

I-94 in ND
Exit 90
Exit 113
Exit 117
Exit 120
Exit 195
Exit 233
Exit 245
Exit 248
Exit 272
Exit 296
Exit 298
Exit 310
Exit 342

I-29 in ND
Exit 157
Exit 164
Exit 172
Exit 180
Exit 193
Exit 200
Exit 212

[roadfro]

This is an interesting one, the entire sign for Exit 59 on I-5 in Washington has been covered due to a wash out on the road that would normally appear on the sign (WA-506), so it temporarily displays just the exit number. There isn't even a distance given, as shown on this picture I took of the one mile advance sign northbound.



Here's a google streetview as well showing the sign at the exit: https://goo.gl/maps/uBJ8jvqbQKwvMhyJ7

Interesting that they would cover the entire sign legend for this situation. You'd think they'd slap an orange "exit closed" plaque on it instead...I think that's what Nevada DOT would do.

[formulanone]

This is an interesting one, the entire sign for Exit 59 on I-5 in Washington has been covered due to a wash out on the road that would normally appear on the sign (WA-506), so it temporarily displays just the exit number. There isn't even a distance given, as shown on this picture I took of the one mile advance sign northbound.



Here's a google streetview as well showing the sign at the exit: https://goo.gl/maps/uBJ8jvqbQKwvMhyJ7

Vader's new slogan: that's no exit.

[EJumean]

Though another example is this profoundly unhelpful and redundant Idaho I-15 sign (Shelley is signed on 1-mile leadup signs though). It's a real "department of redundancy department" case:
https://www.google.pl/maps/@43.4359484,-112.1247947,3a,73.6y,88.76h,78.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMOwT1dG0hjPE0jUvAKvMPw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

That Exit 113 / Exit 113 sign was one of the first ones I saw when I started lurking on this forum years ago. Even back then, I found that sign so utterly hilarious at how useless and pointless it was. I mean, I recall reading the road actually had a name that they could have used on the sign. But no....

[stevashe]

Interesting that they would cover the entire sign legend for this situation. You'd think they'd slap an orange "exit closed" plaque on it instead...I think that's what Nevada DOT would do.

Well, the exit isn't closed, it just doesn't currently go where the legend says it does.

[rarnold]

I-70 Exit 218 is one of my favorites in Colorado and is located just east of Loveland Pass and the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels. It provides access to Herman Gulch which is a National Forest hiking trail up to Lake Herman near the continental divide.

There used to be another nearer to Denver on I-25.  It was only northbound, but it was signed "Exit 191".  Then (apparently as I wasn't living here at the time to know the history) CDOT demolished it and created Exit 192 - RidgeGate Parkway in 2009 according to Wikipedia.

Chris

There were actually two sets of RIRO exits in the stretch south of Ridgegate prior to 2009. There was an exit 191 both north and south at Surrey Drive (the southbound exit was essentially here). Basically, Surrey Drive had the RIRO from/to SB 25, went through the current one-lane underpass and turned north to where it connected to a RIRO at NB I-25.

The second set of RIRO exits was approximately here. It was a pure RIRO on the southbound (west) side that dumped right onto the west frontage road. The northbound (east) side was a RIRO to an exit ramp. I believe they were marked "Exit 189", and I don't remember.

Both of these sets of exits were removed when CDOT constructed the S. Havana Street frontage road on the east side from Ridgegate to Castle Pines Parkway and I-25 was widened to 4 lanes circa 2009.

Interesting.

You can see these on old Street View from 2007.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5132098,-104.8696353,3a,48.9y,216.24h,86.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sL_y6EFz05es2XWroXUvDaQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

These types of setups are common along interstates in Wyoming.

[Occidental Tourist]

One of the infamous Cal-NExUS rollout signs on the 405 in Orange County has managed to survive the construction so far.

[STLmapboy]

One of the infamous Cal-NExUS rollout signs on the 405 in Orange County has managed to survive the construction so far.

Were there really no exit numbers on any freeway before 2002?

[mrsman]

One of the infamous Cal-NExUS rollout signs on the 405 in Orange County has managed to survive the construction so far.

Were there really no exit numbers on any freeway before 2002?

There was a pilot project in 1971 on some freeways near Central Los Angeles.  The idea was probably ahead of its time and wasn't popular then.  More information can be found here:

https://www.cahighways.org/num-exitnum.html

[StogieGuy7]

Here is one on I-80 in Utah: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7308835,-111.7597937,3a,75y,242.44h,103.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxb3_5xquY_XIEfjO15gMVg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I am pretty sure that UDOT used to sign this one as a "Ranch Exit", but they seem to be getting away from this nomenclature lately.

[rarnold]

Here is one on I-80 in Utah: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7308835,-111.7597937,3a,75y,242.44h,103.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxb3_5xquY_XIEfjO15gMVg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I am pretty sure that UDOT used to sign this one as a "Ranch Exit", but they seem to be getting away from this nomenclature lately.

Montana labels these types of exits as "Ranch Access"

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[kphoger]

Montana labels these types of exits as "Ranch Access"

Or Local Access.

[stevashe]

Here is one on I-80 in Utah: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7308835,-111.7597937,3a,75y,242.44h,103.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxb3_5xquY_XIEfjO15gMVg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I am pretty sure that UDOT used to sign this one as a "Ranch Exit", but they seem to be getting away from this nomenclature lately.

You may be thinking of the next exit up, exit 132 appears to be still signed as "Ranch Exit". https://goo.gl/maps/5JcSJ8BAP6fw6cCB9

[US 89]

Here is one on I-80 in Utah: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7308835,-111.7597937,3a,75y,242.44h,103.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxb3_5xquY_XIEfjO15gMVg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I am pretty sure that UDOT used to sign this one as a "Ranch Exit", but they seem to be getting away from this nomenclature lately.

You may be thinking of the next exit up, exit 132 appears to be still signed as "Ranch Exit". https://goo.gl/maps/5JcSJ8BAP6fw6cCB9

131 was never signed as a Ranch Exit, as far as I know. In the eastbound direction, 131 used to be “Quarry Exit”, but is now just “Quarry”.

UDOT is indeed moving away from “Ranch Exit”, though - within the last few years, the other ranch exit on I-80 and all examples on I-15 and I-70 were renamed to something else. The only ones left are the aforementioned exit 132 on I-80 and exits 12, 32, and 106 on I-84.