Roads named for businesses with an exit off a freeway

[gonealookin]

"Red Hawk Parkway" off US 50 just east of Shingle Springs, CA leads only to the parking garage for the tribe's Red Hawk Casino.

[interstatefan990]

"Red Hawk Parkway" off US 50 just east of Shingle Springs, CA leads only to the parking garage for the tribe's Red Hawk Casino.

Guess that would make it a true parkway.

[hobsini2]

I-80 Exit 127 Joliet IL - Houbolt Road south of I-80 was called Empress Rd and is now called Hollywood Rd for the casino.

[ErmineNotyours]

They're everywhere. Advertising isn't allowed on freeway signs (except logo signs), but having the business or shopping center as the name of the road is a very common loophole.

Maybe at one time you couldn't put commercial destinations on a green sign, but Washington State threw in the towel and just admitted a lot of traffic wants to go to a mall.  Back in 1968, Southcenter got the city of Tukwila to sign Southcenter Blvd and Southcenter Parkway (which isn't a parkway) to cover all I-405/I-5 exits, but the state finally signed Southcenter Blvd & Mall

[michravera]

Auto Mall Parkway between I-880 and I-680 in Fremont

Some theme park related ones:
Disneyland Drive off I-5 in Anaheim
Great America Parkway off US 101 in Santa Clara
the former Marine World Parkway off US 101 in Redwood Shores, and the also former Marine World Parkway in Vallejo off Route 37 (park is now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and street has been renamed Lewis Brown Drive)

Firestone Boulevard (former Route 42) was named for a Firestone Tire plant in South Gate, California that operated until 1981:
https://www.scpr.org/programs/street-stories/2007/11/25/24282/firestone-boulevard/

Zhone Way in Oakland off I-880 (near the Coliseum) is named for Zhone Technologies, who used to be headquartered at the intersection of that street and Oakport Street.

For a long while *ALL* of the major exits from I-15 that led to Las Vegas Bvld ("the Strip") were named after the Hotels on the Strip. Tropicana, Dunes-Flamingo, Desert Inn, etc

[kphoger]

Towne East Dr in Wichita, named after the mall right there.

[lepidopteran]

Honda Way off I-95 in Florence, SC?

There's also a Honda Parkway on US-33 near Marysville, OH.  It was only made into a freeway west of town shortly after the Honda plant was built, and went down to 2 lanes past there.  Today the freeway goes on past Bellefontaine, and continues 4-lane divided with at-grades a little beyond there.

[KCRoadFan]

Raging Waters Drive on the CA 57 Freeway. Named for the nearby waterpark.

[achilles765]

Schlumberger Street off IH 45 in Houston. Named for an oil and gas company that's big down here.
SH 225 has Goodyear drive
SH 249 has Compaq Center Drive

[Gulol]

Little America ... Exit 68 in Wyoming along Interstate 80.  Their billboards along the highway throughout Wyoming are reminiscent of the Burma Shave signs in the early to mid 20th century or Wall Drug signs today along I-90

[US 89]

Little America ... Exit 68 in Wyoming along Interstate 80.  Their billboards along the highway throughout Wyoming are reminiscent of the Burma Shave signs in the early to mid 20th century or Wall Drug signs today along I-90

This technically may not count since Little America is actually considered a populated place...

If you do somehow miss it, you can always count on lots more billboards to direct you to the Little America hotels in Cheyenne or Salt Lake City, depending on which way you're going on 80.

[CtrlAltDel]

"Red Hawk Parkway" off US 50 just east of Shingle Springs, CA leads only to the parking garage for the tribe's Red Hawk Casino.

Is the whole reservation just a quarter section in size?

[gonealookin]

"Red Hawk Parkway" off US 50 just east of Shingle Springs, CA leads only to the parking garage for the tribe's Red Hawk Casino.

Is the whole reservation just a quarter section in size?

Yes, the 160-acre property where the casino is located (along with the small residential community) is the entire reservation.  The tribe, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, has also purchased several nearby parcels; on one of them, at Exit 39 (Shingle Springs Road) off US 50 a short distance to the southwest, they have in the last 5 years or so built a large "Express Fuel" gas station and mini mart, and that gas station usually has the lowest price between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe.

[frankenroad]

Some theme park related ones:
Disneyland Drive off I-5 in Anaheim
Great America Parkway off US 101 in Santa Clara
the former Marine World Parkway off US 101 in Redwood Shores, and the also former Marine World Parkway in Vallejo off Route 37 (park is now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and street has been renamed Lewis Brown Drive)

Which prompted me to mention Kings Island Drive, exit 24 off I-71 northbound in Ohio.  As an aside, one of my pet peeves is that this exit lies between mile markers 22 and 23, and I don't understand why it's exit 24.

[SkyPesos]

Adding to the theme parks list, there's I-44 exit 261 to arguably the worst six flags park.

Which prompted me to mention Kings Island Drive, exit 24 off I-71 northbound in Ohio.  As an aside, one of my pet peeves is that this exit lies between mile markers 22 and 23, and I don't understand why it's exit 24.

Sometimes, I wonder if they're trying to make Kings Island seem smaller than it is by making it exit 24. OH 741 (exit 25) is the next exit up, and is at the other end of Kings Island. Calling it exit 23 would definitely fit to the mileposts better for this exit. Though I'll also point out that the Mason-Montgomery/Fields Ertel exit is on milepost 19.9, and some states would round that up to exit 20 if they were in control.

[roadman65]

St. Peters, MO has a road named after Mid Rivers Mall on I-70.

Then Las Vegas with the Strip Hotels having streets that interchange with I-15 such as Flamingo Road, Sahara Avenue, and Tropicana Avenue.

[SkyPesos]

St. Peters, MO has a road named after Mid Rivers Mall on I-70.

Unlike most roads named after shopping malls, Mid Rivers Mall Dr is actually a very important arterial for St. Peters besides the mall. It's 4 lanes with either a center turn lane or grass median from I-70 down to its junction with MO 364's exit 8B (another example for this thread). Traffic can get backed up sometimes because of how busy it is. The I-70 junction got upgraded from an A4 parclo to a DDI a few years ago too.

[briantroutman]

- Hwy 400 has Bass Pro Mills Drive https://goo.gl/maps/JJ9KsnHh4cQJoNA57

Likewise, there's a Bass Pro Drive in Harrisburg as well.

But even by Bass Pro's (or Cabela's) standards, the premise for the justifying their trademarked name on the guide signs remarkably flimsy. As far as I can tell, "Bass Pro Drive"  is merely a vanity overlay for a short section of Paxton Street between the eastern edge of the Harrisburg Mall property and Eisenhower Boulevard. From the perspective of the driver taking the Bass Pro Drive exit from I-83 southbound, that's counterintuitive, since the fictitious Bass Pro Drive is therefore a left turn at the foot of the ramp; meanwhile, the namesake store is accessed either by going straight or turning to the right. As if acknowledging this farce, overhead signs at the exit direct Bass Pro Drive toward the right lane–i.e. toward the store; not toward the fictitious street.

All of the businesses along the "Bass Pro Drive"  vanity overlay section of Paxton Street simply list Paxton Street as their address. Not even the Bass Pro Shop itself uses "Bass Pro Drive"  as its address.



Similar to the other auto assembly plant examples listed, the former Volkswagen Westmoreland plant near New Stanton had a dedicated Volkswagen Drive exit from the US 119 freeway. Today, that road is named Technology Drive.

[1995hoo]

Miller Park Way in Milwaukee was just renamed because the ballpark's name changed. One of the local TV stations caught a picture of the new BGS being delivered. The new street name arguably makes more sense in terms of the "business" located there, and it eliminates the need to rename the road every time the ballpark's naming rights sponsor changes. (I'm mildly amused to see "National Avenue" because of that name's similarity to another baseball franchise's name.)

[roadman65]

Upjohn Pharmaceutical once had a road named after it and signed on US 206 near Bedminster, NJ. It was previously Benificial Drive named after the financial institution Tharp that existed up until the 80s that had corporate offices there.

It is the trumpet interchange between I-287 and Chester on the two lane US route.

[bing101]

Nut Tree Rd in Vacaville,CA Ned after the nut tree shopping center.

[JoePCool14]

Miller Park Way in Milwaukee was just renamed because the ballpark's name changed. One of the local TV stations caught a picture of the new BGS being delivered. The new street name arguably makes more sense in terms of the "business" located there, and it eliminates the need to rename the road every time the ballpark's naming rights sponsor changes. (I'm mildly amused to see "National Avenue" because of that name's similarity to another baseball franchise's name.)

I'd like to know what's going on with that Exit Only panel in the background. Looks oversized, for some reason.

[kphoger]

Really?  The green sign looks right for post-mounted application, and the exit tab for overhead gantry application.

[Scott5114]

I think he's talking about the concerning amount of yellow space under the word ONLY.

[SkyPesos]

I've seen an oversized exit only panel on I-70 exit 93 to I-270, but that's because the signs width are too short to have the arrow between the words exit and only. In the Milwaukee example above, the arrow is clearly between the two words, which I don't get the need for the oversized panel.