Freeways in the middle of nowhere

[SkyPesos]

Couple of isolated freeway examples in Ohio:
- OH 73 in Wilmington
- US 20 in Fremont and Norwalk

Debatable:
- US 22 between Bloomingdale and Steubenville counts in the context of the state only, but the freeway does connect to I-376 in PA.

[sturmde]

Couple of isolated freeway examples in Ohio:
- OH 73 in Wilmington
:

Before DHL's ambitious plan to fully compete with UPS and FedEx went bankrupt, that would have been extended westward and probably become an I-71 spur...

[tolbs17]

I say "Freeways in the middle of nowhere" if it's in an odd location and AADT is lower than 10,000.

[DandyDan]

The IA 5/92 bypass of Knoxville, Iowa. I have no idea why that even exists. IA 5 is an expressway northwest to the Des Moines area, but I believe the freeway bypass came first.

[iowahighways]

The IA 5/92 bypass of Knoxville, Iowa. I have no idea why that even exists. IA 5 is an expressway northwest to the Des Moines area, but I believe the freeway bypass came first.

When the Iowa Highway Commission planned a freeway between Des Moines and Burlington in the 1970s, they wanted it to follow IA 5 and 92 to help with traffic going to Lake Red Rock and Rathbun Lake. The Knoxville bypass and the US 34 freeway through Burlington were the only parts of that freeway that got built. (The southern part of the Des Moines bypass was part of that plan as well but wasn’t completed until 2002.)

When this corridor was scaled down to an expressway in the 1990s, IA 163 was found to be getting more traffic than 5/92, so that corridor was upgraded instead.