Favorite Non-Interstate Highway(s)

[SimMoonXP]

My favorite non-interstate highway is California 56...very enormous change since I was like 7 or 8 years old. Alignment locations are from I-5 (exit 33B) near Del Mar, California to I-15 (exit 19) near Poway, California.

It was used be divided 2 lanes (1x1) expressway on CA 56 freeway from October 1988 to October 1992 as blacktop roadway for 1 mile from Exit 8 Rancho Penasquitos Blvd to Exit 9 Interstate 15. Then in about August 1991, the CA-56 freeway construction was started from Exit 8 to Exit 9 as 1 mile. As the way to built the new divided 4 lanes whitetop freeway until July 2nd, 1993. Then in October 1992, the interim 2 lanes (1x1) whitetop freeway opened on existing eastbound lane, as I remember little bit about it had temporary K-rail from Exit 8 to Exit 9. The temporary K-rail removed in very early summer, I guess. Then in July 2nd 1993, the 4 lanes whitetop freeway opened up from Exit 7 Black Mountain Road to Exit 9 I-15. In almost two years later, the CA 56 freeway opened in Carmel Valley area as all exits are 1A, 1B, and 1C in March 1995 blacktop divided freeway due sensitive beach soil. In week of March 17th or 24th, 2003, the extra 1 mile alignment of CA 56 freeway opened from Exit 6 Camino Del Sur to Exit 7 Black Mountain Road as whitetop freeway. On July 19th, 2004, the final leg of CA 56 freeway opened up from Exit 1C Carmel Country Road to Exit 6 Camino Del Sur as 4 lanes whitetop freeway as coincides placing the new exit numbering signage in the SAME day for all exits in CA 56 freeway alignment from I-5 to I-15.

[Michael]

U.S. 15 is a fantastic ride leading north from Williamsport into New York. The ride along the Susquehanna is pretty nice too, especially with all of the upgrades of the 1990s (before that it was a three lane road with a suicide lane that was terrible).

When I first saw this topic, I thought "US 15"!

You're right, it is a nice drive (especially the portion from Williamsport to Painted Post).

Here's a page with one of my favorite sections, the Steam Valley area southbound lanes (the original local road)

[Tarkus]

It has rare Delaware traffic signal sun visor backplates!

You'd love every signalized road in Oregon, then.  Those are actually the predominant design here by far.

Now back on topic . . .

My all-time favorite has to be US-97, followed by US-197.  I'd also put US-395 on there as well.  Me likey desert highways.  As far as state routes, OR-47 and OR-99W would go on the list.  And though I've yet to drive it, OR-140.  And up in Washington, I'd say WA-14 through the Gorge.  Really fun to drive.

-Alex (Tarkus)

[Freewayjim]

I'll go with...

1) CT-8 from Bridgeport to Waterbury
2) Beltway 8 around Houston
3) US-78 Stone Mountain Freeway outside Atlanta (freeway I live closest to)
4) US-59 in Houston
5) US-75 Dallas (lower level of the "High Five")
6) US-17 Charleston SC (Including The Ravenel Bridge)
7) US-3 New Hampshire
8) US-302 New Hampshire
9) US-50 Maryland
10) OH-7 from Martins Ferry to Steubenville Ohio

[njroadhorse]

US 211 in Virginia
UT 9 between I-15 and Zion
CT 9 freeway
US 22 between Ebensburg and Altoona

[rmsandw]

I like TN 12 from Clarksville to the Briley Parkway at Nashville.

[akotchi]

My personal favorites:

U.S. 22/322 north of Harrisburg, PA, and watching the improvements over the last 30 years.  I recall reconstruction of the original Susquehanna River bridge -- used to be a traffic light on the PA 147 side, if I recall.

U.S. 89 in northern Arizona.

U.S. 163 through Monument Valley, AZ and UT.

U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN 61's entire length: Duluth to Grand Portage. Also I love US 1 from Fort Kent to Bath, Maine, and ME 11 from Fort Kent to I-95.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

My favorite non-interstate highway is Minnesota Highway #169.  It travels north to south up to Brainerd and goes all the way down into Iowa.

Actually MN 169 is the "MN" extension of US 169 from Virginia to just east of Ely. US 169 doesn't go to Brainerd either; it runs from Virginia to the Iowa border via Lake Mille Lacs's west side, Princeton, Elk River, western Twin Cities suburbs, and Mankato. I'm not trying to be a troll, just trying to help. 

[tankerdave]

My favorite would be back way to my house back in the states, CA-138 fron Cajon Pass (I-15) to Crestline.  CA -18 from CA-138 East to Big Bear is nice too.  The only bad part of that road is the Section below Crestline to Arrowhead Highlands, known locally as the Narrows.  When it gets closed all the detour traffic gets sent down my street.  Talk about traffic.

[Bryant5493]

I like U.S. 49 through the DeSoto National Forest, as well as S.R. 67 in north Harrison County, Mississippi.


Be well,

Bryant

[74/171FAN]

US 17, US 74, US 460(especially west of I-85), VA 171, VA 156, VA 10, US 301(where its bascially the frontage road to I-95 north of Carson which I use to go to my friend's house in the area), VA 288, US 158(NC 168 to US 64), and VA/NC 168

[BigMattFromTexas]

US 277
US 87
US 67
US 83
US 59
US 290
US 385
US 69
US 90
US 377
US 84
US 70
US 183
US 169(Iowa)
US 30(Iowa)
US 20(Iowa)
Texas 21
Texas 19
Texas 149
Texas 6
Iowa 3
Iowa 17
Loop 306
FM 2288
FM 1223
Ranch Road 380
Ranch Road 1929
Ranch Road 2134
Texas County Road 114
36 Division Memorial Highway

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Another one of my favorites is US 322 from Harrisburg to State College, PA. I drove it in the early spring 2007 a couple days after a snowstorm. Beautiful.

[Darkchylde]

US 50 in Colorado. Especially between fall and spring.

[agentsteel53]

certainly during winter, US-50 in Colorado is amazing ...


great scenery from around the Monarch Pass area


more of Monarch Pass; this is US-285 but it is within 20 miles of US-50


this could be anywhere ... deer are present everywhere


US-550 approaching US-50; me heading forward at 2am, and at 3 mph, down the icy grades into the teeth of the raging gale.


oh, now you tell me!


this is the next morning: old US-50 in Utah ... close enough!  (and old US-6 too) Near Thompson, one of my favorite roads, and it leads to my favorite interstate, I-70 in Utah ...


booyah!  I-70 in all its red-rock snow-cap not-a-single-car-for-miles morning glory.

[agentsteel53]

and my favorite highway ... as you can imagine by my avatar and all, it is none other than US Route 395, especially in California.


the Trona Road.  Coming out of Kramer's Junction (US-395 and US-466 in southern California), two roads diverge just north of that intersection - one to Independence and one to Trona.  The road to Independence (current US 395, built around 1931) was built much later than the road to Trona (1910s Trona Highway), which never quite became a US route as the mines dried up.


great halo, as seen from Conway Pass (8800+ feet, the highest point on US-395) - 395 in the Sierras.


behold the diamond-ring halo, just a few hours after the previous picture, from around Lake Walker (boundary of California and Nevada).  This is a 180 degree panorama (the top of the image is *thisclose* to scraping the mountains in the opposite direction!); the ring itself is an arc of 46 degrees around the sky... it is massive!


I'm not even gonna begin to tell you where this old guide sign is, so that you don't even comprehend the notion of stealing it!  It's not very far from 395 in northern California ... that's all you will know!


here is US 395 in Oregon; about three seconds after I decelerated to come across a speed trap that my spider senses had somehow presciently detected: I must've been going at least 120 down this straight section, before slowing to 49 because of a disturbance in the force ... then, when away and past the yawning, donut-munching entity, back up to 120 again!


this isn't US-395 (it sure is close, in Washington, not too many miles away) but I still like this picture, so you can have at it too ....

[Sykotyk]

Awesome photos, agentsteel53.

US 395 is a great road top to bottom. Haven't driven it all the way.... yet.

[BigMattFromTexas]

haha that pig is all like "what are you doing, crazy" 
BigMatt

[Darkchylde]

http://www.artistjake.com/lj/w45355.jpg
this is the next morning: old US-50 in Utah...

Got this in wallpaper size?

[agentsteel53]

3008x2000 pixels:

http://www.artistjake.com/lj/DSC_5355A.jpg

[Jim]

A few of my favorites:

US 550 in New Mexico:



US 160 over Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado:



The Alaska Highway through the Canadian Rockies:



Utah 261, the Moki Dugway:



Maui's Pi'ilani Highway:



And some with no good pictures handy:

US 1 through the Florida Keys.
NC 12 along the Outer Banks.

[Bickendan]

OR 100 (Unsigned; the Historic Columbia River Highway)
US 30 from Mosier through the Rowena Switchbacks
OR 120, for being a useless highway.
CA 60
CA 57

[Scott5114]

OK-19 in western Oklahoma

[hotdogPi]

I don't know why some of these are my favorites, but they are. (I have not been on all of these.)

MA/NH 1A
MA 2
US 3
US 4
NY 17
NY 22
NY 23
MA 27
MA/NH 28
US 44
MA 62
NH 101
MA 107
NH 111
NH 112
MA 114
MA/NH 125