Most words in a road name?

[empirestate]

Looking for road/street names with a ridiculous number of words in them. Bonus points if one of the words isn't a common modifier like East, West, Old, and so on. Also bonus points if the name refers only to one thing, as opposed to two connected points (as in the fictional "Fond du Lac-Truth or Consequences Road").

Go!

[jemacedo9]

should the name exclude or include a person's name?  As in, do we want to include or exclude Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd?

[Big John]

Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave by New Yorkers)

Atlanta area has a lot of those with the modifiers you mentioned, but a case with a name addition to make it long - Andrew Young International Blvd, with locals just omitting the name.

[NE2]

Charles Street Avenue Boulevard/Charles Street Avenue Road/Charles Street Avenue Turnpike wasn't ridiculous, but had a ridiculous number of suffixes.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

San Juan Grade Rd. here in Salinas. Otherwise known as the old alignment of highway 101.

EDIT: I forgot to add the several "Canyon" roads in Prunedale, such as Crazy Horse Canyon Road and San Miguel Canyon Road.

[Ian]

New York has several parkways with fairly lengthy names...
-Bear Mountain State Parkway
-Korean War Veterans Parkway
-Lake Ontario State Parkway
-Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway (Lake George)
-Saw Mill River Parkway
-Sunken Meadow State Parkway

[Charles2]

In the Birmingham suburb of Hoover there are four-word streets Old Rocky Ridge Road and Rocky Ridge Ranch Road (bonus points for alliteration).

[empirestate]

should the name exclude or include a person's name?  As in, do we want to include or exclude Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd?

Ugh...forgot about all those. Let's say abbreviations don't count, at least not in people's names. In fact, I wouldn't count any road name that is suspiciously honorary or gratuitous.

I was hoping for some good, romantic results like Upper Stinking Water Gulch Road, but whatever. :-)

[Kniwt]

Let's visit Kentucky:
Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway

(noting that "most words" is not the same as "longest")

[NE2]

Burgemeester Baron van Voerst van Lyndenstraat
http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=1374

[1995hoo]

The Dulles Toll Road in Virginia is officially the Omer L. Hirst—Adelard L. Brault Expressway, though nobody ever calls it that. That's either five or seven words, depending on whether the middle initials count.

[agentsteel53]

just about every city has a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.  only a few of them have the good sense to abbreviate it "King Blvd." or "MLK Blvd."

I'm not sure why he gets the full-name treatment so often.  I don't think I've ever seen a "George Washington Street" or the like.  Just one bridge comes to mind, and that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish as to why NYC named two bridges essentially the same thing.

[Road Hog]

Dwight David Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. 

[roadman]

There are large BGSes on I-495 in Marlborough and Southborough (MA) that read "Simarano Dr VIA Joseph A. Ferrecchia Connector Rd".  MassHighway was required to install these panels some years ago by Legislative Act.

Ferrecchia was a local selectman (now deceased) who apparently was instrumental in getting the Simarano Drive interchange built in the first place.  Note that the "connector road" is simply the off ramp from I-495 to Simarano Drive.

[roadman]

Dwight David Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. 

Apart from the plaques I've seen at some welcome centers (like the one on I-70 NB entering Pennsylvania), are there actually roadside signs that spell out the full name?  The only ones I've seen in my travels are the MUTCD-standard "Eisenhower Interstate System" markers.

[Road Hog]

Dwight David Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. 

Apart from the plaques I've seen at some welcome centers (like the one on I-70 NB entering Pennsylvania), are there actually roadside signs that spell out the full name?  The only ones I've seen in my travels are the MUTCD-standard "Eisenhower Interstate System" markers.

Naw, those roadside signs are as you say, often with the 5-star cluster above it.

[empirestate]

How about names that actually appear on standard blade signs, such that they're conspicuously crowded or oversized? For example, I was told that Old Johnnycake Ridge Road in Mentor, OH has 2-line street blades: http://goo.gl/maps/QJsIo

As does Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road in Monroe County, NY, though it's written as "Townline" usually.

[theline]

Ohio: James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike - I just like saying it, over and over.

Indiana: As I posted in another thread, I used to live on North le Boulevard de la Paix. I hated someone asking me for my address over the phone.

[kphoger]

I don't think I've ever seen a "George Washington Street" or the like.

It's the name of a thoroughfare here in Wichita.

Ouside the US, full names are fairly common for streets.  I've stayed at a Holiday Inn on Av Abraham Lincoln in Juárez, Chih.  Many Mexican towns have a street named Adolfo López Mateos; Juárez does.  The town we do work in (Parras, Coah) has a street I've walked many times named Calle Carlos Viesca y Lobatón.  Long street names aren't limited to people's names, either; Parras and other towns have streets named, for example, Calle Heroica Colegio Militar.  I'm sure longer examples could be easily found; these were just streets I was already familiar with.

[vtk]

Lilly Chapel Opossum Run Rd.

Post office recognizes that that's an awfully long street name to write on an envelope, so they allow abbreviation: you can drop the word "Run."

Actually, LC is a locally popular abbreviation for Lilly Chapel, and I know some pieces of mail have been addressed LC Opossum Rd (possibly my fault via Google Map Maker) and were successfully delivered. 

[agentsteel53]

Ouside the US, full names are fairly common for streets.  I've stayed at a Holiday Inn on Av Abraham Lincoln in Juárez, Chih.  Many Mexican towns have a street named Adolfo López Mateos; Juárez does.  The town we do work in (Parras, Coah) has a street I've walked many times named Calle Carlos Viesca y Lobatón.  Long street names aren't limited to people's names, either; Parras and other towns have streets named, for example, Calle Heroica Colegio Militar.  I'm sure longer examples could be easily found; these were just streets I was already familiar with.

indeed.  same thing in South America.  Santiago, Chile has an Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. 

[Scott5114]

I'm not sure why he gets the full-name treatment so often.  I don't think I've ever seen a "George Washington Street" or the like.  Just one bridge comes to mind, and that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish as to why NYC named two bridges essentially the same thing.

My guess is so it is consciously known that is the King that is being referenced, as opposed to someone like William Rufus King or just the concept of kings in general. Oklahoma City's go-to abbreviation seems to be M.L. King Blvd., which is a good compromise.

It seems like naming streets with full names has become more common in recent years. Presumably this is to ward off the anonymity that occurs over time...ostensibly Robinson Street in Norman was named after someone important, but damned if anyone could tell you who, exactly. Unfortunately, it doesn't work–there's a street named Hal Muldrow Drive, but all that tells me is that there was a guy by that name who did something or other, but I have no idea what!

[Bickendan]

Ouside the US, full names are fairly common for streets.  I've stayed at a Holiday Inn on Av Abraham Lincoln in Juárez, Chih.  Many Mexican towns have a street named Adolfo López Mateos; Juárez does.  The town we do work in (Parras, Coah) has a street I've walked many times named Calle Carlos Viesca y Lobatón.  Long street names aren't limited to people's names, either; Parras and other towns have streets named, for example, Calle Heroica Colegio Militar.  I'm sure longer examples could be easily found; these were just streets I was already familiar with.

indeed.  same thing in South America.  Santiago, Chile has an Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins... de la Concepcion

Ok, ok, so that one's a farce, but you know if they could work in such a modifier, they would.
Also, the Spanish first name coupled with the Irish surname makes for an interesting tongue twister, even though it's completely legit.

[Alps]

Bread and Cheese Hollow Road, Long Island

[NE2]

Northwest 42nd Avenue-37th Avenue Connector in Miami