Longest State Highways

[Salty]

Here is a list of the the longest state (commonwealth) highways

Which state has the longest state route??

 

[Van]

I always smile when I see the road-sign just after I get on Interstate 40 (Old Route 66) which read something over 2000 miles to somewhere on the East Coast.

Now I-5 in California runs from Mexico to the Oregon border, more than 800 miles, but because it is an interstate, the list excludes it. I expect I-10 which runs through Texas is also more than 800 miles.

 

[Carnegied]

Texas State Highway 16

 

[Dr. Bob]

Looked at 4 states I was very familiar with and did not get ANY correct. Fun time, lots of memories of fine state highways

 

[robt.k.fall]

CA Hwy1

 

[Dr. Bob]

I always smile when I see the road-sign just after I get on Interstate 40 (Old Route 66) which read something over 2000 miles to somewhere on the East Coast.

Now I-5 in California runs from Mexico to the Oregon border, more than 800 miles, but because it is an interstate, the list excludes it. I expect I-10 which runs through Texas is also more than 800 miles.

Had the same thoughts on long interstates. That is another listing. State Highways (this listing) "may" run concurrent with US Highways and/or Interstate Highways for some distance but must have their own distinct identity at some point

 

[OnlyaSinner]

Not a state highway, but I'm guessing that Maine has the biggest share of US 1. (Unless FL has more.)

 

[Dr. Bob]

Not a state highway, but I'm guessing that Maine has the biggest share of US 1. (Unless FL has more.)

You'd be short by just 19 miles
US 1
Florida 545
Georgia 223
South Carolina 171
North Carolina 174
Virginia 197
DC 7
Maryland 81
Pennsylvania 81
New Jersey 66
New York 22
Connecticut 117
Rhode Island 57
Massachusetts 86
New Hampshire 17
Maine 526

Total 2,369 miles

 

[OnlyaSinner]

You'd be short by just 19 miles
US 1
Florida 545
Georgia 223
South Carolina 171
North Carolina 174
Virginia 197
DC 7
Maryland 81
Pennsylvania 81
New Jersey 66
New York 22
Connecticut 117
Rhode Island 57
Massachusetts 86
New Hampshire 17
Maine 526

Total 2,369 miles

Thanks. The mileage has been changing, for whatever reasons I don't know. The sign at Fort Kent read 2,209 miles back when we lived there - 1976-85. A 2012 article in Down East magazine had the distance as 2,390, and of course Wiki has the table you posted. The Maine experience on Rt 1 is certainly different from that in any of the other states it crosses - no surprise there.

 

[Reynolds]

Ga Hwy 172.

 

[Dr. Bob]

Ga Hwy 172.

Okay, I'll bite. 172 isn't much of a state highway, but what makes it so funny for you??

 

[Reynolds]

Okay, I'll bite. 172 isn't much of a state highway, but what makes it so funny for you??

It runs right by my house.