![]() Since I was 3 years old, I've been drawing highways on pieces of paper (and making interchanges out of clay) - my favorite is a bunch of my father's old business cards that I taped together and drew several multicolored cities on. (Yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) I also love reading maps, and going on new highways to new places. That's why I've been to all 46 states, 4 commonwealths, and 1 district of the United States. I've also seen 1 American territory, 5 Canadian provinces, and 3 European countries. I've taken road photos in many of those locations and put them up here, along with many people's generously submitted photos, for your enjoyment.
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Misc. Locations The above is a clickable map - the red states, provinces, etc. are places viewable on this website. If you're bad at geography, think Italy is swallowing the rest of Europe, don't know what that little thing is that I put next to Cuba, or can't seem to get your mouse onto Washington, DC, I'll be nice and provide the individual links for you: | ||||
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Among many of the states on this site are hundreds of photos from the 1970's and 1980's, courtesy Michael Summa and Averill Hecht. Also see samples of Michael's sign collection as linked immediately below. Unlike my own sign collection, you won't see Michael Summa's personal signs on any other page on this site. Because they're too special to spread around like that. The 2007-2008 Vermont Driver's Manual, featuring my photos! My sign collection Michael Summa's sign collection Other links on this site: Original Interstate highway plans from 1957 and 1958 SPUI's New Jersey Highways at its new home The Cape May-Lewes Ferry, US 9 The Albany Road Meet, October 11, 2003 The Elmira Road Meet, September 30, 2006 The Poughkeepsie Road Meet, April 14, 2007 The Hartford Road Meet, April 26, 2008 The New Brunswick, NJ mini-meet, September 14, 2008 The Buffalo Road Meet, October 18, 2008 The State College, PA Road Meet, April 18, 2009 The Indianapolis Road Meet, July 10-11, 2009 The Highland, NY Road Meet, October 3, 2009 New River Gorge (WV) Bridge Day, October 17, 2009 The DC Road Meet, November 21, 2009 The Detroit Road Meet, January 2, 2010 Interstate (and a couple of other) highways I've clinched |
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| Updated: 8/1/10 Click here for previous updates Road Meets 11/21/09, Washington DC 1/2/10, Detroit - 9 photos District of Columbia I-295 - 7 new/updated photos I-395 - 8 new/updated photos I-695 - 6 new Virginia Ave. photos US 50 - 3 new photos Arlington Memorial Bridge - New video Capitol St. - New page, 4 new/updated photos L'Enfant Promenade - New page with 6 photos Pennsylvania Ave. - 6 new photos Michigan I-75 - 4 new photos and 2 videos from the Upper Peninsula I-94 - 5 new photos I-96 - 7 new photos Capitol Loop and Business I-96 - 2 new EB photos US 24 - 13 new photos M-1 - 2 new SB photos M-3 - 2 new photos New pages: I-196, I-275, US 31, US 131, M-39, M-59 - 28 new photos total North Carolina I-77 - 4 new photos I-485 - 10 new photos US 1 - 3 new photos US 64 - 4 new photos US 421 - 9 new photos New photos: US 23, US 129, NC 55, NC 62, NC 96, NC 115 - 30 new photos total Ohio US 20 - 4 photos I missed from last update OH 7 - General photos - Split from main page, 9 new/updated photos near Conneaut Pennsylvania I-70 - 15 new photos west of the Turnpike I-76 - 7 new Philly photos I-80 - 5 new photos I-81 - 4 new PA 492 photos I-90 - 3 new EB photos I-95 - 18 new/updated photos US 1 south of Philadelphia - 2 new photos US 6 - 15 new photos west of Port Allegany US 11 - Split page, 22 new photos from I-80 to Scranton US 19 - 21 new NB photos with US 6 EB US 20 - Split from I-79, 7 new photos US 22 west of Ebensburg - 18 US 22/119 construction photos from 2009 US 30 east of McConnellsburg - 4 new photos US 40 - 22 new photos Former US 111 - New page, 14 new photos US 119 - 18 new photos US 219 - 8 new photos US 322 - 26 new photos Eastern US 422 - 6 new photos Old US 422 - New page, 12 new photos PA 28 - 10 new photos PA 44 - 17 new photos PA 51 - 14 new photos PA 116 - 4 new photos PA 194 - 8 new/updated photos PA 263 - 3 new photos PA 611 - Split page, 7 new/updated photos Philadelphia - 7 new photos NY/PA Delaware River Bridges - 7 new photos, Cohecton-Damascus Bridge Miscellany - 9 new photos New pages: Alt. PA 5, PA 92, PA 120, PA 130, PA 183/Reading Bus. 422, PA 191, PA 262 and Goldsboro, PA 413, PA 435, PA 447, PA 832 - 71 new photos total Tennessee US 321 - 4 new photos US 421 - 2 new photos New pages: US 25, TN 91, TN 162 - 14 new photos total |
Virginia I-64 - 2 new photos I-66 - 17 new photos I-81 - 10 new photos I-381 - 4 new/updated photos I-581 - Split from US 220, 2 new photos I-95 - Split main page, added 2 new pages, 71 new photos I-495 - 3 new photos George Washington Pkwy./VA 400 - 19 new photos US 1 - 6 new/updated photos US 11 - Split into 4 pages, 123 new/updated photos US 29 - 11 new/updated photos US 221 - Split page, 73 new/updated photos US 421 - 7 new/updated Bristol photos US 501 - 18 new photos US 522 - 6 new/updated photos VA 7 - 13 new photos VA 102 - 8 new/updated photos Bluefield SR 720 - Split from VA 102, 6 new/updated photos New pages: US 15, US 19, Bus. US 29 Lynchburg/Charlottesville, US/VA 211, US 250, US 340, VA 43, VA 101, VA 114, VA 115, VA 120, VA 123, VA 130, VA 210, VA 237, VA 241, Fairfax Co. Pkwy. - 193 new photos total West Virginia New pages: I-70, I-470, US 19, US 40, US 60, US 460 - 208 new photos total Links There are links below that pertain to certain states; for example, nycroads.com involves NY, CT, and NJ. Because this is for more than one state, I include it here, but keep in mind that these very informative links will not be found on the various pages. The exceptions are Steve Anderson and Jeff Kitsko; I link from specific routes of mine to specific routes of theirs. INTERNATIONAL Mark Furqueron's Highway Page NATIONAL James Lin's Highway Route Markers Mark O'Neil's Open Road (signs and signals) Route termini on State-ends.com The Historical Marker Database Historic Aerials (back to the 1930's) Scott Steeves' and Cameron Bevers' CanHighways AARoads - Interstate, US, and state routes Robert Droz's US-Highways.com US Highway Ends Mark Roberts' US Highways Signs and Sights Gribblenation.com The Floodgap Roadgap Eric Smith's Expressway Site (featuring Lou Corsaro) Rachel Aschmann's Traveling The misc.transport.road newsgroup REGIONAL A. J. Froggie's Roads H. B. Elkin's Millenium Highway Scott Oglesby's (Kurumi's) Roads Steve Anderson's NYC (area), Boston (area), Philadelphia (area), and DC (area) Roads Scott Kozel's Roads to the Future Barry L. Camp's Roadpix Dan Vincent's Roads and Highways of the Pioneer Valley Shady Jay's New England Turnpikes Corey Dukes' Delmarva Highways Gene Van's My Land of Misery Jake Wimberley's Kennessippi Roads Chris Geelhart's Northern Plains Highways J.P. Kirby's the506.com (NB, NS, ME) James Teresco's Travel and Other Pictures Great Lakes Highways (currently under construction) | |||
Below are three interchanges I've drawn recently, in order of complexity. The first, green one is a 10-way interchange (four through highways, two beginning there). The second (black, red, and blue) has 11 spokes coming out of the hub: five through highways and one starting in the interchange. Finally, the third, dark blue one has 6 through highways for a total of 12 spokes, taking up more than half of the 9" x 12" page.
Gas getting expensive? - on Skyline Drive in Virginia, courtesy Lou Corsaro, unedited Over to non-roads photos (last chance!) |
Thank You: For the use of their cars: HNTB Corporation, Michael Bernstein, Lou Corsaro, Shawn De Cesari, Dan Garnell, Dave Grabiner, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, John Krakoff, Rachel Kramer, Dylan Lainhart, Adam Prince, Kelly W., Cullen Wassell, and of course my parents. For information: Dave Bielski, Tim Brown, Scott Colbert, Lou Corsaro, Shawn De Cesari, H.B. Elkins, Jon Foxart, Adam Froehlig, LJ Johnson, Doug Kerr, John Krakoff, Charles Lamb, Jeremy Lance, J.T. Legg, Sean P. McCool, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), J.P. Nasiatka, Alex Nitzman, Charlie O'Reilly, Brian Powell, Michael Summa, Mike Traverse, Oscar Voss, Jake Warner, Jeff Weiner, Dave Wisneski For the use of their cameras: HNTB Corporation, Port Authority of NY/NJ, Lou Corsaro, Matthew Kleiman, Kelly W. For photos: Steve Anderson, David Backlin, David Barnett, Weill Casey, Chris Curley, Scott Colbert, HNTB Corporation (and Kevin Sylvester), Lou Corsaro, Steven Demetropoulos, Bill Donovan, H.B. Elkins, Bryan Farr, Dan Garnell, William Gresham, Sandor Gulyas, Vik Gupta, Geoffrey Hatchard, Averill Hecht, Christy Hodgson, Jason Ilyes, Costa Ioannidis, Ian Karlin, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, John Krakoff, Rachel Kramer, Jeremy Lance, Shawn Latta, Chris Lawson, Brian LeBlanc, J.T. Legg, Chris Mason, Sean P. McCool, Bill Mitchell, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), Adam Moss, J.P. Nasiatka, Mike Natale, Scott Nazelrod, Jeff O'Connell, Charlie O'Reilly, Chris Pangilinan, Rich Piehl, Greg Pniewski, Michal Polák, "Roadgeek9", Anthony Simon, Frank Simon, C.C. Slater (for Michael Summa photos), Scott Sullivan, Michael Summa, Doug Swift, Mike Traverse, Dan Vincent, Kelly W., Jake Warner, Cullen Wassell, Chris Eddie Wilson, Jon Zois. Also, Douwe Osinga, for providing the map graphic on this page (at douweosinga.com). Special thanks: SPUI, for introducing me to misc.transport.road and jump-starting this hobby. Shawn De Cesari, for having the car to take me around during my college years. Averill Hecht and Michael Summa, for contributing historical photos dating back to the 1970's. | |||