Steve Alpert's Roads


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 45 states, 4 commonwealths, 1 district, 5 provinces, 1 territory, and 3 European countries. I've also taken road photos in a whole bunch of states, and put them up here, along with many people's generously submitted photos, for your enjoyment.

If you would like to submit photos for me to post on this website, please email me.
If you would like to use any photo on this website, you may provided I am the photographer, but please give credit, and if applicable, please link to my site or at least the page from which you took the image. If you would like to use any photo that was submitted, please ask and I will contact the relevant person, or notify me that you have contacted the person yourself.
For general road information and trivia, including explanations of acronyms and international as well as national records, click here to go to the misc.transport.road FAQ, on Marc Fannin's roadfan.com.


The above is a clickable map - the red states, provinces, etc. are places viewable on this website. If you're bad at geography, 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:
Alabama Alaska Alberta Arizona Arkansas
British Columbia Colorado California Connecticut Delaware
District of Columbia Florida Georgia Iowa Idaho
Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana
Maine Manitoba Maryland Massachusetts Michigan
Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska
Nevada New Brunswick New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico
New York North Carolina North Dakota Nova Scotia Ohio
Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Pennsylvania Prince Edward Island
Québec Rhode Island Saskatchewan South Carolina South Dakota
Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia
Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
CZECH REPUBLICIsraelITALY
MEXICOSINT MAARTENSWITZERLAND
The links in white above include dozens of photos from the 1970's and 1980's, courtesy Michael Summa and Averill Hecht.

Other links on this site:

The 2007-2008 Vermont Driver's Manual, featuring my photos!

Original Interstate highway plans from 1957 and 1958

SPUI's New Jersey Highways at its new home

The White Pass and Yukon Railroad
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

Interstate (and a couple of other) highways I've clinched

Don't stop here! Keep looking around!
Updated: 5/10/2008
Click here for previous updates


Ohio
- 2 new front page photos

I-70 - 86 new/updated EB photos
I-270 - Split from I-70, 19 new photos
I-470 - New page, 4 photos
I-670 - New page, 14 photos
I-71 - 91 new/updated photos
I-271 - Split from I-480, 49 new/updated photos
I-75 - 42 new photos
I-675 - New page, 3 photos
I-76 - 34 new photos, mostly WB
I-77 - Split page; 88 new photos
I-277 - Split from US 224, 9 new photos
I-80 - 29 new photos
I-480 - Entire page (44 photos) new/updated
I-680 - New page, 16 photos
I-90 - Split pages; all 88 photos new/updated
I-490 - New page, 17 photos
US 6 - Was Sandusky page; 1 new photo
US 20 - New page, 16 photos
US 22 - New page, 12 photos
US 30 - 25 new photos
US 33 - New page, 2 new photos
US 36 - New page, 13 photos
US 40 - New page, 6 new photos
US 42 - New page, 8 photos
US 62 - New page, 6 new photos
US 68 - New page, 6 photos
US 224 - 6 new photos
US 422 - New page, 19 new photos
OH 2 - New page, 60 new/updated photos
OH 3 - New page, 5 photos
OH 7 - 37 new photos
OH 8 - New page, 29 new photos
OH 11 - New page, 36 photos
OH 13 - New page, 5 photos
OH 14 - New page, 4 photos
OH 18 - New page, 7 new photos
OH 21 - New page, 11 photos
OH 44 - New page, 7 photos
OH 59 - New page, 25 photos
OH 82 - 12 new photos
OH 174, Chagrin River Road - New page, 8 photos
OH 176, Jennings Freeway - New page, 14 photos
OH 237, Berea Freeway - New page, 5 photos
OH 534 - New page, 10 photos with a covered bridge
MLK, Jr. Drive, Cleveland - New page, 16 photos
Misc. Routes - New page, 8 new photos
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
Scott Steeves' and Cameron Bevers' CanHighways
AARoads - Interstate, US, and state routes
Robert Droz's US-Highways.com
US Highway Ends
Gribblenation.com
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
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 my personal website (last chance!)
Thank You:

For the use of their cars: HNTB Corporation, Michael Bernstein, Lou Corsaro, Shawn De Cesari, Dave Grabiner, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, Rachel Kramer, Dylan Lainhart, 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, Doug Kerr, John Krakoff, Charles Lamb, Jeremy Lance, J.T. Legg, Sean P. McCool, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), J.P. Nasiatka, Alex Nitzman, 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, 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, Vik Gupta, Geoffrey Hatchard, Averill Hecht, Christy Hodgson, Costa Ioannidis, Ian Karlin, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, John Krakoff, Jeremy Lance, Chris Lawson, Brian LeBlanc, J.T. Legg, Chris Mason, Sean P. McCool, Bill Mitchell, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), J.P. Nasiatka, Mike Natale, Chris Pangilinan, Rich Piehl, Michal Polák, "Roadgeek9", Anthony Simon, Frank Simon, Scott Sullivan, Michael Summa, Doug Swift, Mike Traverse, Dan Vincent, Kelly W., Jake Warner, Cullen Wassell, Chris Eddie Wilson. 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.