SD: truncate SD377?

[oscar]

I traveled part of SD 44 yesterday, south of the Badlands National Park boundary. I turned north on SD 377, to get back to I-90 via SD 240.

TM has SD 377's south end at SD 44 (fine), and its north end at SD 240. However, GMSV shows, and I saw, an End SD 377 sign at the southern park boundary. Some much older 2013 GMSV imagery has SD 377 signage within the park, at the junction with SD 240. I didn't look back at that junction for whether there is still SD 377 signage there.

[rickmastfan67]

However, GMSV shows, and I saw, an End SD 377 sign at the southern park boundary.

All the historical GSV shows said 'END' shield there as far back as Oct '08.

[oscar]

FWIW, the next day in Fort Pierre, I saw an End sign for SD 1806 at the US 14/SD 34 junction. Then a few blocks east, the sign assembly has SD 1806 continuing south onto US 83. Maybe SDDOT doesn't take END signs as seriously as we do in other jurisdictions?

So leaving SD 377 alone would be defensible, in the absence of other data like official route definitions, and considering that SD 240 is signed within Badlands National Park.

[the_spui_ninja]

FWIW, the next day in Fort Pierre, I saw an End sign for SD 1806 at the US 14/SD 34 junction. Then a few blocks east, the sign assembly has SD 1806 continuing south onto US 83. Maybe SDDOT doesn't take END signs as seriously as we do in other jurisdictions?

So leaving SD 377 alone would be defensible, in the absence of other data like official route definitions, and considering that SD 240 is signed within Badlands National Park.

Route log (https://dot.sd.gov/media/documents/Pierre_Region_Highway_Log.pdf, page 164 of the PDF) has 377 going all the way to 240, plus every single official map of SD that's at that level of detail includes the 0.7 mi park section as 377.

The Fort Pierre "END" signs have always been janky as far back as I can remember (see the south junction of 1806 and 83 as well). Part of the problem is that concurrencies aren't in the official logs (like Colorado) but they are signed (unlike Colorado). There's enough signage for 1806 in Fort Pierre to keep the link along 83 and 14/34 in my opinion.

Hope you didn't get too wet in our neck of the woods haha!