My trip report for the Nashville trip in September can be accessed
here.
10/5/2024 Mostly PA TripI started the morning taking the expected US 322 WB to I-99 SB/US 220 SB to US 219 NB to US 422 WB to PA 488 west of Butler. I clinched PA 488 by taking it to PA 65/PA 288 in Ellwood City (hi Arthur!!), and then clinched PA 351 by taking it west into Ohio, and clinched OH 617 by taking it west to OH 165. I then took OH 165 WB to OH 626 NB (over I-76/Ohio Turnpike with OH 164) to OH 7 where I stopped at the nearby Sheetz. Due to a closure on Western Reserve Road, I technically had to take OH 7 SB to turn around and head back north, but this was one of those times that I wished that I just turned left illegally onto OH 7 NB instead with it still being dark on a Saturday Morning. I continued north on OH 7 to Youngstown towards I-680 NB ultimately taking I-680 NB to OH 193 NB to US 422 WB. I would take US 422 WB to OH 304 EB through Hubbard back into PA via PA 318.
Once I got to I-376 in West Middlesex, I would loop around that area a bit to view the area with the I-376/PA 318 interchange recently being reopened after the bridge strike last year that closed the bridge for many months. I would then take PA 318 EB to Mercer and then take US 62 SB back to Hermitage with one last trip to the I-80/I-376 interchange to get photos that were not as sun-glared as earlier. I would then reclinch PA 760 by taking it to Downtown Sharon, do a brief US 62 BUS/Connelly Blvd/Water St loop, and head north to PA 846 via PA 718. I clinched PA 846 by taking it to PA 18 in Greenville where I would pick up PA 358 EB and take it to Sandy Lake with a PA 173/PA 965 loop to close the gap in US 62 that had recently reopened. I then took US 62 NB to Franklin where I was detoured onto local side streets due to an event, but I really should have taken US 322 WB to PA 417 NB to Front St to get back to US 62/PA 8 at the Sheetz I would stop at.
After the Sheetz stop, I would take US 62 NB all the way to Warren completing my clinch of US 62 in PA and also completing all US Route mileage for me in PA. In regard to US 62, I now have it fully clinched north of OH 173 and Atlantic Blvd in Alliance, OH. I did detour in Warren some via US 6, Crescent Park, Pennsylvania Ave, and Market St noticing that
US 6 BUS may have been realigned as a result of the recent roundabout project at the Pennsylvania Ave/Market St intersection. I picked up US 62 NB again and took it to NY 60 south of Jamestown, and took NY 60 NB through Jamestown to I-86/NY 17. I took I-86 WB past the bridge construction at Chautauqua Lake to turn around at NY 394, and then went east on I-86 to NY 280. I took NY 280 south into PA and took PA 346 EB to PA 321 SB. I clinched PA 321 by taking it south to US 219 in Wilcox. From there, it was mostly the simple US 219 SB to PA 153 SB to US 322 EB drive back to Harrisburg. However, I dodged some of the congestion on US 322 EB leaving Boalsburg after the Penn State game by taking Warner Blvd to PA 45 EB to PA 144 SB reentering US 322 at Potter's Mill Gap.
Clinched: PA 488, PA 351, OH 617, OH 626, OH 304, PA 318, US 62 (PA), PA 846, PA 321
New Mileage: PA 168, OH 170, OH 165, OH 164, OH 7, PA 18, PA 358, NY 60, I-86 (NY), NY 17
10/12/2024-10/14/2024 Weekend TripI went to my parents' house for the weekend since I had Monday off for the holiday that I guess will change names again in two weeks. Minus another look for WV 243 signage, I just went the normal I-81 SB to US 17 SB to I-95 SB on Friday.
On Saturday my mom and I did another NC trip to eat at Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ along with clinching the new section of NC 540 and the newly signed I-42.
We started just after 5 AM taking US 460 WB from Petersburg to US 29 SB in Lynchburg. We continued on US 29 south to Chatham where we took US 29 BUS SB to VA 57 WB to VA 41 SB clinching VA 41 once we got to US 29 BUS in Danville. After a loop to clinch Piedmont Drive and a Sheetz stop on US 58 BUS, we went south on VA 86 (reclinching VA 398 along the way) into NC taking NC 86 SB to Hillsborough completing the clinch when we got to NC 57. We took NC 86 SB to I-85 NB to NC 147 SB to I-885 SB to NC 885 SB to NC 540 EB completing the new section when we got to I-40 in Garner. We then took I-40 EB to NC 210 (Exit 319) turned around taking I-40 WB to Person St/Hammond Rd (Exit 299) and turned around again onto I-40 EB in order to see the completed widening project from I-87/I-440 (Exit 301) to NC 42/Cleveland Rd (Exits 312A-B). We got off at Cleveland Rd taking it north to NC 42 EB crossing I-40 at the new Diverging Diamond Interchange to go to the Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ on the east side of the interchange.
From there, we took I-40 WB to NC 540 WB turning around at NC 50 to take US 70 (Future I-42) EB (and US 70 BYP EB in Selma) to Goldsboro, taking the I-42 EB Goldsboro Bypass, and then continuing east on US 70 to NC 148 EB (clinching it) to NC 11 NB north of Kinston. We stayed on NC 11 NB through Greenville (where we saw at least one Wawa being built) and stayed on it past the long NC 42 concurrency all the way to its northern end along US 258 at US 158 BUS in Murfreesboro (not to be confused with the one in TN covered on the Nashville trip). From there I took US 258 NB and US 258 BUS NB into Franklin, VA, (not TN or PA), and took College Drive past Armory Drive to clarify my clinch of VA 379. I went back to US 258 NB and took Pretlow St/Rd (SR 714 in Southampton County) to VA 189 NB driving the new bridge over the Blackwater River (
replacing the former truss) back to US 258 NB to US 460 WB in Windsor back towards my parents' house. (and US 258 should really be rerouted onto VA 189 now, but I digress)
Clinched: VA 41, NC/VA 86, VA 398 (reclinch), NC 540, I-42 (Clayton, NC) (reclinch), NC 148, VA 379 (reclinch)
New Mileage: US 70 (NC), NC 11, NC 903, US 13 (NC), NC 42
On October 14, I basically did a bunch of things with relatively little clinching. I took I-295 NB to I-95 NB to SR 606 WB in Thornburg to US 1 NB and looped around the Cosner Corners area to view the new four-lane bridge over I-95. From there I took I-95 NB to Northern Virginia and took I-395 NB to VA 120 NB to drive the new alignment of Columbia Pike (still VA 244 in Travel Mapping and on signage) backtracking to I-395 via VA 27 and the George Washington Memorial Pkwy. I took I-395 NB into DC and I-695 EB to DC 295 NB (reclinching it and usadc
). Once in Maryland, I took MD 201 NB to MD 410 WB past MD 500 (the reason for MD 500 being mentioned will be revealed at a later date) to MD 212 NB to Cherry Hill Rd/Randolph Rd to MD 650 NB to Norwood Rd to MD 182 NB to MD 108 WB to MD 97 NB. I went to Brookeville along MD 97 to clinch what is now MD 97 BUS (Brookeville) though currently the only signs are the old MD 97 shields at the turn at High St/Market St intersection.
From there, I took MD 97 NB to I-70 EB to I-695 Inner through congestion and crashes west of Towson to I-95 NB to see the Express Lanes construction north of MD 43. I continued on I-95 NB all the way to MD 279 NB (so no Newark toll), stopped at the Wawa at the MD 277/MD 279 intersection, and took MD 279 NB into DE to again clinch DE 279 and took DE 896 NB into Newark seeing
this FYA before heading into PA. I left PA 896 NB (after driving by
896 Pie) at PA 841 taking it north to PA 41. I turned onto PA 41 NB taking it to PA 926 and stopped for a bit to tour the newly opened roundabout at the
PA 41/PA 926 intersection. From there I continued north on PA 41 NB to US 30 WB in Gap, and changed things up a bit this time by taking PA 772 WB from there through Intercourse to Lititz. In Lititz I decided to take PA 501 NB to Lincoln Ave to drive the Doe Run Rd corridor between Lititz and Manheim because it was part of a proposed rerouting of
PA 772. Once in Manheim I picked up PA 772 WB again and took PA 283 WB to Toll House Rd south to PA 230 WB into Middletown so that I could stop by the new Wawa (first Wawa in the Harrisburg area) by the Harrisburg Int'l Airport. I then took the Airport Connector Road to PA 283 WB to I-283 NB back to Harrisburg from there.
10-26-2024 PA TripI started the day by doing the usual US 22 WB/US 322 WB to US 11 NB/US 15 NB to PA 147 NB to I-180 WB to PA 405 NB to US 220 NB to Dushore where I took PA 87 NB to PA 187 NB to Wyalusing-New Albany Rd to US 6 EB. I took US 6 EB to Laceyville where I picked up PA 367 NB clinching it when I got to PA 267; however, I looped to clinch PA 367 TRUCK, which I am not planning to add to Travel Mapping as the weight-restricted bridge that created it will be replaced fairly soon. I then took PA 267 NB to PA 706 EB taking it past the PA 29/PA 167 concurrency all the way east to US 11 to complete the clinch of PA 706 that I worked on west of PA 267 back in September. I then took US 11 NB to New Milford clinching PA 492 and PA 848 before finally taking PA 547 south to US 11 again in Kingsley. After turning onto US 11 SB, I almost immediately turn left again on PA 106 EB clinching it when I finally got to Carbondale. I then took US 6 BUS WB to PA 107 WB after a Sheetz stop at the US 6 BUS/Meredith St intersection. I then took PA 107 WB to PA 247 SB to PA 438 WB to PA 524 WB (turning around at PA 407) to PA 347 SB. (I honestly do not understand why PA 347 does not continue to PA 438, but PA 524 does...) I took PA 347 SB to I-81 SB/US 6 EB in Dunmore completing the clinch of that route since I did it west of I-81 in July 2020 on the way to the Utica Meet. I immediately exited onto I-84 EB/I-380 SB and then exited via the
new right-hand exit onto PA 435 SB and clinched PA 435 by staying on it all the way to PA 507 by I-380 (Exit 13).
I then took PA 507 NB to PA 447 SB (while on the PA 191/PA 507 concurrency) and clinched PA 447 when I got to PA 191 north of Stroudsburg. I then took PA 191 SB to Stroudsburg, and took US 209 BUS SB to US 209 SB to PA 33 NB (via turning around at the Snydersville interchange). I photographed the PA 33/PA 611 intersection and even took a selfie with the error US 33/US 611 shields in the parking lot of a closed bank (someone drove by after using the ATM, but thankfully we saw each other and did not impede each other). From there, I took PA 33 SB to I-78 WB to I-81 SB back to Harrisburg (stopping for some Wawa at the I-78/PA 61 interchange and seeing a U-Haul in the median of I-81 between I-78 and PA 934). Note that the I-78 Schuylkill River Bridge project looks like it will be complete soon.
Clinched: PA 367, PA 706, PA 492, PA 547, PA 848, PA 106, PA 524, PA 347, PA 435, PA 447
New Mileage: PA 167, PA 374, PA 247, PA 690
I also went on a Metrotrails hike at the Spruce Run Reservoir in Clinton, NJ, on November 2nd, but that was just me redriving I-78, US 22, and NJ 31.
