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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #210 on: February 03, 2025, 10:33:08 am »
On the other eastern NE Lincoln Highway segments, I didn't notice any signage in Waterloo (but it was dark) and the Elkhorn segment tried to wreck my car.

I found a few signs in Waterloo: 1 2 3

Well that explains it, I was going west-to-east and all those signs are going east-to-west. I withdraw any objections.
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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #211 on: February 13, 2025, 09:44:05 am »
On the topic of the Lincoln Highway, the ne.linhwy route (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&r=ne.linhwy) has a number of points where it jumps off of US 30 and on to county roads (and back again), but these points aren't in the main US 30 file.
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« Reply #212 on: March 10, 2025, 08:14:45 pm »
Thought that I would mention that the Jefferson Highway is signed in Oklahoma throughout the state:

Colbert
Muskogee
Okay
Stringtown
McAlester
Eufaula
Picher

It looks like most of these signs were put up in the last year or so. It's pretty decently signed on state-maintained roads, but it does not look like it is signed on county or city-maintained roads.

Someone put together a useful map of the route of the Jefferson Highway:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1kDNFO6G72Zs6uYHw8OoQTF-x5ALIx4xe&ll=36.971697669933754%2C-94.84777488363004&z=14
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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #213 on: March 20, 2025, 09:20:05 pm »
There is a disconnected portion of the Lewis and Clark Trail in Saline County, Missouri, which is not in the Highway Browser. This spur presumably starts in Van Meter State Park (I haven't found any true shields along MO 122, but there is this sign in the state park that appears to have the LC Trail logo.), but the first actual signage on GMSV is at the MO 41/MO 122 intersection. The route turns north onto MO 41, and then turns west onto Mechanic Street in Miami. Exactly where in Miami the northern terminus is located is unclear (maybe at the boat ramp/fishing access point on the Missouri River on the north side of town?).

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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #214 on: April 05, 2025, 11:34:18 pm »
There are several more signed segments of the Old Spanish Trail in New Mexico. One follows Ranchito Road (NM 240) west from downtown Taos to Los Cordovas Road. Another follows Paseo del Pueblo (NM 68 and US 64) from NM 518 to Veterans Hwy/BIA 701. (Based on the mileage stated on the sign at NM 518, this segment should in theory continue another mile north along Veterans Hwy, but I don't see any Old Spanish Trail signs anywhere on Veterans Hwy on GMSV.) A third follows NM 522 from US 64 to NM 196. I found another sign on NM 68 SB at the beginning of the switchbacks approaching Pilar. (I haven't found the corresponding southern sign. The mileage on the sign doesn't make sense, as, on the NPS map of the Old Spanish Trail, the trail abruptly turns away from NM 68 only four miles from this sign.) The "Northern Route" is signed on US 84 from Railroad Avenue in EspaƱola to this point south of Cebolla. I also checked Street View in a bunch of other places in New Mexico where modern roads more-or-less follow the trail on the NPS map, but I didn't see any more Old Spanish Trail signs.

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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #215 on: April 06, 2025, 10:41:38 pm »
I just checked GMSV in a bunch of likely places in Colorado as well and only found one signed segment of the Old Spanish Trail. It follows CR 21 north from the New Mexico state line to CR P6 and then turns northwest onto CR P6 toward San Luis. GMSV is spotty or nonexistent in numerous areas along the OS Trail (in particular, in Crestone and on CO 114), so it's quite possible there's another signed segment somewhere that I missed.

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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #216 on: April 17, 2025, 10:34:46 pm »
I found two signed sections of the Old Spanish Trail in Utah. It follows UT 20 west from US 89 and then turns onto Bear Valley Road, which it follows to UT 271. It then turns south on UT 271, which it follows to UT 274. At UT 143, it continues straight onto Old Hwy 91, and then turns left onto the frontage road on the east side of I-15, which it follows past the southern end of the pavement (presumably all the way across I-15 back to Old Hwy 91). There are no OS Trail signs at that intersection, but there is another segment nearby which may fork off of the first. The OS Trail is signed westbound and northbound at the intersection of Old Hwy 91 and Midvallley Rd, implying that it intersects with the other segment where it left Old Hwy 91 near exit 71 on I-15. This second segment follows Midvalley Road west to Shooting Range Rd, where it turns north. It follows Shooting Range Rd to its west end, where it briefly turns northwest onto Iron Springs Rd before turning west onto Antelope Rd. It then turns south onto Sand Spring Rd/800 E, which it follows south to UT 56 (though exactly what path this road follows is unclear; GMSV only goes as far north as this intersction, where the road is little more than a two-track (but the OS Trail is signed nonetheless), north of which there are at least two plausible routes). UT 56 appears to be the southwestern end of this segment.

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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #217 on: April 18, 2025, 08:35:20 pm »
Signed segments of the Old Spanish Trail in Nevada:
US 95 from I-11 to NV 163
NV 161 from I-15 to somewhere in or near Goodsprings, based on the mileage on the sign
I-15 from the truck parking area at milepost 95 to exit 80
NV 160 from this point south of Blue Diamond to Sandy Valley Rd (incorrectly named Pahrump Rd on OSM and TM), based on the mileage on the sign

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Re: usatr: United States select tourist routes
« Reply #218 on: April 19, 2025, 10:52:07 pm »
I found one signed segment of the Old Spanish Trail in California on Old Spanish Trail Hwy from this curve east of Mesquite Valley Rd to Tecopa Hot Springs Rd (based on the mileage on the sign; GMSV hasn't been to Tecopa since 2008, and the eastern sign had not yet been installed in 2008). Also, I found this sign on CA 127 erected by the Bureau of Land Management. It's not like any of the other more traditional road signs, and I did not find a corresponding northern sign, so I don't know whether we should include it or not. If we do, the other end of this sgement should probably be in the vicinity of Saratoga Springs Road.

I did not find any signed segments of the OS Trail in Arizona