Roads in USA

The largest public works project in American history, launched by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Around 78,500 km of control...

Coast to coast from Teaneck, New Jersey to San Francisco, roughly tracing the old Lincoln Highway, Oregon Trail and first transcon...

The 1940 Irwin to Carlisle stretch was the first long distance limited access highway in America, using recycled railroad tunnels ...

The densest trafficked toll road in the United States, opened in 1952 from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington B...

California State Route 1 winding down the coast from Leggett to Dana Point, with the Big Sur cliffs between Carmel and San Simeon ...

Maui coastal road to Hana with over 600 curves and 50 one lane bridges along rainforest cliffs. Paved in 1926 to link remote Hawai...

The only road across Glacier National Park in Montana, carved into the Garden Wall below the Continental Divide. Opened in 1933 af...

The longest linear park in America, running 755 km through the Blue Ridge from Shenandoah to the Great Smokies. Begun in 1935 as a...

US 129 at Deals Gap on the Tennessee North Carolina line packs 318 curves into 11 miles, making it the premier sports car and moto...

US 212 from Red Lodge to the northeast gate of Yellowstone over Beartooth Pass at 3,337 m. Charles Kuralt called it the most beaut...

The James W Dalton haul road from Livengood to Deadhorse at the Arctic Ocean, built to service the trans Alaska pipeline. 414 km w...

The ten state network of byways following the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to the Gulf, designated from 1938. Levee tops, bluffs a...

Highway 120 across the Yosemite high country to Tioga Pass at 3,031 m, the highest highway pass in California. Opened as a wagon t...

The Mother Road from Chicago to Santa Monica, established in 1926 and fully paved by 1938. It carried Dust Bowl migrants west, pos...

The first transcontinental highway for automobiles, promoted by Carl Fisher in 1913 from Times Square to Lincoln Park, San Francis...

The 19th century trade route from Franklin in Missouri to Santa Fe, opened when Mexico welcomed American traders in 1821. Wagons t...

The great emigrant road from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette Valley, walked by some 400,000 settlers from the 1840s. Axle...

The 715 km parkway from Nashville to Natchez following the old Kaintuck boatmen footpath, itself thousands of years old. Kaintuck ...

The 113 mile ribbon from Miami to Key West, reborn in 1938 on the bridges and viaducts of the Henry Flagler railroad of 1912, wrec...

Two parallel bridges across Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, the 1956 southbound span holding records as the longest bridge ov...

The stretch of US 550 between Ouray and Silverton in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, following a toll road pioneered by Otto M...

New Hampshire Route 112 across the White Mountain National Forest, completed in 1959 and named after a 17th century Pennacook sach...

The ridgetop road through Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, built largely by the Civilian Conservation Corps and completed in ...

The highway across Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, built between 1929 and 1932, and the highest continuous paved road in...

The first planned scenic highway in the United States, built between 1913 and 1922 through the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Eng...