Iowa Highway Ends (etc.)

May 6, 2009: Colby, Kansas. That’s supposed to be Business Loop I-70. This is just east of where US 24 separates from I-70 after two long pairings in Colorado, and just west of where I-70 angles southeastward toward US 40.

June 25, 2006: Southwest end of MN 23 at I-90, less than 10 miles from the Iowa border. The other end is in Duluth.

July 2, 2009: Pittsburgh area, during the short time I-279 and a newly extended I-376 were co-signed. I-279 was later removed, making a first-digit-odd route a giant loop and a first-digit-even route a spur.

January 9, 2002: North end of IA 21 on the south side of Waterloo. I’ve covered this interchange many times in the early 2000s, when things were changing, but need to go back.

This is from the earliest digital camera used for the site. Unlike the others, this one is at full resolution.

December 30, 2009: After some cajoling, I got a trip to Tucson wedged into the Insight Bowl trip. I got one exit’s worth of I-19 to say I’ve been on it. This short interstate in southern Arizona is best known for its ill-fated experimentation with metric signage.

June 14, 2008: East end of US 18 in Milwaukee. Taken during summer 2008 Midwest road geek meet.

January 1, 2010, 4:59:55 AM MST: There’s nothing particularly special or good about this picture. In fact, what you see is about all there was in the frame, with the cold Phoenix night (morning?) sky edited out in between.

However, it was my first picture of the decade, taken eight hours after Iowa State’s 14-13 win in the Insight Bowl and two hours before the flight to Dallas.

This photo also shows that I-17 in Phoenix uses Tucson as a control city despite ending less than 10 miles south of here.