Tag: abandoned roads
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14 abandoned roads
Roads that no longer go anywhere.
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Me on abandoned US 50 in Illinois
A couple of photographs of me standing on old US 50 in Illinois, from a 2009 road trip.
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Standard Oil Red Crown station in Lafayette, Indiana
A circa 1927 gas station still stands, unused, in Lafayette, Indiana.
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Photos of abandoned roads
Having not taken a single road trip this year, I was reliving old road-trip memories by looking at photos of abandoned roads I’ve found. Here are some of those photos.
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Photo: Abandoned Dixie Highway in southern Indiana
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Where cars no longer go
We all have our hobbies. Some people follow pro football, some run, some make lovely quilts, some fish, some solve the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. I like to explore abandoned roads. Yeah, that’s a great conversation starter at parties. I’m not sure where this vigor comes from. All I know is that the first time I…
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An abandoned road in the woods: US 127 in central Tennessee
In a big way, you can drive all over the country on the Interstates and never really get to know America. They are good for covering a lot of ground in a hurry, but they tell so little about the land and the people who live on it. I drive the two-lane highways because they…
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Root beer and dead ends in Washington
US 50 has a colorful history in terms of realignments across southwestern Indiana. I-64 was originally going to be built along the US 150 corridor from Louisville to about Shoals, where it would pick up US 50 on its way to Illinois. But lobbying got I-64 built farther south, passing closer to Evansville. That didn’t…