This road stretches 2,369 miles between Fort Kent, ME and Key West, FL, passing through every state on the eastern seaboard. What road is it?
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs 2,369 miles (3,813 km), from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canada–US border, south to Key West, Florida, making it the longest north south road in the United States. U.S. Route 1 is generally paralleled by Interstate 95, though the former is significantly farther west (inland) between Jacksonville, Florida, and Petersburg, Virginia.
This specific highway connects most of the major cities of the east coast, including Miami, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, passing from the Southeastern United States to New England.
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22 Comments
Wendy Wilkins Valdez
Doesn't 95 go through all those states, too? I've driven it enough.
Chris Braun
Odd-numbered interstate highways run north/south, even run east/west. Lowest numbers start in the east and the south
Corey Taylor
"Pale invaders and tan crusaders worshipping the sun, on the corner of Walk & Don't Walk somewhere on U.S. 1."
--Jimmy Buffett, "Floridays", 1987
Corey Taylor
Actually, the lower interstate numbers (road and exits) start in the west. Except for California, who don't number their exits at all.
Corey Taylor
Wendy Wilkins Valdez, When the states of New Jersey and Maine aren't gouging people with tolls to drive on it!
james parrillo
mikantcol, I live about four miles from it in north Central New Jersey. Thank you, Christine, James' wife
Howard Groopman
Wendy Wilkins Valdez, I went with 95, even though I suspected it was route 1. 95 probably skips a state or two, like maybe Delaware?
Robert Oldenburg
Kevin Dale Streets, as a kid we used to use rte 66 from Chicago suburbs to St. Louis while it was still rt. 66.
Stanley Scott
I relate route 1 to west coast.
John W Shreve
DeepThought, There's also a Highway 1 right on the coast. A fun place to go tide pooling and we used to go abalone hunting.
Wendy Wilkins Valdez
Marian Spitzig, they are for the major interstates. I guess they're not for the US highways.
DeepThought
101 on the West Coast
earlepg
Marylea Smith, My initial thought too; and I presume we both know that it's not between Maine and Florida.
Richard Moss
Marylea Smith, PCH is a California highway. Not a national one.
Donna Smith
Missed it
Gold Toy Box
Chris Braun, that's not correct you're mixing up the Interstate system with the previous US Highway system.