US-50 Coast to Coast
Anyone out there ever driven US-50 from coast to coast? It seems like it would be the closest we could come now a days to the original Route 66 experience. (Coast to coast with no limited access fre...
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scroller95969 wrote:
What about the old Lincoln Highway?
NYC
Newark
Trenton
Philadelphia
York
Bedford
Pittsburg
Chester
Canton
Mansfield
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Joliet
Aurora
Franklin
Clinton
Marshallton
Boone
Denison
Omaha
Kearny
Sidney
Cheyenne
Medicine Bow
Rock Springs
Fort Bridger
Salt Lake City
Ely
Eureka
Austin
Fallon
Truckee
Sacramento
San Francisco
A lot of the Lincoln Highway route became US-30 in the East, US-50 and I-70 in the West, I-80 across the western grasslands and Rocky Mountains. Some of the connections are still local highways, some on US-numbered highways still part of the trunk system.
I've driven about 1000 miles of it in different places (Iowa, Wyoming, Utah, Indiana) on different trips, without intentionally making it a Lincoln Highway trip. There is a Lincoln Highway association that can help with the route.
