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The Dalton Highway is a dirt road 414 miles long, which follows the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, for the portion between Prudhoe Bay and Fairbanks. Known as the Haul Road, it was built in 1974 to build the pipeline. The southern origin of the Dalton Highway, technically, is 84 miles north of Fairbanks...
A five mile long, one-lane wooden roadway which was constructed in 1915 across the Imperial Sand Dunes, west of Yuma, and was in service as the only means of traversing the loose sand of the area for about ten years. Fragments of the old road are still visible in the sand today, and a large section...
A 7,000 acre private wooded reserve owned by reclusive monks, where the nation's "longest paved private toll road" rises 3,200 feet up to the top of Mount Equinox. The property was amassed and developed starting in the 1930s, by a chemist, engineer and executive at Union Carbide by the name of Dr....
Built in 1881, before the age of the automobile, this "oldest concrete street" in America is still in use outside the courthouse in Bellefontaine, though the street is restricted to light traffic (no trucks). A statue of the leading proponent for the paving of the street, a local cement salesman...
Said to be the most complex highway interchange in the world, the Crush is where the Santa Ana (5), Garden Grove (22) and Orange (57) freeways converge in Orange County. It provides 34 routes - including onramps and offramps - for 629,000 cars a day, traveling in 66 lanes over 13 bridges.
The southern end of highway 241 near Mission Viejo marks the abrupt end of Orange County's toll road network, the only toll road system in the state. From this point, the Foothill South extension will eventually be built, connecting the system to the Interstate at San Onofre. The toll (and fine)...