# How Far Do You Live From an Interstate Highway? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318 "2012-09-30T17:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/61 "2012-10-01T01:29:28Z")
Less than three miles from three different highways. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/62 "2012-10-01T01:37:30Z")
About three miles from I-65. Until they completed the nearby ramp onto I-65 a few years ago, though, I was six miles away from the closest exit onto I-465. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/63 "2012-10-01T01:47:33Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > As the crow flies, about half a mile. Driving distance is 1.1 miles according to Google. In an interesting point of fact, **Suburban Plankton** and I live exactly (according to Google maps) 1.1 miles east of I-5 and 1.1 miles south of I-80. I knew we lived in between them, but I didn’t realize it was _ **exactly** _ in between them. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/64 "2012-10-01T01:47:39Z")
> [@Mnemnosyne](#): > > …they have an interstate highway in Hawaii? How exactly does **that** work? 😕 It works by the federal government choosing to fund roads in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/65 "2012-10-01T02:22:03Z")
4 miles to I-94. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/66 "2012-10-01T03:38:45Z")
About 25 miles from I-84. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/67 "2012-10-01T04:03:20Z")
I don’t have one of those surveyor’s tape measures, but if I did, I imagine the distance would be a couple of hundred feet at most. The on ramps are right there too. It’s quite convenient to get around. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/68 "2012-10-01T04:05:12Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The closest one would be in Hawaii … Ditto. But when I did live in Honolulu, not far at all. When I lived in Albuquerque, I had an apartment on the corner of University and Indian School, which ws not far at all from the interchange of I-40 and I-25. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/69 "2012-10-01T04:22:27Z")
About 4.25 miles to I-94, and not the most fun drive, having to travel that distance due west through fairly heavy city traffic unless it’s after midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/70 "2012-10-01T05:14:50Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I’m less than half a mile from I-280. I’m a 0.9 mile drive from the nearest on-ramp to I-280, but if I could fly, the nearest approach would be a quarter mile. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/71 "2012-10-01T13:39:47Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I (literally and without hyperbole) can throw a rock from my back yard and hit the southbound lanes of Interstate 55. Of course, to drive on said interstate I’d need to travel about 3/4 mile to get to the exit. I’m five minutes (Google maps says 1.9 miles) from the entrance ramp for I-55 down in the Plainfield/Joliet area. Please don’t throw rocks at me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/72 "2012-10-01T13:52:35Z")
Several thousand km at the time. But my family refers to I-95 as “my highway”. I lived two blocks away from it, tops, in all six of my Miami addresses; in Philadelphia the distance was longer but only as the car rolls, as the crow flies it was “just look up, it’s that overpass”. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/73 "2012-10-01T14:04:47Z")
2,968 miles from I-95 at the Canadian border. But if you count UK motorways as the equivalent to interstates, two and a half miles from the M3. ---
**Author:** ![KermitTheFrig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@KermitTheFrig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KermitTheFrig)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/74 "2012-10-01T14:22:05Z")
Less than a mile to 1-195 and to U.S. Route 6. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/75 "2012-10-01T14:59:15Z")
The back of our backyard buts up against an offramp of I-80 in Northern California. The distance to getting on the freeway itself is 0.4 miles. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/76 "2012-10-01T15:02:42Z")
From my house in suburban Chicago, I’m about 2.5 miles from I-290, 3.5 miles from I-55, and 4.5 miles from I-294. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/77 "2012-10-01T15:44:27Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I’m five minutes (Google maps says 1.9 miles) from the entrance ramp for I-55 down in the Plainfield/Joliet area. Please don’t throw rocks at me 😃 I’d have to throw it about 160 miles to reach Plainfield/Joliet! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/78 "2012-10-01T15:50:05Z")
15 miles or so. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/79 "2012-10-01T16:01:27Z")
40.6 miles from I-71. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318/80 "2012-10-01T16:52:54Z")
There are two interstate highways where I live. I live about four miles from I-10, then another 11 further down to where I-19 splits off it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-an-interstate-highway/636318.md?page=5)