# If your closest Interstate is I-24, I-40 or I-65, say so! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104 "2010-03-28T14:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/61 "2010-03-30T08:49:08Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Let’s get it in before the really hot weather starts. 🙂 I’m game!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/62 "2010-03-30T09:02:38Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > \ > > The farthest west I have been on I-40 is just into Arkansas past Memphis. The eastern extreme for me would be Raleigh as mentioned upthread. > > I’ve been all the way to the southern end of I-65 and no further north on it than Louisville. > > I-24 is the one I’ve covered most of, from Chattanooga up into Kentucky but not much further than the KY-TN line. I’ve traveled big hunks of I-40 from Bakersfield to Greensboro, NC. I’ve seen all of I-65 from just outside of Mobile, AL to Chicago. And last but not least, I’ve seen I-24 from Chattanooga to Paducah, KY (almost all of it). Seems to be a theme here. Perhaps I should go back and revisit the tail ends of the highways that I missed. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/63 "2010-03-30T11:48:07Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Nitpick]I-24 actually is in four states, it is GA for a few miles, as well as TN, KY and IL. You’re absolutely correct, as attested to in [Interstate 24 From Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-24) and I do seem to recall that there’s a stretch where you can actually see a little chunk of Alabama. One of those “See Seven States from Rock City” type things. How many have been to Lookout Mountain, while we’re on a topic similar to that? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/64 "2010-03-30T12:03:11Z")
I grew up in Northern California, nowhere near any of the routes mentioned in the OP. (I guess I-40 was closest, but it’s still hundreds of miles away.) The closest interstate was the western edge of I-80. I didn’t realize the length of that highway - which I always associated with the Bay Bridge - until I found myself on it in New Jersey, 3000 miles away. Now I’m on the eastern edge of I-94. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/65 "2010-03-30T14:25:00Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Hey, Electronic Chaos and NicePete, are you in Middle TN? If so, howdy neighbor. The rest of you guys I know. 🙂 Nope, Central Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/66 "2010-03-31T01:45:46Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > I grew up in Northern California, nowhere near any of the routes mentioned in the OP. (I guess I-40 was closest, but it’s still hundreds of miles away.) The closest interstate was the western edge of I-80. I didn’t realize the length of that highway - which I always associated with the Bay Bridge - until I found myself on it in New Jersey, 3000 miles away. > > Now I’m on the eastern edge of I-94. Yeah, it was a little weird driving around Reno a few years ago, on and around I-80. Felt like home, but not home, you know? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/67 "2010-03-31T02:51:36Z")
I live a few miles from I-5 which runs from the Canadian border in Washington to the Mexican border in California. I have traveled the full length of it, never in one trip though. I also live about 20 miles south of I-90, the longest single interstate in the US. You can drive from Seattle to Boston and never use another roadway. I work next to I-405, a north/south bypass of I-5 in Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/68 "2010-03-31T04:53:41Z")
I-10 is the closest physically to me. Houston is the intersection of I-10 and I-45, which is an interstate that never crosses a state line. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/69 "2010-03-31T11:02:42Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I-10 is the closest physically to me. Houston is the intersection of I-10 and I-45, which is an interstate that never crosses a state line. Great piece of trivia! Mislabeled road, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/70 "2010-03-31T13:11:58Z")
> [@NicePete](#): > > About 10 miles from I-64. > About 15 miles from I-71 > About 25 miles from I-65 > About 35 miles from I-75 > > Grew up about 5 miles from I-24. So are you in southern Indiana somewhere between Louisville and Cincinnati, then? Growing up, 65 was by far our closest interstate–we were about an hour away from both Bowling Green and Elizabethtown, and almost 2 away from Nashville. I guess we were probably an hour and a half from the section of 64 that runs through southern Indiana, too. We lived in NC for a while, and I could throw a rock from the parking lot of my job and hit 40. Now 75 is my closest interstate, about an hour away. In an hour and a half I can be on 64, or on 40 in about 2 hours. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/71 "2010-03-31T15:21:18Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > So are you in southern Indiana somewhere between Louisville and Cincinnati, then? No, still in Central Kentucky, same as yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/72 "2010-03-31T15:50:03Z")
5 miles from I-40, about 10 to I-85, but am closest to (what will eventually be) I-73. (/waves at all the folks from Raleigh-Durham). ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/73 "2010-03-31T16:58:18Z")
Another Middle Tennessean with I-65 running right through my little town! I’ve been thinking about driving to Traverse City, Michigan this summer and was surprised to find out that the bulk of my trip would be on I-65 (467 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky and into Indiana). Incidentally, I’ve also lived near I-10 in San Antonio and I-35 in Fort Worth. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/74 "2010-03-31T17:34:13Z")
> [@NicePete](#): > > No, still in Central Kentucky, same as yesterday! I managed to miss that post. Personally, I blame the cat who insists on sitting between me and the laptop. Damn cat. That would put you…around Paris or so? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/75 "2010-03-31T19:34:30Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > I managed to miss that post. Personally, I blame the cat who insists on sitting between me and the laptop. Damn cat. > > That would put you…around Paris or so? Not far off, Shelby County. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/76 "2010-03-31T19:41:07Z")
> [@Jelly\_Roll](#): > > …I’ve also lived near I-10 in San Antonio… You didn’t happen to get the name “Jelly Roll” in the Air Force, by chance? ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/77 "2010-03-31T21:52:21Z")
I’m nearest to I-55, I-44, and I-70. As a matter of fact, I am only 2 blocks from I-55 and I can see Clydesdales from my upstairs window. Where am I? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/78 "2010-03-31T23:28:24Z")
I currently live 3/10 of a mile from I-40 and drive under it to/from work, 2,548 miles east of its west end in Barstow, CA. (There’s a distance to Barstow sign down the road a piece that keeps getting stolen.) ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/79 "2010-04-01T02:38:56Z")
> [@rivulus](#): > > I’m nearest to I-55, I-44, and I-70. > > As a matter of fact, I am only 2 blocks from I-55 and I can see Clydesdales from my upstairs window. > > Where am I? 😉 That’d be St Louis, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/80 "2010-04-01T21:22:50Z")
> [@NicePete](#): > > That’d be St Louis, Bob. You got it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104.md?page=3)