# Interstate of the Beast
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 16, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617 "2006-03-16T17:08:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/1 "2006-03-16T17:08:26Z")
[All it needs is a giant motorized handbasket headed for the vortex](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5188/2355/1600/vortex%20of%20evil%20sign.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/2 "2006-03-16T17:35:16Z")
Huh. And I thought the Interstate of the Beast was 1-84 through Connecticut …
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/3 "2006-03-16T17:43:56Z")
There used to be a 666 between New Mexico and Morenci, Arizona. Tortuous, windy little beast… pure joy on a touring motorcycle.
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### Author:  [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/4 "2006-03-16T17:59:02Z")
> [@Draelin](#):
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> Huh. And I thought the Interstate of the Beast was 1-84 through Connecticut …
Huh? What’s wrong with I-84?
I-95, if anything.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/5 "2006-03-16T18:03:08Z")
> [@Absolute](#):
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> Huh? What’s wrong with I-84?
Well, it’s not the _road_ itself. It’s just that Connecticut hates me. The feeling is mutual. 🙂
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/6 "2006-03-16T18:34:41Z")
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
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### Author:  [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/7 "2006-03-16T19:17:19Z")
Huh? I always thought “road to hell” was just a metaphor.
Or a really rockin’ Chris Rhea song. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/8 "2006-03-16T19:58:03Z")
Route 666?
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/9 "2006-03-16T22:06:28Z")
I’ve been there! Hell of a party town. Man, those lobbyists are kicky people.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/10 "2006-03-17T01:50:44Z")
I don’t recognize the face in the vortex.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/11 "2006-03-17T02:56:43Z")
> [@ouryL](#):
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> Route 666?
There no longer is a Route 666. They remained it Route 491. Damn you, Bill Richardson!
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/12 "2006-03-17T03:17:52Z")
That’s awesome.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/13 "2006-03-17T03:34:18Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> There no longer is a Route 666. They remained it Route 491. Damn you, Bill Richardson!
Stealing that interstate sign was a rite of passage back in my day.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/14 "2006-03-17T09:29:41Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> There used to be a 666 between New Mexico and Morenci, Arizona. Tortuous, windy little beast… pure joy on a touring motorcycle.
I think this actually was the record holder for most turns per mile or some such—IIRC, there was a sign somewhere on that road proclaiming that fact.
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/15 "2006-03-17T11:46:10Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> There no longer is a Route 666. They remained it Route 491. Damn you, Bill Richardson!
We have a [State Road 666](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sr+666+and+sr+699,+madeira+beach,+fl&ll=27.805107,-82.796059&spn=0.013988,0.018218&t=h). It’s a bridge, but not to Hell. Kinda boring, really.
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstate-of-the-beast/348617/16 "2006-03-20T04:15:56Z")
As I understand it, the old 666 was the sixth exit off famous Route 66 in New Mexico. Not surprisingly the religious wackos crabbed about it for years, and the state finally caved in.
It was never part of the Interstate highway system, though.