# The longest stretch of highway in the U.S. without an exit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 20, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001 "2025-11-20T05:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/1 "2025-11-20T05:50:29Z")
What is the longest stretch of highway/freeway in the United States without an official exit? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/2 "2025-11-20T06:36:22Z")
[Cars.com has this information.](https://www.cars.com/articles/top-highways-not-to-drive-on-empty-1420663156112/) > [@](#): > > _(Note: Asterisk indicates exit gap exists in both directions.)_ > > - **1.** Florida 91 (Fla. Turnpike), Exit 193 to Exit 242: 48.9 miles. \* > - **2.** Florida 91, Exit 193 to Exit 152: 40.5 miles. \* > - **3.** I-80 in Utah, Exit 4 to Exit 41: 37.4 miles. \* > - **4.** I-70 East in Pennsylvania, Exit 110 to Exit 146: 35.5 miles. > - **5.** I-75 in Florida, Exit 80 to Exit 49: 30.6 miles. \* > - **6.** I-335 in Kansas, Exit 147 to Exit 177: 30.3 miles. \* > - **7.** I-90 in Massachusetts, Exit 3 to Exit 2: 29.9 miles. \* > - **8.** I-44 West in Oklahoma, Exit 283 to Exit 255: 28.4 miles. > - **9.** I-40 in California, Exit 78 to Exit 50: 28.4 miles. \* > - **10.** I-44 East in Oklahoma, Exit 53 to Exit 80: 27.6 miles. > - **11.** I-70 West in Pennsylvania, Exit 146 to Brotherton Rd. Exit: 27.3 miles. > - **12.** I-75 North in Florida, Exit 23 to Exit 49: 26.2 miles. > - **13.** I-70 West in Colorado, Exit 75 to Exit 49: 26 miles. > - **14.** I-75 South in Florida Exit 49 to Exit 23: 25.7 miles. > - **15.** I-76 in Pennsylvania, Exit 226 to Exit 201: 25 miles. \* > - **16.** I-80 in Indiana, Exit 144 to Exit 121: 23.8 miles. ---
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I find this quite interesting because I’m from the east coast but now live in California. Have been here for decades. Here in the wide open western states the cities are generally much farther apart than they are back east. And yet many of these longest stretches on that list are in the east, not the west. Interesting. ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > Florida 91 (Fla. Turnpike), Exit 193 Which is at Yeehaw Junction. Seriously. Explains being the top two mighty well. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/5 "2025-11-20T07:05:39Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Here in the wide open western states the cities are generally much farther apart than they are back east. And yet many of these longest stretches on that list are in the east, not the west. Interesting. In the rural west, the freeways are often the _only_ through roads, so they have exits-to-nearly-nowhere so that ranchers, etc. can get to their isolated properties. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/6 "2025-11-20T07:21:44Z")
There are parts of Utah where you can go 100 miles without a major exit (that exists onto a major street instead of a dirt farm path) with no services (gas station, food, really anything). But there will be exits to small farm roads along the way. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/7 "2025-11-20T10:00:28Z")
It’s kind of fun to exit the turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and see what’s not there. Although you’re only about 20 miles from Vero Beach and typical coastal suburbia. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/8 "2025-11-20T11:57:03Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > In the rural west, the freeways are often the _only_ through roads, so they have exits-to-nearly-nowhere so that ranchers, etc. can get to their isolated properties. That they are! I just drove home yesterday from LA to San Francisco, and many of those exits on I-5 are exactly that. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > …to exit the turnpike at Yeehaw Junction… I’ve been there! Yeehaw Junction FL. I was driving south on US-441 towards Okeechobee, going to Miami from Orlando. I remember being in / driving through Yeehaw Junction FL, and also Braggadocio MO. Different trips, of course. ---
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Heh. I’ll be driving the Florida turnpike north tomorrow, and will go through both 1 and 2. Now I have a fun trivia fact to bring up! ---
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> [@SenorBeef](#): > > There are parts of Utah where you can go 100 miles without a major exit (that exists onto a major street instead of a dirt farm path) with no services (gas station, food, really anything). But there will be exits to small farm roads along the way. I was coming in to say just this. You can drive quite a long way along I-15 North-South and encounter only exits for individual ranches – no towns. In fact, there’s one very intriguing exit off -15 marked “Browse”, It’s not even a ranch, and there’s no town nearby. It’s a Deer Browse – a place where Forest Service people get off the interstate to feed the local deer (let them “browse” - look it up). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/11 "2025-11-20T12:48:14Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > and also Braggadocio MO. Were you there recently, or before or after the 2006 tornado? I stopped by there out of curiosity once while driving from St. Louis to Memphis. Probably about 2008-2010. The 2006 tornado had simply erased the town. The crossroads existed, a few slabs existed and all the few trees were ~10" diameter ~10’ tall branchless poles. And that was it for a couple of miles in any direction. Just flat featureless farmland. From the looks of things, the pre-tornado “town” was about 4 residences and a couple of sheds arrayed around the crossroads. Wiki tells me the place got hit by an even worse tornado in 2021. But Google maps now shows a bunch of standing buildings on the site and the town has spread maybe 1/4 mile up each of the 4 road directions. A booming metropolis. 😉 ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > **7.** I-90 in Massachusetts, Exit 3 to Exit 2: 29.9 miles. \* I used to work the night shift at the Wall Street Journal in Chicopee. Once in a while I was so tired driving home that I missed the Westfield exit and would have had to drive that 30 miles to Lee to turn around. Instead, I would just put it in reverse and back up in the breakdown lane. There was no one else on the road in that neck of the woods at 2 a.m. ---
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It looks like you really need to know where you’re going in Florida! LOL You miss your exit, and you could run out of gas in the middle of … what … the Everglades? 😳 ---
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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > In the rural west, the freeways are often the _only_ through roads, so they have exits-to-nearly-nowhere so that ranchers, etc. can get to their isolated properties. Right- it’s all dependent on what’s considered an “exit”, and for my part, I don’t know that where a dirt road to nowhere intersects an actual paved highway really counts as an exit. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001/15 "2025-11-20T16:37:34Z")
Let us say it counts as an official exit when officials put up a sign that says “EXIT” at or before the entrance. ---
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> [@Jasmine](#): > > It looks like you really need to know where you’re going in Florida! LOL > > You miss your exit, and you could run out of gas in the middle of … what … the Everglades? 😳 Actually, yes. Those long stretches of I-75 mentioned upthread connect Naples (on Florida’s west coast) to Ft Lauderdale (on Florida’s east coast). That part of the highway cuts through the Everglades and is known as “Alligator Alley” > **[ALLIGATOR ALLEY](https://visitevergladescity.com/alligator-alley/)** > > Visit Everglades City, Chokoloskee and the Ten Thousand Islands of Southwest Florida, the Everglades ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > - **1.** Florida 91 (Fla. Turnpike), Exit 193 to Exit 242: 48.9 miles. \* > - **2.** Florida 91, Exit 193 to Exit 152: 40.5 miles. \* Wait, how can FL 91 have nothing between Exit 193 and Exit 152 (#2) in both directions _and_ nothing between Exit 193 and Exit 242 (#1) in both directions? And is Exit 242 only 8.4 miles from Exit 152? I’m sure I’m missing something obvious…? ---
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This is sort of the inverse: My wife’s father was a farmer in Western New York. When they built the NY Turnpike, they eminent-domained some of his land. His revenge was building a hidden ramp (really just a path) from the highway onto his land, not only saving him several miles to and back from the next exit, but also of course saving him the tolls. I guess he still went to the official on-ramp to get on the highway when heading out. And yes, that only worked in one direction, but where he lived, you were basically only ever going to come from/head in that one direction unless you were passing through. Nowadays I imagine that wouldn’t work so well: at some point they’d notice all these “un-fulfilled” toll cards, look at the photos, and track him down. Or, of course, it’s probably all EZPass or equivalent, even harder to game. But back then it worked great! ---
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> [@Misnomer](#): > > Wait, how can FL 91 have nothing between Exit 193 and Exit 152 (#2) in both directions _and_ nothing between Exit 193 and Exit 242 (#1) in both directions? And is Exit 242 only 8.4 miles from Exit 152? I’m sure I’m missing something obvious…? It’s separate directions. 242 and 152 are 90 miles apart with 193 in the middle. ---
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O.M.G. Yep, something completely obvious…which is that 152 is _lower_ than 193. 🤦‍♀️ Sorry, y’all, just ignore me. 😁 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-stretch-of-highway-in-the-u-s-without-an-exit/1025001.md?page=2)