US Freeway Map

Factual Questions
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Where can I find a United States map depicting the major freeways? Thanks.

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Check in the front of most US road atlases (Rand McNally, etc). There is ususally a full page spread showing the US and all the interstates. I believe this is what you are after. - Jinx

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This is a map of the Interstate Highway system.

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Or is the East-West part of the system, and [url=http://www.newbiedriver.com/articles/images/NorthSouthInterstates2.jpg]here is the North-South part.

Freeways are much more hard to pin down.

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Fixed link

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UncleBill is right. There’s interstates, freeways, and in the East especially parkways. The latter have strict restrictions on what sort of vehicles can drive on them, usually because their charming old bridges are often too low for trucks. A freeway would, of course, have no tolls at all, so most of the state Pikes and Thruways wouldn’t count. I associate them mainly with the West, particularly California, but I could be wrong.

Considering the amount of subsidy that the average taxpayer pays for roads and their maintenance, whether they use them or not or whether or not they have tolls, I consider the invention of the term “freeway” one of the greatest PR moves ever. </hijack>

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I would definitely go for a paper map or an Atlas if you are looking for the whole thing, although MapQuest isn’t bad for freeways if you are looking for something in a specific city.

UncleBill’s links were neat (I like maps), but had a few problems. The first one isn’t labelled, and gets messy near the East coast. The next 2 leave out several of the major (multiple of 5) Interstates (I-30, I-45, etc.), not to mention all of the non-multiple of 5 ones.

Of course, both UncleBill and I are assuming you mostly mean Interstates, and of course there are other roads that states have made into “freeways”.

Here’s a link to a Federal Highway Administration site with some more information, and a map similar in scale to the first one that UncleBill gave, but also has links to state maps with far more detail.

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On Uncle Bill’s map, what is a “10-Mile Interstate Buffer”?

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Yes NE Texan, you’re correct that I meant “Interstates” as opposed to the more general term “freeways”.