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Friday, May 12, 2006
IBA 49-State Route
Someone over on the ST.N forum asked for a Streets & Trips map for an efficient IBA 48-in-10 route, and I always like to play with motorcycle route maps, so I dug in and spent a lunch hour putting one together, including stops in Washington, DC and Hyder, Alaska.
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I think this is relatively efficient, as these things go. It took some work to get stops in Florida, Nebraska, and Colorado, but otherwise I think it's in pretty good shape. 48-state mileage is 7,672 miles; add another 1,225 miles to get to Alaska.
The vast majority of the 48-state route is on Interstates or other limited-access routes, with these notable exceptions:
- Pine Bluff, AK to Tallulah, LA on US-65 - 160 miles
- Clinton, MS to Mobile, AL on US-49 and US-98 - 177 miles
- Greenville, SC to Bluefield, WV on various roads - 330 miles (to get NC, TN, KY, and WV)
- Manchester, NH to Troy, NY - 120 miles
- Worthington, MN to So. Sioux City, NE - 98 miles
- Casper, WY to Rawlins, WY - 117 miles
- I-80 to Colorado state line (and back) - 112 miles (to get CO)
- Wells, NV to Twin Falls, ID on US-93 - 121 miles
