Since us NJ folks love to identify ourselves in reference to our exit on the GSP, would appreciate it if you could highlight my hometown exit 135 on the southbound side. Love the videos and glad to finally see one for the Parkway! Excited the channel is going strong after all the interstates!
I really appreciate the effort you put into these videos. I love the us interstate highway system and the us highways and you give me a chance to explore them.
Back in the old days, US 52 was one of America's important roads as it links important cities of the states it passes through, even through the Twin Cities, Chicagoland, Indy, Cincy, the Piedmont Triad, Charleston SC, and others.
This made me realize how Important US-52 is in my life. I live in the twin cities and I go to school in St Paul and to go there I have to take 694/US-52 and I used to live in Chicagoland and US-52 was a pretty major highway where I lived. Kinda crazy I just realized that.
I don't know if you're still taking requests, but US 11 has a very strange path, going from New Orleans to Champlain, NY. US 6 also has an odd path, kinda sorta paralleling US 20, but taking a more meandering route.
At 18:08 to 18:20, we are not following/crossing the Ohio River; the Big Sandy River and its tributaries (Tug Fork and Levisa Fork) are the border between Kentucky and West Virginia.
My family took US 52 in segments on a road trip through the Midwest back in 2007. I remember the 'Valley of Numbers' at Kenmare, ND (northwest of Minot) where the local high school's graduating class places rocks in the form of their graduation year. The other part of US 52 we took was from I-494 south of St. Paul to the turnoff for Red Wing. At the split for Hastings is a giant oil refinery that was partially visible on your Google Maps shot. Seeing US 61 signs remind me of a Bob Dylan album. Seeing signage for Aurora, IL reminds me of 'Wayne's World'.
7:54 Up until a few years ago, US-52 went through downtown Dubuque. Then IowaDOT rerouted US-52 along the new Southwest Bypass. 8:33 The new Savanna-Sabula Bridge. This replaced a much older, narrower bridge across here. Fun fact: US-52 goes into Illinois with multi-state route (IA/IL 64). 9:39 IL-38 here is also the Lincoln Highway, which US-52 will come near again in Joliet. 9:59 US-30 comes close to US-52 again in Joliet. Back in the 1950s, they actually bounced off each other in Joliet. 10:40 Between IL-251 and Shorewood, IDOT treats US-52 almost as a secondary state route. Not much in the way of shoulders, and the control cities are terrible. 10:57 Big jump, skipping over IL-47 (Yorkville/Morris) and IL-59 (I-55 South/Plainfield). I-55 here was built as US-66 in 1956. 11:10 Downtown Joliet is still 3/4 mile east of here at Raynor Avenue and Jefferson Street. Jefferson between here and US-30 is an unmarked state route. 11:17 US-52 makes a left turn from Raynor onto McDonough Street prior to this. US-6, even though it is four-lanes, is the one to have a stop sign for US-52 here. 11:27 One of four Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridges in Joliet (the largest concentration of these around). Two are narrow (this one and Jackson Street to the north), and two are wide (Jefferson Street and Cass Street - both US-30). 11:36 IL-53, also the original route of US-66 (1926-1940) and US-66A (1940-1967). 11:50 Older signs here for I-80 east are "Gary, Indiana". Newer ones are just "Indiana". 12:02 Skipped a whole bunch of turns. US-52 makes a right turn onto Manhattan Road, which has a stop sign at Briggs Street where US-52 turns right yet again toward Manhattan and Wilton Center (where it makes a left bend to this point). Fun fact: At Andres here, US-52, as IL-44, made a sweeping right curve instead of the current four-way stop sign. You can see the remnants on the Frontage Road to the right. 12:21 US-45 and US-52 take a squirrelly route through Kankakee with several turns from IL-17 to this point. The single shield and unisigns are common to the Kankakee area for some reason. 12:49 US-52 between US-45 and US-24 here is also treated as a secondary state highway by IDOT.
I hope you will do US Route 62…from Buffalo, NY to El Paso, TX. A portion of that route goes through northwest PA (where I live) and northeast OH. In PA, it’s north-south and in OH it’s east-west. I wonder how many times it switches…🤔
Thanks for this video.. I live outside Charleston in Goose Creek... Off of 52... My brother and I travel throughout the state every hwy so far.. we've traveled on 52 from GC to NC border.. we plan on driving the entire 52 w/o going into Canada 👍🏻
Some Rochester/SE MN commentary: As you mentioned, 52 and 63 both play major roles in Rochester; 63 is actually co-signed as Broadway, which is a major road in town.
In the 1970s I lived on US 52 in Albemarle, NC. I stayed on US 52 the first time I went to Charleston, SC. In August, 1973, I took a vacation that began with my flying to Indianapolis. A friend picked me up there and took me to West Lafayette, where we stayed at the home of a Purdue faculty member. I saw a sign for US 52, and say, “Hey! This is the street I live on!”
I thoroughly enjoyed US 52! I appreciate the detail and I can only begin how much work you put into creating the video. Just putting together "The Way It Should Be" had to be exhausting.
On the North Side of Dyersville, there will be signs on Route 52 to get to the Field of Dreams; it’s about 2 or 3 miles from the highway, unless you want to take a detour and/or show actual footage!
i thought it was real funny that 52 met both 421 & 74 in cincinatti, then met them again in north Carolina, that is, if you consider nc's i74 part of i74..
Excited to see U.S. Routes being covered on this channel! Side note: Mt. Carroll, which is on the sign at approximately 8:58, is where my family lived when I was born. My father was the pastor of the ELCA congregation there for 3.5 years, during which time my older brother & I were born. Out of curiosity, if/when are you going to cover US-10, US-41, and/or US-45? Have exit requests for each of those however not sure when to post them in a super sticker.
I always went by the county seat standard or major US. city like New York or Dayton, OH. for judging the control cities for US. routes. State routes were whatever the next incorporate town or city was. I never counted unincorporated towns like the average "Sunbury" 5 way intersection of two or three state routes or a US. Route or two that are a Sunsbury or Red Lion Unincorporated. Fun fact Todd, those are two literal unincorporated towns in my area of the Dayton-Cincinnati area of South West Ohio. The Sunsbury for some strange reason within the past 15 or 20 years has been renamed Sunbury. Ironically, Sunsbury(renamded Sunbury) is a 5 way intersection of 2 state routes or used to be 2 before route 4 was rerouted on a slight Highway style road and OH. 123 ended at the highway end of Route 4. Sunbury, Ohio in Delaware County(I'm in Montgomery County in my hometown) is a different town in Ohio near Columbus. It is just east of Delaware, Ohio. Sunbury, Ohio is another very significant place to me. It is the town of my Great grandparents farm i would visit as a child at family reunions. So I found it ironic how there's a much bigger than a 5 way intersection town with a same name that is where one family member lives and another, where I grew up.
Of all the videos on your channel, this is probably the one I've been most excited for. 52 is easily one of my favorite roads in the entire US solely because of all the different environments it'll take you through. I think US 62 would make for a great video as well seeing as it's similar in length and also has a weird diagonal route but in the opposite direction. You could almost think of it as 52's evil twin 🤣
And when US 52 and US 62 meet, there is a wrong-way concurrency with US 68 stuck in the middle signed North/South. I hope Todd shows that sign on his Westbound US 52 video.
I live in the Cincinnati area, and in SW Ohio, even all the way north to Fairfield and Hamilton, OH, you'll see that ODOT puts State Route signages when it should be a US Shield, like Todd mentions at 16:42. It's like this for US-127 in a lot of areas. I'm only guessing, but perhaps ODOT workers may get the silhouette of the State of Ohio on our State Route signage confused with the Shield silhouette for US Routes, and for some, it may look the same at a quick glance. At times, it irritates me just a little bit whenever I drive through those areas and see the incorrect route signages. I wish little things didn't bug me! haha
I find that annoying, too, but I bear in mind that US routes are state routes in that the states get no special funding for US routes, like they do for interstate routes. At least in Ohio, there are no duplicate State Route and US Route numbers.
I live in the Huntington/Ashland MSA and US52 is such a crucial route from Portsmouth, Ohio until the Interstate-64 bridge into Huntington and further down the coalfields. It runs to Cincinnati but if you live in the KY/WV/OH tri-state you're taking the AA or Appalachian Highway (OH-32) into Cincy. 52 is backwoods, 2-lane.
@22:30 Regarding I-285 South from WInston-Salem, the Interstate designation is only 5 years old, and NC in all its wisdom never seems to change control cities when it slaps 3dis on US and state routes. Despite the new designation, the old number and its provincial control cities always take precedence. Also, you pronounced Albemarle perfectly!
Fun fact: Mt. Airy, NC was the basis for Mayberry in the Andy Griffith Show. That was the town he was from. ...Also, you did pronounce Albemarle correctly.
That sign mistake (Ohio plate instead of US highway) at 16:47 is something I see a lot here in Wisconsin, too. I’d never seen one anywhere else until now though!
Thanks for the shoutout. Also, at 22:22 You mentioned that we meet US 421 again. Well, 421 runs from Fort Fisher, NC all the way up to Michigan City, IN covering 940 miles. Maybe you could do a US 421 video on the near future.
On my way back home I always used Garden State Parkway, Exit 135 for Clark & Westfield, over the portion that is untolled. Considering the I80 mess, How much money would you need to suffer back to Pennsylvania for 376 or 476?
9:33, I think I ate at that Hardee's once. I hate Chicago tolls/traffic, so I find detours around when I go to Fort Wayne from Hastings, MN where I live. Been through here a couple of times
Haven’t heard of 95% of the places it goes through, and have only driven it from Cheraw to Florence. But it’s interesting to see how it winds from ND to SC.
I’ve traveled a lot of miles on US 52 and I-77 from Wytheville to Bluefield. My ex-grandmother-in-law used to live off of it in Bland, VA. My ex-wife used to live in an apartment complex off of 52 in Wytheville. We’d go to Mercer Mall in Bluefield a few times when it wasn’t a dying mall.
You’re the man Todd! Great job on the video, and even more so on putting together that lengthy Todd’s The Way it Should Be. If you ever get around to US 6, 11, 20, 21 or NY-5 I’ll have plenty of intersection super sticker requests
A few weeks ago when you announced US 52 I was excited and have been waiting. Would recommend taking Sagamore Parkway through Lafayette on the return trip! (despite the fact that it actually doesn't get close to downtown) Also hoping for a US 421 and US 101 video someday. keep on trucking
One day I hope you cover US-1, especially through Saugus, MA with the Kowloon, hilltop cactus, and orange dinosaur. Tobin bridge into Boston, concurrency with 93 until Dedham/Norwood with Ernie Boch’s auto mile down to foxborough passing by Gillette stadium!
"If I showed every turn on US 52, this video would be four hours long." Yeah, I basically did that for my US 322 Eastbound video and as such, that video ended up being way longer than a video about a 500 mile long route had any right to be lol Even in the Westbound video where I didn't get quite nearly as many pictures, I still ended up talking so much about the route so much that that video will be almost the same length. I'll be kinda honest, I'm surprised this route only got one video from you and it's this short. I feel like if you had done two, you could have dedicated more time to showcasing all the things this route has to offer. Either way though, it's still cool to see you covering a US Highway for the first time on this channel and I can't wait for the Garden State Parkway and whatever else you'll have for us in the future!
Never mind the last thing I said in this comment, I forgot that in the intro, you said you'd be doing another video going the other way. I'm just wondering why you didn't put that in the title. Good stuff nonetheless!
I'll also mention one interesting thing I just realized, this two thousand mile long US Route somehow has no child routes! There used to be a US 152 in Indiana but then it was renumbered to 231. Very, very bizzarre.
I appreciate this video a lot. I love that this US Highway travels along some of the major US Highways that I've been on in my 13 years of living in Florida. (US 1, 19, 27, 41, 301)
I’ve been on 52 in and around Bluefield, WV. I’ve also travelled it feels like every inch of it from Hillsville, Virginia to Lexington, North Carolina. I can only speculate why Lexington gets love is that there is an annual Barbecue Festival there in late October prior to Halloween and it gets a lot of attention locally. Looking forward to part two of US 52 in a few weeks.
People actually forget that part of the 7781 Wrong Way and currency also includes US Highway 11 and 52 running in a Wrong Way concurrency as well Yes, all four roadways share the same stretch of pavement between exit 73 and 80
I have experience with US 52, specifically the small sliver of it that goes along the southernmost part of Ohio. I grew up across the river in Ashland (KY) but my mom has family in that part of Ohio. She eventually moved back there herself.
Another great video! Super cool to see the Brookville Exit on 465. My wife races at the Indianapolis Speedrome and we turn left on Brookville Road instead of right.
I wish you could've taken a shot or two of the "Tolsia Highway" (between Huntington and Williamson) Nice scenic stretch. But like you said, if you included everything it would be 4 hours long
US-52 is my favorite alternative route to the interstates. I take US-52 to I-85 bypass I-77's construction and tolls when heading from VA to Charlotte, NC.
Another US route like this, the second-longest three digit US route is US 287, from Montana to Texas, one of my personal favorites. One, it’s an out of wack road (just like 52) and is a key route between Denver and Dallas. It would be greatly appreciated if you made a video (or videos) on this wacky road! PS: It may go through Limon, CO, so apologies.
US 1 is a must for a video!! Yes, it will be your LONGEST video, and you definitely would need to make it a multi part video. But it’s the American Byway for a reason
Heh, I am doing a US 322 Westbound video and wait until you see one of the reassurance shields you see on that route in Pennsylvania. Those shields on that sign look normal in comparison to it lol
Ah yes, I love these weird diagonal roads, I find them to be so interesting, US 52 being no exception! Did you know that the fastest way to drive to Alaska from most of the lower 48 states involves driving on US 52 to the Canadian border in North Dakota? Either way, great video Todd! :) 👍
As US 52 enters West Lafayette, it is heading east on Sagamore (there is no K In Sagamore) Parkway. It then turns right onto the 231 bypass heading south past the Purdue campus and airport before crossing the Wabash River. It then turns left onto Teal Road heading east again. It then turns right onto Sagamore Parkway again heading south towards Indianapolis. US 52 used to follow Sagamore Parkway all the way through the area, until the 231 bypass was built.
@24:33 I live off of SC 9 at the portion where the directions are correct. At this point of SC 9, the directions should be east-west, not north-south. Also, I'm a little surprised you didn't show the intersection of US 52 at the end of US 176 in Goose Creek in South Carolina.
In Minot, the co-signed / "business" section of 2 & 52 follows Burdick Expressway (aka US 2) until you're almost at the viaduct east of the downtown area, then 52 takes off down Valley St. (I know this as a relative of mine lived near Valley / Burdick).
I hope you can eventually get a schedule of roads that you will cover at some point. There is no road with more personal connections to me than US 6, so when you announce that one I will surely have some points of interest to request, mainly in NY and CT.
US-52 goes through so many states, it’s crazyyyyy! US-52 goes through my home state of MN right? Well, when I went on a trip to North Carolina in 2017, of course, we crossed over US-52 a few times. And when we finally crossed over the state line to NC, after I-74 “ends”, we still have to take US-52 to Winston-Salem. What a route, what a route.
Brookville, Indiana is a beautiful area. My grandparents owned a trailer off Brookville Lake and they would take me camping in the summers of my childhood. Also, hey now Todd. 😂 WHODEY!
Enjoyed this one, as U.S. Route 52 was "big" in two places in North Carolina for me: where my dad was from (Anson County) and where I lived in Surry County for a good part of the 1980s. My dad remembered when 52 was a "good plank road"-and some around there still call it that. "U.S. 52 from North Dakota to South Carolina"... we must consider that was in some politician's mind a century ago, he had some influence, and that's how we got this diagonal route.
This should be a good series, especially because I just moved right off US 40 in Ohio. Just one correction, Riverfront Stadium was torn down in 2002. It was replaced by Paycor Stadium (fka Paul Brown Stadium, where the Bengals play) and Great American Ballpark, the Reds' home.
Of note at the northern terminus of US 52 in Portal, ND is that there's an international golf course straddling the US Canadian border (Gateway Cities Golf Club). Holes 1-8 are in North Portal, Saskatchewan. The tee box for the 1st hole, the 9th hole green and club house are in the US in Portal. The final source of amusement is that while both locations are in the Central Time Zone, Saskatchewan does not observe Daylight Saving Time and North Dakota does. This means that when teeing of from the 9th hole, your ball will land in a different country an hour later! How about a video on US 123? It must be the shortest US route in existence. Not very exciting and, relatively speaking, it should not take long to make.
Would LOVE to see US 6 in the works.... it is known as the Grand Army of the Republic highway and it goes through Denver, Chicagoland, Cleveland, Hartford, and Providence among others.
Todd, correct. It is the Brooklyn Bridge. 1866 was the year the Roebling Bridge was built. Technically it also is the terminus of Kentucky route 17 also known as the 3L highway(Lexington, Louisville, Latonia)
Even though I've never lived near this highway, I've actually traveled on a lot of it. I've done sections in Minnesota, Illinois and South Carolina and I actually took 52 all the way from Bluefield all the way to Cincinnati because I was too cheap to pay the tolls on the WV turnpike. I've probably paid more in gas on that trip but it was a nice drive.
I grew up in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, and always found it funny how much 52 follows the border of the state, but never entered it (as you pointed out, it does now, but that was only done a decade or so ago). Also, after Huntington, US 52 isn't following the Ohio River any more, but the Big Sandy River and the Tug Fork, which make up the border between KY and WV. I had a friend whose wife was stationed in Minot, and seeing US 52 there was pretty funny, as was seeing it in Charleston when I was there a few years ago.
Todd, if time permits, in the US 52 West (North) video I’d like to see you mention the projects that WV is undertaking to upgrade and replace US 52. The King Coal Highway will run from Bluefield to Williamson. The Tolsia Highway will run from Williamson to Huntington. Both are being planned and built as expressway-grade highways. These projects are what WV is doing in the I-73/I-74 corridor between Bluefield and Huntington, in lieu of building interstate-grade highways (that you have acknowledged, in other videos, will perhaps never be built as conceived). These highways are being designed and built slowly (painfully slowly), small piece by small piece, as WV finds funds available. Some parts of these massive projects are already partially open or are nearly completed. It would be interesting if you could find and show in the video one or more pieces of them. There is a piece of King Coal between Matewan and Gilbert which is open to traffic, but only two lanes are open (on a four-lane right-of-way), and I don’t believe it is officially designated US 52 yet. There are parts of Tolsia, near Crum, which likewise are open but only striped for two lanes. A small piece of King Coal near Bluefield running between US 460 and WV 123 is scheduled to open this fall. You can see the evidence of this one being built from the ramp running from US 52 North to US 460 East: a massive rock cut behind Mercer Mall, and the bridge over US 19 which has existed, unused, for over ten years.
Its funny because you can be in either Cincinatti, OH, or you could be in Rochester, MN, on the same hwy, which is NORTH and WEST obviously. I believe you can take 52 into saint paul! commenting before I watch.. been one of my fave highways back when I used to hitchhike around. EDIT: minor detail, when I passed through ND many years ago, that state route shield was an indianhead of Chief Tomahawk, not sure why it was removed..
Since us NJ folks love to identify ourselves in reference to our exit on the GSP, would appreciate it if you could highlight my hometown exit 135 on the southbound side. Love the videos and glad to finally see one for the Parkway! Excited the channel is going strong after all the interstates!
Thanks, you got it!
Love the Windows XP reference. Hope you run for Mayor of Lymon
I really appreciate the effort you put into these videos. I love the us interstate highway system and the us highways and you give me a chance to explore them.
Thanks!
Back in the old days, US 52 was one of America's important roads as it links important cities of the states it passes through, even through the Twin Cities, Chicagoland, Indy, Cincy, the Piedmont Triad, Charleston SC, and others.
The one time Joliet should be signed
@@spellcast1391, we all know that Joliet, IL is a very important satellite city in Chicagoland and I agree for US 52 to sign Joliet.
US52 run by one of my favorite casinos in Cincinnati. It’s the one by the 52/275 junction on the east side of town. It’s called Belterra Park.
It also signs Dubuque IA and Rochester MN, which are both nice littke cities
Hope he do a U.S. 62, it runs from El Paso to Buffalo, N.Y.
This made me realize how Important US-52 is in my life. I live in the twin cities and I go to school in St Paul and to go there I have to take 694/US-52 and I used to live in Chicagoland and US-52 was a pretty major highway where I lived. Kinda crazy I just realized that.
I don't know if you're still taking requests, but US 11 has a very strange path, going from New Orleans to Champlain, NY. US 6 also has an odd path, kinda sorta paralleling US 20, but taking a more meandering route.
At 18:08 to 18:20, we are not following/crossing the Ohio River; the Big Sandy River and its tributaries (Tug Fork and Levisa Fork) are the border between Kentucky and West Virginia.
13:00 there's more than corn in Indiana!
I also hope you will do US 2 from the U P to Bellingham, WA
I will
My family took US 52 in segments on a road trip through the Midwest back in 2007. I remember the 'Valley of Numbers' at Kenmare, ND (northwest of Minot) where the local high school's graduating class places rocks in the form of their graduation year.
The other part of US 52 we took was from I-494 south of St. Paul to the turnoff for Red Wing. At the split for Hastings is a giant oil refinery that was partially visible on your Google Maps shot.
Seeing US 61 signs remind me of a Bob Dylan album.
Seeing signage for Aurora, IL reminds me of 'Wayne's World'.
7:54 Up until a few years ago, US-52 went through downtown Dubuque. Then IowaDOT rerouted US-52 along the new Southwest Bypass.
8:33 The new Savanna-Sabula Bridge. This replaced a much older, narrower bridge across here. Fun fact: US-52 goes into Illinois with multi-state route (IA/IL 64).
9:39 IL-38 here is also the Lincoln Highway, which US-52 will come near again in Joliet.
9:59 US-30 comes close to US-52 again in Joliet. Back in the 1950s, they actually bounced off each other in Joliet.
10:40 Between IL-251 and Shorewood, IDOT treats US-52 almost as a secondary state route. Not much in the way of shoulders, and the control cities are terrible.
10:57 Big jump, skipping over IL-47 (Yorkville/Morris) and IL-59 (I-55 South/Plainfield). I-55 here was built as US-66 in 1956.
11:10 Downtown Joliet is still 3/4 mile east of here at Raynor Avenue and Jefferson Street. Jefferson between here and US-30 is an unmarked state route.
11:17 US-52 makes a left turn from Raynor onto McDonough Street prior to this. US-6, even though it is four-lanes, is the one to have a stop sign for US-52 here.
11:27 One of four Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridges in Joliet (the largest concentration of these around). Two are narrow (this one and Jackson Street to the north), and two are wide (Jefferson Street and Cass Street - both US-30).
11:36 IL-53, also the original route of US-66 (1926-1940) and US-66A (1940-1967).
11:50 Older signs here for I-80 east are "Gary, Indiana". Newer ones are just "Indiana".
12:02 Skipped a whole bunch of turns. US-52 makes a right turn onto Manhattan Road, which has a stop sign at Briggs Street where US-52 turns right yet again toward Manhattan and Wilton Center (where it makes a left bend to this point). Fun fact: At Andres here, US-52, as IL-44, made a sweeping right curve instead of the current four-way stop sign. You can see the remnants on the Frontage Road to the right.
12:21 US-45 and US-52 take a squirrelly route through Kankakee with several turns from IL-17 to this point. The single shield and unisigns are common to the Kankakee area for some reason.
12:49 US-52 between US-45 and US-24 here is also treated as a secondary state highway by IDOT.
I hope you will do US Route 62…from Buffalo, NY to El Paso, TX. A portion of that route goes through northwest PA (where I live) and northeast OH. In PA, it’s north-south and in OH it’s east-west. I wonder how many times it switches…🤔
I know it's signed N-S in NY.
I second US-62.
Thanks for this video.. I live outside Charleston in Goose Creek... Off of 52... My brother and I travel throughout the state every hwy so far.. we've traveled on 52 from GC to NC border.. we plan on driving the entire 52 w/o going into Canada 👍🏻
Sounds great!
Some Rochester/SE MN commentary:
As you mentioned, 52 and 63 both play major roles in Rochester; 63 is actually co-signed as Broadway, which is a major road in town.
US-63 used to go through downtown, until MnDOT moved the route to US-52 and along with US-14 for some reason.
In the 1970s I lived on US 52 in Albemarle, NC. I stayed on US 52 the first time I went to Charleston, SC. In August, 1973, I took a vacation that began with my flying to Indianapolis. A friend picked me up there and took me to West Lafayette, where we stayed at the home of a Purdue faculty member. I saw a sign for US 52, and say, “Hey! This is the street I live on!”
I thoroughly enjoyed US 52! I appreciate the detail and I can only begin how much work you put into creating the video. Just putting together "The Way It Should Be" had to be exhausting.
Thanks!
On US 52 Northbound, make sure to mention the Field of Dreams when in Dyersville,Iowa!
Thanks, will do!
On the North Side of Dyersville, there will be signs on Route 52 to get to the Field of Dreams; it’s about 2 or 3 miles from the highway, unless you want to take a detour and/or show actual footage!
i thought it was real funny that 52 met both 421 & 74 in cincinatti, then met them again in north Carolina, that is, if you consider nc's i74 part of i74..
Excited to see U.S. Routes being covered on this channel! Side note: Mt. Carroll, which is on the sign at approximately 8:58, is where my family lived when I was born. My father was the pastor of the ELCA congregation there for 3.5 years, during which time my older brother & I were born.
Out of curiosity, if/when are you going to cover US-10, US-41, and/or US-45? Have exit requests for each of those however not sure when to post them in a super sticker.
I really want to see you do route 22
I always went by the county seat standard or major US. city like New York or Dayton, OH. for judging the control cities for US. routes. State routes were whatever the next incorporate town or city was. I never counted unincorporated towns like the average "Sunbury" 5 way intersection of two or three state routes or a US. Route or two that are a Sunsbury or Red Lion Unincorporated. Fun fact Todd, those are two literal unincorporated towns in my area of the Dayton-Cincinnati area of South West Ohio. The Sunsbury for some strange reason within the past 15 or 20 years has been renamed Sunbury. Ironically, Sunsbury(renamded Sunbury) is a 5 way intersection of 2 state routes or used to be 2 before route 4 was rerouted on a slight Highway style road and OH. 123 ended at the highway end of Route 4. Sunbury, Ohio in Delaware County(I'm in Montgomery County in my hometown) is a different town in Ohio near Columbus. It is just east of Delaware, Ohio. Sunbury, Ohio is another very significant place to me. It is the town of my Great grandparents farm i would visit as a child at family reunions. So I found it ironic how there's a much bigger than a 5 way intersection town with a same name that is where one family member lives and another, where I grew up.
Of all the videos on your channel, this is probably the one I've been most excited for. 52 is easily one of my favorite roads in the entire US solely because of all the different environments it'll take you through.
I think US 62 would make for a great video as well seeing as it's similar in length and also has a weird diagonal route but in the opposite direction. You could almost think of it as 52's evil twin 🤣
Yeah 62 looks pretty cool too
And when US 52 and US 62 meet, there is a wrong-way concurrency with US 68 stuck in the middle signed North/South. I hope Todd shows that sign on his Westbound US 52 video.
9:27 Il38 is Roosevelt rd, not Harlem ave Il43
I live in the Cincinnati area, and in SW Ohio, even all the way north to Fairfield and Hamilton, OH, you'll see that ODOT puts State Route signages when it should be a US Shield, like Todd mentions at 16:42. It's like this for US-127 in a lot of areas. I'm only guessing, but perhaps ODOT workers may get the silhouette of the State of Ohio on our State Route signage confused with the Shield silhouette for US Routes, and for some, it may look the same at a quick glance. At times, it irritates me just a little bit whenever I drive through those areas and see the incorrect route signages. I wish little things didn't bug me! haha
I find that annoying, too, but I bear in mind that US routes are state routes in that the states get no special funding for US routes, like they do for interstate routes. At least in Ohio, there are no duplicate State Route and US Route numbers.
I live in the Huntington/Ashland MSA and US52 is such a crucial route from Portsmouth, Ohio until the Interstate-64 bridge into Huntington and further down the coalfields. It runs to Cincinnati but if you live in the KY/WV/OH tri-state you're taking the AA or Appalachian Highway (OH-32) into Cincy. 52 is backwoods, 2-lane.
52 may be slower but I will say it is a much prettier drive. Well worth the extra time.
@22:30 Regarding I-285 South from WInston-Salem, the Interstate designation is only 5 years old, and NC in all its wisdom never seems to change control cities when it slaps 3dis on US and state routes. Despite the new designation, the old number and its provincial control cities always take precedence.
Also, you pronounced Albemarle perfectly!
Thanks for the content, man! Could you show Luther College in Decorah, IA? 52 has a great view of the campus, and it's a special place for me!
Thanks, you got it!
Can't wait for more U.S. Highway videos.
From NC, You did pronounce Albemarle right. 👍
I remember almost 10 Years ago, Salem Parkway was Business 40.
22:29 *Meme strikes again WELCOME TO NORTH CAROLINA WE LOVE PROVINCIAL CONTROL CITIES
Fun fact: Mt. Airy, NC was the basis for Mayberry in the Andy Griffith Show. That was the town he was from.
...Also, you did pronounce Albemarle correctly.
You did great man that was quite a road you cover I hope you can do 183 sometime
Please do us 60,65,or 67 soon. I will definitely be doing superstickers for each of them for exits. Love your work.
Thanks! Will definitely do all 3, not sure when yet
Todd's the way it should be: there's no "t" in Williamson, but good job for such a long road!
You should do the US hwys as well.
That sign mistake (Ohio plate instead of US highway) at 16:47 is something I see a lot here in Wisconsin, too. I’d never seen one anywhere else until now though!
5:02 Hey, US 63''s southern terminus is in my hometown of Ruston, LA. Maybe you could cover US 63 someday?
Maybe, but it also goes through Columbia MO 🤮
@@ControlCityFreak Did you have a bad experience there? lol
Thanks for the shoutout. Also, at 22:22 You mentioned that we meet US 421 again. Well, 421 runs from Fort Fisher, NC all the way up to Michigan City, IN covering 940 miles. Maybe you could do a US 421 video on the near future.
On my way back home I always used Garden State Parkway, Exit 135 for Clark & Westfield, over the portion that is untolled.
Considering the I80 mess, How much money would you need to suffer back to Pennsylvania for 376 or 476?
I dunno, how much you got?😜 I’m actually planning to get to 476 reasonably soon. Thanks!
9:33, I think I ate at that Hardee's once. I hate Chicago tolls/traffic, so I find detours around when I go to Fort Wayne from Hastings, MN where I live. Been through here a couple of times
Haven’t heard of 95% of the places it goes through, and have only driven it from Cheraw to Florence. But it’s interesting to see how it winds from ND to SC.
I’ve traveled a lot of miles on US 52 and I-77 from Wytheville to Bluefield. My ex-grandmother-in-law used to live off of it in Bland, VA. My ex-wife used to live in an apartment complex off of 52 in Wytheville. We’d go to Mercer Mall in Bluefield a few times when it wasn’t a dying mall.
You’re the man Todd! Great job on the video, and even more so on putting together that lengthy Todd’s The Way it Should Be. If you ever get around to US 6, 11, 20, 21 or NY-5 I’ll have plenty of intersection super sticker requests
6 and 20 for sure. Maybe 11 but most of it's route is covered on 59, 75, and 81 so I'm not in any hurry on that one.
6,20 and 19 for me. Like taking route 5 between Buffalo and Erie very scenic route.
You missed US 52 and Senour Rd in Indpls, near where my grandma lives!
A few weeks ago when you announced US 52 I was excited and have been waiting. Would recommend taking Sagamore Parkway through Lafayette on the return trip! (despite the fact that it actually doesn't get close to downtown)
Also hoping for a US 421 and US 101 video someday. keep on trucking
Will definitely do both! I've actually got a different route planned through Lafayette on the return
8:41 Illinois 64! locally known from Chicago to West Chicago as North Ave. & in St. Charles, Main St.
One day I hope you cover US-1, especially through Saugus, MA with the Kowloon, hilltop cactus, and orange dinosaur. Tobin bridge into Boston, concurrency with 93 until Dedham/Norwood with Ernie Boch’s auto mile down to foxborough passing by Gillette stadium!
i grew up in a town in mn that was 15 minutes from this highway. i travelled on it all the time growing up and never realized how far it went!
"If I showed every turn on US 52, this video would be four hours long."
Yeah, I basically did that for my US 322 Eastbound video and as such, that video ended up being way longer than a video about a 500 mile long route had any right to be lol
Even in the Westbound video where I didn't get quite nearly as many pictures, I still ended up talking so much about the route so much that that video will be almost the same length.
I'll be kinda honest, I'm surprised this route only got one video from you and it's this short. I feel like if you had done two, you could have dedicated more time to showcasing all the things this route has to offer. Either way though, it's still cool to see you covering a US Highway for the first time on this channel and I can't wait for the Garden State Parkway and whatever else you'll have for us in the future!
Never mind the last thing I said in this comment, I forgot that in the intro, you said you'd be doing another video going the other way. I'm just wondering why you didn't put that in the title. Good stuff nonetheless!
I'll also mention one interesting thing I just realized, this two thousand mile long US Route somehow has no child routes! There used to be a US 152 in Indiana but then it was renumbered to 231. Very, very bizzarre.
So glad the Garden State Pkwy is getting some love! It's New Jersey's Main Street, along with the Tpke
I appreciate this video a lot. I love that this US Highway travels along some of the major US Highways that I've been on in my 13 years of living in Florida. (US 1, 19, 27, 41, 301)
I’ve been on 52 in and around Bluefield, WV. I’ve also travelled it feels like every inch of it from Hillsville, Virginia to Lexington, North Carolina. I can only speculate why Lexington gets love is that there is an annual Barbecue Festival there in late October prior to Halloween and it gets a lot of attention locally. Looking forward to part two of US 52 in a few weeks.
People actually forget that part of the 7781 Wrong Way and currency also includes US Highway 11 and 52 running in a Wrong Way concurrency as well
Yes, all four roadways share the same stretch of pavement between exit 73 and 80
I have experience with US 52, specifically the small sliver of it that goes along the southernmost part of Ohio. I grew up across the river in Ashland (KY) but my mom has family in that part of Ohio. She eventually moved back there herself.
Another great video! Super cool to see the Brookville Exit on 465. My wife races at the Indianapolis Speedrome and we turn left on Brookville Road instead of right.
Very cool!
Minot, North Dakota the home town of actor Josh Duhamel.
Disappointed that you didn't tarry in Iroquois (between Donovan,IL and Kentland, IN) where you could see the sign "Welcome to Bunkum".
In South Dakota, US 52 is pretty much a two lane.
@21:30 because Lexington is the next control city. It’s a big small town basically lol
I used to live in West Lafayette, Indiana.
I was looking forward to this one, and you did not disappoint. Thanks for your hard work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
US 52 goes through the most depressed portions in West Virginia.
I wish you could've taken a shot or two of the "Tolsia Highway" (between Huntington and Williamson) Nice scenic stretch. But like you said, if you included everything it would be 4 hours long
US-52 is my favorite alternative route to the interstates. I take US-52 to I-85 bypass I-77's construction and tolls when heading from VA to Charlotte, NC.
Another US route like this, the second-longest three digit US route is US 287, from Montana to Texas, one of my personal favorites. One, it’s an out of wack road (just like 52) and is a key route between Denver and Dallas. It would be greatly appreciated if you made a video (or videos) on this wacky road!
PS: It may go through Limon, CO, so apologies.
Will you please make these videos: US-12, US-41, US-98, and US-17?
US 1 is a must for a video!! Yes, it will be your LONGEST video, and you definitely would need to make it a multi part video. But it’s the American Byway for a reason
12:55 Those US 41, 24 & 52 shields look weird!
15:51 The font on that US 52 sign also looks weird as well!
Heh, I am doing a US 322 Westbound video and wait until you see one of the reassurance shields you see on that route in Pennsylvania. Those shields on that sign look normal in comparison to it lol
That US 52 in Cincinnati sign looks like they used a Helvetica font
I’m excited about the New Jersey highway you’re doing next week!!
Ah yes, I love these weird diagonal roads, I find them to be so interesting, US 52 being no exception! Did you know that the fastest way to drive to Alaska from most of the lower 48 states involves driving on US 52 to the Canadian border in North Dakota? Either way, great video Todd! :) 👍
US 62 is like the opposite diagonal to US 52 as it travels from Niagara Falls to El Paso.
@@DWNY358 That is cool!
If only those routes were labeled “northwest,southeast” or vice versa. It would make sense.
@@mbdg6810Ohio used to sign routes like that until AASHTO got involved.
Makes me so happy that US 52 goes through my hometown pf Salisbury
As US 52 enters West Lafayette, it is heading east on Sagamore (there is no K In Sagamore) Parkway. It then turns right onto the 231 bypass heading south past the Purdue campus and airport before crossing the Wabash River. It then turns left onto Teal Road heading east again. It then turns right onto Sagamore Parkway again heading south towards Indianapolis. US 52 used to follow Sagamore Parkway all the way through the area, until the 231 bypass was built.
@24:33 I live off of SC 9 at the portion where the directions are correct. At this point of SC 9, the directions should be east-west, not north-south. Also, I'm a little surprised you didn't show the intersection of US 52 at the end of US 176 in Goose Creek in South Carolina.
Us 52 is one of my favorites bc it has an interesting/underrated route!
Thank you for adding the picture of my home intersection at 1212 I guess I don't need to request it for northbound now
I still take donations!
9:23 Dixon, Illinois, Ronald Reagan's hometown, and the west end of IL-38
Roosevelt Road is IL 38 west of US 12/20/45 Mannheim Road.
In Minot, the co-signed / "business" section of 2 & 52 follows Burdick Expressway (aka US 2) until you're almost at the viaduct east of the downtown area, then 52 takes off down Valley St. (I know this as a relative of mine lived near Valley / Burdick).
I hope you can eventually get a schedule of roads that you will cover at some point. There is no road with more personal connections to me than US 6, so when you announce that one I will surely have some points of interest to request, mainly in NY and CT.
I'll always talk about future episodes in the sode, and I'll post on the community tab as well
US-52 goes through so many states, it’s crazyyyyy! US-52 goes through my home state of MN right? Well, when I went on a trip to North Carolina in 2017, of course, we crossed over US-52 a few times. And when we finally crossed over the state line to NC, after I-74 “ends”, we still have to take US-52 to Winston-Salem. What a route, what a route.
US 321.. Love that and part of it is built to highway standards between Gastonia, NC and ends before Lenoir NC.
Brookville, Indiana is a beautiful area. My grandparents owned a trailer off Brookville Lake and they would take me camping in the summers of my childhood. Also, hey now Todd. 😂 WHODEY!
Enjoyed this one, as U.S. Route 52 was "big" in two places in North Carolina for me: where my dad was from (Anson County) and where I lived in Surry County for a good part of the 1980s. My dad remembered when 52 was a "good plank road"-and some around there still call it that. "U.S. 52 from North Dakota to South Carolina"... we must consider that was in some politician's mind a century ago, he had some influence, and that's how we got this diagonal route.
I ride 52 everyday. I live in NC, takes me straight to Salisbury from 85/52
My interstate hero! Can you do the top 10 worst control cities?
This should be a good series, especially because I just moved right off US 40 in Ohio. Just one correction, Riverfront Stadium was torn down in 2002. It was replaced by Paycor Stadium (fka Paul Brown Stadium, where the Bengals play) and Great American Ballpark, the Reds' home.
US 52 does quite the meandering route....I'm requesting you do US 13! It's a very interesting route
16:49 US 50 is actually signed as VA-50 in Fairfax Virginia.
Of note at the northern terminus of US 52 in Portal, ND is that there's an international golf course straddling the US Canadian border (Gateway Cities Golf Club). Holes 1-8 are in North Portal, Saskatchewan. The tee box for the 1st hole, the 9th hole green and club house are in the US in Portal.
The final source of amusement is that while both locations are in the Central Time Zone, Saskatchewan does not observe Daylight Saving Time and North Dakota does. This means that when teeing of from the 9th hole, your ball will land in a different country an hour later!
How about a video on US 123? It must be the shortest US route in existence. Not very exciting and, relatively speaking, it should not take long to make.
Oh sounds cool! Funny they built it on the border, hardly a lack of empty space up there.
US 192 and US 123 are about the same length. I don't know if there are any shorter US highways.
Love the video especiallly the section in Illinois....use to live in Freeport Ill.
Can you do US-89 and historic US-89?
Since you went to Limon you have to go to Statesville, NC.
Would LOVE to see US 6 in the works.... it is known as the Grand Army of the Republic highway and it goes through Denver, Chicagoland, Cleveland, Hartford, and Providence among others.
Used to be the longest U.S. highway in the country till Cali mucked it up...
That nice bridge in Cincinnati is called the Roebling bridge. The original bridge built by the same architect who did the eiffel tower.
Brooklyn Bridge I think
Todd, correct. It is the Brooklyn Bridge. 1866 was the year the Roebling Bridge was built. Technically it also is the terminus of Kentucky route 17 also known as the 3L highway(Lexington, Louisville, Latonia)
Even though I've never lived near this highway, I've actually traveled on a lot of it. I've done sections in Minnesota, Illinois and South Carolina and I actually took 52 all the way from Bluefield all the way to Cincinnati because I was too cheap to pay the tolls on the WV turnpike. I've probably paid more in gas on that trip but it was a nice drive.
I grew up in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, and always found it funny how much 52 follows the border of the state, but never entered it (as you pointed out, it does now, but that was only done a decade or so ago). Also, after Huntington, US 52 isn't following the Ohio River any more, but the Big Sandy River and the Tug Fork, which make up the border between KY and WV.
I had a friend whose wife was stationed in Minot, and seeing US 52 there was pretty funny, as was seeing it in Charleston when I was there a few years ago.
You plan to do US 20. That's going to be as long as I-90; might want to break it up into section videos.
Todd, if time permits, in the US 52 West (North) video I’d like to see you mention the projects that WV is undertaking to upgrade and replace US 52.
The King Coal Highway will run from Bluefield to Williamson. The Tolsia Highway will run from Williamson to Huntington. Both are being planned and built as expressway-grade highways. These projects are what WV is doing in the I-73/I-74 corridor between Bluefield and Huntington, in lieu of building interstate-grade highways (that you have acknowledged, in other videos, will perhaps never be built as conceived).
These highways are being designed and built slowly (painfully slowly), small piece by small piece, as WV finds funds available.
Some parts of these massive projects are already partially open or are nearly completed. It would be interesting if you could find and show in the video one or more pieces of them. There is a piece of King Coal between Matewan and Gilbert which is open to traffic, but only two lanes are open (on a four-lane right-of-way), and I don’t believe it is officially designated US 52 yet. There are parts of Tolsia, near Crum, which likewise are open but only striped for two lanes. A small piece of King Coal near Bluefield running between US 460 and WV 123 is scheduled to open this fall. You can see the evidence of this one being built from the ramp running from US 52 North to US 460 East: a massive rock cut behind Mercer Mall, and the bridge over US 19 which has existed, unused, for over ten years.
These videos make me wanna get out and drive. Also it seems like the US highways will be more tedious and time consuming.
Its funny because you can be in either Cincinatti, OH, or you could be in Rochester, MN, on the same hwy, which is NORTH and WEST obviously. I believe you can take 52 into saint paul! commenting before I watch.. been one of my fave highways back when I used to hitchhike around. EDIT: minor detail, when I passed through ND many years ago, that state route shield was an indianhead of Chief Tomahawk, not sure why it was removed..