So nostaligic. I grew up in Detroit and my grandmother and uncle lived in Michigan City. When you showed the old Nuclear plant brought back memories. Uncle actually worked their.
3:40 That's the newer version of the sign. The old one read, "{12} {20} {45} North / LaGrange Road". No separate directions for US-12 or 20. 3:56 US-12/20/45 met US-66 here for a long time. Early on, the route for US-12 and 20 through Chicago (using Michigan Avenue and Lake Street (US-20) or Busse Highway (US-12)) became City US-12/20, and early form of business route. 4:14 Mannheim Road most certainly has an interchange with the Ike (I-290). 11:58 Elk Mound, Wisconsin, where you send your Menards 11% rebate form to.
This was a fun Episode to watch. I also have a couple requests for US 90: 1. The Southern Terminus of US 11. US 11 goes up to Pennsylvania and I have a Buddy who lives there. 2. US 27 in Tallahassee. The Two Highways meet in the middle of the City, and if you take 27, you’ll get to Florida State’s Campus. I’m a huge fan of the team. Go Noles! Thanks!
This list is going to be quite long, but I do have my reasons. The biggest ones are because of all the surface street segments, and because I’m disregarding the stretches that run concurrent with Interstates, and am treating them as if they’re city streets like throughout Chicagoland. Chicago-Des Plaines-Mount Prospect-Arlington Heights-Palatine-Bloomfield-Lake Geneva-Elkhorn-Whitewater-Fort Atkinson-Madison-Middleton-Sauk City-Lake Delton-Mauston-Tomah-Black River Falls-Altoona-Eau Claire-Menomonie-Hudson-Woodbury-St. Paul-Minneapolis-St. Louis Park-Minnetonka-Litchfield-Willmar-Benson-Big Stone City-Milbank-Aberdeen-Selby-Mobridge-Bowman-Miles City-Forsyth-Roundup-Harlowton-White Sulphur Springs-Townsend-Helena-Garrison-Missoula-Lewiston-Walla Walla-Pasco/Richland-Grandview-Sunnyside-Yakima-Mossyrock-Chehalis/Centralia-Montesano-Aberdeen One thing that you could have mentioned about U.S. 12 in Washington is that WA 124 (you did show the eastern interchange) is a great shortcut between Lewiston and the Tri-Cities that skips over Walla Walla, shaving off roughly 20 minutes. I’m quite familiar with the city, as my mother grew up there, and my grandmother and uncle live there now. 12 isn’t quite a freeway through the city, however. There are a pair of RIRO interchanges and a couple at grade interchanges between the airport and the downtown ‘exit’ (2nd Ave N). I have seen the divided highway gradually get extended further west towards the Wallula Junction (U.S. 730) at the Columbia River, but I doubt there’s room to make it a fully divided highway all the way to the Tri-Cities (or Yakima, depending on how you look at it).
Road America in Elkhart Lake is over 100 miles away from Lake Geneva. What is nearby as a POI is Alpine Valley, the huge outdoor music theater for far suburban Milwaukee.
4:19 hoping for US-20 one day! Another great video Todd. To add to your dad biking to Sparta, WI I believe there are state bike trails. Stopped at a gas station there and had a tourist info thing for it & cheese curds!
Kurt and Krist of Nirvana jokingly posed with control sign circa 1990 and it was recently preserved by a fan in Aberdeen (i long thought it was on US 12 but turns out it was nearby on WA 8).
The WB controll "city" are UW Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley Tech College when exiting off US 53. You do get Elk Mound when exiting off Hasting Way / Bus 53 (was US 53 until 06). The image you showed is taken where US 12 and Wis 312 meet up on Eau Claire's north side
As an Oak Lawn resident my whole life, 95th street has become my favorite road of all time, and seeing all these intersections in Oak Lawn made me happy as I pass through them all the time. One fix tho, you are in Oak Lawn WAY before you hit Cicero Avenue lol.
That felt wrong when I was recording it. It's been a minute since I've been, but I thought Oak Lawn started at Pulaski, the sign at Cicero through me off I guess. My grandma lived at around 97th in Beverly and my cousins were off 101st in Oak Lawn so we usually took 99th instead of 95th.
I bicycled US-12 from Waitsburg to Missoula back in 2019. Took 4 days, and there certainly aren't many towns in between apart from Lewiston-Clarkston, but it's beautiful scenery!
Incidentally, I discovered during the ride that milepost 420 on US-12 in WA is a concrete post with the mile number painted on it, so that no one can steal it!
I've got 2 locations for your All-Request episode. One is the end of Mass. 25, the Bourne Bridge. You took the road as far as the "Welcome to Cape Cod" sign at the Bourne town limits, but the road actually ends (and Cape Cod truly begins) at the bridge over the Cape Cod Canal. The second one is the view of Mount Katahdin from the scenic overlook on I-95 in Maine, south of Medway. GSV has a relatively new photo up there (2023) that shows the mountain pretty well. Thanks!
4:13 slight correction .... I-290 DOES have an interchange with Mannheim Rd (US 12/20/45). it's not quite a full cloverleaf no more (reconfigured about 10 years ago with the reconstruction of the Hillside bottleneck), but it is fully functional for all directions of the expressway and Mannheim.
I used to drive it when I worked for the phone company. It's SCARY, especially that snow-cut part at the summit in winter. Man, that used to give me the CREEPS! There's a small restaurant/C-store at the top, and the woman that worked there was HOT! This was ten years ago. I never, ever trusted the guard-rails up there, it was a thousand feet down. I was driving a Ford F-250 4WD. I don't know how the truckers stood it, I would have been too chicken.
Thanks! I’ve always wanted to drive US12 over white pass in Washington I have a couple requests for the I5 reboot that are in the Portland, Or area. 1: Exit 292A OR HWY 217 Tigard/Beaverton Because of its awful traffic during rush hour and its ongoing road construction I call it 2-awful-teen. Also Beaverton is where the Nike headquarters are located 2: Exit 282 Canby, it’s my hometown. Exit is located just south of the Willamette River where it crosses in Wilsonville Future highway suggestions, US 395 control city freak A scenic one if you want to do another one of the Columbia river gorge like you did with the I84 video, WA HWY 14. It’s actually signed better than 84 is.
Ik you’ll be doing a US 36 video but there’s a surprise in Missouri don’t wanna spoil it almosted comepletes US 36 and I follow the whole route next is US 1 for me
I haven't driven much of 12 but in the last year I've been to both Eastern and Western terminus of 12. I much prefer Michigan and Woodward in Detroit to the dreary depressing Aberdeen, though my visit there made me understand why Kurt Cobain's music was the way it was!
8:45 Baraboo has to be my second favorite wierd sounding control city behind Menominee.. Is Walla Walla a control city because that would be up there too 12:08 what do you know my two favorite control cities in one video.. is Limon the next surprise 16:08 "Its following me and it's changed it's spelling" Limon.. lemmon close enough😊 23:03 Guess Walla Walla is a control city after all
So you are supposed to pronounce every "s" in Des Plaines, but never pronounce the one "s" in the state name? Do the people in Des Plaines pronounce the s in Illinois, or are they also inconsistent?
I lasted about eight seconds, bouncing through a couple of scenes, as I realized I’d have to see the guy’s head for the whole thing. Definitely no interest in that!
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We stopped in Tomah on our road trip from Chicago to Minneapolis this summer
I'm new to your channel but this is quite an original idea for content.
So nostaligic. I grew up in Detroit and my grandmother and uncle lived in Michigan City. When you showed the old Nuclear plant brought back memories. Uncle actually worked their.
Thanks for showing my exit. This is for the upcoming all request episode and I’ll post those on the Patreon.
Thanks so much! Will check those and add to the list
3:40 That's the newer version of the sign. The old one read, "{12} {20} {45} North / LaGrange Road". No separate directions for US-12 or 20.
3:56 US-12/20/45 met US-66 here for a long time. Early on, the route for US-12 and 20 through Chicago (using Michigan Avenue and Lake Street (US-20) or Busse Highway (US-12)) became City US-12/20, and early form of business route.
4:14 Mannheim Road most certainly has an interchange with the Ike (I-290).
11:58 Elk Mound, Wisconsin, where you send your Menards 11% rebate form to.
As always, great video. I have taken US 45 and I-57 while stationed in IL. I remember Effingham as a control city on I-57 as it has JCT of I-70
This might be the prettiest thumbnail on your channel to date. And as always, very well done with this video!
Thanks!
5:58 Yay, Genoa City. I can almost see my house in this video. I'm working on getting a wall built to keep Chicago people out.
This was a fun Episode to watch. I also have a couple requests for US 90:
1. The Southern Terminus of US 11. US 11 goes up to Pennsylvania and I have a Buddy who lives there.
2. US 27 in Tallahassee. The Two Highways meet in the middle of the City, and if you take 27, you’ll get to Florida State’s Campus. I’m a huge fan of the team. Go Noles!
Thanks!
Thanks, you got it! I think I might know which buddy you're talking about
US 701: Do I look like a Joke to you
As a Carolinian, I felt deeply betrayed when he said US 730 was the only 7xx Highway 😢
Stayed at a nice cabin on Big Stone lake near Ortonville Minnesota my first vacation I remember as a kid. Back in the 80s lol
Not a CCF video without the Benson soundtrack
Lol
This list is going to be quite long, but I do have my reasons. The biggest ones are because of all the surface street segments, and because I’m disregarding the stretches that run concurrent with Interstates, and am treating them as if they’re city streets like throughout Chicagoland.
Chicago-Des Plaines-Mount Prospect-Arlington Heights-Palatine-Bloomfield-Lake Geneva-Elkhorn-Whitewater-Fort Atkinson-Madison-Middleton-Sauk City-Lake Delton-Mauston-Tomah-Black River Falls-Altoona-Eau Claire-Menomonie-Hudson-Woodbury-St. Paul-Minneapolis-St. Louis Park-Minnetonka-Litchfield-Willmar-Benson-Big Stone City-Milbank-Aberdeen-Selby-Mobridge-Bowman-Miles City-Forsyth-Roundup-Harlowton-White Sulphur Springs-Townsend-Helena-Garrison-Missoula-Lewiston-Walla Walla-Pasco/Richland-Grandview-Sunnyside-Yakima-Mossyrock-Chehalis/Centralia-Montesano-Aberdeen
One thing that you could have mentioned about U.S. 12 in Washington is that WA 124 (you did show the eastern interchange) is a great shortcut between Lewiston and the Tri-Cities that skips over Walla Walla, shaving off roughly 20 minutes. I’m quite familiar with the city, as my mother grew up there, and my grandmother and uncle live there now. 12 isn’t quite a freeway through the city, however. There are a pair of RIRO interchanges and a couple at grade interchanges between the airport and the downtown ‘exit’ (2nd Ave N). I have seen the divided highway gradually get extended further west towards the Wallula Junction (U.S. 730) at the Columbia River, but I doubt there’s room to make it a fully divided highway all the way to the Tri-Cities (or Yakima, depending on how you look at it).
Road America in Elkhart Lake is over 100 miles away from Lake Geneva. What is nearby as a POI is Alpine Valley, the huge outdoor music theater for far suburban Milwaukee.
4:19 hoping for US-20 one day! Another great video Todd.
To add to your dad biking to Sparta, WI I believe there are state bike trails. Stopped at a gas station there and had a tourist info thing for it & cheese curds!
Cheese curds are the best!
@@ControlCityFreakThen, you probably like poutine. Delish!
Kurt and Krist of Nirvana jokingly posed with control sign circa 1990 and it was recently preserved by a fan in Aberdeen (i long thought it was on US 12 but turns out it was nearby on WA 8).
The WB controll "city" are UW Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley Tech College when exiting off US 53. You do get Elk Mound when exiting off Hasting Way / Bus 53 (was US 53 until 06). The image you showed is taken where US 12 and Wis 312 meet up on Eau Claire's north side
I maybe a summer person however I love winter streeleval views
Agree, they look awesome!
Mannheim has a full interchange with 290.
21:48 Ah man, seeing this street view as someone who lives in Louisiana REALLY gives me the chills. lol
It looked like WisDot replaced the Augusta/Fairchild/Stanley control city off US 10 in Fairchild with just Augusta
16:29 replace the EM with I
😂
What if you tried best control city in each state? It would be hard but would make a pretty good video!
As an Oak Lawn resident my whole life, 95th street has become my favorite road of all time, and seeing all these intersections in Oak Lawn made me happy as I pass through them all the time. One fix tho, you are in Oak Lawn WAY before you hit Cicero Avenue lol.
That felt wrong when I was recording it. It's been a minute since I've been, but I thought Oak Lawn started at Pulaski, the sign at Cicero through me off I guess. My grandma lived at around 97th in Beverly and my cousins were off 101st in Oak Lawn so we usually took 99th instead of 95th.
I think you should do some pictures you cut out for time in the all-request episode
I’d thought of doing a blooper show but one I cut something and delete the project from iMovie it’s gone forever
I bicycled US-12 from Waitsburg to Missoula back in 2019. Took 4 days, and there certainly aren't many towns in between apart from Lewiston-Clarkston, but it's beautiful scenery!
Nice!
Whoa!
Incidentally, I discovered during the ride that milepost 420 on US-12 in WA is a concrete post with the mile number painted on it, so that no one can steal it!
21:00 looks like a very hip part of town that part of Missoula is called the hip strip
A small Nirvana clip. But good enough for me.
Whoo-hoo! I'm assuming there will an eastbound video for the western portion at some point? :)
Possibly, if this one does numbers lol
95th street bridge was the scene where the blues brothers drove over the open drawbridge.
i was today years old when i learned rand road was a US and not state highway
Just one note, Bowman is somewhat of a “regional hub” in the far southwest corner of North Dakota. It deserves a spot on the bottom line 😂😂😂
Horizon is now Allstate Arena
I've got 2 locations for your All-Request episode. One is the end of Mass. 25, the Bourne Bridge. You took the road as far as the "Welcome to Cape Cod" sign at the Bourne town limits, but the road actually ends (and Cape Cod truly begins) at the bridge over the Cape Cod Canal. The second one is the view of Mount Katahdin from the scenic overlook on I-95 in Maine, south of Medway. GSV has a relatively new photo up there (2023) that shows the mountain pretty well. Thanks!
Thanks, you got it!
4:13 slight correction .... I-290 DOES have an interchange with Mannheim Rd (US 12/20/45). it's not quite a full cloverleaf no more (reconfigured about 10 years ago with the reconstruction of the Hillside bottleneck), but it is fully functional for all directions of the expressway and Mannheim.
Yeah my bad there, whiffed that one
De plane 😂😂😂
Re: US 287 - you just want another opportunity to go off on CDOT's Limon signage!
For the bye week, can you fo the Blue Ridge Parkway?
Doing all-request episode
My interstate hero
Done the Lewiston and Clarkston roads a lot as I visited there a lot 2021-2022 - always fun to see roads I've been on in your videos!
I've driven White Pass in the winter when snowing -it's downright treacherous at 4,500 feet above sea level.
I used to drive it when I worked for the phone company. It's SCARY, especially that snow-cut part at the summit in winter. Man, that used to give me the CREEPS! There's a small restaurant/C-store at the top, and the woman that worked there was HOT! This was ten years ago. I never, ever trusted the guard-rails up there, it was a thousand feet down. I was driving a Ford F-250 4WD. I don't know how the truckers stood it, I would have been too chicken.
Thanks! I’ve always wanted to drive US12 over white pass in Washington
I have a couple requests for the I5 reboot that are in the Portland, Or area.
1: Exit 292A OR HWY 217 Tigard/Beaverton
Because of its awful traffic during rush hour and its ongoing road construction I call it 2-awful-teen. Also Beaverton is where the Nike headquarters are located
2: Exit 282 Canby, it’s my hometown. Exit is located just south of the Willamette River where it crosses in Wilsonville
Future highway suggestions, US 395 control city freak
A scenic one if you want to do another one of the Columbia river gorge like you did with the I84 video, WA HWY 14. It’s actually signed better than 84 is.
Thanks, you got it! Will get to 395 eventually.
Don't do it in the winter!!!
11:44 the signage on US 53 northbound really annoys me, why not sign Duluth? This is like Minnesota signing Moorhead on I-94.
US 730 is NOT the only 700-series US highway. You've also got US 701 in South/North Carolina.
Ik you’ll be doing a US 36 video but there’s a surprise in Missouri don’t wanna spoil it almosted comepletes US 36 and I follow the whole route next is US 1 for me
701 has it
From St Paul, Hwy 12 basically follows the old Milwaukee Road 🚂all the way to the west coast.
I have driven the whooooole cotton-pickin' thing, including the old track-bed of the Milwaukee Road.
@@misterwhipple2870 I would like to do that someday.
Should have thrown in the Y&R theme for Genoa City.
When you said we were going as far as Aberdeen I thought it was Aberdeen SD which US 12 also passes through.
Man, I should visit this route through the mountains(btw I couldn’t request the exit for US 40 due to budget cuts but maybe next 😅).
I-195 cape cod?
When is US 60 and I also wanna see US 13 because it goes to Philly
Not sure. 2025 at the earliest
Lemmon, South Dakota was at one time the smallest "city" in America with scheduled air service.
I haven't driven much of 12 but in the last year I've been to both Eastern and Western terminus of 12. I much prefer Michigan and Woodward in Detroit to the dreary depressing Aberdeen, though my visit there made me understand why Kurt Cobain's music was the way it was!
I've driven through Aberdeen too. When I lived in Tacoma it was on the route to the coast.
@@ControlCityFreak I actually spent the night in Aberdeen! Then I moved on to port Angeles and Olympic peninsula which was very beautiful
You prefer DETROIT to ABERDEEN??? You are insane! But I agree on one point: the entire PNW is very depressing (that is a Minnesota boy talking).
Between Ipswich and Selby (US 83 South Junction), you missed my town of Bowdle, SD (pop. 500). Take 83 north from there and it goes to Bismarck.
That's why I offer exit requests lol
6:45 some road debris punctured the tire of my rental car there once going from US-12 west to I-43
Ouch!
You should do a Lemmon rant
It's Limon
@@truckercowboyed2638he said that because there was a town called Lemmon in the video.
Can you do Berlin Germany’s route to Uber arena site of wrestling august 31st
Some us highways I’ve already completed US 6 US 10 US 18 US 63 US 75 US 82 US 29
Wow those are some big ones! Did you take the Badger for US 10?
@@ControlCityFreakyes I did and I almost have US 36 Done I’m doing the Ohio portion then it’s to US 1 and I do it all on my iPad 10
US 701.
8:45 Baraboo has to be my second favorite wierd sounding control city behind Menominee.. Is Walla Walla a control city because that would be up there too
12:08 what do you know my two favorite control cities in one video.. is Limon the next surprise
16:08 "Its following me and it's changed it's spelling" Limon.. lemmon close enough😊
23:03 Guess Walla Walla is a control city after all
Menomonie, do do da do do!
So you are supposed to pronounce every "s" in Des Plaines, but never pronounce the one "s" in the state name? Do the people in Des Plaines pronounce the s in Illinois, or are they also inconsistent?
Guessing the same reason "rough" and "bough" don't rhyme - etymology.
Keep on doing the US highways, maybe US 20?
US 20 was a fun road when I did it back in May
US 12 doesnt pass through anything big in South Dakota (except Aberdeen) so I give control cities a pass for SD
Aberdeen is HUGE! They actually have TWO McDonalds' there, AND a Burger King! How big do you wanna get?
WHYzata not wayzata. 😂
When supercut
Never been this early before lol
Imagine doing US 30 after this.😂😂
That's why Indiana 16 is next lol
You are wrong i 290
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I lasted about eight seconds, bouncing through a couple of scenes, as I realized I’d have to see the guy’s head for the whole thing. Definitely no interest in that!