The Longest Interstate In America 

It’s all right. It happens. Keep up the good work!

Haha! yeah I noticed that!

I can see how you might make that mistake since I-90 and I-94 run concurrently through Chicago, so when they split up again you probably just accidentally followed the I-94 alignment through Milwaukee instead of I-90 through Rockford.

I was about to say something! 90 and 94 intersect and share routes quite a bit thru there, but 94 primarily staying north of 90

9:21 so the mileage will be wrong too, by going by Milwaukee you increase the mileage.

Damn. As someone born in 2000, I wonder what weird anachronistic sights like that I'll end up seeing to pass on later

Wow!! Amazing!

@Chris Dorst yeah Cheers is based in Boston though only the exteriors were actually shot here the producers couldn't get permission to shoot interiors in the Bull & Finch pub on which cheers is based native Bostonian here the turnpike can be nightmarish at times so though is the southeast expressway/I93 which I used to take to get to school in elementary a ride that should take around 15 mins from East Boston could take over an hour sometimes

I never heard that before, but I love it.

Hahaha love this!

🤣🤣🤣 Love it! 👍

It does end here in Seattle about 4 blocks from the Starbucks Headquarters.

Factually true

Didn’t know this, thanks Mike!

@@BeaverGeography from Wikipedia “One of the last rural sections of I-90 to be built was through Wallace, Idaho, which placed its downtown on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 to prevent its demolition for the freeway. The 1.5-mile (2.4 km) elevated freeway bypassed Wallace to the north and cost $42 million to construct. It opened on September 12, 1991, and the city ceremonially retired the last stoplight on I-90.”

That was correct

@@floridaman4073 do you live in the Orlando area?

@@miked31784 I do now.

SO ICONIC

*why is there a parking lot ahead*

They should extend I-70 with I-695 and have it become I-97 and get rid of the I-97 number.

and on the other side in Utah it just terminates at a T interchange with i15 in the middle of nowhere

I-70 should pull an I-94 and connect to I-80 on the west side

Same here. I grew up in Agawam and is an important road in Massachusetts.

Mass Pike

Actually it's a tollway

In the mid 2000s, the Boston Big Dig was complete and operational and I-90 was extended to the airport as part of the project.

I’m from Marblehead so I used to take the Ted Williams each time I went west. I remember always being amazed at how it was the deepest tunnel in North America

Yeah, he really tore apart South Dakota lol

I didn't like what he said about SD. My late aunt lived there in the 70s, and she saw all kinds of seasons and landscapes, especially the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore.

I’ve been there bro I know a boring road when I see one lol

@@BeaverGeography It's all subjective. You might think it's boring while others love the wide open spaces and flowers

IMO when I travelled I-70 from western Pennsylvania all the way to the Denver area, I thought nothing could be more boring. Even though 70 is not a Cross Country interstate. 64 to the south was much nicer when it passed through the same states sans Ohio and Pennsylvania. 64, did not start getting boring until I hit the middle of Illinois en route to St Louis. Been on all of 80 from the GWB to SF. Very nice when you get to Western NJ, all of PA, a little flat with trees intermixed with farmland from Ohio to The Mississippi in Western Illinois. From Iowa to west of Cheyenne it becomes less populated with trees and mostly soybean and cornfields (Eastern IA to North Platte, NE) giving way to high plains topography until you hit Laramie Wyoming, where it becomes mountainous, but IMO less scenic than the I-70 to the south in Colorado. East of Salt Lake is nice and west of Salt Lake gives way to the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Flats. Great Basin scenery throughout NV, until you make your way to the Sierras which are nice too near the Tahoe area. From there on, you will hit more populated areas throughout much of California. 10, which is the closest interstate to me, in Arizona, is a pretty cool ride from Santa Monica to Jacksonville. However, you are going to spend a third of it in Texas. When I drove west out of Louisiana into the beginning of Texas, traveling westbound, I saw a sign that told me that El Paso was about 1100 miles. Not too sure, but I think you cross the longest bridge in bayou country in Louisiana. Regarding the aforementioned length in TX, El Paso is closer to Santa Monica, CA, than it is to Houston. Also, 10 covers a lot of miles from the western panhandle of Florida to Jacksonville. Travelled all of I-5 on the west coast, but only travelled on I-95 from the Portland area in ME to Marathon, FL.

Lol never ends!!! I live in Seattle area

It’s called freeze and thaw.

Also forgot to mention that what is now I-290 (Eisenhower Expwy) was also I-90 until the late 1970s. The Kennedy Expwy was IL 194 instead (including its terminus that is now signed as I-190). The history of changing route number assignments for expressways in the Chicago area is surprisingly complex!

Appreciate the support, and love hearing these random things about geography

DARNIT NOO I MESSED UP I think I’ll probably see a few comments about this lol

Came to say this. As I grew up near rockford. Lol

The northwest was already connected to the system via I-5 and I-84. And I-90 had been completed across 99% of Washington, including through I-405, by the 1980s. One omission was that IDAHO was the real hold up. The last traffic light on the interstate system was in Wallace, Idaho, which wasn't removed until 1991.

@Texas Outdoor Fanatic: The north south I-5 was congested almost from its beginning in the 60’s through the Seattle metro area so feeling isolated? No.

Notre Dame ?

@@RKelleyCook yes, from Lake Station to Elyria Township in Ohio

Funny enough throughout the East and west sides of Cleveland, I-90 runs in a concurrency with State Route 2 twice. Where I-90 meets I-80 a bit outside Cleveland is where it splits off from one concurrency with State Route 2. State Route 2 continues as a freeway past Sandusky Ohio, home of Cedar Point.

you don't want to travel through WY or CO in the winter. it will SCARE the hell out of you!!

I absolutely loathe the Kennedy.

And after it leaves that concurrency it becomes an on-and-off concurrency with State Route 2 through a majority of the West side and part of the east side of the greater Cleveland area, fun fact.

Gotta hook up the Wisconsin homies

@@BeaverGeography where are you from abouts?

@@commentor3485 WISCONSIN BABY

@@BeaverGeography what part? All of Wisconsin is beautiful! The coulee region in my view is the best part. (Northwoods are really cool as well)

Same here

As a home Wisconsinite, I feel an obligation to show how awesome the state really is

As a Retired truck driver I can tell you that if you want to see some of the most beautiful land this country has to offer go there .you will find every type of country the country has to offer .and with a little pre planning you will have an easy and enjoyable trip .

I’ve enjoyed taking many photos as a passenger while on I-90 of the road and the long haul trucks that use it. It’s awesome and both road and trucks should not be taken for granted. Thankful to God for both, Eisenhower who got the Interstates built and Lady Bird Johnson for the Rest Stops. May God continue to bless this nation, but this nation must repent of it’s godlessness and ingratitude to God who formed this great nation.

@@saywhat8966 Sorry son you have that backward god made the heavens and the earth man and all the wonders on it .Man invented politics and governments and this nation .

Yea, CDA and Spokane is the main city between Missoula.

@@JailEnforcement Yes. I hopped off I-90 afterwards, instead of taking it to Helena, as I moved to Great Falls, instead taking Hwy 200 up that way. Also a great drive.

The city was also overrun by RATS.

The Big Dig is cool. Engineering marvel

Wall Drug is fun if you like cheesy Americana. To be fair, though, the Corn Palace is just a corn themed small arena.

Probably to avoid twin cities traffic.

I 94 goes through the twin cities

True, they are spectacular and massive.