Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/March 2012
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- ... that Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake (pictured)?
- ...that Rolling Road in Baltimore County, Maryland is named for the now obsolete tobacco hogsheds being rolled to the port down the road?
- ...that Utah State Route 901 is an unimproved road adopted into the state road network specifically to stop construction of a rail line to a proposed nuclear *waste dump" on Goshute tribal lands?
- ...that when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system?
- ... that despite being only 9.3 mi (15.0 km) long, South Carolina Highway 291 runs by two colleges and an airport in Greenville?