The Lincoln Highway: I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting history. Have any of you ever ridden on the portions that still remain? I-80 took over a large portion of it. Boy Scouts across the country installed about 3,000 of the posts pictured below.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting history. Have any of you ever ridden on the portions that still remain? I-80 took over a large portion of it. Boy Scouts across the country installed about 3,000 of the posts pictured below.

I should watch that. It is briefly referred to in a book I have about Highway 99 in CA. The Lincoln Highway started out as a dirt trail, as did 99.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

lamiaceae wrote:

I should watch that. It is briefly referred to in a book I have about Highway 99 in CA. The Lincoln Highway started out as a dirt trail, as did 99.

I saw the first one listed, from Wyoming PBS.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lincoln+highway

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

Very interesting jerry.

melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

I drove a long stretch of it in 1950.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

It runs a couple of miles past me... It is Rt 30 through most of PA.

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

there are Lincoln highway signs through Fort Wayne and west.

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

US 30 was the much of the Lincoln highway

Lknack Loc: NOCO

Here’s old Abe watching the Lincoln Hwy just west of Cheyenne WY.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bloke wrote:

It runs a couple of miles past me... It is Rt 30 through most of PA.

I've driven on I-80 and your Route 30. I'd like to get onto the road that has the Lincoln Highway markers.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Been on it several times here in the west desert of Utah as it winds through the mountains paralleling portions of the Pony Express route...fun drive with little traffic!!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

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cdayton

A few years ago, we did a tour that was organized by the Lincoln Highway Association. However, it followed the old National Highway (originally laid out by George Washington) west until it joined old Rte 66 and then north to Joliet.

john maloney Loc: Columbia,Md.

it runs all the way across Penn. with the markers on it

dgrimsman Loc: Sisters, Oregon

jerryc41 wrote:

I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting history. Have any of you ever ridden on the portions that still remain? I-80 took over a large portion of it. Boy Scouts across the country installed about 3,000 of the posts pictured below.

I grew up on a farm two miles south of the original Lincoln Hwy in Carroll county IA. Hwy 30 is named Lincoln Hwy but the original route is a gravel road running parallel one mile south of 30 known locally as Old 30.