Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/April 2016


 * ... that U.S. Route 491 (pictured) was created in part due to large amounts of sign thefts from its former route number?
 * ... that M-66 is the only state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
 * ...that the original vertical lift bridge carrying U.S. Route 213 over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Chesapeake City, Maryland was destroyed by the tanker Franz Klassen in 1942?
 * ...that the Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and the first road connecting Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River?
 * ...that Vermont Route 26 is only 69 ft long?