Weird Road Names Near You

[Zeus-cat]

Indian Ripple Road in Beavercreek, Ohio. Sounds like one of the worst ice cream flavors ever.

 

[dhbarr]

It's only 3hrs drive from Bug Tussle, OK to Toad Suck, AR.

 

[Tech 68]

Brown Material Road in Lost Hills, Calif.

 

[cerving]

In the city that I lived in as a kid, the welfare office was on Easy St...

 

[Worsaer]

Many will recognize this one…

 

[Worsaer]

I had to include the map… I lived not far from Whicha Way, Thisa Way, and Thata Way.

 

[Grog6]

Lon Mee Road. In Harriman TN. I lived here for 30 years before I found out that It was a local officials' name. I used to live on Seed Tick Road, before that. If you don't know what seed Ticks are, you are a lucky, lucky person.

 

[smstachwick]

I’ve got family in Utah. Lots of places there have their streets laid out on a grid system. You get street names like “W 500 N” and the house number fills in the West coordinate.

 

[Banzai88]

We have 3 roads named Princess Anne within a 5 mile radius.....none of the 3 are connected to each other.

 

[goose_in_co]

I used to live on Elbow lane, in Cherry Hills, NJ. The street signs would last at most 6 months before they were stolen.

There is a Race Way, in Centennial, CO.

 

[John Kemker]

A long, long, time ago, when I was growing up in Texas...

A youth organization I belonged to had a state convention and the state youth executive for the organization got up and announced he was from Muleshoe, TX. He then said that he's often asked where Muleshoe was, and he'd reply, "About 15 miles from Earth. Earth, TX, that is."

 

[NateB]

Harry Baals Drive, it travels along the edge of Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne. The city ended up printing the road sign as H. W. Baals Dr because it kept getting stolen.

 

[NateB]

I’ve got family in Utah. Lots of places there have their streets laid out on a grid system. You get street names like “W 500 N” and the house number fills in the West coordinate.

This system makes it so much easier to find houses when someone calls 911. All you have to know is which roads mark the divide for the directional in the county and then you know how many miles away and in which direction to find the address.

 

[bad_idea]

I've not lived there, but on visits to Detroit, I've driven past Big Beaver Rd. in Troy many a time.

 

[smstachwick]

I've not lived there, but on visits to Detroit, I've driven past Big Beaver Rd. in Troy many a time.

I went to school in Michigan for about 2-and-a-half years. Roads in Calhoun County sometimes had two names, one with a proper name and one with the measurement from one of the county lines (I forget which). The road by my school was both Starr Commonwealth Way (named for the school) and 25 1/2 Mile Road. I think they dropped the Starr moniker after the campus closed.

 

[hartlch]

I've not lived there, but on visits to Detroit, I've driven past Big Beaver Rd. in Troy many a time.

LOL - I grew up in Troy, MI just off of Big Beaver. aka "16 Mile Rd".

 

[tsmmiller]

I grew up on Menagerie Dr. Cross St is Miller Rd. County named Miller road because we were the only people living down it at the time. The 1/4 mile from there is Menagerie, named by mom, since we had every kind of animal on the place you could imagine and a few you couldn’t. City limits now sits on moms fence line.

 

[BEC]

There is a long north-south road in this area (south Puget Sound) called Military Road. But one of the towns here is called Federal Way, which I've wondered about all 43 years we've lived here.

 

[K'Tesh]

Used to live on Normal Ave., Ashland, Oregon... Damn near got ran over by Jack Elam on it too (He was far worse a driver than the Cannonball Run movies would have you believe). When Ieft, I think they had to rename it to Abnormal Ave.

 

[dr wogz]

Montreal has some neat name,s and like most, names after famous people, mainly political figures. So, there is alwasy some controvercy naming (or renaming) a street after a particular persopn (such as Rene Levesque Blvd). There is also the unique political haze here, where anything "English" quietly gets changed to French.. (again, Rene Levesque Blvd used to be "Dorchester". it is still Dorchester in the very affluent (and English) portion of Westmount..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Lévesque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Lévesque_Boulevard

 

[cwbullet]

Frog Run Road

 

[John Kemker]

Beaver Ruin Rd. Who ruined the beaver? Why did they ruin the beaver? Did the beaver get compensated for being ruined?

 

[RocketT.Coyote]

Grew up near a busy street named for Revolutionary War General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, but everyone just calls it 22nd Street.

 

[KenECoyote]

 

[MClark]

Many will recognize this one…

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There is a movie named for this road.
It is the worst grossing movie in US history.
$30!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx_Road

 

[jsdemar]

I used to live on Freestone Rd. in Liverpool (NY). I moved to NM 20 years ago and NY state just got around to making it legal.

 

[user 30299]

No Name Rd. - in Piketon, Ohio

 

[Bob in Phoenix]

In Paradise Valley, AZ, there is a street named Camino sin Nombre, which is Spanish for Street with No Name.
I'm sure it's all very zen...

Bob in Phoenix

 

[krislhull]

There is a long north-south road in this area (south Puget Sound) called Military Road. But one of the towns here is called Federal Way, which I've wondered about all 43 years we've lived here.

Then have University Place near Tacoma, with no university nearby…

 

[Abilene Sam]

Noodle Dome Road, west of Tye, TX.