Exploring the Least Traveled Road in Every State

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March 24, 2018, 5:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


James W. Dalton Highway

Alaska State Route 11, also known as the James W. Dalton Highway, is the least traveled road in the United States. | Google Streetview

Linda Poon shares news of a new study by GPS-company Geotab that identifies every state's road least traveled. The study "crunches 2015 annual average traffic data from the Highway Performance Monitoring System to find the least traveled roads in each state, and in all of America."

The answer to the trivia question of which is the loneliest road in the United States: James W. Dalton Highway, which spans 414 miles between Fairbanks and Deadhorse in Alaska.

An interactive map allows exploration of the loneliest road in all 50 states.

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