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Might be a bit of a stretch but: traveling northeast from Vegas, I-15 passes through Arizona for only 31 miles before hitting Utah.
I'm surprised you mentioned I-705 in Tacoma and not I-182 in the Tri-Cities, lol! I know a few other tiny western interstates are I-405 into downtown Portland, I-115 into Butte MT, and I-184 into downtown Boise.
Good point on I-182. However it is quite a bit longer than I-705. It runs just west of Richland to Hwy 395, about 12 miles.
US Route 2 is in (practically IS) the far northeast corner of New York for 0.9 miles. Then it picks up again in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
That is one of the weirdest road planning examples I have ever seen. US Rte 2 does not even end at some major road in Quebec, it looks like some local road.
Apparently much of the route was designed in the 1920s (when roads in general were terrible) and at least in some parts has not been updated to reflect modern US and Canadian highways.
For instance, no one would take that route today except for local traffic. Today, to get from Michigan to New York/New England, you would most likely take interstates in Ohio or a 400 highway in Ontario.
I-24 and I-86 are absolutely the poster children for what the OP is describing. Not entirely the same thing, but I-95 just barely clips the corner of Washington, DC on its way from Virginia to Maryland.
Do non-expressways count? U.S. 340 goes from Maryland into Virginia for maybe two miles, then crosses into West Virginia. Some number of miles later, it re-enters Virginia.
I'll allow regular roads and highways that are NOT a limited access expressway, to be mentioned for this thread. Btw I did NOT intend a few of the things I saw mentioned in this thread to be mentioned, like the person who mentioned I-82 starting/ending in Oregon, and running almost all of it's miles in Washington. Since this thread is reserved ONLY for roads and expressways that primarily run in one state(for this example I'll call it state A), briefly dip into another state(state B), then back to that initial state(state A). And I-82 going east does NOT return back to Washington state, after crossing the Columbia River into Oregon.
I just found another example of a road that does this, when I was looking at google maps and looking at Virginia/West Virginia border areas. Anyway Virginia State Highway starts in Bluefield, VA, crosses into West Virginia TWICE(though the 2nd crossing into West Virginia,is for much fewer miles), then returns back into Virginia just before this road ends in Pocahontas, VA.
I-76 passes through large section of Ohio and Pennsylvania, before crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge into New Jersey and only lasting about 3 miles before the 42/76/295 interchange in Bellmawr Township
I-495 (The Long Island Expressway and right through midtown Manhattan). It crosses through the Lincoln tunnel into NJ and becomes Rt 495. The NJ portion is only a few miles long until you get out to the Turnpike extension.
I just found another example of a road that does this, when I was looking at google maps and looking at Virginia/West Virginia border areas. Anyway Virginia State Highway starts in Bluefield, VA, crosses into West Virginia TWICE(though the 2nd crossing into West Virginia,is for much fewer miles), then returns back into Virginia just before this road ends in Pocahontas, VA.
Sorry I forgot to clarify this highway, is called and numbered Virginia State Highway 102. From what I noticed on the map, West Virginia also calls this highway State Highway 102.
I-76 passes through large section of Ohio and Pennsylvania, before crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge into New Jersey and only lasting about 3 miles before the 42/76/295 interchange in Bellmawr Township
That's a really good one, whiffed on that, being a former NJ resident ashamed I didn't beat you to it!
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