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The state boundary in Bristol is right down the main street - appropriately, State Street. There are blue Virginia flags on one side and red Tennessee flags on the other, but otherwise it's just a main street:
Charlotte and SC. Carowinds goes through both states and beside at the entrance, you don’t know what state you’re in in the theme park unless you use the map.
I imagine there's many, many answers to the question. It's probably rarer to have a state boundary that is universally visible and clearly marked. Even the VA/MD line which is otherwise marked by the Potomac River and thus quite clear is just an arbitrary line in the sand on the Delmarva peninsula.
The Columbia River is a pretty big deal. Especially on 101 going into Astoria near the mouth of the river going into the Pacific with a very long bridge crossing. It's a pretty good indicator you're transitioning into another state even without signage. But the Oregon state line is marked well on the bridge (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2350...7i13312!8i6656) and coming off the bridge you get a state welcome sign (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.1876...7i16384!8i8192). I'd say it's pretty obvious a state line is located there.
Yeah I think they were just being silly lol.
In general the West isn't great for this, just because there are relatively fewer roads, so it's easier for states and counties to put signs up marking all of the state borders. But I found at least one example, on the MT/WY border, with no clues that you've crossed a state line.
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I've driven in 44 states and don't remember any of the main highways that didn't have a sign welcoming to their state. On the less traveled back roads there have been some but I can't remember where off the top of my head, including between California and Oregon, where the only indication was on the car GPS screen. There was one road that goes up and down between the two states several times.
In the far NE corner of Maryland there is a very short stretch of route 896 passing through that state between Pennsylvania and Delaware. Maryland doesn't bother signing that you are entering that state but both Delaware and PA do so very discretely. Therefore the driver would get the impression that they are passing directly from DE to PA.
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