"I-80 is the Interstate highway that most closely approximates the route of the historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail across Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Trail across most of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental airmail route, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad."
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Iowa Taken from Overpass Exit 179 looking East towards Sugar Creek and the next visible exit of the Grinnell rest area.
google co-ords 41.695328, -92.795434
Thanks, you must drive over it regularly.
Ah no I've never driven that road East of Des Moines and that was back in 1997. First glance I thought Iowa, because it is easy as to rule out anything West of Omaha. Second the combination of the visible double interchange made it faily easy to find on the Highway map. Thirdly I'm a Kiwi, never lived in the US but have driven all over the Western half, that is probably why I read your Blog given the variety of transport themes.
ChrisW
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