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What is the longest street in the United States?

Question #18661. Asked by JT.
Last updated May 15 2021.

Senior Moments
Answer has 12 votes
Senior Moments

Answer has 12 votes.
In the U.S. the longest street is in Los Angeles, California. Figueroa Street runs for thirty miles.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueroa_Street

Or Bayou Lafourche, known as 'The Longest Street in the World.' I always thought Yonge Street in Canada had that claim to fame.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayou_Lafourche
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street



Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 17 2016.
Apr 30 2002, 6:19 AM
alexanderrr
Answer has 4 votes
alexanderrr

Answer has 4 votes.
MacCorkle Ave. in Charleston WV. It's about 36 miles long.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_West_Virginia



Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 17 2016.
Jul 29 2006, 3:45 AM
geckodude18
Answer has 16 votes
geckodude18

Answer has 16 votes.
At 26 miles long, Colfax Ave, in Denver Colorado. is the longest continuous street in the United States.

link http://denver.about.com/od/realestate/p/capitolhill.htm

Mar 19 2007, 10:19 PM
angelica915
Answer has 6 votes
angelica915

Answer has 6 votes.
Broadway, originating from Lower Manhattan at Bowling Green and ending in Albany, is one of the world's longest streets at 150 mi (241 km). The official name of this street is Highway 9.

link https://www.ny.com/histfacts/strange.html



Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 17 2016.
Aug 19 2007, 11:40 AM
jchapel
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jchapel

Answer has 20 votes.

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Colfax Ave is the longest continuous street in the in the world, but it is longer than the Denver Metro 26 Mile Marathon. Colfax starts in Golden, CO at Mt Vernon Canyon Rd & W Colfax Ave and ends in Strasburg, CO at E Colfax Ave & Headlight Rd. Google Map the start and end points, move the route to stay on Colfax and you get 50.7 miles. Playboy Magazine once called it the longest and wickedest street in America because it was once a haven for prostitution. Since cleaned up by Denver metro Police Departments.

Emporis.com, a world mapping site, calls it the longest continuous road in the world at 40 miles.

link http://www.aplacecalledroam.com/home/denvers-colfax-avenue-thelongest-street-in-usa




Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 17 2016.
Mar 08 2008, 11:43 PM
edmund80
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edmund80
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Answer has 3 votes.
North Dakota Highway 46.

"North Dakota Highway 46, is supposedly the straightest of them all -- plumb line straight -- the longest straight road in America. It stretches across 123 miles of north Dakota prairie from Hwy 30 in the west to a nameless county blacktop just past I-29 in the east, a steady 20 miles south of I-94."

link http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11799

Oct 31 2008, 1:56 PM
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star_gazer star
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Answer has 4 votes.
We must also mention Broad Street in Philadelphia but it also is a urban only street.

link http://tinyurl.com/jtsyudj
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Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 17 2016.
Oct 31 2008, 3:12 PM
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looney_tunes star
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Answer has 7 votes.
Broad Street is only 12.5 miles (with a break at the City Hall block) - amazingly long and straight for a city street, but not close to North Dakota Highway 46.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_(Philadelphia)

This site suggest that Highway 46's longest absolutely straight stretch is 30 miles, and that is it beaten by "a stretch of Interstate 80 across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah that includes a 35-mile straightaway."

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080906030718AAIT8Y4 webpage no longer exists


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 15 2021.
Nov 01 2008, 5:21 AM
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