US 56: Goin' to Kansas City
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2024
- U.S. 56 traverses 610 rural miles along the old Sant Fe Trail before spending it's last 30 in the KC metro, finishing in the heart of the city itself. It's a road almost nobody would travel from end to end given the many shortcuts along the way, but it's a fun road to check out!
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Once you get to Olathe, you don't need any city signs, it's ALL Kansas City. As for that non-compliant US 56 sign on Ward Parkway. Ward Parkway is 2 separate streets. A north & a south. Both one way, with very little signage to tell you the streets are one way. Out of towners beware, the locals just know.
I like Kansas' state highway shields, they are pretty unique. :)
I agree!
They are symbolic too, love the sunflower
I used US 56 once when driving from KC to Santa Barbara. It was sooooo desolate and boring until New Mexico. It was like a cartoon where the background slowly moves and the _exact same town_ was Copy-pasted every 10 miles with a rand(); function added for gas stations. A perfect 5 out of 7.
The reason for US-69's weird route through KC is so that the state can cover more of the area's roads as state highways, as opposed to being maintained by the local government.
From Kansas City and I dated a girl in Overbrook in HS, so I know the eastern portion of this route super well.
It’s kind of hard to disagree with US Highway control cities unless you’re at an Interstate Junction.
Also, Olathe is probably signed over Kansas City because 56 doesn’t go through KCK and KDOT probably wanted to keep their Control Cities in-state on 56 as much as possible.
Three months ago, I drove the stretch of US 56 between the US 77 roundabout junction and Larned, as part of my drive from KC to Albuquerque!
1:34 Very apropos for the playoff game, there’s a sign for Miami at the start of US 56! (I didn’t know there was a Miami, New Mexico!)
10:48 Marion is the county seat, those are the KDOT rules
10:33 There is no fear in McPherson. Only fur.
12:00.... ks prefers to sign County seats, hence why the marker for Marion.
And Olathe (county seat of Johnson County)
This past summer I filmed the entire route 56 from KC Mo west to Springer NM. I'll make sure to upload it tonight.
Curiously, I don't think Missouri recognizes it as a route anymore. I believe The city maintains the Missouri stretch. There wasn't any signage on U.S.71 just on the Northbound side offramp.
FYI there is also a Great Bend in NY and PA... The one in NY is near Fort Drum and Carthage NY near Watertown NY and the one in PA is just south of the NY/PA approximately 15 miles south of Binghamton NY...
Ooh! 56!
Goes right through Great Bend. Looking forward to seeing green US highway shields. :)
I love your comments about the I 35/US 69 "relationship"...years ago when our family was staying in Eagleville to bury my wife's dad, we did some exploring in our rental and discovered that the local letter highways and US 69 were definitely the more fun roads as they were hilly and curvy, whereas 35 was a fairly flat, straight, and uneventful freeway.
Yeah 69 isn't nearly as hilly as it used to be.
Now that US 69 was brought up I am curious for the US 69 video when you eventually get to it. I've always thought its signage throughout the KC metro was bazaar and made no sense so ever so I'm intrigued.
Same. It and 169 have both had a number of alignments through the metro over the years and none have made much sense.
I guess you have a future road trip Todd, seeing all these Kansas cities you’ve never seen in your backyard.
Edgerton is such a nice small town i grew up there and spent most of my life there 56 runs right through it. Baldwin is also a pretty nice city.
Most of US 56 in Kansas was originally US 50N, and current US 50 was US 50S. That is why US 50 and US 56 meet twice in Kansas. US 56 was originally commissioned in 1956, to get rid of the long US 50 split route.
K-156 used to be US-156 until 1982 too.
I seen one too many accidents growing up at the old 56/59 crossing.
Its change was needed
also "old hwy 56" went through Olathe just north of what was Great mall of the Great Plains so I guess those signage were refereeing to that
Any plans for covering the Highways that run concurrently with 56 such as 64 and 412? Also nice to see the Roundabout at the Cimarron County Courthouse finally get updated on Street View it was stuck on like 2007-08 Image for a long time at that spot.
Also the reason why Oklahoma City is on the bottom line is because (and for some reason ODOT doesn't mention it probably because there's only so many highway shields you can put on there) but Oklahoma Highway 3 also runs concurrent with US 56/64/412 in the Western Oklahoma Panhandle and Oklahoma Highway 3 actually goes to Oklahoma City and that highway is also known as the Northwest Expressway when it enters the OKC Metro area.
Fun fact about Oklahoma Highway 3: It is the longest highway in the State of Oklahoma at 615 miles so I think it'd be a fun road to cover and I might have some exit requests and points of interest that the highway runs through if you do cover OK-3.
I plan to do 64 any some point, but it would be a while before I get to 412 l, I don’t really recognize it as legitimate anyway. OK 3 sounds cool!
@ControlCityFreak if anything at least cover the Cimarron and Cherokee Turnpikes as well as the 412 part that will be upgraded to interstate standards in the future.
I did my own version of US 64. I live near the Highway in NC.
16:22 - Old US 56 starts at this interchange and snakes its way toward the northeast from Gardner. It's quite a pleasant drive. Old US 56 eventually goes through Olathe and dumps directly onto I-35.
So I’ve learned the Kansas is actually pretty good with control cities.
That’s if they aren’t making changes that are Awful & Unnecessary.
I’ve heard of liberal and subblette they were city’s in the series storm chasers that was target areas for tornado targets
17:29 I’m guessing the same reason 26 goes to Blackfoot, Idaho, so that road gets federal maintenance.
At least with 26, it makes sense. For context, US 26 is concurrent with 20 in central Idaho, but it leaves to go southeast to Blackfoot about halfway between Idaho Falls and the junction with US 93 in a city called Arco. In Blackfoot, it joins northbound I-15 and then leaves it in Idaho Falls just two miles south of the US 20 and heads east to the city of Ririe. The fastest way from Arco to Ririe is US 20 to Idaho Falls and then US 26 to Ririe
It makes sense for US 26 to go out of its way to Blackfoot because it connects the Pocatello metro and I-15 to tourist attractions on the concurrency and US 20 does the job at connecting Arco and Idaho Falls. If that doesn’t make sense it will when a US 20 video is done on this channel
11:25 Herington is infamous for being where Tim McVeigh hid out for a time before he blew up that building in OKC in 1995 - if you hadn’t known that.
@davidfreesefan23 The extent to which I know McVeigh is connected to Kansas is that Junction City (a straight shot north from Todd’s hated control of Marion along 77) near Manhattan is where he rented the Ryder Truck used.
Yeah Junction City I all I knew about too.
@@ControlCityFreakit was a Ryder rental place near a body shop just off I-70 and US-77. Eek.
McVeigh was stationed at Fort Riley which is just a few miles down the road from Junction City. I have a few friends who knew him.
awesome! i grew up in Liberal Ks, i drove 56 all the time from sublette to mcpherson to visit my grandparents
I was curious….. Lyons High school mascot is …… the Lions
Lyons Lions
I went to Great Bend High School. Our mascot? The Great Bend Panthers. :)
Baldwin Junction had a strip bar. A friend had worked there. Told me it closed. Went down to look at it for some investors. Just too far from KC. Or even Lawrence.
7:05 head north on 283 and one would eventually end up in Lexington NE (its northern terminus)
I think Kansas highways are famous for wide 4 way stops roundabouts and railroad crossings
Now I want you to do 412 since it's only a couple miles south of me in NW Arkansas 😆
56th like! I remember driving through Clayton, New Mexico with a couple of Kiwis in 2010.
US 56 looks like it's got some nice scenery in Kansas. 7:36 that's a nice looking Peterbilt!
US 56! love it, still need to drive it all in one go but I've still driven most of it. A majority of the pictures on Wikipedia on US 56 where taken by me. Also, I believe your pronouncing Hugoton correctly, my uncle lived there for serval years and that's how he always says it.
Nice!
Thanks!
Thank you!
I was on the KC leg of this late last year without even realizing it! It goes by three of KC's great BBQ spots; Joe's and Gates, as mentioned in the video, plus the Jack Stack location at the Plaza, all of which I have been to and can attest to. 🐷
Off of the 119th St exit (while cosigned with I-35) is Olathe is The Kansas City BBQ Store, which acts as a sort of BBQ sauce bottle shop (in addition to selling BBQ gear).
Oh yeah Jack Stack is great too!
Joe’s actually has a location in the same strip mall as the KC BBQ Store in Olathe.
I frequently go to that very Joe’s. Zarda’s is not too far off either. Zarda’s is near 87th Street Parkway and Quivira Rd just west of I-35 in Lenexa. :)
Lenexa has an annual barbecue competition at Sar-Ko-Par Park. It’s a sight to behold.
I really would like to request US 20. I would love to see US 20 because it’s the longest road in America after all
Will get to it eventually
@@ControlCityFreak ok
My series on US 20 is out Now.
Suggestion. When the super bowl teams are chosen, you should do maybe 3 digit interstates in both teams towns one week (since a singular 3 digit would be way too short of a video) For example if Detroit makes it use 696 or 275 (or both because they naturally flow into each other) The week of do a Vegas one, naturally. The week after a major highway that either starts or ends in the city. (Or runs through if the other doesn't apply) for example if Detroit wins, do US 12.
Cool idea, but I’m doing something conference championship game related the week before those, then Florida’s Turnpike for the Pro Bowl, then Las Vegas Boulevard Super Bowl Week
9:47 -Ooh yes! I see the High Rise on the left (Great Bend Housing Authority), the old C-mart in front, the Eagles club (smaller tan brick building between the high rise and C-mart), Marmie Ford (I once was a lot boy for the used car lot just off to the right).
Awesome!
@@ControlCityFreakSeeing the three 6’s on the traffic lights at 10th and Main always make me laugh as a kid. 56/156/96. :)
@@ControlCityFreakif you want to see a badly designed intersection, look at 10th and Harrison. A branch of the Kansas-Oklahoma railroad (formerly AT&SF) goes diagonally from SE to NW right through the intersection! And McDonalds is at the SW corner.
A hot mess to put it mildly.
I'm David Royston aka Marbleous Dave and I requested the Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod House in Kinsley, KS which is the midway point for US-50. Timestamp: 8:24
US-400 is such a weirdly numbered highway and it runs from Granada, CO to Joplin, MO.
@MarbelousRacing The entire U.S. Highway system is out of whack. I live along another “out-of-grid” U.S. Highway: 395. It never meets 95 (akin to 12 and 412), and is far longer than its “spur” status should dictate (akin to 287 or even 385). It very much sticks out like a sore thumb when comparing what’s east and west of it (101-97-*395*-95-93 is the order through Pacific Time).
And it continues west as US-50 to Loma, CO (west of Grand Junction). At least they should carry the US-400 designation just west of Rocky Ford so there'd be a sign pointing to Limon at its' end.
395 is certainly worthy of a 2 digit number, but every 9x was already taken. It spurred off of 195 and is at least in the same neighborhood as 95 so the number works. 412 is a different animal entirely, it flouts numbering convention and never had any association with 12. It should be decommissioned on most of it's concurrencies and changed to an x64 or x62 in independent stretches.
does the portion of US 56 along Brookside Blvd necessitate MDOT approval for construction of the streetcar along that stretch? there's definitely few highways with dedicated transit lanes in the right of way
I hope you get feeling better soon
Thanks!
@@ControlCityFreak it seems like New Mexico is the same DOT as Pennsylvania
@@jordanjones5751I swear PA, NJ, NC, NM, and CO state DOTs are related somehow.
@@Ramiestar California and Vermont have similar DOT signage
Instead of taking I-335/KTA I can see zig-zagging to where you need to go to avoid tolls. Kind of what I used to do to avoid I-44 H.E Bailey Turnpike in OK. Instead I'd take US 62. Hey, that's a neat one to do, US 62, no?
My brother went to college in Emporia so I took the 56 way around once. Kinda interesting but the toll road is just so much faster.
At least they didn't sign Limon.
9:17 today is the first day I realized Loaf ‘N Jug is Kwik Shop in Kansas. Weird.
Here's how I would do the control cities for US 56:
(Santa Fe WB), Springer WB, Clayton, Boise City, (Okla City EB to US 64/412 EAST)/ Elkhart, Hugoton, Sublette, Dodge City, Kinsley, Great Bend, McPherson, (Empria EB to KS 150)/Marion, (Junction City EB to US 77 NORTH)/Herington, Council Grove, (Topeka EB to I-335), Osage City, Baldwin City, Edgerton WB, Gardner EB, Wichita WB (with I-35), Olathe WB, Kansas City EB
Gates is awesome. Get a Nooner. One of the best sandwiches you may ever have.
Next time the Chiefs play the Dolphins, it might be interesting to do Florida's Turnpike.
Doing it in a couple weeks for the Pro Bowl
Hey Could you do US 1 eventually
Eventually, but I'm really dreading that one.
Yeah I was wondering why you weren’t doing us highways in order
I’m doing US 1 just in Virginia and North Carolina very soon.
I just got a notification about this
Is there going to be either I-52, or I-58 for an upgrade on US-400 from Pueblo Colorado to Joplin Missouri? Both Dodge City and Garden City in Kansas with a population of 27,000 each and still growing.
That could be the idea
KDOT has been trying to widen US50/400 to divided 4-lane for literally decades. They started with the stretch between Kingman and Wichita back in the 90s, and have done some patchwork realignments and widenings over the years since then (Garden City to Pierceville, Ingalls to Cimarron, Pratt to the Kingman County line, and a few other places).
Also, Garden City and Dodge City are much closer to 40,000 population these days.
US 64 is a massive US highway
2:22 didn’t even know that they had a third version of the movie
18:22 When did MoDOT start importing US highway shields from MinnDOT?
17:50 I still call it Oklahoma Joes. Great barbeque nonetheless.
At the NB 77 EB 56 jct, would it be too early to sign Beatrice NE or Lincoln there? Ditto for singing Fall City NE on NB 75?
The 2017 Rock Island Railroad has an operation in Baldwin City... the Ottawa Northern
For the most part, I think my list will be agreeable, but I’ll have to do some explaining for the “terminus”.
Springer-Clayton-Hugoton-Dodge City-Kingsley-Larned-Great Bend-Lyons-McPherson-Council Grove-Osage City-Gardner-Overland Park-“Shuttlecocks”
It doesn’t make sense to sign 56 E for Kansas City once it leaves 35 in Overland Park because at this point, any road headed in a somewhat easterly direction (or even northerly for that matter!) will inevitably end up in Kansas City. Showing that art museum gave me the perfect option for once on city streets (even if Google Maps suggests it may be faster to stay on 35 a tad bit longer…).
I’m fine with prioritizing tourist attractions once at an appropriate exit; in my hometown, a downtown exit advertises a planetarium, and an exit a bit north of the city proper advertises two desert themed zoological parks. And I remember owning a Rand McNally atlas (I think I may actually still have it, if a bit tattered) with detailed attractions and shopping options for 81 North American (72 American, 6 Canadian and 3 Mexican) cities, each entry featuring a picture of a popular tourist spot. Kansas City’s picture is of the Shuttlecock that strikes the ground at a 225 degree angle with respect to the building behind it (apparently, there are upwards of four at different impact angles). I can only assume it is an icon for the city, like what The Arch is to my hometown, a model spoon and Cherry are for Minneapolis, or Pike Place is to Seattle…
The Shuttlecocks are relatively new (30 ish years old) but yeah definitely an icon for the city now.
My interstate hero is sick 🥺😭 Go Lawrence Jayhawks ✊✊2 questions, ✊ have you been to Hutchinson more than once, and have you heard of Waldron KS?
I’ve been just outside Hutchinson on US 50 exactly once. Never been to the Cosmosphere or the fair, I’m a terrible Kansan😂
@@ControlCityFreak 🤣🤣🤣 but have you heard of Waldron, KS?
@@user-gc2op6mc7y I haven’t.
My interstate hero… since your a Kansan, have you heard of Kinsley, Hillsboro, Marion, Garden City, Liberal, and Goodland? Since those are the cities that are the locations of my Kansas Friends, including Lawrence because of u, name the ones that you have heard of
I’ve heard of the last 3 and driven through 2. Kinsley sounds familiar but not sure if I know it.
@@ControlCityFreak Which ones haven’t you heard of? Kinsley is the county seat of Edward’s county
@@ControlCityFreak which ones you don’t know well
For what it's worth, you got "Hugoton" mostly correct (close enough), and Satanta correct on yor second try (Suh-TAN-tuh). Cool video. If you havent done US 83 yet, you might give that one a shot.
Doing US 75 soon. Similar vibe so might be a while till I get to 83
@@ControlCityFreak Understandable, US 83 is a doozy.
Guymon sounds like the demented brother of Limon!
@andykullsu It’s quite a bit bigger, at about 20k micropolitan (the boundaries of Texas County, fitting as it really is the ‘Texas’ of the Oklahoma Panhandle!)
@@tylermarchand2996 I’m just saying the names sound the same
Hey Todd, can you name the Kansas towns you've been to and the ones you haven't out of these. Garden City, Liberal, McPherson, Elkhart, Great Bend, and Atchison
Drove through Liberal once but didn't stop, never been to any of the others.
NF's ins and outs for 2024
IN:
- Exploring more highways
- Finding new destinations
- Making fun of bad control cities
- Accepting new exit requests
OUT:
- Limon
- Limon
- LIMON!!!!!
- Oh did I mention Limon?
Lol
Ah, yes. Kansas- Home of “US A”. 🤣
If chiefs win and play buffalo, I think it would be I 190 in buffalo next week.
6:00 my parents plans include Liberal in October going from Albuquerque to Kansas City.
18:46 Google maps really bothers me in it’s signing of roads in cities where there’s no signage for it.
Hi
I by Ottawa IL 46 minutes to get to my house
What are the 400s? I don't wanna Google it.
Scroll through the comments, I answered it earlier 😎
Are you planning on doing US 64
At some point yeah.
I did a US 64 series. You should check it out
Lots of US highways. Contrast with Long Island where there isn't one.
The state of NY as a whole doesn't have many US routes compared to other states. When the US highway system was conceived, NY never really hopped on board except for the mainline routes. In fact, there's only like a few three digit routes that enter the state. And a couple routes that could have easily been a 3 digit ended up becoming a suffixed route (9W, 20A). When Pennsylvania was able to get a bunch of 3 digit routes commissioned when the system was created, most of them ended at the NY state line. In fact, US 220 still ends at the NY state line while the rest have been decommissioned (111, 309, 106).
Also, US 15 which used to go to Rochester has been truncated to Corning and will be gone completely once I-99 is completed.
I don't like how the KC metro doesn't really sign the US highways very well. 169 also exits on SMP but they leave it out. I also don't understand when they put it on the big overhead sign or decide to make it a 'second thought' signpost on the side.
Yeah they're all over the place. Should've just kept 169 on Metcalf anyway.
I swear US 69 is the uh… stepchild of the metro. I wish they just leave 169 alone.
In fact, 69 and 169 cross paths multiple times throughout the metro.
US-400: At least it doesn't go through Limon!
It’s not that ambitious
@@ControlCityFreak US 400 gives me heartburn. I think its main purpose is to truncate K-96 at Wichita. I wish K-96 went all the way from Tribune down to Pittsburg.
I don't know why US-400 was even thought of in the first place. Probably the most bizarre highway in our state.
@@DerekWittisn't it a placeholder for an eventual interstate?
@@Handle_Needs_3_Or_More_Charact nope. I never understood why 400, 412, or 425 even exist.
400 replaced K-96 east of Wichita.
@@DerekWitt the only other explanation I can think of is to obtain federal funding to help maintain them considering they're major corridors so the states can allocate more of their funds on the lesser travelled state routes.
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A MEXICAN HIGHWAY SIERES. FROM MX-1 TO MX-180
Yo where from kansas are you from I lived in wichita and wellington and leawood
Lawrence
You should in the future do US 287
Lol, he's gonna rant about Limon again.
@@Handle_Needs_3_Or_More_Charact but that highway goes from Texas to Montana and goes through some large cities and not just Limon. Beaumont, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Denver, Yellowstone National Park, it would be worth it
@@somethingrandom987 i just wanna see another Limon rant lol.
Too bad the Chiefs aren’t playing the Steelers in the playoffs. You could have done a video about the Pittsburgh area!
I’d be doing 56 regardless of opponent. Started collecting pics a couple weeks ago figuring if the 1% chance of the Chiefs missing the playoffs played out I could still use it next year and slap together something else for wildcard week.
The KC museum is rather nice but it's got nothing on the Cincinnati Museum Center :D
I've not been. I'm sure it's great, P&G money and all.
Here is a suggestion if Your Chiefs have to go to Rich Stadium to play My Bills next week.... How about a video on I 190 and I 290??... I 190 runs from Buffalo to Niagra falls and I 290 runs from I 90 to I 190...
You have already done a video on I 990 and the QEW...
@tomtbi Rich Stadium? You must be living in the past. Apart from the corporate name, I’ve only ever known of Ralph Wilson…
Also, wouldn’t 219 be a better choice, considering the stadium seems to rival Gillette for the most rural setting?
@@tylermarchand2996Rich Stadium is the correct name. I’d also accept War Memorial Stadium, although that was a different building
@@tylermarchand2996 I would be happy with that as well since US 219 does run through Orchard Park where Rich Stadium is ..
What is this “400 series” you speak of?
@benjaminchandler7919 The 400s in Ontario.
I believe future Interstate highways. There is mention of upgrading U.S. 412 from northwest Arkansas to I-35 in Oklahoma to Done to something like I-42 or I-46.
@c.t.turner2123 It’d probably be 46. 42 is taken for an upgrading of U.S. 70 from Raleigh to Morehead City on the coast.
@@tylermarchand2996 okay hear me out, it should be 44.
45 should be extended from Dallas to Tulsa, and then take current 44 to Joplin and 49 to KC. There should be a new interstate 48 that uses 44 in MO and 400
400, 412, 425. 3 digit US highway that have nothing to do with a 2 digit route.
Us 24 would be cool
Will do at some point
24 goes through both Manhattan and Lawrence. K-State and KU. :)
@@DerekWitt It’s definitely the stepchild route in Lawrence with its weird route to Topeka and it’s Manhattan-touching.
How about U.S. 90?
Us 24 also changes from an east west to north south here in Michigan
Kansas City is from Kansas or Missouri.?
@johncarlolanoy729 Both. There really isn’t anything separating them other than an arbitrary political dividing line. Same goes for Texarkana (Texas/Arkansas) and Bristol (Tennessee/Virginia). If you want a very special example, look at Lloydminster in the Canadian Prairies!
Missouruh
@@tylermarchand2996Not quite the same. Texarkana is 1 city in 2 states. The Kansas Citys are adjacent cities with the same name, but share no government entities.
It's one big metro. KCK is essentially a suburb of KCMO. KCMO is the urban core and the "big city" of the metro. KCMO was a growing city many years before Kansas even became a territory, let alone a state. The city of Kansas in Missouri was simply there first and it was named after the Kansa Indian tribe and the Kansas River.
Many years later a few small towns across the river in Kansas consolidated and named the new city Kansas City as well. They did this so people on the east coast would be confused and think they were the larger KC for doing business etc. And in 2024, people on the coasts are still confused.
Today nearly everything that makes KC interesting and unique is on the MO side. Even the airport etc. The KS side does have the speedway and MLS team though.
It's pronounced "Boys" City. No relation to the Idaho city.
I checked a couple local UA-cam vids for pronunciation and they said it the same way as me
I'm from Western KS, it is "Boys" City