Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/April 2016

... that U.S. Route 491 (pictured) was created in part due to large amounts of sign thefts from its former route number?
... that M-66 is the only state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
...that the original vertical lift bridge carrying U.S. Route 213 over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Chesapeake City, Maryland was destroyed by the tanker Franz Klassen in 1942?
...that the Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and the first road connecting Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River?
...that Vermont Route 26 is only 69 feet (21 m) long?