I wonder how many King's Highways there are in the world? For a while it was probably quite a common name. The one that Zeke and I traverse on our commute has been decommissioned for quite some time. Parts are overgrown, some of it is a farm road, and the section leading away from this sign is now a snowmobile and dirt bike path.

Out of curiosity I googled for King's Highway and discovered others with similar fates. Did city planners sit down with road budgets in hand and think "King? We don't need no stinkin King!" and slash the budget until it faded into a dirt track? In Texas the Daughters of the American Revolution funded a resurvey and marking of their King's Highway.

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