Every summer, the signs connecting Ocean City, Maryland, and Sacramento, California, spark curiosity online as travelers discover the two cities are permanently linked by a pair of matching highway markers spanning 3,073 miles.
Route 50, stretching from West Sacramento to Maryland’s Ocean City, carries more than just travelers. It also carries one of the country’s most unique pieces of highway history.
Sometime between the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ocean City officials installed a sign marking the eastern terminus of US 50, proudly displaying the distance to Sacramento (3,073 miles) as a nod to the highway’s distant beginning on the West Coast…