Road Signs: Good Times Ahead!

*tee hee*
I know, we’re childish. So what?

Hope you’ve got a great weekend planned. Humping optional.

State and National Park and Forest Signs

What is it about the National Park signs that I love so much? Their shape? The lettering? Maybe that they represent that you are going somewhere? Oh, I don’t know. It’s probably a little bit of all of those things.

What I do know is that I find them irresistible. And that I am especially partial to the National Forest signs. That upside down trapezoid-y shape reminds me of the Flintstone house. Don’t judge me.

After a preliminary search on the web came up with nothing concrete, I sent an email to the National Park Service asking what the design history of the signs is. No doubt they marked my email “kook” and put it in the circular file.

Here are some of the signs we’ve spotted in our travels:

Photo Gallery

Here It Is! The Greatest Road Sign In The World

Winding road next 140 miles. Can you say it with me? One hundred… forty… miles.

This gorgeous sign is found on Route 36 in Red Bluff, California.

Blast From The Past: Emblem, Wyoming

My parents were vagabonds in the early 70′s, crisscrossing the States in my mom’s ’68 Firebird. I wrote of it a few years ago.

This past week on the heels of my photographic trip down memory lane, I asked my mother for a copy of a photo that was burned into my mind as a child. It was a picture of my dad standing near the Emblem, Wyoming sign.

This photo was taken in 1971: