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Finding beauty in the mundane. Celebrating traffic control devices in scenic places. 📸 by Matt’ Johnson (@tracktwentynine). Primarily an instagram account @scenicsigns, but duplicated here.

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Continuing our #NationalParkWeek series, here is an I2-2 (geographical feature) sign along CA 190 in Death Valley National Park marking the location where the road drops below sea level. Death Valley is home to Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America at 282' below sea level.

Continuing our celebration of National Park Week, here's an R2-1 (Speed Limit) sign along Trail Ridge Road (US 34) in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The Never Summer Mountains rest in the background.

Happy 110th birthday to the National Park Service, born this day in 1916. Here's a Recreational Guide Sign for Guadalupe Mountains National Park along US 62/180. Guadalupe Peak (pictured) is the highest point in Texas at 8,751'.

The broken yellow centerline indicates it’s legal to overtake when traffic is clear. The broken line has a ratio of 10’ marking to 30’ gap. Here we see the broken centerline on US 183 in Rush County, Kansas.

A bicycle signal head with 4" indications (sometimes called a "baby bike signal") used for near-side applications. This one, along Second Avenue in #Seattle, features in the background the iconic #SpaceNeedle, completed in 1961 ahead of the 1962 World's Fair.

Crossbuck assembly (R15-1 and R1-1) located along County Road 111 in Siskiyou County, near Tulelake, CA. On the horizon, 51 miles in the distance, is the 14,179' stratovolcano Mount Shasta. The railroad tracks are operated by BNSF Railway on their Gateway Subdivision. #MountShasta

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