Funny street name

**Crankin** · 03-05-2011, 04:45 AM

We are in AZ for my MIL's memorial gathering. We decided to make a little vacation of it (shhhh..), so yesterday after we arrived, we took a walk around Carefree. It still looks like AZ up here, nothing like where I used to live. Yet, five miles south of here is horrible suburban sprawl.
Anyway, we were walking, and looked to our right and saw "Breathless Drive" which looks to be about a 15% grade (why do cyclists always notice this?). Since I don't have my bike, I ran up the street, only to find the next street intersection is called "Huff and Puff," another hill. Beautiful views and I got two good running intervals in.
That did not make up for the 2 beers I drank, while visiting my friend from college.

**azfiddle** · 03-05-2011, 05:03 AM

There are some very funny street names around Tombstone Arizona (I just can't recall them right now

**malkin** · 03-05-2011, 05:23 AM

Funny!

**redrhodie** · 03-05-2011, 05:29 AM

We have a hill around here called "Stub toe Lane". It will leave you breathless.

**shootingstar** · 03-05-2011, 06:08 AM

Worth a photo with that kind of name.

**PamNY** · 03-05-2011, 09:21 AM

Those are funny names, and the photos are great.

**emily_in_nc** · 03-05-2011, 10:25 AM

Hilarious! Wonder who got to name them that? Obviously a cyclist or a runner!

**Jolt** · 03-05-2011, 02:24 PM

Those are too funny! Seeing your thread title reminds me of the day I had my wisdom teeth out and my mom was driving me home while I was still pretty loopy from the sedation. The meds also had the side effect of making me really nauseous so I was dry-heaving into a ziploc bag at various points during the ride. At one such point we were taking a turn and I looked up and saw a street sign that read "Hurley Lane"! Not that funny by itself, but the timing was priceless!!

**Mr. Bloom** · 03-05-2011, 03:51 PM

Twenty miles south, we have Stalker Elementary. It's not far from Needmore School!

**azfiddle** · 03-05-2011, 04:43 PM

The Tombstone name I liked best- at the end of a pretty good climb: Perseverance Road.

**OakLeaf** · 03-05-2011, 05:14 PM

We have a Hardscrabble Road out our way.

It occurred to me with that road - and the same goes for all of yours - that the roads would've had very different names had they been named by the people who lived at the bottom.

**marni** · 03-05-2011, 05:32 PM

somewhere on the most recent cross country ride I can remember seeing a "bought and paid for road" along with "been there lane" and "dunwithit road."

And of course in Alabama there were infinite varieties of crimson, crimson tide, red tine and red crimson roads, lanes, places.

It is also my experience that any time a street name contains, breezy, windy, heights, pinetree, orchard, ridge, vista, run, view or scenic, it usually involves at least one climb.

Around here in the dry Texas prairie we seem to abound with oceanic and water related words like bay, harbor, shallows, banks, lake, stream etc. Go figure.

**bmccasland** · 03-05-2011, 06:10 PM

Near where I lived in Louisiana were the following:
Hickory
Dickory
Dock

And then when I lived on the White Mtn Apache Reservation were:
Ben Gay - where the tribal elders lived
6-pack - 6 houses on a cul-de-sac
One Step - the street next to the cemetary
One Step Beyond - the next street over

**jessmarimba** · 03-05-2011, 06:39 PM

I drive past a "Jacka$$ Hill" on my way to one restaurant around here. It's a pretty new snobby little development.

**Mr. Bloom** · 03-06-2011, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by marni

And of course in Alabama there were infinite varieties of crimson, crimson tide, red tine and red crimson roads, lanes, places.

As an Alabama alumnus, that's OK!

But, BOOGER HOLLOW RD. near Anniston, Alabama, well, that's just EMBARRASSING!

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