Just curious as to what you think of billboards. While I don't mind some subtle advertising since it lets you know what attractions / restaurants / hotels, etc., are available, I'm driven insane by the *constant* and repetitive billboards we can find all too frequently along America's highways. By repetitive I mean that you'll have 3-4 billboards for the same attraction or site in between only two or three exits within a couple of miles, so that you're inundated with these cheesy, tacky adverts. In my opinion, it really does dampen the drive to wherever you're going -- you see only the billboards, not the surrounding landscapes, skylines, or general lay of the land.

I know that Maryland is one state that has outlawed billboards, and I must say it made a remarkably pleasant drive to not have to be showered with pointless and fruitless advertising.

I understand fully that these types of advertisements are a good money-maker for the attractions, as well as providing directions for travelers who may not be familiar with the area. I just wish that more states / cities would outlaw the overuse of billboards, such as imposing limitations -- like no further than 2 miles before the appropriate exit, or no more than x number before the attraction, something like that.

Thoughts, anyone?

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I know if you drive up I-95 between I think NC & SC, they have that rather amusing South of the Border stretch of billboards. They got to have at least 50 billboards going to it. Other then that I find them to be tacky and annoying.

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When we stayed at Palm Beach last year, we had to drive about 2 hours to go the Orlando theme parks. I forgot what highway it was but every five minutes or so there was a yellow billboard advertizing for a certain place that sold Disney tickets. We must have seen over a hundred that day, on that one highway.

Anyone in Florida know the billboards I am talking about, or the company?

In Arizona and I think New Mexico there are billboards for about 90 miles advertising "[i]The Thing[/i]." I noticed that when I was heading to Tucson from Phoenix and heading out of Tucson to New Mexico. "[i]The Thing[/i]" is a mummy someone found out on their land or something and it's incased in a class tomb now for tourists to pay a fee to see it. Yes, there are billboards all over the place. I just try and ignore them. They don't really bother me that much. People have to advertise, and they can also help tourists by telling them where hotels and restaurants are.

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Well I like billboards, gives me something to look at other than miles of road and farm

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there are lots of billboards on the way to las vegas for casinos and stuff, they start about a hundred miles before you get there
its good though because like Jokercoaster said it gives you something to look at

Try driving down I-70 from Columbus and West. Until you hit a little past the Indiana line, all you see are billboards for "Tom Raper RV" Exit 149A.

Hate hearing that damn commercial too.

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I'd say I rather enjoy Billboards, as long as they're somewhat new, and not adsvertising a product from like 5 years ago, or have bad paint jobs and so on. I'm especially fond of the electronic ones, just something cool and different to look at rather than the dotted lines and black road.

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YUCK YUCK YUCK! THank you god vancouver doesn't have any of them (well not on the highways). I don't think any place in canada has them, maybe eastern canada, can't remeber.

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On my many treks to Orlando I find billboards that i have no idea what they mean. One on SR 50 says on a black background, "Soon small will mean big as bad means good." What the heck!!! And another one on Kirkman says "Is M-Life fattening?" I read them every time I go past them, hoping one day I will realize their meaning.

I think billboards are really ugly and annoying. Fortunatley, in my area, they're illegal.

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All around Chicago, and especially around Ohare airport, you see TONS of them. I actually don't mind them because its something to look at on a long boring drive, but most of them advertise Alcohol around here.

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Most billboards I hate.. But the only ones I really like are in the Disney World area with like the 3-D Test track ones and the ToT Sign.. That one is really quite neat! :)

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I agree, Disney makes some awesome signs for their attractions!

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Sadly, DL only has a child smiling with mickey ears on around the other major SoCal amuesment parks, like USH, SFMM, and KBF. Most I don't mind since they give me something to look at and some look great but others just look horrible and should be removed ASAP.

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