Some friends of ours retired to a home on Lazy Lane. :0)

In a new subdivision close to us are names as colorful as Bassett Hound, Fence Post, Austin Stone... I kinda like Snaffle Bit personally.

In another subdivision I loved the street names because they were horses...Quarter Horse lane, Arabian Way, Pinto Trail, etc. I desperately wanted to have an address of Arabian Way but alas, none of the houses were appealing.

As I drove around the other day, I decided if I were developing an area, I'd create lovely English inspired and cottagey homes and name the streets after Jane Austen books/characters/homes...Pemberly, Netherfield, Bingley, Darcy, Bennett, Knightly, Fairfield, etc.

There is a street near my mom that is "Notta St." :)

north of Phx in Cave Creek or Carefree there's a Broken Dog Leg road. Saw it in the mid 80's when I was up there driving around.

and east of me is Attaway Rd !

There's a development in McLean called McLean Hamlet and, yes, Birnam Wood does come to Dunsinane,

Here is a link that might be useful: Birnam Wood Drive and Dunsinane Court

Just had to resurrect this post - found it by accident and have been laughing for the last 20 minutes... My favorite is Passa Way for the cemetery road...

My entry is in a town next to ours in CT called "Duck Hole Road". I can't help but think about what hole on the duck they are referring to - get your mind out of the gutter Lynn!

This is a fun thread. The only street name I can think of that I never liked was Asylum in Hartford CT.

Around here we have an awful lot of Gulphs. Old Gulph, New Gulph, Upper Gulph, South Gulph, Gulph Hills, Gulph Mills and heaven knows what else. There is even an intersection of Old Gulph and Old Gulph.

I grew up in a development where all the streets were named after Revolutionary war generals. Prescott, Putnam, Revere, Lafayette, Howe, Hamilton, Mercer, Monroe. Very handy in history class.

When I was younger I lived in a crappy cheap apt on Crapo St. in Ma. The people there told me it was pronounced Cray-poe. No matter how hard I tried to prounounce it correctly it always screamed crap-o street to me like the neighborhood it was in.

We have an area where the builder named the subdivision after his wife "Rose Green". Called the area "Rosedale North", since Toronto already has a "Rosedale". Streets are:

"Rose Green Drive"

"Rosedale Heights Drive"

"Roseborough Crescent"

"Green Acres Road"

Called the community centre "Rosemount"

His building firm was called "The Rose Corporation".

Talk about boosting his wife's ego, wonder if they stayed married!

We also have an area where all the streets are named after Los Angeles streets!

It was built in the late 80's/early 90's, and it was extremely overpriced!

Beverley Glen Boulevard

Ventura Way

Redondo Drive

Loma Vista Drive

Coldwater Court

Fairfax Court

Mountbatten Road

Mulholland Drive

Inglewood

Venice Crescent

Alta Vista Court

Oakhurst Drive

Macarthur Drive

Alameda Circle

Burbank Drive

Even the schools:

Wilshire School

Ventura Park School

We have a North Street and a South Street. As a result we also have North St. North and North Street South and South St. North and South St. South.

Glad I don't live on any of those!!

When I was a kid we lived in a subdivision where it seemed the developer had let his kids name the streets. Teeter Totter Circle and Sleep Hollow Dr are the two I remember.

When I visit a friend in Virginia, I pass a Ratsville Lane.

My friend got divorced and literally moved into a house on Lonesome Dr.

We have a "Spooky Hollow Road" and a "Breezy Ledge Drive"

I just love interesting street names!

Before we bought the house we're in, we were under contract to build on Pleasant Dream Street. I always thought it should've been Pleasant Dreams Street instead, because why limit yourself to just one? In that same neighborhood is Sherbert Drive. I suppose that could be a surname, but I always viewed it as a botched pronunciation and spelling of sherbet, and for that reason alone I wouldn't want to live there.

IdaClaire, see:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sherbet-vs-sherbert

Writersblock, I know, I know. It's generally accepted now, but I still refuse to. It just bugs me. ;-)

Yeah, I know. There's a street in a city near me called Airoso, which always bothers me because I'm pretty sure they meant Arioso and made a typo.

Sherbert: I am almost certain when I was growing up that the name on packages of it were spelled with the second r, but I was told it was silent, so always have called it Sherbet. I thought when it was spelled without the second r that the people writing it were ignorant of the correct spelling!

We have a Pampus Dr. in my town. I also couldn't live there unless they corrected it!

I live near East Crown Point Rd. and West Crown Point Rd. which are two separate roads that run north-south.

Donna

A friend lives in a town in Washington that has a Kitchen-Dick road and a Schmuck road. Lots of other interesting names, but those are the two I can remember right now.

This is a hoot! Some of these names remind me of the odd, yet charming, names of British Villages. In rural Maine, some of my favorites are: Rabbit Path, Breakneck Road, Big Hill Road, Road To Nowhere, Land of Nod Road, Scittery Gusset Drive, Piggery Road, Folly Road, and Long Way Down Road.

My DH and I frequently entertain ourselves when traveling with criticism of street names. we especially dislike names like Maple Lane Road, where road is superfluous, and as someone else mentioned above, streets named after relatives of the developer.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Succabone Rd in Westchester County NY. Street signs are stolen constantly.

I grew up in Topeka KS where all the streets in the residential area near downtown, are named for Presidents in chronological order. Can't remember what which President it stopped!

While living in the ME/NH area, we were struck at the lack of imagination in the naming of towns. Conway, Center Conway, N Conway, East Conway NH. Some of these are wide places in the road. Then there is Fryeburg an East Fryeburg ME. Then to really confuse those "from Away", as they like to call non-natives, is having the same name in both states: Cornish ME and Cornish NH.

Our little skitown/retirement destination has a Diagon Alley (Harry Potter). The small town that I grew up in had a "Street of Plenty". That might have one time been so, but in my memory anything but.

In Little Rock a big interstate cinnector was named Wilbur Mills Freeway, after an influential member of congress. Shortly there after there was an incident involving the same congressman, a stripper named Fannie Fox and a wreck into the tidal basin and the name was charged to just an Interstate Number.

Love Succabone Rd! I be southern Louisiana has some good names too, but I don't know of any.

Looked for interesting road names on my way home this afternoon.

Twenty Four Bumper Road. (What happens if your house number is 25???)

Rabbit Hill Road.

Stone Tent Road (What were they smoking?)

Oh, and that reminds me of yet another rural Virginia road sign seen in the past: Bullet Hole Road. It usually had a few bullet holes in the sign.

Nearby is Rocky Road and Memory Lane. A few years ago a large Alzheimer's care facility was built on Memory Lane--yikes.

Around here there are some odd ones. The funny thing is once you've heard them or driven on them all your life they sound boring.

Five Forks Trickum is a well known road around here. Every few years someone writes the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and asks what the meaning or origin is and no one knows lol.

Post Oak Tritt

Chigger Lane

There is a subdivision not far from me named Knots Landing after the tv show. All the streets are named after characters from the show. Like Abby Lane or Gary Place. Of course new buyers have no idea what it refers to.

My sister in law lives in a neighborhood where all the streets are plants. Barberry Drive, Jasmine Way, etc. What kills me is the doofus who named one street Cotton Easter Lane. The actual plant is a Cotoneaster (pronounced Kuh-TONE- ee-aster) but ignorant bumpkins can't pronounce it so they call it a cotton Easter. But the fact that it made it onto a street sign and map and no one caught it is so ridiculous.

Also, another subdivision near me is named after areas in London, but the actual name of the subdivision is Westminister, not Westminster. When the temp sign was up I thought it would be corrected when they put up the actual sign, but nope, it remains Westminister. Even my iPad is trying to correct me when I type it with the extra "i"!

My favorite is a street called Dun Movin Way. You just know someone was over it.

In town near me there is an intersection involving 8 streets, a railroad crossing and a traffic circle, all together. It's called Confusion Corner, but there are so many other strange intersections like it that I lived here about two years before I was sure exactly which one it was.

In our old neighborhood, there was a street called Morning Wood. It got stollen so many times, they eventually changed the sign to Morning Wd.

When we were looking at houses, we looked at one on Spook Lane.

I always wonder about living on a street with an unusual name -- some of these would be fun, but others would keep me looking. We looked at a house on Tender Violet Place. Every street in the neighborhood had purple names (Misted Lilac, Wisteria Walk, Purple Martin, etc.). Tender Voilet just didn't fit a young family with 2 active boys. I don't remember the house that well now, but I will never forget the name of the street.

My son lives in an apartment on Scripture Street -- all college students for a state university -- no divinity school there. The other son's apartment is in an area where the streets around him appear to be people's names.

There's a community in Austin, Tx I came across several years ago where all the streets are names after past olympic athletes, and saw Bruce Jenner name. I have to wonder if it was changed to Caitlyn Jenner. Last year when dd/dh were looking to move and purchase a new home, they looked at a home on Hairy Man Road, also in Austin

There's a section of Toronto called the "Ben Jungle," as all 14 streets in the development start with Ben--as in Ben Frisco, Benorama, Ben Hur, Benary etc.

A major TO thoroughfare is Avenue Road.

Misspellings are common. Every day I drive on Laureleaf, instead of Laurel Leaf.

As a child I lived on a street in downtown Calgary called Hope Street. In Ottawa I owned a house on a street named The Masters Drive which backed on the Hunt Club golf course. That name didn't compute with most people when I had to give the address. I always had to spell it out and say "new word" to separate 'The' from 'Masters'.

We have a Yacht Basin Avenue here in Orlando, but no basin, no yachts.

I saw a typo on Google Maps recently. They had abbreviated boulevard BVLD instead of the usual BLVD, and every time the Google lady said the address she said "Yada Yada B V L D" where it would usually say "Yada Yada Boulevard." It was funny at first then got annoying. :)

Donna

not crazy names, but so boring it is confusing... there is a county in Hudson valley Ny that is so unimaginative that it is confusing. There is 17 north/ south, 17 east/west, Old 17, 17a, 17b, 17m, 17k. I am betting I am missing a few! :)

We have a Yacht Basin Avenue here in Orlando, but no basin, no yachts.

But that's just a variant of the FL tradition of naming subdivisions/roads after:

1. Animals/plants/topographical features you just destroyed as part of your construction, or

2. Animals/plants/topographical features from far, far away that have never existed in this space.

Down in Queens, NYC, I have friends who live on something like 21st street, with the cross street being 23rd Avenue. Or maybe it's 23rd Street and 21st Avenue? Highly confusing and irritating; the whole grid is like that down there.

Boop: I've been there and seen those!

Writersblock, are you a fellow Floridian? :) We also have:

1 - streets that go for a block or two, then start back up later multiple times, but the name stays the same (mostly due to plowing a highway through the center of town)

2 - streets that go for miles and miles and change names several times (mostly due to city/county changes - the road is Plant St. in Winter Garden but Franklin St. in Ocoee)

Donna

I live on a boring street named after one of the seasons, but I just found this online. I actually like some of the ones mentioned above much more!

"There are some towns around the country where you can take
a physical trip down Memory Lane, pay a visit to Sesame Street, hang
out on Easy Street, or giggle at Butt Road. Here are a few other wacky,
weird street names that have made it onto the map in various cities:

1. Tupac Lane

A Las Vegas subdivision features a street named for Tupac—though which Tupac is unclear. It was developed in 1990, when Tupac Shakur was still a backup dancer. Other notable Tupacs include several Inca rulers and a former state senator from Michigan.

2. Frying Pan Road

The D.C. suburb of Herndon, Virginia has featured a community named Frying Pan since at least the 1700s. In the 1890s, the community changed its name to Floris, but the road remains.

3. This, That, and The Other Streets

Street namers near Porters Lake in Nova Scotia apparently ran out of ideas, because three connecting streets are called “This Street,” “That Street,” and “The Other Street.” Hopefully no one has to give too many directions around there.

4. Roast Meat Hill Road

Killingworth, Connecticut pays tribute to a warm dinner—or burning livestock. No one's really sure.

5. 100 Year Party Court

Who wouldn’t want to buy a house on this street
in Longmont, Colorado? The neighborhood is full of whimsical roads,
including Half Measures Drive, Confidence Drive, and Tempted Ways
Drive.

6. Zzyzx Road

This road in California’s Mojave Desert shares a name with the town it leads to, as well as a genus of sand wasp. Several songs and a few movies have been named after the area. Zyzzyx Road, a thriller starring Katherine Heigl, made just $30 at the box office.

7. Chicken Dinner Road

The origin of this Idaho road’s name lies
with a resident who lobbied the governor (who was a friend) to improve
the road outside her house. Laura Lamb was known for her chicken, and now no one can drive down the street without being reminded of dinner.

8. Error Place

On a map, this tiny route in Cincinnati
looks like someone began to make a cross street connecting two avenues
then decided better of it and gave up. It’s actually a staircase going up a hill.

9. Bad Route Road

Taking a trip down this residential Montana street may not be as bad of an idea as it sounds. It’s likely named after Bad Route Creek, an offshoot of the Yellowstone River.

10. Duh Drive

Several graduate student apartment buildings at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania are located on Duh Drive. Because living there’s a no-brainer.

11. Puddin' Ridge Road

Residents of Moyock, North Carolina might
have named this street for how muddy it became after a rain. Trying to
traverse the thoroughfare before it was paved could be like wading
through pudding, according to local legend.

12. Anyhow Lane

This tree-lined residential street in Gansevoort, New York is just like, whatever.

13. Linger Longer Road

It sounds like either Southern
hospitality or a threat to drivers with a bad sense of direction, but
Linger Longer is the informal nickname of the Reynolds Plantation resort in Greensboro, Georgia.

14. Chicken Gristle Road

Granbury, Texas knows how to make a location sound enticing. Chicken Gristle Road is a short detour off Power Plant Court.

15. Pillow Talk Court

There are a lot of secrets being shared on this little dead-end in the Las Vegas suburbs, no doubt. "

Hi, Donna. ( waving ) Yes, I live over on the east coast, near Stuart.

Orbital Sciences has an office building on Warp Drive.

There's a development near my house named Strawberry Fields. The street names are Strawberry Road, Lennon Lane, Harrison Road, Apple Road, Abbey Road, McCartney Road, and Penny Lane

A corner in my town. I'm sorry, I'm 12 years old.

My3dogs, your #5 is where I started this thread! funny. Is this what they mean about "what goes around, comes around"?

In Nanaimo BC, there was a wacky mayor years ago who named a bunch of streets, some of the best ones are Twiggly Wiggly Rd, Dingle Bingle Hill Rd, Jingle Pot Rd, Bergen Op Zoom, Giggleswick Place, Buttertubs Dr. We looked at a really nice house, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to make an offer because it was on Aho Rd. There's also a subdivision made of of names from Robin Hood.

I came very close to buying a house in Thornbridge Estates, where I probably would've just driven around aimlessly trying to remember if I lived on Thornhill Drive, Thorncrest Court, Thornhaven Court, Thorndyke Drive, Thornberry Drive, Thornbird Drive, Thornway Drive, Thornbridge Drive, or ... Fenwick. Gah!

Ida, that's just nuts.

There is a golf course in Palm Springs at Bob Hope Dr & Frank Sinatra Drive, but that is just logical.

Houston has North Blvd and a South Blvd one block south of it, which I never questioned - they are both beautiful streets lined with live oaks and Spanish moss.

How about a town changing its name for a football star? The postmaster in Troy, Texas temporarily changed the name of the town to Troy Aikman, Texas, which I thought was silly. He was married to my cousin.

I've seen a few with messages like: Goa Way

Wow, and almost neighbor - cool! We move to Longmont in 2006, when I was transferred to CU Boulder. Love the town!