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2 unusual facts about HWY: An American Pastoral


HWY: An American Pastoral

In 2009, restored and re-mastered excerpts from "HWY" were featured in Tom DiCillos documentary When You're Strange.

HWY: An American Pastoral is a film by Jim Morrison, Frank Lisciandro, Paul Ferrara, and Babe Hill and stars Morrison as a hitchhiker.


Big Bear Discovery Center

The center is located at: 40971 North Shore Drive/ Hwy 38, Fawnskin, California 92333

Box of Moonlight

The hotel that Turturro's character stays at during his trip is still an actual operating hotel in Maryville, Tennessee, that is still named the 411 Motel, on Hwy 411.

Cleveland, Arkansas

Hwy 95, which runs through Cleveland, connects the cities of Morrilton (Conway County) and Clinton (Van Buren County).

Commerce, Georgia

(GA Hwy. 334, which follows a nine mile section of this ancient trail, was designated the "Lacoda Trail Memorial Parkway" by the Georgia General Assembly in 1998.)

Douglasville, Georgia

Hwy 5 continues in a southwesterly direction through the village of Bill Arp and crosses into Carroll County near Whitesburg.

Hugh Shelton

North Carolina Highway 122, which runs through Speed to Hobgood, North Carolina (right past the homestead he was raised on), was later named "General Henry Hugh Shelton Hwy" in his honor.

McBee Baptist Church

McBee Baptist Church is located on North Fifth Street near Hwy 151 in McBee, South Carolina.

Pinehurst, Texas

Pinehurst is a small town in between *Tomball, Texas and *Magnolia, Texas located off HWY 249.

Smithville, Arkansas

Highway 115 runs north to Imboden (and thus connecting to US HWY 412) and southward to Cave City in Sharp County.

South Road, Adelaide

From Anzac Hwy, South Road continues north as a western bypass of the city across many arterials, the major ones being Port Road, Regency Road and Grand Junction Road, to the junctions with the Port River Expressway and the Salisbury Highway.

Touchet Formation

Excellent exposures of the unit (which contains abundant clastic dikes) can be found in roadcuts along Hwy 74 (Heppner Highway) near the ranching community of Cecil, Oregon.

Yorkdale Bus Terminal

:5 - GO Bus eastbound Route 92 Hwy 2 Express Service to Scarborough/Oshawa

:7 - GO Bus westbound Route 27 Milton Hwy 401 Service, and westbound Route 33 Brampton/Georgetown/Guelph

:8 - GO Bus northwest Route 35 Hwy 27 Service to Bramalea/Brampton


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