A 3-minute lesson from the Missouri course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
You can often tell what a sign means before you can read it. Shape and color are clues: an octagon means stop, a diamond warns, and orange means construction. Guide and route signs help you find your way.
Guide signs are square or rectangular, green or brown with white lettering. They show direction and distance to places like cities, airports and state lines, or special areas like national parks, historical areas and museums.
You're driving east on I-70 and just passed exit 50. The next exit will have a higher number, because exits on west-east interstates are numbered from the west and increase as you drive east.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
A sign shaped like a horizontal rectangle and colored brown, rather than green, most likely indicates what?
Recreation or cultural sites
A regulatory speed limit
Direction and distance to a city
A railroad crossing
Answer: Recreation or cultural sites
Green horizontal rectangle guide signs show direction and distance, while brown signs (same guide-sign shapes) mark public recreation and cultural interest areas.
