In Popular Culture
- The Long Walk - a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original - revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest along a route that roughly follows and extends beyond the Boston Post Road.
- In the 1957 I Love Lucy episode "Lucy Raises Tulips", Lucy loses control of a riding lawn mower while mowing the lawn at the Ricardos' Westport home, and later describes riding it down the Boston Post Road "for a mile and a half, against traffic all the way".
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