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Pennsylvania Route 463

The route intersects PA 309 and U.S. Route 202 (US 202) in Montgomeryville and PA 152 in Prospectville.

Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike

Past Keeseville, the routing of the turnpike continued to the hamlet of Port Kent on modern U.S. Route 9 (US 9) and NY 373.

Special route

Some U.S. Routes are given directional suffixes to indicate a split of the main route — for instance, U.S. Route 25 splits into U.S. Route 25E (east) and U.S. Route 25W (west) between Newport, Tennessee and North Corbin, Kentucky, and U.S. Route 9W is an alternate of U.S. Route 9 between Fort Lee, New Jersey and Albany, New York.


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Bannered routes of U.S. Route 101

The precursor to the Santa Ana Freeway between Los Angeles and Anaheim was U.S. Route 101 Bypass from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, when it became part of US 101.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 61

U.S. Route 61 Business was created in 2010 when U.S. Route 61 was rerouted around Davenport on I-280 and I-80.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 71

U.S. Route 71 Bypass (Kansas City) was the original name for a highway that connected Harrisonville, Missouri to just south of Platte City, Missouri, where it rejoined US 71 Highway near Kansas City International Airport.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 95

U.S. Route 95 Truck (US 95 Truck) is a truck route of US 95 in Mineral County, Nevada, in the United States.

Devil's Highway

U.S. Route 491, formerly U.S. Route 666, so called because of the Number of the Beast

Hollywood Freeway chickens

The Hollywood Freeway chickens are a colony of feral chickens that live under the Vineland Avenue off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) in Los Angeles, California.

Illinois Route 116

U.S. Route 124 (abbreviated US 124) was a U.S. Highway that was commissioned from 1926 to 1938, and was located in Illinois, running from Peoria through Biggsville.

International Selkirk Loop

The highway proceeds west for a short distance, passing several buildings that make up the twin, before U.S. Route 2 splits off, and the Loop designation transfers to Washington State Route 20.

Lake Washington Floating Bridge

Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, opened in 1940 to carry U.S. Route 10 and now carries Interstate 90

Lincoln Memorial Bridge

The Lincoln Memorial Bridge Pylons are a public artwork by French artist Raoul Josset, located on the Lincoln Memorial Bridge on U.S. Route 50 on the grounds of the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park.

Marfa lights

Critics also note that the designated "View Park," a roadside park on the south side of U.S. Route 90 about 9 miles (14 km) east of Marfa, is located at the site of Marfa Army Airfield, where tens of thousands of personnel were stationed between 1942 and 1947, training American and Allied pilots.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

, and U.S. Route 195; also bounded by U.S. Route 195 and Point, Parsonage, South, Hospital, Elbow, Ashcroft, Richmond, Eddy, and Ship Sts.

New Hampshire Route 107

NH 107 between U.S. Route 3 and Leavitt Road in Laconia is part of the Timberman 70.3 Triathlon bicycle course.

New Jersey Route 187

The route's southern terminus is at the Atlantic City – Brigantine Connector (NJ 446X) off-ramp to U.S. Route 30 and terminates at its parent, New Jersey Route 87 (Huron Boulevard) nearby.

New Jersey Route 35

Past U.S. Route 1/9, the road passes homes and businesses, crossing into Rahway, Union County just before crossing the Rahway River.

New Jersey Route 45

A freeway for Route 45 between Interstate 295 in Woodbury and U.S. Route 322 in Mullica Hill was recommended by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission in the 1960s.

New Jersey Route 5

However, the plans were modified in 1929 to build Route 6 on a new alignment and have Route 5 end at Route 1 (now U.S. Route 1/9) in Ridgefield.

New Jersey Route 64

In 1938, the New Jersey State Highway Department and New Jersey General Assembly put forth a proposal detailing that a highway from State Highway Route 31 (co-signed with U.S. Route 206) in the city of Princeton eastward through Mercer County onto current-day County Route 571.

New Jersey Route 67

The route was designated originally as a portion of State Highway Route 18N in 1923, and was split up in 1929 as part of current-days New Jersey Route 63, U.S. Route 9W and Route 67 for Routes S-1, 1 and Route S1A.

New Jersey Route 79

After U.S. Route 9 and Route 4 were moved to a new routing between Freehold and Cheesequake, the former route became Route 4A, a spur of Route 4.

Ogden Avenue

ends when U.S. Route 34 leaves Aurora at the intersection of U.S. Route 34 and U.S. Route 30 on the border of Aurora; Montgomery, Illinois; and Oswego, Illinois.

Ohio State Route 823

The locations of the interchanges are: U.S. Route 52 between New Boston and Wheelersburg, State Route 140 near the Portsmouth city limit, Airport Road adjacent to the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport / Access to Ohio State Route 335 just south of Minford, at Lucasville-Minford Road / County Route 28 near Rases Mountain Drive in Minford, and at U.S. 23 just north of Lucasville.

Prairie City, Oregon

Bates State Park, built on the site of a former lumber mill, is northeast of Prairie City at Bates, near Austin Junction at the intersection of U.S. Route 26 and Oregon Route 7.

The Crossroads

"The Crossroads", an intersection of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil

U.S. Route 1 in Maryland

U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is the easternmost and longest of the major north–south routes of the United States Numbered Highway System, running from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine.

U.S. Route 1 in New York

U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Key West, Florida, to the Canada–United States border at Fort Kent, Maine.

U.S. Route 136 in Indiana

U.S. Route 136 (US 136) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway that runs from Edison, Nebraska to Speedway, Indiana.

U.S. Route 169

U.S. Route 169 currently runs for 966 miles (1,555 km) from the city of Virginia, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma at Memorial Drive.

U.S. Route 19 in Virginia

U.S. Route 19 (US 19) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Memphis, Florida to Erie, Pennsylvania.

U.S. Route 219 in Maryland

U.S. Route 219 (US 219) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Rich Creek, Virginia to West Seneca, New York.

U.S. Route 23 in Virginia

U.S. Route 23 (US 23) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Jacksonville, Florida to Mackinaw City, Michigan.

U.S. Route 301 in North Carolina

U.S. Route 217 (US 217) was an original US highway, established in 1926, and was completely overlapped with NC 22.

U.S. Route 302 in New Hampshire

U.S. Route 302 (US 302) crosses the northern part of New Hampshire, entering the state by bridging the Connecticut River from Wells River, Vermont, following the Ammonoosuc River into the White Mountains, passing through Crawford Notch and following the Saco River out of the mountains to Fryeburg, Maine.

U.S. Route 31

U.S. Route 31 is a long north–south highway connecting northern Michigan to southern Alabama, with its northern terminus at Interstate 75 near Mackinaw City, Michigan, and southern terminus at the combined U.S. Route 90 & U.S. Route 98 at Spanish Fort, Alabama.

U.S. Route 31 in Indiana

U.S. Route 31 (US 31) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Spanish Fort, Alabama, to the Mackinaw City, Michigan.

U.S. Route 395 Alternate

U.S. Route 395 Alternate (US 395 Alt) is an alternate route of U.S. Route 395 (US 395) in Washoe County, Nevada.

U.S. Route 522 in Maryland

U.S. Route 522 (US 522) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Powhatan, Virginia to Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

U.S. Route 6 in Indiana

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway that runs from California to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

U.S. Route 77 in Texas

U.S. Route 77 (US 77) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from the Veterans International Bridge in Brownsville to Sioux City, Iowa.

U.S. Route 85

What is now US 85 from El Paso, Texas to then-U.S. Route 66 (now SR 6) in Los Lunas, New Mexico (south of Albuquerque) was shown as U.S. Route 466 in an early 1925 plan for the U.S. Highway System.

WBBT-FM

WBBT-FM is on one of the three towers located on U.S. Route 60 near the Chesterfield/Powhatan county line.

What-A-Burger

U.S. Route 258, later known as Mercury Boulevard in honor of the astronauts of Project Mercury at NASA's center at nearby Langley Air Force Base, led from Fort Monroe to the James River Bridge and has been a major traffic artery in the area for many years.

Willow Hill

Willow Hill Covered Bridge, covered bridge located off U.S. Route 30 that spans Miller’s Run in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania