Interstate 530

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Interstate 530
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

47 mi (76 km)

South end:

US 65 in Pine Bluff, AR

Major
junctions:

US 270 in White Hall, AR

US 167 south of Little Rock, AR

North end:

I-30/I-440 in Little Rock, AR

Interstate 530 (abbreviated I-530) in Arkansas is a nearly 47 mile (76 km) long spur route from Little Rock at the junction of Interstate 30 and Interstate 440 in the northwest, to Pine Bluff in the southeast. The current route was formerly designated as U.S. Highway 65; that designation continues. It formally gained the I-530 designation after a full interstate-grade bypass of Pine Bluff (known locally as the Wiley Branton Highway) replaced a less-than-interstate segment of U.S. 65 through Pine Bluff (known locally as the Martha Mitchell Expressway, now U.S. 65B); U.S. 65 was moved to the bypass shortly before it became I-530.

A planned extension of the route (away from U.S. 65) continues it to U.S. Highway 278 in Wilmar, Arkansas; the first segment of it, from U.S. 278 north to Arkansas 35, opened as a two-lane freeway called Highway 530 on June 6, 2006. [1] This extension is intended to connect to the proposed southern extension of Interstate 69; U.S. 278 at Wilmar also provides four-lane access to the future I-530 from the much larger cities of Warren and Monticello, thus allowing both cities to champion its completion.