U.S. Route 84

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U.S. Route 84

Length:

1,919 mi^[1] (3,088 km)

Formed:

1926^[1]

West end:

US 160 at Pagosa Springs, CO

Major
junctions:

I-25 at Santa Fe, NM

I-27 at Lubbock, TX
I-20 at Roscoe, TX
I-20 at Abilene, TX
I-35 at Waco, TX
I-45 at Fairfield, TX
I-49 near Grand Bayou, LA
I-55 near Brookhaven, MS
I-59 at Laurel, MS
I-65 at Evergreen, AL
I-75 at Valdosta, GA

East end:

I-95 near Midway, GA

United States Numbered Highways

U.S. Route 84 is an east-west United States highway. It started as a short Georgia-Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado.

The section from Brunswick, Georgia to Roscoe, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East/West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present U.S.-Mexico border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called El Camino Real. The designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico.^[2]^[3]

The western endpoint of U.S. 84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C.W. McCall in the 1975 song, Wolf Creek Pass.

1 Termini
2 Historic termini
3 States traversed
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Termini

As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia at an intersection with I-95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado at an intersection with U.S. Route 160.^[4]

[edit] Historic termini

The original 1926 route of U.S. 84 skirted the southern border of Georgia, from Brunswick to the north edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, then west to Dothan, Alabama just across the Alabama line.

In 1934, U.S. 84 was extended to Grove Hill, Alabama, then south on US 43 to Wagarville, Alabama, west to State Line, Mississippi, north on US 45 to Waynesboro, Mississippi, and then across Mississippi and Louisiana to Farwell, Texas. State Line was bypassed in the 1960s by a direct connection between Grove Hill and Waynesboro. A few sources report that the part between Natchez, Mississippi and Wagarville was planned as US 86 a year before. The Alabama Department of Transportation library in Montgomery, Alabama, holds state-issued maps and documents from that era with the stretch from US 43 to Mississippi labeled that way. At one point, funding was not secure for building a bridge over the Alabama River, and a US 86 designation would have made the absence of a bridge less obvious.^[5]

The east ends of U.S. 84 and U.S. Route 82 were swapped in 1989 after the roads around Waycross, Georgia were reconfigured.

[edit] States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

Georgia U.S. 84 is paired with Georgia State Road 38 throughout Georgia. In addition, it's concurrent with US 25/301 from Jesup to Ludowici.
Alabama. U.S. 84 is paired with unsigned State Route 12 throughout Alabama.
Mississippi U.S. 84 is paired with U.S. 98 from Bude, Mississippi to Natchez, Mississippi.
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado

[edit] See also

U.S. Route 84 in Georgia

[edit] References

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