Interstate 35 in Oklahoma

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Interstate 35
Main route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

235.96 mi^[1] (379.74 km)

South end:

I-35 near Thackerville

Major
junctions:

I-240 in Oklahoma City

I-235 in Oklahoma City

I-40 in Oklahoma City

I-44 in Oklahoma City
Cimarron Turnpike near Enid

North end:

I-35/Kansas Turnpike near Braman

Oklahoma State Highways
< SH-34		SH-35 >

Oklahoma is the second state that Interstate 35 passes through from south to north. In Oklahoma, I-35 runs from the Red River at the Texas border to the Kansas line near Braman, for a length of 296 miles^[1] (372 km). I-35 has one spur route in the state, Interstate 235.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Naming
4 Exit list
5 References

[edit] Route description

Interstate 35 enters Oklahoma with U.S. Route 77 on a bridge over the Red River in Love County, south of Thackerville. U.S. 77 splits off at Exit 1, but parallels the interstate for its entire length in Oklahoma. I-35 maintains a near-due north-south course through Love and Carter Cos. I-35 provides four exits to Ardmore. After leaving Ardmore, it has a brief concurrency with State Highway 53 and enters Murray County and the Arbuckle Mountains. I-35 then passes through Garvin County and the county seat of Pauls Valley. North of exit 79, I-35 enters McClain County. There, it passes through Purcell and Goldsby.

State Highway 9 joins the interstate crossing over the South Canadian River into Cleveland County, after which it splits off again. It then serves as a major urban interstate in Norman and Moore. Between Norman and Moore, U.S. 77 joins the interstate again. It then enters Oklahoma City and Oklahoma County near milepost 120. Near downtown Oklahoma City, I-35 splits off the mainline (which becomes Interstate 235/U.S. 77) and runs concurrent with Interstate 40 for a mile before splitting off to the north again. Interstate 44 then joins I-35 between mileposts 133 and 137. In Edmond U.S. 77 joins the interstate yet again.

At milepost 146, I-35 enters Logan County and serves Guthrie, where U.S. 77 splits off. The interstate then crosses the Cimarron River into Payne County and enters Noble County shortly thereafter. It provides two exits to Perry and serves as the western terminus of the Cimarron Turnpike. After providing access to Tonkawa and Blackwell in Kay County, it crosses into Kansas, becoming the Kansas Turnpike.

[edit] History

Some sections of I-35 in Oklahoma City were already built in 1953, before the Interstate system was created.^[2] Through Norman, Oklahoma, the interstate opened in June 1959. In Moore, it opened in two parts: the northern half, connecting Moore to Oklahoma City, opened in January 1960. The southern half, linking it to Norman, was opened to traffic in June 1967.^[3]

I-35 through Oklahoma largely parallels U.S. Route 77. This is in large part due to efforts of the towns of Wynnewood, Paoli, and Wayne, which fought to keep I-35 as close as possible to U.S. 77. This was successful due to a threat from Governor Henry Bellmon to build a toll road rather than I-35, and legislation preventing state funds for the interstate from being spent if it were more than 1 mile from the U.S. route.^[4]

I-35 was completed in Oklahoma in 1971, when parts of the interstate running through Carter Co. and Murray Co. were opened to traffic.^[2]

[edit] Naming

Through the Arbuckle Mountains, I-35 is designated as the Honey Creek Pass.
The bridge over the South Canadian River is the S.K. McCall Memorial Bridge.
In Moore, I-35 is the Helen Cole Memorial Highway.
In Edmond, I-35 is the Shannon Miller Parkway.

[edit] Exit list

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
I-35/U.S. 77 enter Texas
Love			1	U.S. 77 North	U.S. 77 splits northbound and joins southbound
			5	State Highway 153 – Thackerville
			15	State Highway 32 – Marietta, Ryan
			21	Oswalt Rd.
Carter			24	OK-77S – Lake Murray State Park
	Ardmore		29	U.S. 70 East – Madill, Ardmore	U.S. 70 joins northbound and splits southbound
			31A	State Highway 199 East – Ardmore
			31B	U.S. 70 West – Waurika, Lone Grove	U.S. 70 splits northbound and joins southbound
			32	12th St.
			33	State Highway 142 – Ardmore
			40	State Highway 53 East – Springer, Gene Autry	SH-53 joins northbound and splits southbound
			42	State Highway 53 West Comanche	SH-53 splits northbound and joins southbound
Murray			47	U.S. 77 – Turner Falls Area
			51	U.S. 77 – Turner Falls Area
			55	OK-7 – Davis, Duncan, Sulphur
Garvin			60	Ruppe Rd.
	Wynnewood		64	State Highway 17A East – Wynnewood
	Wynnewood		66	State Highway 29 – Wynnewood, Elmore City
	Pauls Valley		70	Airport Rd.
	Pauls Valley		72	State Highway 19 – Pauls Valley, Maysville	Lindsay
			74	Kimberlin Rd.
			79	State Highway 145 – Paoli
McClain			86	State Highway 59 – Wayne, Payne
	Purcell		91	State Highway 74 – Purcell, Lexington	TO State Highway 39
	Purcell		95	Purcell	Southbound signed as "To U.S. 77, Purcell/Lexington"
			98	Johnson Rd.
	Goldsby		101	Ladd Rd.
			104	State Highway 74 South – Goldsby, Washington
			106	State Highway 9 West – Chickasha	OK-9 joins northbound and splits southbound
Cleveland	Norman		108A	State Highway 9 East – Tecumseh	OK-9 splits northbound and joins southbound
			108B	State Highway 74A (Lindsey St.)
			109	Main St.
			110	Robinson St.	Two exits southbound; Robinson St. westbound and Robinson St.
			112	Tecumseh Rd.
			113	U.S. 77 South – Norman	Southbound only; U.S. 77 joins northbound and splits southbound
	Moore		114	Indian Hill Rd.
			116	S. 19th St.
			117	State Highway 37 (S. 4th St.) Main St., N. 5th St.	Southbound SH-37 (S. 4th St.) only
			118	N. 12th St.	Southbound Main St., N. 5th St. included
			119A	Shields Blvd.	Northbound only; reconstructed in 2006
			119B	N. 27th St.
	Oklahoma City		120	S.E. 89th St.
Oklahoma			121	Interstate 240, U.S. 62 West, State Highway 3 – Lawton, Fort Smith	U.S. 62 joins northbound and splits southbound
			122A	S.E. 66th St.
			122B	S.E. 59th St.
			123A	S.E. 51st St.
			123B	S.E. 44th St.
			124A	Grand Blvd.
			124B	S.E. 29th St., S.E. 25th St.
			125D	S.E. 15th St.
			126	I-40 West Amarillo	I-40 joins northbound and splits southbound, U.S. 77 splits northbound and joins southbound
			127	Eastern Ave., M.L. King Ave.
		128		I-40 East Ft. Smith	I-40 splits northbound and joins southbound
			129	N.E. 10th St.
			130	U.S. 62 East (S.E. 23rd St.)	U.S. 62 splits northbound and joins southbound
			131	N.E. 36th St.
			132A	N.E. 50th St.
			132B	N.E. 63rd St.
			133	() I-44/(State Highway 66) West Lawton/Amarillo	I-44 joins northbound and splits southbound, State Highway 66 secretly joins northbound and splits southbound
			134	Wilshire Blvd.
			135	Britton Rd.
			136	Hefner Rd.
			137	N.E. 122nd St.
			138A	Interstate 44 East – Tulsa	I-44 splits northbound and joins southbound
			138B	Kilpatrick Turnpike
			138C	Sooner Rd.	Southbound only
	Edmond		138D	Memorial Rd.
			139	33rd St.
			140	15th St.
			141	U.S. 77 South/State Highway 66 (South) 2nd St.	U.S. 77 joins northbound and splits southbound, State Highway 66 splits northbound and secretly joins southbound
			142	Danforth Rd.
			143	Covell Rd.
			146	Waterloo Rd.
Logan			151	Seward Rd.
	Guthrie		153	U.S. 77 North – Guthrie	Cleo Bradshaw Interchange; U.S. 77 splits northbound and joins southbound
	Guthrie		157	State Highway 33 – Guthrie, Perkins, Cushing
Payne			170	Mulhall Rd.
Payne			174	State Highway 51 – Stillwater, Hennessey
Noble			180	Orlando Rd.
	Perry		185	U.S. 77 – Perry, Covington
	Perry		186	U.S. 64 East (Fir St.) – Perry	U.S. 64 joins northbound and splits southbound
			193	Airport Rd.	Northbound only
			194A	U.S. 412 East (Cimarron Turnpike) – Tulsa
			194B	U.S. 64 West, U.S. 412 West – Enid	U.S. 64 splits northbound and joins southbound
			203	State Highway 15 – Billings, Marland
Kay		211		Fountain Rd.
			214	U.S. 60 – Tonkawa, Ponca City
			218	Hubbard Rd.
			222	State Highway 11 – Blackwell, Medford
			230	Braman Rd.
			231	U.S. 177 – Braman	Braman not signed northbound
I-35 enters Kansas, Kansas Turnpike begins

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Stuve, Eric. Interstate Highways. OKHighways. 27 February 2007.
^ ^a ^b Cockerell, Penny. "50 Years: As the intersection of Interstates 35, 40, and 44, Oklahoma is at America's crossroads." The Daily Oklahoman 29 June 2006: 2A.
^ Medley, Robert. "Higways[sic] continue to drive economy." The Daily Oklahoman 29 June 2006: 1D.
^ McNichol, Dan. The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2006. ISBN 1-4027-3468-9