Missouri Route 5

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Route 5
Maintained by MoDOT
Length:	351 mi (565 km)
Formed:	1922
North end:	Iowa Highway 5 at the Iowa state line
Major junctions:	US 136 in Unionville, Route 6 in Milan US 36 south of Milan US 24 in Keytesville, I-70 in Boonville US 54 in Camdenton, I-44 in Lebanon, US 60 in Mansfield, US 160 in Gainesville,
South end:	Highway 5 at the Arkansas state line
Major cities:	Unionville Lemons Milan Browning Purdin Linneus Laclede Brookfield Marceline Keytesville Glasgow Fayette New Franklin Boonville Tipton Fortuna Versailles Gravois Mills Sunrise Beach Hurricane Deck Camdenton Decaturville Lebanon Evergreen Grovespring Hartville Mansfield Ava Squires Wasola Gainesville
Missouri Highways < Route 3 Route 6 > Supplemental

Route 5 is the only state highway in Missouri to cross the entire state. To the north, it continues into Iowa as Iowa Highway 5 and to the south it enters Arkansas as Highway 5. It is the longest state highway in Missouri, and, with only a few exceptions, is two-lane for its entire length. Business Route 5 serves Milan and Ava.

Contents 1 Route description 2 History 3 Improvements between Lebanon and Camdenton 4 Junction list 5 References

[edit] Route description

The highway begins at the Iowa state line. Eight miles south of the Iowa state line at Unionville, Route 5 intersects with U.S. Route 136, with which it overlaps for one mile before turning south towards Milan. At Milan, it joins Route 6 for eight miles as a bypass of the town before Route 6 turns west. Business Route 5 serves the city, passing directly through on an older alignment of the highway.

South of Milan, Route 5 turns east forming a concurrency with U.S. Route 36 (currently a divided highway and proposed future Interstate 72). Five miles from the beginning of the concurrency is a junction with Route 11, thirteen miles from the northern/western junction with US 36, Route 5 turns south again on its own towards Marceline.

South of Marceline, Route 5 turns east again, forming a concurrency with U.S. Route 24 at Keytesville; the two highways are united for five miles before Route 5 turns south again. From Keytesville to Glasgow, Route 5 follows the Lewis & Clark Trail. South of Glasgow, the highway crosses the Missouri River at Boonvile, and crosses Interstate 70 south of Boonville. It runs into US 50 1 mile east of Syracuse, then turns east for 4 miles concurrent with US 50 to Tipton. At Tipton, the two highways split, with Route 5 continuing on a southward course once again.

East of Versailles, the highway forms a short concurrency with Route 52. The highway continues south, entering the Ozarks, and crosses the Lake of the Ozarks at Hurricane Deck. Just south of the lake is the northern junction with Route 7, the roads overlap to south of Camdenton. The highway from Camdenton south is particularly hilly and winding all the way to the Arkansas state line.

Route 5 continues south, crossing U.S. Route 54 at Camdenton. Between Camdenton and Lebanon, the road has undergone some major straightening and several older alignments are visible. At Lebanon is a junction with Interstate 44. The highway intersects Route 38 in Hartville and joins U.S. Route 60 for one mile (as a freeway) at Mansfield. The road turns south of Mansfield (the main part of the town is east of Route 5) has a short concurrency with Route 76 through Ava, where it also intersects Route 14 and spawns Business Route 5 through the town.

South of Ava, near Wasola, Route 5 forms a wrong-way concurrency with Route 95 for three miles. At Gainesville, the highway turns west, joining U.S. Route 160 for two miles before turning south again. Nine miles south of Gainesville, Route 5 reaches the Arkansas state line.

[edit] History

Other than minor realignments, Route 5 is the same as when it was created in 1922.^[1]

[edit] Improvements between Lebanon and Camdenton

Beginning in the summer of 2008, MoDOT will begin a project to convert Route 5 into a "shared four-lane" highway between Lebanon and Camdenton. A shared four-lane road can be constructed largely within the same footprint as a two-lane road, but allows for alternating passing lanes in each direction. A number of roadways in Europe are built in this way, but Missouri is among the first to do so in the U.S., having first used the method on separate segments of US 63 and Route 37. The project is slated to be completed by the summer of 2010.

[edit] Junction list

County	Location	Mile[2]	Roads intersected	Notes
Ozark		0.0	AR 5	Arkansas state line; southern terminus
	Gainesville	8.6	US 160
		10.7	US 160
		24.1	Route 95
		27.4	Route 95
Douglas	Ava	40.2	BUS Route 5/Route 76
		42.0	BUS Route 5/Route 14
		44.3	Route 76
Wright	Mansfield	54.1	BUS US 60
		54.5	US 60	Diamond interchange
		55.6	BUS US 60/US 60	Diamond interchange
	Hartville	66.5	Route 38
Laclede	Lebanon	101.1	Route 32
		101.3	Route I-44	Diamond interchange
		102.0	BUS I-44/Route 32/Route 64
		102.9	Route 64
Camden		124.2	Route 7
	Camdenton	127.5	US 54
		136.3	Route 7
Morgan	Laurie	147.9	Route 135	Eastern terminus of Route 135
	Versailles	167.0	Route 52
		167.0	Route 52
Moniteau	Tipton	181.6	US 50

[edit] References

1. ^ Missouri Highways (unofficial) - 1922 map of Centennial Road System
2. ^ Google, Inc.. Google Maps [map]. Cartography by NAVTEQ. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.