U.S. Route 287

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U.S. Route 287

Length:

1791^[1] mi (2882¼ km)

Formed:

1935

South end:

US 69/US 96/TX 87 in Port Arthur, TX

Major
junctions:

I-45 at Corsicana, TX

I-35E at Waxahachie, TX

I-20 at Arlington, TX

I-35W at Fort Worth, TX
I-44 at Wichita Falls, TX
I-40 at Amarillo, TX
I-27 at Amarillo, TX
I-70 at Limon, CO
I-76 at Denver, CO
I-25 at Denver, CO
I-80 at Laramie, WY
I-90 at Three Forks, MT
I-15 at Helena, MT

North end:

US 89 in Choteau, MT

United States Numbered Highways
Spur of US 87
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

U.S. Route 287 is a north-south United States highway. It serves as the major truck route between the Texas cities of Fort Worth and Amarillo. The highway is broken into two segments by Yellowstone National Park, where an unnumbered park road serves as a connector.

The highway's northern terminus is in Choteau, Montana, 100 miles (161 km) south of the Canadian border, at an intersection with U.S. Route 89. Its southern terminus (as well as those of US 69 and US 96) is in Port Arthur, Texas at an intersection with State Highway 87, five miles (8 km) up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico.

1 Route description
2 History
3 See also
- 3.1 Related routes
4 References
5 External links

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Major cities
Port Arthur, Texas Beaumont, Texas Lumberton, Texas Crockett, Texas Palestine, Texas Corsicana, Texas Ennis, Texas Waxahachie, Texas Midlothian, Texas Mansfield, Texas Arlington, Texas Fort Worth, Texas Wichita Falls, Texas Vernon, Texas Amarillo, Texas Dumas, Texas Boise City, Oklahoma Lamar, Colorado Aurora, Colorado Denver, Colorado Broomfield, Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado Laramie, Wyoming Lander, Wyoming Helena, Montana

[edit] Texas

Main article: U.S. Route 287 in Texas

[edit] Oklahoma

35 miles, 56 km, across the panhandle, at Boise City.

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[edit] Colorado

View south along U.S. Highway 287 in Larimer County, Colorado

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[edit] Wyoming

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[edit] Montana

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When US 287 was first commissioned in 1939, it extended only from the south entrance of Yellowstone National Park to Denver, Colorado. The route was extended southward to the Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas in 1940, and northward into Montana to US 89 at Choteau, Montana in 1965. North of Choteau, U.S. 89 continues north into Alberta as Provincial Highway 2 through that province's major cities of Calgary and Edmonton, connecting with a Canadian link to the Alaska Highway in the latter city.

Included in the route of US 287 is former U.S. Route 370, which was commissioned in 1926 and connected Amarillo to Bowie, overlapping US 70 between Vernon and Wichita Falls.

The Canada to Gulf Highway Association, which later became the U.S. Highway 287 Association, was active from the 1910s until the 1970s to promote the highway as a popular tourist route with scores of members from businesses and organizations in cities all along the route.