U.S. Route 75 in Texas

U.S. Highway 75
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length:	76.158 mi[1] (122.564 km)
Existed:	1927 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-345 in Dallas
	I-635 President George Bush Turnpike in Richardson US 380 in McKinney US 82 in Sherman US 69 in Denison
North end:	US-75 / US-69 near Denison
Highway system
United States Numbered Highways List • Bannered • Divided • Replaced Highways in Texas Interstate • U.S. • TX (Loops – Spurs – Rec – FM) ← SH 74 SH 75 →

In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 75 is a U.S. Highway that begins in Dallas and heads north to the Oklahoma border.

Contents 1 History 2 Route description 3 Exit list 4 References 5 External links

History

In the initial assignment of state highways in 1917, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston were connected by a branch of State Highway 2 (the Meridian Highway), which ran via Waco and Bryan and continued on to Galveston. The more direct route followed by US 75 was not initially part of the system between Richland (connected to Dallas by SH 14) and Huntsville (connected to Houston by SH 19).^[2][3] This Richland-Huntsville cutoff was added by 1919 as SH 32,^[4] and US 75 was assigned to the alignment, as well as SH 6 north of Dallas, in 1926.^[5] The branch of SH 2, which US 75 followed between Houston and Galveston, eventually became part of SH 6,^[6] and these numbers were dropped in the 1939 renumbering.

Prior to the coming of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, the only improvements to US 75 in Texas beyond building a two-lane paved roadway were in the Houston and Dallas areas.^[7] However, the highways in and near these cities included some of the first freeways in the state: the Gulf Freeway (Houston, opened to traffic on October 1, 1948) and the Central Expressway (Dallas). When Interstate 45 was built in the 1960s, its alignment bypassed many of the towns and built-up areas between downtown Dallas and Houston. The bypassed routes retained the US 75 designation until the designation was truncated to downtown Dallas in 1987. Many of the original alignments continue to exist under other designations.

In Dallas, the route followed what is now the Good Latimer Expressway (formerly Spur 559)^[8] southeast, out of downtown, along US 175 and south along State Highway 310.^[9]

Near Ferris, Trumbull, Palmer, Ennis, and Corsicana Interstate 45 veers east to avoid the more populated areas. The old US 75 alignments through these towns, decommissioned in 1987, now carry the following designations:

• Business Interstate Highway 45-J (originally Loop 560) through Ferris^[10]
• Loop 561 through Trumbull^[11]
• Business Interstate Highway 45-H through Palmer (originally Loop 562)^[12]
• Spur 469, Business Interstate Highway 45-G (originally U.S. Highway 287 and Spur 563) through Ennis^[13]
• Business Interstate Highway 45-F (originally Loop 564) through Corsicana^[14]

Through Streetman, Fairfield, Buffalo, Centerville, Madisonville, Huntsville, New Waverly, Willis, and Conroe, US 75 followed what is now State Highway 75.^[15]

In Galveston, the alignment of State Highway 87 from 20th Street to the southern terminus Interstate 45 was also part of US 75 until its 1987 truncation.^[16]

In other cases alignments were bypassed while US 75 remained in existence; they now carry the following designations:

• State Highway 3 through La Marque, Dickinson, League City, South Houston and Houston, bypassed 1952^[17]
• State Highway 5 from north of Dallas via Plano, McKinney, Anna and Van Alstyne to Howe, bypassed 1959-1967^[18]
• State Highway 91 from Sherman to Denison, bypassed 1984^[19]

Route description

US Route 75 enters Texas from Oklahoma just north of Denison, crossing the Red River. At this point it is concurrent with US Route 69, but the two separate about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the river. US 75 continues to the south and southwest to loop around the western side of Denison. The route continues south reaching Sherman and a limited-access three-level intersection with US Route 82. US 75 then continues southward to cross US Route 380 on the north side of McKinney. The stretch through McKinney is largely unchanged from its original design except for its intersection at the Sam Rayburn Tollway (currently under reconstruction and destined to be a four-level stack interchange.)^[20] to replace the original interchange. Plans to upgrade the facility through and north of McKinney are under way with the reconstruction of the US Route 380 bridge. The highway continues southward into the northern suburbs of Dallas where it intersects the President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 635. The route reaches its southern terminus on the east side of downtown Dallas, intersecting Spur 366 and ending at unsigned Interstate 345.

Exit list

The numbering system for US 75 is not based on mile markers; instead, the exits were numbered consecutively (the only stretch of road in Texas with such a system). As the bypass route was completed around the Sherman-Denison area, the numbering system was continued for the new exits. Upon completion of the widened Central Expressway through Dallas, the exit numbering was changed for the section south of I-635 to correspond with the new (and fewer number of) exits, but the numbering system north of I-635 was left unchanged, thus explaining the gap in the current numbering system.

County	Location	#		Destinations	Notes
Dallas	Dallas	Old	New
				Bryan Street; Good-Latimer Expressway	southbound exit and northbound entrance
				(Unsigned) IH 45 south – Houston (IH 345 south)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
			285	Ross Avenue	southbound exit only; exit no. corresponds to I-45
			1A	to IH 35E - Denton; Waco (Spur 366 west)	southbound exit and northbound entrance; northbound from where I-45 becomes US 75, exit 286; no. corresponds to I-45 north
		1		(Hall Street)
		2		(Lemmon Avenue)
		3	1B	Haskell Avenue; Blackburn Street; Fitzhugh Avenue; Lemmon Avenue
		4		(Fitzhugh Avenue)
		5	2	Knox Street; Henderson Avenue; Monticello Avenue; Fitzhugh Avenue
		6		(Monticello Avenue)
		7		(McCommas Boulevard)
		8	3	Mockingbird Lane; University Boulevard; Monticello Avenue
		9		(Yale Boulevard)
		10		(University Boulevard)
		11	4A	Lovers Lane; Southwestern Boulevard; University Boulevard	exit 4 southbound
		12		(Southwestern Boulevard)
		13	4B	Caruth Haven Lane	southbound exit is combined with 5A
		14-15	5A	Loop 12 (Northwest Highway)/Caruth Haven Lane
		16	5B	Northpark Boulevard; Park Lane
		17	6	Walnut Hill Lane; Meadow Road
		18		(Meadow Road)
		19	7	Royal Lane; Meadow Road
		20A	8A	Forest Lane	exit 20-20A southbound
		20B	8B	Coit Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			20B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
			21	IH 635
			20A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
			22	Midpark Road
	Richardson		23	Spring Valley Road
			24	Belt Line Road; Main Street
			25	Arapaho Road
			26	Campbell Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			27A	Galatyn Parkway; Renner Road; Campbell Road	exit 26 southbound
Collin			27	Renner Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
			28A	Plano Parkway
			28B	President George Bush Turnpike
	Plano		29	15th Street (former FM 544)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			29A	Park Boulevard; 15th Street
			30	Parker Road
			30A	Frontage Road	southbound exit only
			31	Spring Creek Parkway
			32	Legacy Drive
			32A	Frontage Road	northbound exit and southbound exit
	Allen		33	Bethany Drive
			34	McDermott Drive (former FM 2170)
			35	Allen Drive	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			36	Exchange Parkway
			37	FM 2786 (Stacy Road)
			38	Ridgeview Drive
			38A	SH 121 south; to SH 5 - Fort Worth (Spur 399; former FM 720)	SH 121 joins northbound and leaves southbound
	McKinney		39	Eldorado Parkway
			40A	FM 3038; Spur 359 - Louisiana Street; Virginia Parkway
			40B	White Avenue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			41	U.S. Route 380 - Greenville; Denton
			42	Wilmeth Road
			43	FM 543 - Weston Road
			44	Telephone Road; Davis Road
			45	State Highway 121 north - Bonham	SH 121 joins southbound and leaves northbound
	Melissa		46	Melissa Road
			47	Throckmorton Road; Foster Crossing Road
	Anna		48	FM 455 - Anna-Weston Road
			49	Mantua Road
			50	County Line Road
Grayson	Van Alstyne		51	FM 121 - Van Alstyne	due to confusion between this exit and State Highway 121 (a few miles to the south, which leads to DFW Airport), southbound highway signs are marked "DFW TRAFFIC DO NOT EXIT"
			52	Farmington Road
	Howe		53	Spur 381 - Howe
			54	FM 902; State Highway 5
	Sherman		55A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and entrance
			55	Frontage Road
			56	FM 1417
			56A	South Travis Street	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			56B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
			57	Park Street; Center Street
			58	State Highway 56 - Lamar Street; Houston Street	Lamar Street is one way eastbound; Houston Street is one way westbound
			59	Washington Street	no southbound entrance
			60	FM 131 - Travis Street; Taylor Street
			61	State Highway 91 north - Texoma Parkway	no southbound exit
			62	Lamberth Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
			63	U.S. Highway 82 - Bonham; Gainesville
			64	Loy Lake Road; Fallon Drive
			65	FM 691 - Grayson County Airport; Grayson County Junior College
	Denison		66	Spur 503 - Denison
			67	Loy Lake Road
			68	Crawford Street Road
			69	FM 120 - Pottsboro; Lake Texoma
			70	FM 84
			71	Randell Lake Road
			72	State Highway 91
			73	U.S. Route 69 south - Greenville; Denison	US 69 joins northbound and leaves southbound
			74	Texas Travel Info Center

References

External links

• US 75 info page - at dfwfreeways.info

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex roads Radial Ronald Reagan Mem. Highway (I-20) Tom Landry Freeway (I-30) I-35 Julius Schepps Freeway (I-45) Stemmons Freeway (I-35E) North/South Freeway (I-35W) Marvin D. Love Freeway (US 67) Central Expressway (US 75) US 80 US 81 C.F. Hawn Freeway (US 175) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (U.S. Route 287) John W. Carpenter Freeway (SH 114) Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) Alliance Gateway Freeway (SH 170) Airport Freeway (SH 183) S.M. Wright Freeway (SH 310) Angus G. Wynne Freeway (SH 360) Woodall Rogers Freeway (Spur 366) Dallas North Tollway Good-Latimer Expressway Chisholm Trail Parkway Trinity Parkway Circumferential Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635) Jim Wright Freeway (I-820) Loop 9 Walton Walker Boulevard (Loop 12) President George Bush Turnpike (SH 161 and 190) Loop 288 Patriot Parkway (Spur 408) Non-freeways US 77 US 377 US 380 SH 5 SH 10 SH 26 SH 66 Garland Avenue (SH 78) Jacksboro Highway (SH 199) Preston Road (SH 289) Lancaster Road (SH 342) Scyene Road (SH 352) Irving Boulevard (SH 356) Pioneer Parkway (Spur 303) Camp Bowie West (Spur 580) Norman F. Whitsitt Parkway (FM 544) FM 720 Harmon Road (FM 3479) Belt Line Road Harry Hines Boulevard Turtle Creek Boulevard Interchanges and others High Five Interchange Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge Mountain Creek Lake Toll Bridge

Collin County highways U.S. Highways US 75 State Highways SH 5 SH 66 SH 78 SH 121 SH 160 SH 190 SH 205 State Loops and Spurs Spur 33 Spur 359 Spur 399 Farm and Ranch to Market Roads FM 6 FM 75 FM 428 FM 455 FM 543 FM 544 FM 545 FM 546 FM 547 FM 981 FM 982 FM 1138 FM 1193 FM 1377 FM 1378 FM 1461 FM 1562 FM 1777 FM 1778 FM 1827 FM 2170 FM 2194 FM 2478 FM 2514 FM 2551 FM 2755 FM 2756 FM 2786 FM 2862 FM 2933 FM 2934 FM 3038 FM 3133 FM 3286 FM 3356 FM 3364 FM 3412 FM 3537