Colorado State Highway 79

State Highway 79
Kiowa-Bennett Road Converse Road
Route information
Maintained by CDOT
Length:	23.8 mi[1] (38.2 km)
Major junctions
South end:	I‑70 / US 40 / US 287 near Bennett
	SH 36 at Bennett
North end:	SH 52 at Prospect Valley
Location
Counties:	Adams, Weld
Highway system
Colorado State Highways Interstate U.S. State ← SH 78 SH 82 →

State Highway 79 is a 23.8 mi (38.3 km) long state highway in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado. It starts at The highway is also called "Kiowa–Bennett Road" and "Converse Road". It traverses through remote, open plain. The highway does not pass through any towns. It does service some subdivisions in the area. SH 79 ends at SH 52 in Prospect Valley.

Route description

The road begins at Interstate 70, concurrent there with U.S. Highway 287 and U.S. Highway 40. It then heads northward into the town of Bennett, where it abruptly turns eastward and begins a short concurrency with State Highway 36. It then heads back northward slowly into a mass of rectangular fields, crossing the Adams–Weld county line. It continues northward in the same terrain, crossing numerous county roads, to its north end at SH 52.^[2]

History

The road was established in the 1920s, when it connected Bennett to Prospect. SH 79 was extended to Elbert County in 1954. The following year, the extension was deleted. The road was entirely paved and extended again down to its current terminus at Interstate 70 in 1963.^[3]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Adams		0.00	0.00	I‑70 / US 40 / US 287 / US 36	Interchange
	Bennett	1.24	2.00	SH 36 west	South end of SH 36 overlap; Former US 36
		1.58	2.54	SH 36 east	North end of SH 36 overlap; Former US 36
Weld	Prospect Valley	23.89	38.45	SH 52
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

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