Indiana State Road 62
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| Maintained by INDOT | ||||
| Length: | 227.19 mi[1] (365.63 km) | |||
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| West end: |
 IL 141 | |||
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 US 421 at Madison | ||||
| East end: |
 SR 262 at Dillsboro | |||
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| Counties: | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Perry, Posey, Ripley, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | |||
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State Road 62 (SR 62) in the U.S. state of Indiana is an east–west route that travels 228 miles (367 km) from the Illinois state line in the southwest corner of Indiana to the Louisville, Kentucky area, then northeast toward the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
Route description
SR 62 begins at the Wabash Memorial Bridge over the Wabash River between New Haven, Illinois and Posey County. From the east side of Mount Vernon through Evansville, SR 62 is the Lloyd Expressway, a divided expressway-grade highway until reaching U.S. Route 41 (US 41) nearly halfway through the city. The expressway contains a mix of intersections and interchanges. Despite the construction delays and need for improvements, the $160 million east–west expressway allows drivers to travel from one end of the city to the other with much greater ease.[2] Plans exist to add additional diamond interchanges as well as a cloverleaf interchange with US 41.[3]
Then, SR 62 travels concurrently with US 41/SR 66 to Morgan Avenue on which it leaves Evansville. East of Evansville, the four lane divided road continues to Chandler and then on to Boonville. It then becomes a two-lane road. For much of its trip through Spencer, Perry, Crawford, Harrison, and western Floyd counties, it is narrow, winding, and hilly.
SR 62 travels concurrently with I-64, I-265, and SR 265, bypassing the cities of New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville. The highway then turns to the northeast, serving the cities of Charlestown, Hanover and Madison before ending at SR 262 just south of US 50 at Dillsboro.
The highway forms part of the Lincoln Heritage Trail.
History
In the pre-Interstate era, SR 62 between Evansville and New Albany was also part of US 460, a heavily-traveled route between St. Louis, Missouri and Louisville, Kentucky before I-64 supplanted it as a through route.
Before the extension of I-265, SR 62 traveled directly through the cities of New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville.
Lloyd Expressway
SR 62 is known as the Lloyd Expressway within Evansville's city limits. It is named in honor of former Mayor Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. who was assassinated after leaving office in 1980. Evansville residents use the term "expressway" loosely due to the large number of stoplights along the Evansville stretch of the route. It is usually referred to simply as "the Lloyd".
The road was built in various stages and officially opened on July 19, 1988. The west section of the expressway was completed in the 1950s with plans to continue it east at a later date as funding became available.[2]
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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| Posey | Black Township | 0.00 | 0.00 | IL 141 west – New Haven | Western terminus of SR 62 at Wabash Memorial Bridge. | |
| Mount Vernon | 5.42 | 8.72 |  SR 69 south | Western end of SR 69 concurrency | ||
| 10.71 | 17.24 | SR 69 north – Griffin | Eastern terminus of SR 69 concurrency | |||
| Vanderburgh | Evansville | 28.15 | 45.30 |   US 41 south / SR 66 east – Tell City, Henderson | Southern end of US 41 and SR 66 concurrences | |
| 29.78 | 47.93 | US 41 north / SR 66 west – Vincennes, New Harmony | Northern end of US 41 and SR 66 concurrences | |||
| 33.71 | 54.25 |  I-69 – Evansville | ||||
| Warrick | Boonville | 44.25 | 71.21 |  SR 261 south – Newburgh | Northern terminus of SR 261 | |
| 44.66 | 71.87 |  SR 61 south | Western end of SR 61 concurrency | |||
| 45.32 | 72.94 | SR 61 north – Petersburg | Eastern end of SR 61 concurrency | |||
| Skelton Township | 50.38 | 81.08 |  SR 161 south – Richland City | Western end of SR 161 concurrency | ||
| 55.57 | 89.43 | SR 161 north – Tennyson | Eastern end of SR 161 concurrency | |||
| Spencer | Jackson Township | 59.26 | 95.37 |  US 231 south – Chrisney | Southern end of US 213 concurrency | |
| Gentryville | 63.06 | 101.49 |  SR 162 east – Santa Claus | Western terminus of SR 162 | ||
| Dale | 67.68 | 108.92 | US 231 north – Huntingburg | Northern end of US 231 concurrency | ||
 SR 68 west – Lynnville | Eastern terminus of SR 68 | |||||
| Carter Township | 68.71 | 110.58 |  SR 245 south – Santa Claus | Northern terminus of SR 245 (spur to Holiday World and Splashin' Safari) | ||
| Harrison Township | 73.85 | 118.85 | SR 162 – Santa Claus, Ferdinand | |||
| 78.05 | 125.61 |  SR 545 south – Troy | Northern terminus of the southern section of SR 545. | |||
| Perry | Clark Township | 86.58 | 139.34 |  SR 145 – Birdseye | ||
| St. Croix | 92.77 | 149.30 |  SR 37 – Tell City | |||
| Crawford | Sulphur | 100.06 | 161.03 |  SR 66 west to SR 237 north – Derby, English | Western end of SR 66 concurrency | |
| Leavenworth | 107.84 | 173.55 | SR 66 east – Marengo | Eastern end of SR 66 concurrency | ||
| Harrison | White Cloud | 116.01 | 186.70 |  SR 462 south | Northern terminus of SR 462 (spur to Harrison-Crawford State Forest). | |
| Corydon | 122.99 | 197.93 |  SR 135 – Mauckport, Salem | |||
| 124.16 | 199.82 |  SR 337 north – Depauw | Northern end of SR 337 concurrency | |||
| 124.27 | 199.99 | SR 337 south | Southern end of SR 337 concurrency | |||
| Floyd | Georgetown Township | 136.53 | 219.72 |  SR 11 | Northern terminus of the southern section of SR 11. | |
| 139.13 | 223.91 | 118 |   I-64 west / SR 64 west – Evansville, Georgetown | Western end of I-64; eastern terminus of SR 64 | ||
| Floyds Knobs | 140.97 | 226.87 | 119 |  US 150 west – Greenville | Western end of US 150 concurrency | |
| New Albany | 144.69 | 232.86 | 121 0 |  I-64 east / I-265 east / US 150 east – New Albany, Louisville | Eastern end of I-64 and US 150; western terminus and end of I-265 concurrency; Exit 121 on I-64 and Exit 0 on I-265 | |
| 147.43 | 237.27 | 3 |  SR 111 – New Albany | |||
| 148.32 | 238.70 | 4 |  SR 311 – New Albany, Sellersburg | |||
| Clark | Jeffersonville | 150.90 | 242.85 | 7 |   I-65 / I-265 west / SR 265 east – Indianapolis, Louisville | Eastern terminus and end of I-265; Western terminus and western end of SR 265 |
| 153.93 | 247.73 | 10 | SR 265 west | Eastern terminus and eastern end of SR 265 | ||
| Charlestown | 161.11 | 259.28 |  SR 3 north – Charlestown | Southern terminus of SR 3 | ||
| Clark–Jefferson county line | Washington–Saluda township line | 176.30 | 283.73 |  SR 362 west | Eastern terminus of SR 362S | |
| Jefferson | Hanover | 183.11 | 294.69 |  SR 356 west | Eastern terminus of SR 356 | |
| 183.40 | 295.15 |  SR 56 west – Scottsburg | Western end of SR 56 concurrency | |||
| 188.47 | 303.31 | SR 56 east – Madison | Eastern end of SR 56 concurrency | |||
| 188.60 | 303.52 |  SR 256 – Austin, Madison | ||||
| Madison | 192.57 | 309.91 |  SR 7 – Madison, North Vernon | |||
| 195.24 | 314.21 | US 421 – Madison, Versailles | ||||
| Jefferson Proving Ground | 200.58 | 322.80 |  SR 250 west | Western end of SR 250 concurrency | ||
| Canaan | 207.79 | 334.41 | SR 250 east | Eastern end of SR 250 concurrency | ||
| Ripley | Cross Plains | 212.23 | 341.55 |  SR 129 south | Southern end of SR 129 concurrency | |
| 214.70 | 345.53 | SR 129 north | Northern end of SR 129 concurrency | |||
| Dearborn | Dillsboro | 227.19 | 365.63 |  SR 262 to US 50 | Eastern terminus of SR 62. | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- Indiana portal
- Louisville portal
- U.S. Roads portal
References
- ↑ "INDOT Roadway Referencing System" (PDF).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Driving Division was frustrating, scary". Evansville Courier & Press. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
- ↑ "Cloverleaf planned at Lloyd, US 41". Evansville Courier & Press. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
External links
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Media related to Indiana State Road 62 at Wikimedia Commons