Missouri Route 100

Route 100
Route information
Maintained by MoDOT
Length:	121 mi[1] (195 km)
Major junctions
West end:	US 50 in Linn
East end:	Chouteau Avenue at the Interstate 55 overpass in St. Louis
Highway system
Missouri Highways Supplemental ← Route 99 Route 101 →

Route 100, also named Manchester Road through St. Louis County and Manchester Avenue through Saint Louis City, is a state highway in the U.S. state of Missouri. It runs from Linn, Missouri at U.S. Route 50 to Interstate 55 in St. Louis. The highway is 121 miles (195 km)^[1] long.

Route description

Route 100 begins at US 50 in Linn. The highway heads north from Linn until it encounters the Missouri River, where it turns eastward to parallel the river. At Chamois, Missouri, it serves as the northern terminus of Route 89. It then enters Gasconade County near Morrison and bridges the Gasconade River near its mouth at the eponymous town. In the county seat, Hermann, Route 100 has a short concurrency with Route 19. The highway passes through New Haven, in Franklin County, 14 miles (23 km)^[2] later. The highway then intersects Route 185 at its northern terminus, and Route 47 in Washington. It becomes an expressway outside the city limits, which runs to near Gray Summit. Route 100 crosses over Interstate 44 two times, with an interchange providing access to the freeway.

Northeast of Gray Summit, Route 100 crosses into St. Louis County, entering the city limits of Wildwood at the same time. Just north of the intersection with Route T, the highway becomes an expressway again. In Wildwood, it has an interchange with Route 109. Route 100 then enters Ellisville, where the expressway ends. From here all the way into St. Louis, the highway also carries the local name Manchester Road. In Ellisville, Route 340 (Clarkson Road) meets its southern terminus. Route 100 then proceeds into Ballwin. It then divides Manchester from Winchester, Missouri before wholly entering Manchester, where it has a single-point urban interchange (SPUI) with Route 141. Route 100 then runs through a swath of unincorporated territory en route to Des Peres. The route crosses over Interstate 270, the St. Louis beltway, in that town. East of Ellisville, Route 100 enters Kirkwood; there, Manchester Road intersects Kirkwood Road (the name given to Lindbergh Boulevard in Kirkwood), which carries US 61/67. Route 100 then passes through the smaller suburbs of Warson Woods, Glendale, Rock Hill, Brentwood, and Maplewood.

After leaving Maplewood, Route 100 continues into the independent City of St. Louis. As Manchester Road crosses Vandeventer Avenue, the highway becomes Chouteau Avenue. Route 100 continues east on Chouteau Avenue towards downtown St. Louis. The route ends just east of South Broadway, at the Interstate 55 overpass. Due to the nearby east terminus of I-44, there is no interchange with I-55 at the state route's terminus.

The Lewis and Clark Trail

Most of Route 100 is part of the Lewis and Clark Trail. From Kirkwood Rd in Kirkwood to three miles (5 km) west of Wildwood is one section, where the trail turns off on Route T. Route T will eventually end, once again, at Route 100 northwest of I-44 and continue down Route 100 all the way to five miles (8 km) north of Linn (where Route 100 ends), and the Lewis and Clark Trail turns off onto Route C.

History

Much of the road between St. Louis and Gray Summit was the original U.S. Route 66, though this was only temporary until US 66 moved to its later location at what is now Watson Rd (Route 366) and Interstate 44. During, and after US 66 was moved off Manchester Rd, the road remained part of U.S. Route 50 for many years.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Osage	Linn	0.0	0.0	US 50 (Main Street) – Linn, Loose Creek
	Luystown			Route C west / Lewis and Clark Trail west – Frankenstein	west end of Lewis and Clark Trail overlap
	Chamois	17.9	28.8	Route 89 south – Linn
Gasconade	Hermann	41.2	66.3	Route 19 south (South Market Street) – Swiss	west end of Route 19 overlap
		42.0	67.6	Route 19 north (North Market Street) – New Florence	east end of Route 19 overlap
Franklin		62.2	100.1	Route 185 south – Beaufort
	Washington	70.3	113.1	Route 47 – Union
				Route T east / Route V west / Lewis and Clark Trail east – Labadie, Union	east end of Lewis and Clark Trail overlap
				Route AT west / Historic US 66 west to I-44 / US 50	west end of Historic US 66 overlap
				I-44 Bus. east / Historic US 66 east	east end of Historic US 66 overlap; west end of I-44 Bus. / Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
		82.1	132.1	I-44 / US 50 – St. Clair, Pacific	I-44 exit 253; east end of I-44 Bus. overlap
	Gray Summit			Route MM north – Labadie
St. Louis	Wildwood			Historic US 66 (1926-1933) east (Manchester Road)	east end of Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
				Route T west / Lewis and Clark Trail west – St. Albans	west end of Lewis and Clark Trail overlap
		95.7	154.0	Route 109 (Eatherton Road)	interchange
				Historic US 66 (1926-1933) west (Manchester Road)	west end of Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
	Ellisville	98.9	159.2	Route 340 east (Clarkson Road)
	Manchester	103.1	165.9	Route 141	interchange
	Des Peres			Des Peres Road	interchange
		106.5	171.4	I-270 – Chicago, Memphis	I-270 exit 9
	Kirkwood	108.9	175.3	US 61 / US 67 / Lewis and Clark Trail east / Historic US 66 (1936-1965) (North Kirkwood Road)	east end of Lewis and Clark Trail overlap
City of St. Louis				Historic US 66 (1926-1933) east (McCausland Avenue)	east end of Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
				Historic US 66 (1926-1933) west (Boyle Avenue)	west end of Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
				Historic US 66 (Tucker Boulevard)	east end of Historic US 66 (1926-1933) overlap
		121.0	194.7	3rd Street	east end of state maintenance (under I-44 / I-55)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

Route map: Bing