US 67 in Arkansas

 

US 67
Get started Texarkana
End Corning
Length 303 mi
Length 487 km
Route
Texas

Texarkana

hope

Prescott

gurdon

Arkadelphia

Malvern

benton

Little Rock

freeway

1 McCain Boulevard

3 Trammel Road

5 Kiehl Avenue

SR-440

8 Remond Road

11 Jacksonville

16 Cabot

19 Cabot

25 Ward

28 Beebe

31 Beebe

42 Higginson

46 Searcy

51 Judsonia

55 Bald Knob

60 Russell

65 Bradford

74 SR-224

81 Auvergne

83 Newport

85 Diaz

87 Tuckerman

95 Grubbs

102 Cash

Alicia

Hoxie

Walnut Ridge

pocahontas

Corning

Missouri

According to Existingcountries, US 67 is a US Highway in the US state of Arkansas. The route runs diagonally across the state, from Texarkana on the Texas border via the capital Little Rock to the Missouri border at Corning. From Little Rock, the road is a freeway up to Walnut Ridge, a distance of 200 miles. The total route is 487 kilometers long.

Travel directions

The US 67 at the height of the US 63 at Hoxie.

US 67 at Newport.

Southern Arkansas

US 67 in Texas crosses the Arkansas border in the city of Texarkana and then parallels Interstate 30 to the northeast. At Fulton one crosses the Red River, a major tributary of the Mississippi River. One then passes through rolling farmland, with I-30 always close by. At Hope you cross US 278. Towards the northeast, forest areas are increasingly encountered. A fairly important town on the route is Arkadelphia. Here one crosses the Ouachita River. In Malvern you cross the US 270. North of Malvern, US 67 merges with I-30, which continues to Little Rock. In Little Rock, US 67 is double-numbered with I-30.

Northern Arkansas

On the north side of Little Rock, US 67 exits from Interstate 40. US 67 is then a freeway in itself. One then passes through a few northern suburbs of Little Rock, and State Route 440 ends at US 67, the last interchange in the metropolitan area. You pass Jacksonville, a last suburb that also houses an air force base. US 67 continues in its northeasterly direction, passing through an area of ​​meadows and small forests. At Beebe, the US 64. joinsin. 43 kilometers later, US 64 exits again to Memphis in the east. South of Newport one crosses the White River, a fairly large tributary of the Mississippi River. The freeway ends at Walnut Ridge in the northeast of the state.

Walnut Ridge crosses US 412, which runs from Mountain Home in the west to Paragould in the east. The last major town before the Missouri border is Pocahontas, where US 62 merges. It turns east again at Corning, toward New Madrid, while US 67 continues north for a few more miles, then crosses the border into Missouri.

History

According to Anycountyprivateschools, US 67 was created in 1926 and largely followed its current diagonal route through Arkansas. The continuing importance of US 67 between Texarkana and Little Rock waned during the 1960s when I-30 was built parallel to it.

In 2016-2017, the bridge over the Arkansas River in Little Rock was replaced with a double arch bridge. The bridge opened to traffic on March 2, 2017.

Freeway Little Rock – Walnut Ridge

The freeway from Little Rock to Walnut Ridge has been extended northeast in phases. The section between North Little Rock and Jacksonville is one of the oldest highways in Arkansas, opening to traffic about 1961, connecting to both I-30 and I-40 in North Little Rock in 1962. The second part didn’t open until 1970 to Beebe. The freeway was subsequently extended in stages during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, reaching the northeast side of Newport in 1994. On October 10, 2009, a 17-mile extension from Newport to Cash opened.

A more recent major project was the construction of the freeway from Cash to Hoxie over a distance of 28 kilometers. Construction was slow, work started around 2010 and the project was largely completed by mid-2015, but it took another year for the highway to open. The freeway opened to traffic on August 11, 2016. The Hoxie and Walnut Ridge bypass is older and is believed to have opened around 2001. At Walnut Ridge, preparations have been made for an extension of the freeway further northeast.

In 2002, the widening of the US 67 freeway in the Little Rock metropolitan area began. This has been completed in many phases. In 2004, the first 3 miles of 2×3 lanes opened in North Little Rock, which was extended to State Route 440 in about 2008. In 2011, the widening was completed to the south side of Jacksonville, which was extended another 1.5 miles through Jacksonville in 2018.. In 2019, the 7-kilometer widening between the north side of Jacksonville and the south side of Cabot was completed. In 2023, the remaining portion through Jacksonville will be widened to 2×3 lanes.

Opening history

This concerns the freeway from Little Rock to Walnut Ridge.

from nasty length date
Exit 1 McCain Blvd (North Little Rock) Exit 11 Jacksonville (north) 16 km 1961
Exit 0 I-40 (North Little Rock) Exit 1 McCain Boulevard 2 km 1962
Exit 11 Jacksonville (north) Exit 28 Beebe 27 km 1970
Exit 28 Beebe Exit 42 Searcy (South) 23 km 1974
Exit 42 Searcy (South) Exit 51 Judsonia 14 km 1976
Exit 51 Judsonia Exit 55 Bald Knob 6 km 1977
Exit 55 Bald Knob Exit 60 Russell 8 km 1983
Exit 60 Russell Exit 74 Ingleside 23 km 1987
Exit 74 Ingleside Exit 82 Newport (SR-17) 13 km 1991
Exit 82 Newport (SR-17) Exit 85 Newport (SR-18) 5 km 1994
exit ? Walnut Ridge (US 63) exit ? Walnut Ridge (US 412) 5 km 2002
Exit 85 Newport (SR-18) Exit 102 Cash 27 km 10-10-2009
Exit 102 Cash exit ? Walnut Ridge (US 63) 28 km 11-08-2016

Future

US 67 at Little Rock.

In the future, US 67 is to be extended as a freeway to Interstate 57 in Missouri. I-57 may then be extended to Little Rock, creating a direct highway between Chicago and Little Rock. In 2016, the probability of numbering I-57 increased.

Traffic intensities

Typically 1,000 to 3,000 vehicles drive daily on US 67 between Texarkana and Little Rock in rural areas parallel to I-30. In the various centers on the route, such as Hope and Arkadelphia, the intensities are higher. The independent highway section to the north of Little Rock has 72,000 vehicles, declining gradually northwards, with 23,000 vehicles at Searcy and 7,700 vehicles at Newport. 7,400 vehicles drove between Walnut Ridge and Pocahontas, and 4,000 vehicles crossed the Missouri border daily.

US 67 in Arkansas