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US 54 begins in El Paso at State Loop 375 downtown. The highway serves as a major freeway for the Metro area's network running North/South along the city's eastern slope of the Franklin Mountains range. The highway runs through the city for approximately 23 miles before reaching the New Mexico State Line. Within the network it is a military connector for Fort Bliss and Holloman Air Force Base. |
US 54 begins in El Paso at State Loop 375 downtown. The highway serves as a major freeway for the Metro area's network running North/South along the city's eastern slope of the Franklin Mountains range. The highway runs through the city for approximately 23 miles before reaching the New Mexico State Line. Within the network it is a military connector for Fort Bliss and Holloman Air Force Base. |
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The highway re-enters the Texas Panhandle just beyond Nara Visa, New Mexico and continues Northeast for 95 miles to the Oklahoma State Line. Major Texas cities along US 54 El Paso, North Hills, Dalhart and Stratford. |
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Revision as of 20:06, 13 June 2007
U.S. Route 54 is an east-west United States highway that runs northeast-southwest for 1,197 miles (1,926 km) from western Illinois to El Paso, Texas. It enters and leaves Texas twice.
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is Griggsville, Illinois at Interstate 72 and Illinois Route 107. Its western terminus is El Paso, Texas at the United States-Mexico border.
Route description
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The highway passes through the following states:
New Mexico
US 54 enters New Mexico as part of the El Paso, Texas Metro area network. It also services as a military highway to connect Fort Bliss in El Paso to Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The highway runs north through the central portion of the state connecting to Interstate 40 in Santa Rosa, NM following for 59 miles to Tucumcari. The highway then exits the state back into Texas at Nara Visa. The highway runs for 354 miles and through the major New Mexico cities of Alamogordo, Vaughn, Santa Rosa and Tucumcari.
Texas
US 54 begins in El Paso at State Loop 375 downtown. The highway serves as a major freeway for the Metro area's network running North/South along the city's eastern slope of the Franklin Mountains range. The highway runs through the city for approximately 23 miles before reaching the New Mexico State Line. Within the network it is a military connector for Fort Bliss and Holloman Air Force Base.
The highway re-enters the Texas Panhandle just beyond Nara Visa, New Mexico and continues Northeast for 95 miles to the Oklahoma State Line. Major Texas cities along US 54 El Paso, North Hills, Dalhart and Stratford.
Oklahoma
Kansas
US 54 enters the state from Oklahoma in Seward County, and travels through the cities of Liberal and Plains, where it begins a multiplex with US 160 in Meade County. Just east of the city of Mead, US 54 splits from US 160 and continues in a northeasterly direction through Meade and Ford counties before beginning a long multiplex with US 400 in Mullinville in Kiowa County.
The highway then travels through the tornado devastated town of Greensburg and continues as a two-lane road through Pratt, Cunningham, and Kingman. The road becomes an at-grade expressway in eastern Kingman County in the outer suburbs of the Wichita area.
The expressway continues into Sedgwick County, entering the city limits of Wichita near Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. In Wichita, US 54/400 is known as Kellogg Avenue, and has junctions with Interstate 235, Interstate 135 and Interstate 35 (the Kansas Turnpike before a junction with K-96.
The multiplex of US 54 and US 400 continues through Augusta in Butler County before US 400 heads east toward the Missouri state line, while US 54 forms a brief multiplex with US 77 through El Dorado. At El Dorado, US 54 continues its easterly course through rural areas in Greenwood and Wilson counties before passing through the cities of Iola and Fort Scott, with US 77 heading north to Junction City. US 54 exits Kansas in Bourbon County before reaching Nevada, Missouri.
Missouri
Highway 54 enters Missouri from the west, winding through the following cities:
Nevada
El Dorado Springs
Camdenton
Osage Beach
Jefferson City
Fulton
Mexico
Louisiana
Illinois
In the state of Illinois, U.S. 54 runs from the Champ Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River to its terminus at Interstate 72 northeast near Griggsville. It is a rural, two-lane surface street for its entire length in Illinois.
History
Until the 1970s it reached Chicago before it was truncated in favor of U.S. Route 36, Illinois Route 54, and U.S. Route 45.
Related U.S. Routes
References
Routes in italics are no longer a part of the system. Highlighted routes are considered main routes of the system. |
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←  SH-53 | OK | →  SH-54 | ||
←  Route 53 | MO | → Error: Invalid type: Interstate | ||
←  IL 53 | IL | → Error: Invalid type: Interstate | ||
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