Indiana State Road 2
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| State Road 2 |
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| Maintained by INDOT | |||||||||||||
| Length: | 80.98 mi[1] (130.32 km) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: |  ILL 17 near Lowell |
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| Major junctions: |
 US 41 near Lowell I-65 near Dinwiddle US 231 in Hebron US 30 in Valparaiso US 6 in Westville US 421 in Westville US 35 in La Porte US 20 |
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| East end: |  US 20/US 31 in South Bend |
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| Counties: | Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph | ||||||||||||
| Major cities: | Lowell, Hebron, Valparaiso, Westville, La Porte, South Bend | ||||||||||||
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State Road 2 in the U.S. State of Indiana is an east-west route running from the Illinois border at Illinois Route 17 east to the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana at the U.S. 20/31 freeway, also known as the St. Joseph Valley Parkway. This is a distance of 80.98 miles (130.32 km).
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[edit] Major Intersections
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| County | Location | Mile | Roads intersected | Notes |
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| Lake | Lowell | 0.00 | ILL 17 |
Western terminus of SR 2. |
| 3.45 | US 41 (Wicker Boulevard) |
Concurrent for 1 mile. | ||
| North Hayden | 6.09 | US 41 (Wicker Avenue) |
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| 12.13 |  SR 55 (Grant Street) |
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| 12.63 | SR 55 (Harrison Street) |
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| Dinwiddle | 14.91 | I-65 |
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| Porter | Hebron | 20.11 | US 231 |
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 SR 8 |
Western terminus of SR 8. | |||
| 22.28 | US 231 |
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| Valparaiso | 35.74 | US 30 |
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 SR 130 |
Eastern terminus of SR 130. | |||
| 37.87 |  US 30/SR 49 |
SR 2 turns onto the Valparaiso Bypass (SR 49). | ||
| SR 49 |
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| LaPorte | Westville | 47.16 | US 6 |
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| 48.07 | US 421 (North Flynn Street) |
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| 49.08 | US 421 |
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| La Porte |  SR 39 (Longwood Drive) |
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| US 35/SR 39 (Pine Lake/Indiana Avenue) |
End of concurrency with SR 39. US 35 intersects SR 2 and overlaps SR 39. | |||
| 59.76 |  SR 4 |
Western terminus of SR 4. | ||
| LaPorte County | US 20 |
SR 2 and US 20 switch alignments. | ||
| St. Joseph | South Bend | US 20/31 (St. Joseph Valley Parkway) |
Eastern terminus of SR 2. | |
 SR 933 |
Former SR 2 continued east and follows the Lincoln Highway. |
[edit] History
Indiana 2 has largely been replaced by the Indiana Toll Road (80/90) and by U.S. Route 20. Indiana 2 appears to be part of an old alignment from Kankakee, Illinois to South Bend, Indiana, and runs more diagonally than other east-west state highways in Indiana.
In Valparaiso, Indiana 2 has been rerouted around the downtown and central business districts of the city. Instead of traveling through the city along Washington Street, Indiana 2 overlaps U.S. Route 30 and the Valparaiso Bypass (State Road 49).
Several times in its history, Indiana 2 has run along the path of the Lincoln Highway.
[edit] Old Indiana State Route 2
Until the completion of the St. Joseph Valley Parkway around the South Bend - Elkhart area, Indiana 2 continued to downtown South Bend, mostly along Western Avenue (which remains, but no longer has state highway markers). State Road 2 originally followed the Lincoln Highway to Fort Wayne before US 33 supplanted it east of downtown South Bend.
[edit] Miscellanea
Just east of LaPorte, U.S. 20 and SR 2 "switch alignments" at a lighted intersection. That is, U.S. 20 follows the north and west legs of the intersection, while Indiana 2 follows the south and east legs.
