Interstate 35 in Oklahoma

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Interstate 35 Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Maintained by ODOT
Length:	235.96 mi[1] (379.74 km)
South end:	I-35 near Thackerville
Major junctions:	I-240 in Oklahoma City I-235 in Oklahoma City I-40 in Oklahoma City I-44 in Oklahoma City Cimarron Turnpike near Enid
North end:	I-35/Kansas Turnpike near Braman
Oklahoma State Highways < SH-34 SH-35 >

Oklahoma is the second state that Interstate 35 passes through from south to north. In Oklahoma, I-35 runs from the Red River at the Texas border to the Kansas line near Braman, for a length of 296 miles^[1] (372 km). I-35 has one spur route in the state, Interstate 235.

Contents 1 Route description 2 History 3 Naming 4 Exit list 5 References

[edit] Route description

Interstate 35 enters Oklahoma with U.S. Highway 77 on a bridge over the Red River in Love County, south of Thackerville. US-77 splits off at Exit 1, but parallels the interstate for its entire length in Oklahoma. I-35 maintains a near-due north-south course through Love and Carter Cos. I-35 provides four exits to Ardmore. After leaving Ardmore, it has a brief concurrency with State Highway 53 and enters Murray County and the Arbuckle Mountains. I-35 then passes through Garvin County and the county seat of Pauls Valley. North of exit 79, I-35 enters McClain County. There, it passes through Purcell and Goldsby.

State Highway 9 joins the interstate crossing over the South Canadian River into Cleveland County, after which it splits off again. It then serves as a major urban interstate in Norman and Moore. Between Norman and Moore, US-77 joins the interstate again. It then enters Oklahoma City and Oklahoma County near milepost 120. Near downtown Oklahoma City, I-35 splits off the mainline (which becomes Interstate 235/US-77) and runs concurrent with Interstate 40 for a mile before splitting off to the north again. Interstate 44 then joins I-35 between mileposts 133 and 137. In Edmond US-77 joins the interstate yet again.

At milepost 146, I-35 enters Logan County. It serves Guthrie at Exit 153, where US-77 splits off, and at Exit 157. The interstate then crosses the Cimarron River into Payne County and enters Noble County shortly thereafter. It provides two exits to Perry and serves as the western terminus of the Cimarron Turnpike. After providing access to Tonkawa and Blackwell in Kay County, it crosses into Kansas, becoming the Kansas Turnpike.

[edit] History

Some sections of I-35 in Oklahoma City were already built in 1953, before the Interstate system was created.^[2] Through Norman, Oklahoma, the interstate opened in June 1959. In Moore, it opened in two parts: the northern half, connecting Moore to Oklahoma City, opened in January 1960. The southern half, linking it to Norman, was opened to traffic in June 1967.^[3]

I-35 through Oklahoma largely parallels U.S. Highway 77 in Oklahoma. This is in large part due to efforts of the towns of Wynnewood, Paoli, and Wayne, which fought to keep I-35 as close as possible to US-77. This was successful due to a threat from Governor Henry Bellmon to build a toll road rather than I-35, and legislation preventing state funds for the interstate from being spent if it were more than 1 mile from the U.S. route.^[4]

I-35 was completed in Oklahoma in 1971, when parts of the interstate running through Carter Co. and Murray Co. were opened to traffic.^[2]

[edit] Naming

• Through the Arbuckle Mountains, I-35 is designated as the Honey Creek Pass.
• The bridge over the South Canadian River is the S.K. McCall Memorial Bridge.
• In Moore, I-35 is the Helen Cole Memorial Highway.
• In Edmond, I-35 is the Shannon Miller Parkway.

[edit] Exit list

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
I-35/US-77 enter Texas
Love			1	US-77 north	US-77 splits northbound and joins southbound
			5	SH-153 – Thackerville
			15	State Highway 32 – Marietta, Ryan
			21	Oswalt Rd.
Carter			24	SH-77S – Lake Murray State Park
	Ardmore		29	US-70 east – Madill, Ardmore	US-70 joins northbound and splits southbound
			31A	State Highway 199 east – Ardmore
			31B	US-70 west – Waurika, Lone Grove	US-70 splits northbound and joins southbound
			32	12th St.
			33	State Highway 142 – Ardmore
			40	State Highway 53 east – Springer, Gene Autry	SH-53 joins northbound and splits southbound
			42	State Highway 53 west – Comanche	SH-53 splits northbound and joins southbound
Murray			47	US-77 – Turner Falls Area
			51	US-77 – Turner Falls Area
			55	SH-7 – Davis, Duncan, Sulphur
Garvin			60	Ruppe Rd.
	Wynnewood		64	State Highway 17A east – Wynnewood
			66	State Highway 29 – Wynnewood, Elmore City
	Pauls Valley		70	Airport Rd.
			72	State Highway 19 – Pauls Valley, Maysville	Lindsay
			74	Kimberlin Rd.
			79	State Highway 145 – Paoli
McClain			86	State Highway 59 – Wayne, Payne
	Purcell		91	SH-74 – Purcell, Lexington	TO State Highway 39
			95	Purcell	Southbound signed as "To US-77, Purcell/Lexington"
			98	Johnson Rd.
	Goldsby		101	Ladd Rd.
			104	SH-74 south – Goldsby, Washington
			106	SH-9 west – Chickasha	SH-9 joins northbound and splits southbound
Cleveland	Norman		108A	SH-9 east – Tecumseh	SH-9 splits northbound and joins southbound
			108B	SH-74A (Lindsey St.)
			109	Main St.
			110	Robinson St.	Two exits southbound; Robinson St. westbound (110B) and Robinson St (110A)
			112	Tecumseh Rd.
			113	US-77 south – Norman	Southbound only; US-77 joins northbound and splits southbound
	Moore		114	Indian Hill Rd.
			116	S. 19th St.
			117	SH-37 (S. 4th St.) Main St., N. 5th St.	Southbound SH-37 (S. 4th St.) only
			118	N. 12th St.	Southbound Main St., N. 5th St. included
			119A	Shields Blvd.	Northbound only; reconstructed in 2006
			119B	N. 27th St.
	Oklahoma City		120	S.E. 89th St.
Oklahoma			121	I-240 / US-62 west / SH-3 – Lawton, Fort Smith	US-62 joins northbound and splits southbound
			122A	S.E. 66th St.
			122B	S.E. 59th St.
			123A	S.E. 51st St.
			123B	S.E. 44th St.
			124A	Grand Blvd.
			124B	S.E. 29th St., S.E. 25th St.
			125D	S.E. 15th St.
			126	I-235 north – Edmond, Downtown/ I-40 west – Amarillo	I-40 joins northbound and splits southbound, I-235/US-77 split northbound and joins southbound
			127	Eastern Ave., M.L. King Ave.
		128		I-40 east – Ft. Smith	I-40 splits northbound and joins southbound
			129	N.E. 10th St.
			130	US-62 east (S.E. 23rd St.)	US-62 splits northbound and joins southbound
			131	N.E. 36th St.
			132A	N.E. 50th St.
			132B	N.E. 63rd St.
			133	I-44/State Highway 66 west – Lawton/Amarillo	I-44 joins northbound and splits southbound, State Highway 66 secretly joins northbound and splits southbound
			134	Wilshire Blvd.
			135	Britton Rd.
			136	Hefner Rd.
			137	N.E. 122nd St.
			138A	I-44 east – Tulsa	I-44 splits northbound and joins southbound
			138B	Kilpatrick Turnpike
			138C	Sooner Rd.	Southbound only
	Edmond		138D	Memorial Rd.
			139	33rd St.
			140	15th St.
			141	US-77 south/State Highway 66 south (2nd St.)	US-77 joins northbound and splits southbound, State Highway 66 splits northbound and secretly joins southbound
			142	Danforth Rd.
			143	Covell Rd.
			146	Waterloo Rd.
Logan			151	Seward Rd.
	Guthrie		153	US-77 north – Guthrie	Cleo Bradshaw Interchange; US-77 splits northbound and joins southbound
			157	SH-33 – Guthrie, Perkins, Cushing
Payne			170	Mulhall Rd.
			174	SH-51 – Stillwater, Hennessey
Noble			180	Orlando Rd.
	Perry		185	US-77 – Perry, Covington
			186	US-64 east (Fir St.) – Perry	US-64 joins northbound and splits southbound
			193	Airport Rd.	Northbound only
			194A	US-412 east (Cimarron Turnpike) – Tulsa
			194B	US-64 west / US-412 west – Enid	US-64 splits northbound and joins southbound
			203	SH-15 – Billings, Marland
Kay		211		Fountain Rd.
			214	US-60 – Tonkawa, Ponca City
			218	Hubbard Rd.
			222	SH-11 – Blackwell, Medford
			230	Braman Rd.
			231	US-177 – Braman	Braman not signed northbound
I-35 enters Kansas, Kansas Turnpike begins

[edit] References

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