Interstate 55 in Missouri

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Interstate 55
Main route of the Interstate Highway System

Maintained by MoDOT

Length:

210 mi (338 km)

South end:

I-55 in Arkansas

Major
junctions:

Interstate 57 in Sikeston, Missouri

Interstate 255 in St. Louis, Missouri

Interstate 64 in St. Louis, Missouri

Interstate 44 in St. Louis, Missouri

North end:

Illinois border

Missouri Highways
< US 54		US 56 >
Supplemental

In the state of Missouri, Interstate 55 runs from the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis to the Arkansas border to the south.

1 Route description
2 History
- 2.1 Sponsorship controversy
3 Exit list
4 References

Route description

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History

Sponsorship controversy

The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan began fighting several court battles with the state of Missouri after the state disputed its right to sponsor a stretch of highway. In March 2004, after a U.S. District Court judge found that blocking the Klan's sponsorship was unconstitutional, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state must erect signs announcing the group's sponsorship. However, the Missouri Legislature later voted to rename the stretch of I-55 the "Rosa Parks Highway" in honor of the Montgomery civil rights hero who began the Montgomery bus boycott. The Klan were eventually dropped from the scheme on April 4, 2005, on the grounds that for the duration of their sponsorship, they had not once cleaned the highway.

Exit list

County	Location	#	Destinations	Notes
Pemiscot		1	Route O to US 61 – Holland
		4	Route E – Cooter, Holland
		8	US 61 south / Route 164 – Steele	South end of I-55 overlap
		14	Route U / Route H / Route J – Caruthersville, Braggadocio
		17	I-155 east / US 412 – Caruthersville, Dyersburg, Hayti, Kennett	Signed as exits 17A (east) and 17B (west)
	Hayti	19	Route 84 – Hayti, Caruthersville
		27	Image:MO-supp-BB.svg Route K / Route A / Route BB – Wardell
New Madrid	Portageville	32	US 61 north / Route 162 – Portageville	North end of US 61 overlap
	Marston	40	Image:MO-supp-EE.svg Route EE (St. Jude Road) – Marston
	New Madrid	44	US 61 / US 62 / I-55 Bus. north – New Madrid, Howardville
		49	US 61 / US 62 / I-55 Bus. south – New Madrid, Kewanee
		52	Route P – Kewanee
		58	Route 80 – Matthews, East Prairie
Scott	Sikeston	66	I-57 north / US 60 – Dexter, Poplar Bluff, Chicago	Signed as exits 66A (north/east) and 66B (west)
		67	US 62 – Sikeston, Bertrand
		69	Route HH – Miner, Sikeston
		80	Route 77 – Benton, Diehlstadt
	Scott City	89	US 61 south / Route M / Route K – Scott City, Chaffee	South end of US 61 overlap
	Scott City	91	Route AB – Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
Cape Girardeau	Cape Girardeau	93	Route 74 west / US 61 north / I-55 Bus. north – Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau	North end of US 61 overlap; south end of Route 74 overlap; signed as exits 93A (west) and 93B (north) northbound
		95	Route 74 east / Illinois Route 146 – Cape Girardeau	North end of Route 74 overlap
		96	Route K – Cape Girardeau, Gordonville
		99	US 61 / Route 34 / I-55 Bus. – Cape Girardeau, Jackson
		105	US 61 / I-55 Bus. south – Fruitland, Jackson
		111	Route E – Oak Ridge
		117	Image:MO-supp-KK.svg Route KK – Old Appleton
		123	Route B – Biehle
	Perryville	129	Route 51 – Perryville
		135	Route M – Brewer
Ste. Genevieve		141	Route Z – St. Mary
		143	Route N / Route J / Route M – Ozora
		150	Route 32 / Route B / Route A – Ste. Genevieve, Farmington
		154	Route O – Ste. Genevieve, Rocky Ridge
		157	Route Y – Bloomsdale
		162	Image:MO-supp-OO.svg Route DD / Route OO
Jefferson		170	US 61
	Crystal City	174	US 67 / I-55 Bus. north – Crystal City, Farmington, Bonne Terre	Signed as exits 174A (north) and 174B (south)
	Festus	175	Route A – Hillsboro, Festus
	Herculaneum	178	I-55 Bus. south – Herculaneum
	Pevely	180	Route Z – Pevely
	Pevely	185	Route M – Barnhart, Antonia
	Kimmswick	186	Imperial Main Street
	Kimmswick	190	Richardson Road
	Arnold	191	Route 141 – Arnold
St. Louis County		193	Meramec Bottom Road
		195	Butler Hill Road
		196A	I-255 east – Chicago
		196B	I-270 west – Kansas City
		197	US 61 / US 67 / US 50 (Lindbergh Boulevard)
		199	Reavis Barracks Road
		200	Union Road	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		201A	Bayless Avenue
		201B	Weber Road	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
City of St. Louis		202A	Carondelet Boulevard	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		202B	Germania Avenue	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		202C	Loughborough Avenue
		203	Virginia Avenue, Bates Street
		204	4500 South Broadway
		205	Gasconade Street	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		206A	Potomac Street	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		206B	3200 South Broadway	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		206C	Arsenal St
		207A	Gravois Ave	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		207B	I-44 west – Tulsa	Begin I-44 concurrency; Signed as exit 207 southbound
		290C	12th Street, Gravois Avenue	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		207C	Lafayette Avenue	Northbound exit and southbound entrance; former proposed Route 755
		208	Park Avenue, 7th Street
		251C	Memorial Drive - Downtown St. Louis, St. Louis Arch, Busch Stadium	Using I-70 exit numbers
		40C	I-64 west / US 40 west – St. Louis	South end of I-64/US 40 overlap; southbound exit and northbound entrance
		209B	I-70 west / Memorial Drive – Kansas City	South end of I-70 overlap
Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River, concurrency ends at Illinois border.