Iowa Highway 27

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Iowa Highway 27

Length:

282 mi^[1] (454 km)

Formed:

August 20, 2001

South end:

MO 27 near Argyle

North end:

I-35 near Silver Lake

Counties:

Lee, Henry, Washington, Johnson, Linn, Benton, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Bremer, Chickasaw, Floyd, Cerro Gordo, Worth

Major cities:

Mount Pleasant, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Waverly, Charles City, Mason City, Clear Lake

Iowa State Highways
< IA 26		IA 28 >

Iowa Highway 27 ("Iowa 27") was established in 2001 to mark the Iowa section of the Avenue of the Saints, a partially-completed expressway between St. Louis, Missouri and St. Paul, Minnesota.

The total length of Iowa 27 is 282 miles (454 kilometers). At its southern terminus in Lee County on the Des Moines River and the Iowa-Missouri border, the expressway continues as Route 27.

Motorists who wished to travel the Avenue of the Saints through Iowa prior to the existence of Iowa 27 followed a lengthy list of directions (here, northbound):Iowa Highway 394^[2] , US 218, Interstate 380, US 20, Iowa 58^[3], US 218 (again), US 18 and Interstate 35 ("I-35").

Iowa 27 runs concurrent with I-35 for 28 miles until reaching its northern terminus in Worth County at the Iowa-Minnesota border. From there, the Avenue of the Saints continues on I-35 to St. Paul.

The four lane road was completed in Iowa on May 23, 2006.