North Carolina Highway 87

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NC 87

Length:

240 mi (386 km)

Formed:

1939^[1]

South end:

NC 211 in Southport, NC

Major
junctions:

US 17 near Bolivia

US 74/US 76 in Sandy Creek
I-95/US 301 in Fayetteville
US 1/US 15/US 421/US 501 in Sanford
US 64 in Pittsboro
I-40/I-85 in Burlington
US 70/NC 54 in Burlington
US 29 in Reidsville

North end:

VA 87 at Virginia

Counties:

Brunswick, Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Lee, Chatham, Alamance, Caswell, Rockingham

Major cities:

Fayetteville, Sanford, Graham, Burlington, Elon, Reidsville, Eden

North Carolina highways
< NC 86		NC 88 >

North Carolina Highway 87 is a mostly rural highway traversing the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina. N.C. 87 begins in the Atlantic coastal town of Southport and ends at the Virginia state line five miles north of Eden in Rockingham County. At 240 miles in length, N.C. 87 is the second longest state highway in North Carolina (longer than Interstate 85 by about 10 miles)[1].

1 Route description
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Route description

N.C. 87 is a four-lane, divided highway with at-grade crossings between Tar Heel and Sanford. The section east of Tar Heel to N.C. 41 near Elizabethtown is currently being upgraded to four lanes. There is already a by-pass route for Elizabethtown. Other sections that are four-lane, divided highways include concurrencies with U.S. 17 and U.S. 74-76 in Brunswick County.

North of Sanford, N.C. 87 runs concurrent with U.S. 15-501 to Pittsboro. It then continues towards Graham as a two-lane highway.

[edit] Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway

In Fayetteville, N.C. 87 has a limited-access portion north of I-95, the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway. According to NCDOT, the exits are listed as follows:

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Interstate 95;
East Mountain Drive; Exit 100.
US Route 301/Interstate 95 Business Loop (Owen Drive); Exit 102.
Gillespie Street; Exit 103
US Route 401 Business (Robeson Street); Exit 104A - US Route 401 Business joins the MLK Freeway.
Hay Street; Exit 104B
N.C. 24/87 (Bragg Boulevard) - N.C. 87 continues along Bragg Boulevard towards Spring Lake

The freeway continues to Ramsey Street (U.S. 401 Business).