State Highway 63 (SH 63) is a long
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in northeastern
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
. SH 63's southern terminus is at
U.S. Route 36 (US 36) in
Anton, and the northern terminus is at
US 6
U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War Grand Army of the Republic, veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast fr ...
in
Atwood.
Route description
SH 63 begins in the south at a junction with
U.S. Highway 36 at
Anton and proceeds north through remote, sparsely populated land for roughly before reaching a junction with
U.S. Highway 34 at
Akron
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 C ...
. From there, the route continues north for a further to cross
Interstate 76 at that highway's exit 115 and after roughly four more miles arrives at its northern terminus at
U.S. Highway 6
U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to P ...
in
Atwood.
History
SH 63 was defined in the 1920s by the
Colorado Department of Transportation
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT, pronounced See Dot) is the principal department of the Colorado state government that administers state government transportation responsibilities in the state of Colorado. CDOT is responsible f ...
, when it connected
State Highway 96 in
Haswell to
Atwood at
U.S. Highway 6
U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to P ...
. A gap appeared near Haswell in 1946. The section was later deleted by 1954, leaving its current routing from
Anton to
Atwood. This section was paved by 1961.
Major intersections
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Colorado State Highway 063
063
Transportation in Washington County, Colorado
Transportation in Logan County, Colorado