Mississippi Highway 607 (MS 607) is a

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in the

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region. The route starts at

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(US 90), and it travels westward to

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(I-10). The route has a gap as the road travels through the

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, but resumes north of the center to end at

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and

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south of

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. The road was part of US 11 and US 90, before MS 43 was designated in 1948. MS 607 was created in 1967, after MS 43 was rerouted, and Stennis Space Center was built.

Route description

All of the route is located in

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and

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counties. MS 607 starts at a

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with US 90 and travels westward. The route goes through a forest as a

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. Nearly later, MS 607 intersects MS 604 as it turns northwest. After passing by two

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s, it crosses a road that leads to the Mississippi welcome center and

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, a NASA visitor center. The route then intersects I-10 at a

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, and state maintenance ends just north of it along with the formal designation of MS 607.

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maintenance begins, and the road soon turns north. About later, MS 607 travels through an access gate and enters Stennis Space Center. Past the access gate, the road crosses over a canal and intersects road that leads to an old alignment of MS 43. MS 607 later shifts northwest until it meets H Road. It then travels north through thick forests for more than , until it reaches Gravel Pit Road, where it begins traveling northwest. South of Turtleskin Creek, MS 607 reaches to an access gate. State maintenance and the MS 607 designation resumes at the intersection of Texas Flat Road and the old alignment of US 11. The route continues traveling northwest as a divided highway through the forest, entering Pearl River County and intersecting Asa McQueen Road. Small houses soon appear, and the route necks down to two lanes and meets US 11 and I-59 at a

. The road continues on into Picayune as US 11. In 2019,

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(MDOT) calculated as many as 8,700 vehicles traveling west of US 90, and as few as 2,900 vehicles traveling south of Texas Flat Road. All of the road is maintained by MDOT and the United States Government. MS 607 is part of two

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and memorial designations: Hospitality Highway, which is designated from I-10 to US 90, and

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Scenic Byway to Space, starting at the intersection of MS 607 and MS 604 to the south gate of the center, then from the north gate to Texas Flat Road.

History

The road that became part of MS 607 was part of US 90 and US 11 since 1928, and all of it became paved by 1934. In 1936, a new road was built from US 90 to south of Slidell, and US 90 was soon rerouted to it. The road between US 11 and US 90 became MS 11-90. By 1939, US 90 was moved to another new road, bypassing the old one. The MS 11-90 designation was temporarily removed in 1942, and was restored the next year. In 1948, MS 11-90's designation was removed, and the road became part of MS 43. Between 1958 and 1960,

and

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were proposed. Meanwhile, the

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began buying land in Hancock County for the Mississippi Test Operations in 1962, which later became Stennis Space Center. In 1967, MS 43's alignment was moved around NASA's test site, and the old alignment became MS 607. Only north and south of the test area were state maintained. Construction at the test facility was completed later that year. By January 1971, I-10 was connected to MS 607. One month later, MS 607 south of the Stennis Space Center was upgraded to a four-lane

, after it was proposed in 1969. A project to widen MS 607 from Texas Flat Road to I-59 began in 2013, and construction continued through 2015.

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Transportation in Hancock County, Mississippi U.S. Route 11 U.S. Route 90 Transportation in Pearl River County, Mississippi

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