South Dakota Highway 253 (SD 253) is an
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 the north-central part of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
. It exists entirely within
Edmunds County, from
U.S. Route 12 (US 12) west of
Roscoe to
SD 47 north of
Bowdle. The route is maintained by the
South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of South Dakota. South Dakota has 82,447 miles of highways, roads and streets, as well as 5,905 br ...
(SDDOT) and is not a part of the
National Highway System.
Route description
SD 253 begins at an intersection with
US 12
U.S. Route 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States highway, running from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, for almost . The highway has mostly been superseded by Interstate 90 (I-90) and I-94, but unlike most U.S. routes tha ...
near
Gretna and heads north through flat farmland. It passes a railroad almost immediately and continues north. The route passes by a couple of lakes and turns west. Directly after turning east, SD 253 enters the city of
Hosmer. After running through the city, the highway passes by a cemetery and treks west. The route reaches its northern terminus approximately west of Hosmer at an intersection with
SD 47
South Dakota Highway 47 (SD 47) is a state route that runs north to south across the central portion of South Dakota. It begins at an unnumbered highway at the North Dakota border north of Eureka, and ends at the Nebraska border, where it becomes ...
.
SD 253 is maintained by
SDDOT. In 2012, the traffic on the road was measured in
average annual daily traffic
Annual average daily traffic, abbreviated AADT, is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a y ...
. The highway had an average of 214 vehicles on the north–south segment and an average of 195 vehicles on the east–west segment.
[ The designation is not a part of the National Highway System,]
Major intersections
References
External links
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The Unofficial South Dakota Highways Page
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Transportation in Edmunds County, South Dakota