U.S. Route 85 (US 85) is a north–south

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that travels in the Mountain and Northern Plains states of the United States. The southern terminus of the highway is at the

Mexican border Mexico shares international borders with three nations: *To the north the United States–Mexico border, which extends for a length of through the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. *To the sout ...

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, connecting with

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. The northern terminus is at the

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, where the route continues north as Saskatchewan Highway 35. The highway route is part of the

CanAm Highway CanAm Highway is an international highway that connects Mexico to Canada through the United States. It travels along U.S. Route 85 (US 85) and Interstate 25 (I-25), passing through six U.S. states (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Sou ...

. Sections of US 85 are designated as the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway.

Route description

, - , TX , 21 , 34 , - , NM , 483 , 777 , - , CO , 310 , 499 , - , WY , 256 , 412 , - , SD , 154 , 248 , - , ND , 255 , 410 , - , Total , 1479 , 2380 The highway passes through

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New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, ...

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, Wyoming,

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, and

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. From

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, US-85 shares its alignment with

I-25 Interstate 25 (I-25) is a major Interstate Highway in the western United States. It is primarily a north–south highway, serving as the main route through New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. I-25 stretches from I-10 at Las Cruces, New Mexic ...

and is not signed.

Texas

US 85 in Texas begins at the Mexico–US border with

US 62 U.S. Route 62 or U.S. Highway 62 (US 62) runs from the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canada–United States border, Canadian border. It is the only east-west ...

and travels north through

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, beginning at the Santa Fe Street Bridge, and following Santa Fe Street, then Paisano Drive westward, along the

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until Paisano Drive ends where it joins with

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, about before both reach the New Mexico border. The route is concurrent with I-10 for the remainder of its route within Texas. The original route of US 85 in Texas had the highway concurrent with Doniphan Drive (after Paisano Drive), and parallelling the

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through the

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communities of Canutillo, Vinton and

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before crossing the Texas/New Mexico state line in

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, then following the road which is now New Mexico State Road 478 (NM 478) up the Mesilla Valley to Las Cruces. This route is marked as

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north of the intersection with Mesa Street/Country Club Drive.

New Mexico

The unsigned route of US 85 through New Mexico exists only on paper to maintain continuity with signed sections in Colorado and Texas. Except for a 4-mile segment through

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(signed as Business Loop 25), US 85 in New Mexico is entirely concurrent with Interstate Routes. For the first it shares its route with I-10, then continues north for the remainder of its length in New Mexico concurrent with I-25. US-85 was de-signed in segments between 1970 and 1990 as I-25 was built through the state. I-25 between

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and a point just south of Santa Fe was built over the old US 85 alignment. I-25 was also built directly over US 85 from east of Santa Fe to

and from US 64 to the Colorado border at

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. At one point, the route went along the historic El Camino Real. The original route from

to Las Cruces is now signed as NM 478. The original route from Las Cruces to Hatch is now signed as NM 185; NM 187 south of

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(T or C); NM 181 north of T or C; NM 1 (the route's pre-US-85 designation) from Redrock to Socorro; NM 314 from Belen to

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; NM 313 from Albuquerque to Bernalillo; NM 14 and NM 466 through Santa Fe; and NM 445 from Maxwell to

US 64 U.S. Route 64 (US 64) is an east–west United States highway that runs for 2,326 miles (3,743 km) from Nags Head in eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. The western terminus is at U.S. Route ...

Remnant US-85 signs can still be seen on Fourth Street in downtown Albuquerque, the original route through the city before I-25 was built. For concurrencies of interstate, US routes, and routes of different levels of significance, the New Mexico Department of Transportation's policy is to sign only the route of greater significance, while leaving the route of lesser significance unsigned. Consistent with this policy, NMDOT has removed US 85 from its route logs, but the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) retains US 85 on a concurrent alignment with I-10 and I-25 to maintain continuity with signed segments in Texas and Colorado.

Colorado

US 85 enters

from New Mexico concurrent with

but is not signed. US 85 leaves I-25 at Exit 128 and follows Santa Fe Avenue through

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before turning west briefly onto Lake Avenue, then turning north following Nevada Avenue through

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before rejoining I-25 at Exit 148. Approaching the south side of

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, US 85 again leaves I-25 at Exit 184. From there it heads west and north as a two lane rural highway. It becomes an expressway near Chatfield Reservoir and the southern Denver suburbs of Littleton and Englewood, where it is commonly known as Santa Fe Drive. It continues north through Denver for a few miles before once again joining with I-25 at mile marker 207. There it becomes a concurrency with

US 87 U.S. Highway 87 (US 87) is a north–south United States highway (though it is signed east–west in New Mexico) that runs for 1,998 miles (3,215 km) from northern Montana to southern Texas, making it the longest north-south roa ...

as well as I-25 and heads north through downtown Denver. At exit 214, US 85 turns east and becomes a concurrency with

I-70 Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a park and ride lot just east of I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth-longest Interstate in the c ...

and

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 ...

for about a mile where it exits with U.S. 6 and heads northeast through

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. In just a few miles the US 6/US 85 concurrency merges with I-76 at mile marker 9. They travel concurrently for until exit 12 when US 85 becomes an expressway and continues north out of the Denver area through

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. From there it parallels I-25 for about passing through Fort Lupton, Platteville, LaSalle,

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, Greeley, Eaton, Ault, Pierce, and Nunn before crossing into Wyoming.

Wyoming

US 85 enters Wyoming from Colorado south of

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. In Cheyenne it joins with Business Route 87, and a mile later with I-180 until it meets with

US 30 U.S. Route 30 or U.S. Highway 30 (US 30) is an east–west main route in the system of the United States Numbered Highways, with the highway traveling across the northern tier of the country. With a length of , it is the third longest ...

. The segment with I-180 is the only fully at-grade interstate route in the U.S. At exit 12, it joins with I-25 and

in a concurrency for until US 85 leaves at exit 17 and travels northeast towards Meriden. From there it heads north to Torrington, where it meets with

US 26 U.S. Route 26 (US 26) is an east–west United States highway that runs from Seaside, Oregon to Ogallala, Nebraska. When the U.S. highway system was first defined, it was limited to Nebraska and Wyoming; by the 1950s, it continued into Idaho a ...

and concurrencies for until Lingle, and later it meets

US 20 U.S. Route 20 or U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest east to New England. The "0" in its route number indicates that US 20 is a major coast-to-coast route. S ...

and

US 18 U.S. Route 18 (US 18) is an east–west U.S. highway in the Midwestern United States. The western terminus is in Orin, Wyoming at an interchange with Interstate 25. Its eastern terminus is in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, US 18 ru ...

at Lusk. It shares the next with US 18 and later meets

US 16 U.S. Route 16 (US 16) is an east–west United States Highway between Rapid City, South Dakota and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The highway's eastern terminus is at a junction with Interstate 90/ U.S. Route 14 (I-90/US 14), co ...

near

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. From here it is until it enters

in the

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South Dakota

The

section of US 85, with the exception of two concurrencies with US 14 Alternate and a concurrency with

I-90 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, an ...

, is defined at South Dakota Codified Laws § 31-4-181. US 85 enters the

from Wyoming and travels northeast until it meets with US 14 Alternate east at Cheyenne Crossing. The two routes form a concurrency from there, along the way coming to the road which leads to Terry Peak. Upon entering to

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, the two routes are separated, and the overlap with US 85 is replaced by a

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. As the route US 85 and US 14 are separated until both meet again in Deadwood, but not before US 85 serves as the northern terminus of U.S. Route 385. The routes run together through Deadwood before splitting, and US 85 then runs north to meet

. US 85 overlaps I-90 for while heading west. At exit 10 on the north side of Spearfish, US 85 heads back north. At

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it crosses

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and US 212. From there it continues to

passing only through the small towns of Redig, Buffalo (where it meets state highway 20), and

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, as well as coming to the

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North Dakota

US 85 enters

in the southwest part of the state. The first city on its route is Bowman at the junction of

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 ...

. Continuing north, it passes between North Dakota's two highest points, White Butte and Black Butte. Near Amidon US 85 heads east for before going back north along the

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for about . Near Belfield it junctions with I-94. After forming a concurrency with

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, it eventually passes through part of the scenic

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, crosses the Little Missouri River and passes near the

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(North Unit). Then, at Watford City it travels west for where it turns back north before

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. U.S. 85 continues north as North Dakota 200 turns west toward Montana. South of Williston it crosses the Missouri River. The stretch from Watford City to Williston is in the process of being converted into an undivided four-lane highway, and should be substantially completed in 2014. A few miles later it meets with

US 2 U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west U.S. Highway spanning across the northern continental United States. US 2 consists of two segments connected by various roadways in southern Canada. Unlike some routes, wh ...

where the two overlap for as an expressway, which now bypasses Williston to the northwest. After US 2 heads east, US 85 continues north to a concurrency with

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. From there it is to

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where US 85 heads back north for its remaining to the Canada–US border.

History

What is now US 85 from

to then- US 66 (now NM 6) in Los Lunas, New Mexico (south of

) was shown as U.S. Route 466 in an early 1925 plan for the

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. This north–south route was never signed in the field; instead, the route was designated as U.S. Route 570 and then as part of US 85. The number "466" was later used along another routing.

Major intersections

;Texas :

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Street and at the Mexico–US border in

. US 62/US 85 travels concurrently through the city. : in El Paso. The highways travel concurrently to the Las Cruces– University Park, New Mexico line. ;New Mexico : on the Las Cruces–University Park line. I-25/US 85 shares a hidden concurrency to

. : in Las Cruces : west of

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: in Socorro. The highways travel concurrently to south-southwest of Abeytas. : in

: in

: south of Santa Fe. US 84/US 85 travels concurrently to Romeroville. US 85/US 285 travels concurrently to Eldorado at Santa Fe. : south of Raton. The highways travel concurrently to Raton. : in Raton. US 85/US 87 travels concurrently to Fountain, Colorado. ;Colorado : in

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. The highways travel concurrently to

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. : in

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. The highways travel concurrently through Pueblo. : in

: in Colorado Springs. The highways travel concurrently to Castle Rock. : in Denver. The highways travel concurrently through Denver. : in Denver. The highways travel concurrently to near

. : in Denver : in Denver. I-70/US 85 travels concurrently through Denver. : in Commerce City : in Henderson : in

. The highways travel concurrently to Greeley. ;Wyoming : on the Fox Farm-College–

line. I-180/US 85 travels concurrently into Cheyenne proper. : in Cheyenne : in Cheyenne. The highways travel concurrently to Ranchettes. : in Torrington. The highways travel concurrently to Lingle. : in Lusk. US 18/US 85 travels concurrently to the northeastern part of Niobrara County. US 20/US 85 travels concurrently through Lusk. : in

;South Dakota : in Deadwood : in Spearfish. The highways travel concurrently to North Spearfish. : in

;North Dakota : in Bowman. The highways travel concurrently through Bowman. : in Belfield : west of Williston. : on Williston city line. Southern end of US 2 concurrency. Northern terminus of US 85B. : About North of Williston. Northern end of US 2 concurrency. : at the Canada–US border north-northwest of

References

External links

Endpoints of U.S. Highway 85
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