U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west U.S. Highway spanning across the northern continental

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. US 2 consists of two segments connected by various roadways in southern

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. Unlike some routes, which are disconnected into segments because of encroaching

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s, the two portions of US 2 were designed to be separate in the original 1926 highway plan. The western segment of US 2 begins at an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) and State Route 529 (Maple Street) in

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, and ends at I-75 in St. Ignace, Michigan. The eastern segment of US 2 begins at US 11 in Rouses Point, New York and ends at I-95 in

Houlton, Maine Houlton is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, on the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 6,055. It is perhaps best known for being at the northern terminus of Interstate 95 and as the birthplace of S ...

. As its number indicates, it is the northernmost east–west U.S. Route in the country. It is the lowest primary-numbered east–west U.S. Route, whose numbers otherwise end in zero, and was so numbered to avoid a US 0. Sections of US 2 in New England were once New England Route 15, part of the New England road marking system.

Route description

Western segment

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across the northern tier of the lower 48 states. Most of the western route was built roughly paralleling the Great Northern Railway. US 2 adopted the railway's route nickname "The Highline" as the most northern crossing in the U.S. The Adventure Cycling Association's Northern Tier Bicycle Route is a bicycle touring route which follows or parallels US 2 for over , most notably a stretch between

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and Williston, North Dakota.

Washington

Within

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state, US 2 is the northernmost all-season highway through the Cascade Mountains. It begins at Interstate 5 and State Route 529 in Everett, and travels east via Stevens Pass. It intersects US 97 approximately east of Leavenworth and continues as a duplicate route crossing the Columbia River at Wenatchee, then continues north as far as Orondo, where US 97 splits north. US 2 continues to Spokane and the border in Newport.

Idaho

Shortly after entering

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from the west, US 2 crosses the

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. US 2 follows

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to its source at Lake Pend Oreille. US 2 intersects

Idaho State Highway 57 State Highway 57 (SH-57) is a state highway located entirely within Bonner County in the Idaho Panhandle region of the U.S. state of Idaho. SH-57 runs from U.S. Route 2 (US 2) in Priest River north to the end of state maintenance in Nordman. Th ...

in the town of

at mile 5.8. US 2 intersects US 95 at mile 28.4 in the town of Sandpoint. The two routes overlap for until just after Bonners Ferry. At Three Mile Corner, US Route 2 continues southeast for where it crosses into

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Montana

US 2 is a vital northern corridor for

and has more mileage within Montana than in any other state. It intersects US 93 at

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and passes through the southern end of Glacier National Park, crossing the

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at Marias Pass, before it enters the

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west of

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. It travels through Shelby where it meets Interstate 15, before it goes on to Havre and then onwards to

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. The highway continues east and leaves the state near the

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of the

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and

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North Dakota

US 2 is an east–west highway that runs through

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’s northern tier of larger cities: Williston,

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, Devils Lake, and

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. US 2 intersects US 85 at Williston, US 52 and US 83 at Minot, US 281 at Churchs Ferry (west of Devils Lake), and the I-29 / US 81 concurrency at Grand Forks. US 2 is four-laned from North Dakota's eastern edge to just past Williston, a stretch of about , leaving the remaining to the Montana border as a two-lane highway. In

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, just east of the route's intersection with ND 3, the highway passes the location designated in 1931 as the geographical center of

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. The monument marking the geographic center had to be relocated in 1971 when US 2 was converted from two lanes to four lanes.

Minnesota

The portion of US 2 from Cass Lake to Bemidji is officially designated the Paul Bunyan Expressway. It also intersects US 169 and the

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in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. At the crossing between Duluth, Minn. and Superior, Wisc., the highway crosses the

Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge The Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge, also known as the Bong Bridge, connects Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, via U.S. Highway 2 (US 2). Opened on October 25, 1985, it is roughly long, including about over water. It crosses ...

, about in length—roughly in length when the above land approaches are included. Of the of US 2 in Minnesota, have four lanes, mostly located in the northwest part of the state. Legally, the Minnesota section of US 2 is defined as Routes 8 and 203 in Minnesota Statutes §§ 161.114(2) and 161.115(134).

Wisconsin

After crossing the Bong Bridge and entering into the city of

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, Wisconsin's western segment of the highway joins Belknap Street. After crossing the midsection of Superior, US 2 merges with US 53 for a few miles following East 2nd Street out of the city. Ten miles outside of Superior, US 53 and US 2 part ways. US 53 veers south toward Eau Claire, while US 2 continues to the city of Ashland and ultimately to the Wisconsin–Michigan state line at the city of

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. An eastern segment of US 2 re-enters Wisconsin northwest of

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and proceeds concurrently with US 141 for until exiting Wisconsin again near Iron Mountain, Michigan.

Michigan

US Route 2 Western Segment Eastern Terminus

US 2 enters Michigan at the city of

and runs east to the town of Crystal Falls, where it turns south and re-enters Wisconsin northwest of

. It re-enters Michigan north of Iron Mountain and continues through the

to the cities of Escanaba, Manistique, and St. Ignace. Along the way, it cuts through the

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and Hiawatha National Forests and follows the northern shore of

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. It ends at I-75, just north of the Mackinac Bridge in St. Ignace.

Eastern segment

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The eastern segment of US 2 traverses the northeastern part of New York and the northern

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states.

New York

The road starts at US 11, just south of the Canadian border at Rouses Point in

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. From there it crosses the Richelieu River at the outlet of

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on the Rouses Point Bridge into Grand Isle County, Vermont. The road is less than a mile long in the state.

Vermont

US 2 traverses the length of Grand Isle County and crossing Lake Champlain over several bridges until it reaches the mainland in Milton and Chittenden County. From there it travels south to Burlington, where it begins to closely parallel Interstate 89 all the way to Montpelier, in Washington County. At Montpelier, the road turns north-eastward, crossing into

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and passing through Saint Johnsbury. It then passes into Essex County, and eventually crosses the

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from

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into

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New Hampshire

Once into New Hampshire, the road continues southeastward, passing through Jefferson (home to several small amusement parks and roadside attractions, such as Santa's Village) before heading more easterly, skirting the northern edge of the White Mountain National Forest into Gorham, where it meets Route 16, the major north–south roadway through the eastern half of the forest and past

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. From Gorham, the road travels east along the southern banks of the

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to Shelburne and eventually crossing into Gilead, Maine. Throughout its entire stretch, the New Hampshire portion of US 2 is in Coos County.

Maine

US 2 travels from Gilead to Houlton near the

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. US 2 ends at I-95 just west of the Canadian border.

History

A large portion of the western segment of US 2, and a shorter piece of the eastern segment, follows the old Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. This

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, named in honor of the late former

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and naturalist

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, was organized in February 1919 to connect

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropo ...

with

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. The route taken by this highway left Portland, Maine to the northwest, crossing

via Littleton and Montpelier to Burlington. It crossed

on the Burlington-Port Kent Ferry and headed west across

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, through

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and

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to Buffalo. After crossing

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, the highway re-entered the U.S. in

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, running northwest and north via

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and Alpena to the

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, where it turned west along the northern tier of the country. This portion took the route past

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, Havre, and Glacier National Park to

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. In order to reach Portland, Oregon, the highway turned south in

via

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to Pendleton, where it headed west again via the Columbia River Highway to Portland. The last piece of the highway to be completed was over Marias Pass through Glacier National Park; cars were carried through the park on the Great Northern Railway until 1930. The first inter-state numbering for the Roosevelt Highway was in

, where the New England road marking system was established in 1922. Route 18 followed the auto trail from Portland northwest to Montpelier, where it continued to Burlington via Route 14. Many of the states along the route also assigned numbers to the highway; for instance, New York labeled their portion Route 3 in 1924. The Joint Board on Interstate Highways distributed its preliminary plan in 1925, in which a long section of the highway was labeled US 2, from St. Ignace, Michigan west to

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. East of St. Ignace, instead of crossing to the

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like the Roosevelt Highway, the proposed Route 2 traveled north to the international border at Sault Ste. Marie. It reappeared at Rouses Point, New York, following Route 30 and then rejoining the auto trail between Burlington and Montpelier. US 2 and the Roosevelt Highway both connected Montpelier to St. Johnsbury, but the latter took a direct path along Route 18, while the former was assigned to Route 25 to Wells River, where it

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ped proposed US 5 north to St. Johnsbury. There, where the Roosevelt Highway turned southeast to Portland, Route 2 continued east along Route 15 to Bangor and Route 1 to

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, then heading north on Route 24 to end in Houlton.Report of Joint Board on Interstate Highways, October 30, 1925, Approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, November 18, 1925 By the time the U.S. Highway system was finalized in late 1926, one relatively minor change had been made to US 2; it was swapped with US 1 between Bangor and Houlton, Maine, placing US 2 along the entire portion of Route 15 east of St. Johnsbury. Several other major parts of the auto trail received numbers, most notably US 30 from Portland, Oregon east to Pendleton, US 195 in eastern Washington, and US 23 in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. In the mid-1930s, much of New York's portion of the road became US 104, and the part southeast of

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to Portland, Maine became US 302, but by far the longest piece was that followed by US 2 between St. Ignace and Bonners Ferry. In 1946, US 2 was extended west of its original western terminus in Bonners Ferry in Idaho to Everett in Washington via Spokane along what was then Alternate US 10.

Michigan

US 2 was in the original 1925 U.S. Highway Plan by the Bureau of Public Roads and was first commissioned in Michigan in 1926. US 2 originally ran in Michigan from

to St. Ignace, the same termini as today. The highway has undergone many realignments, mostly minor, between those cities since 1926. In 1933, the section between St. Ignace and Sault Ste. Marie was relocated along Mackinac Trail. In 1957, the first segment of a new freeway opened between St. Ignace and Sault Ste. Marie. It ran from Evergreen Shores, north of St. Ignace, to present-day M-123 and replaced the former route on State St. and Mackinac Trail. Over the next six years, US 2 was moved from Mackinac Trail onto the new freeway as new sections opened. Beginning in 1961, the freeway was concurrently signed as an extension of

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. The freeway was completed in 1963. The eastern terminus of US 2 in Michigan was truncated back to St. Ignace in 1983, removing it entirely from the I-75 freeway.

New England

Before being designated as US 2, most of the current alignment was called New England Interstate Route 15 from

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eastward to Maine. The portion of the old Route 15 that did not become part of US 2 was designated as

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. Other sections of US 2 in Vermont that were not part of New England Route 15 were parts of other former New England Interstate routes: Route 18 between Montpelier and Danville; Route 14 between Burlington and Montpelier; and Route 30 between

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and Burlington.

Major intersections

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to southeast of South Browning :: in Shelby :: northeast of Herron :: in

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with a concurrency through the city :: in Malta :;North Dakota :: west-southwest of Williston. The highways travel concurrently to north of Williston. :: northwest of

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. The highways travel concurrently to southeast of

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:;Minnesota :: concurrently from north-northwest of Crookston to just north of Crookston :: southeast of

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:: in Bemidji with a concurrency through the city :: in

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with a concurrency through the city :: in

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with a concurrency through the city :;Wisconsin (western segment) :: concurrently from

to east of South Range :: north-northeast of Benoit :: north of Hurley :;Michigan (western segment) :: in Watersmeet :: concurrently from Crystal Falls through

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:;Wisconsin (eastern segment) :: No major intersections :;Michigan (eastern segment) :: in

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:: concurrently from Powers to Rapid River :: in St. Ignace ;Eastern segment :;New York :: in Rouses Point :;Vermont :: in

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:: concurrently from Colchester to Burlington :: in South Burlington :: in Montpelier :: in St. Johnsbury :: in St. Johnsbury with a concurrency through the city :;New Hampshire :: in Lancaster with a concurrency through the city :;Maine :: in

Skowhegan Skowhegan () is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 8,620. Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously-held state fair in the United States. Skowh ...

with a concurrency through the city :: in Bangor :: in Bangor :: in Bangor :: in

Smyrna Smyrna ( ; grc, Σμύρνη, Smýrnē, or , ) was a Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence, and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to promi ...

:: in Houlton with a concurrency through the city :: in Houlton

Auxiliary routes

There have been at least three different three-digit child routes for US 2: * US 102, a now defunct route that has been incorporated into US 141 in Michigan * US 202, a northeast–southwest route in the northeastern U.S. whose southern terminus is in

New Castle, Delaware New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The city is located six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington and is situated on the Delaware River. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 5,285. History New Castl ...

, and runs northeast to its terminus at its parent route in

Bangor, Maine Bangor ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Penobscot County. The city proper has a population of 31,753, making it the state's 3rd-largest settlement, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Modern Bangor ...

* US 302, an east–west route in New England whose western terminus is at its parent in

Montpelier, Vermont Montpelier () is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County. The site of Vermont's state government, it is the least populous state capital in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population w ...

, and whose eastern terminus is in

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Route description

Western segment

Washington

Idaho

Montana

North Dakota

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Michigan

Eastern segment

New York

Vermont

New Hampshire

Maine

History

Michigan

New England

Major intersections

Auxiliary routes

See also

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