The Indian Nation Turnpike, also designated State Highway 375 (SH-375), is a
toll road
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in southeastern
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
, United States, running between
Hugo and
Henryetta, Oklahoma
Henryetta is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 5,927 at the 2010 census, down 9.6 percent from the figure of 6,096 recorded in 2000.
History
Hugh Henry established a ranch on Creek Nation land in 1885. He soo ...
, a distance of . It is the longest tollway in the state.
Route description
The Indian Nation Turnpike is built to parkway-like design standards, omitting a center barrier and left-hand shoulders for a slightly mounded grassy median that is flush with the edge of the left lane in each direction. However, the median is slowly being upgraded to a
cable barrier with left shoulders bordering it. The turnpike's speed limit is from I-40 south to OK-9, and from there to the southern terminus it is 75 mph (120 km/h).
Law enforcement along the Indian Nation Turnpike is provided by
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is a major state law enforcement agency of the government of Oklahoma. A division of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, the OHP has traffic enforcement jurisdiction throughout the state. OHP was legislati ...
Troop XC, a special troop assigned to the turnpike.
The only
service plaza
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along the entire turnpike is located just north of the US-69 exit near McAlester. Service plazas formerly existed near the Antlers and OK-9 exits before the one near McAlester opened.
History
The route is one continuous four-lane limited access highway, but consists of two separately constructed sections. The northern section, which opened in 1966, is the portion between
I-40
Interstate 40 (I-40) is a major east–west Interstate Highway running through the south-central portion of the United States. At a length of , it is the third-longest Interstate Highway in the country, after I-90 and I-80. From west to ea ...
/
US 62/
US 75 near
Henryetta and
US 69 south of
McAlester. The southern extension opened in 1970, and is the segment from the US 69 junction to
US 70/
271
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in
Hugo.
On December 2, 2014, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority approved funds to reconstruct the Eufaula interchange, demolishing the Eufaula service plaza and relocating the toll plaza to where the service plaza once stood.
The interchange previously had the highest accident rate of all Oklahoma's turnpikes. The funds also went towards demolishing the Antlers service plaza. A new service plaza opened north of the McAlester interchange on December 19, 2014, containing a McDonald's.
The Indian Nation Turnpike originally bore no numbered designation. On August 2, 2021, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission unanimously approved a motion to apply the SH-375 designation to the turnpike. ODOT Director
Tim Gatz stated in the Transportation Commission meeting that the numbering addition was primarily to aid in navigation using digital mapping and routing applications.
Tolls
There are three mainline toll plazas, one just north of the OK-9/Eufaula exit, one just south of the US-69 exit near McAlester, and one within the Antlers exit. The toll plaza at the Eufaula exit has two high-speed Pikepass lanes, with one in each direction. These lanes do not have access to OK-9. To access the OK-9 exit from the southbound lanes, motorists must exit into the cash lanes and then exit the cash lanes before the mainline tollbooths.
A two-axle vehicle pays $7.75 ($6.20 with
Pikepass and other compatible systems) to drive the full length of the turnpike.
Exit list
See also
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Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
*
Pikepass
References
{{Oklahoma Turnpikes
Toll roads in Oklahoma
Transport infrastructure completed in 1966
Transportation in Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Atoka County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma
Transportation in McIntosh County, Oklahoma