Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental

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that crosses the United States from downtown

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, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the

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. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the original routes of the

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; its final segment was opened in 1986. The second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States after

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 ...

, it runs through many major cities, including Oakland,

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, Omaha, Des Moines, and Toledo and passes within of

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, and

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. I-80 is the Interstate Highway that most closely approximates the route of the historic

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, the first road across the United States. The highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the

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: the

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across

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and

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, the

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across most of

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and

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, the first transcontinental airmail route, and the route of the first transcontinental railroad, except for the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake. From near Chicago east to near Youngstown, Ohio, I-80 is a

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, containing most of both the Indiana Toll Road and the

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. I-80 runs concurrently with I-90 from near Portage, Indiana, to

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. In

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, I-80 is known as the

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, a non-tolled freeway that crosses rural north-central portions of the state on the way to

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and New York City.

Route description

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California

I-80 begins at an interchange with US Route 101 (US 101) in

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and then crosses the

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into Oakland. It then heads northeast through Vallejo,

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, and the Sierra Nevada before crossing into

. A portion of the route through Pinole involved the experimental transplantation of the rare species Santa Cruz tarplant in the

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Nevada

, I-80 traverses the northern portion of the state. The freeway serves the

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, and it also goes through the towns of Fernley, Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko, Wells, and West Wendover on its way through the state. The Nevada portion of I-80 follows the paths of the Truckee and Humboldt rivers, which have been used as a transportation corridor since the California Gold Rush of the 1840s. The Interstate also follows the historical routes of the

, first transcontinental railroad, and Feather River Route throughout portions of the state. I-80 in Nevada closely follows, and at many points directly overlaps, the original route of the Victory Highway, State Route 1 (SR 1), and US 40.

Utah

After crossing

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's western border in Wendover, I-80 crosses the desolate Bonneville Salt Flats west of the Great Salt Lake. The longest stretch between exits on an Interstate Highway is located between Wendover and Knolls, with between those exits. This portion of I-80, crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert, is extremely flat and straight, dotted with large warning signs about driver fatigue and drowsiness. East of the salt flats, I-80 passes the southern edge of Great Salt Lake and continues on through

, where it merges with

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for before entering the Wasatch Range east of the city. It ascends

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and passes within a few miles of Park City as it follows a route through the mountains toward the junction with the eastern terminus of the western section of

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. From the junction it continues up Echo Canyon and on toward the border with

, near Evanston. The route of the Utah section of I-80 is defined in Utah Code Annotated § 72-4-113(10).

Wyoming

, I-80 reaches its maximum elevation of above

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, near Buford, which, at , is the highest community on I-80. Farther west in Wyoming, the Interstate passes through the dry Red Desert and over the Continental Divide. In a way, the highway crosses the Divide twice, since two ridges of the

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split in Wyoming, forming the

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Great Divide Basin, from which surface water cannot drain but can only evaporate.

Nebraska

I-80 enters

west of Bushnell. The western portion of I-80 in Nebraska runs very close to the state of

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, without entering the state. The intersection of

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and I-80 is visible from the Colorado–Nebraska state line. From its intersection with I-76 to Grand Island, I-80 lies in the valley of the

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and the Platte River. The longest straight stretch of Interstate anywhere in the Interstate Highway System is the approximately of I-80 occurring between exit 318 in the Grand Island area and milemarker 390 near Lincoln. Along this length, the road does not vary from an ideally straight line by more than a few yards. After Lincoln, I-80 turns northeast toward Omaha. It then crosses the Missouri River in Omaha to enter the state of

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. Part of I-80 in Nebraska is marked as a Blue Star Memorial Highway.

Iowa

I-80 is the longest Interstate Highway in

. It extends from west to east across the central portion of the state through the population centers of Council Bluffs, Des Moines, and the Quad Cities. It enters the state at the Missouri River in Council Bluffs and heads east through the southern Iowa drift plain. In the

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, I-80 meets up with I-35 and the two routes bypass

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together while I-235 proceeds straight through the metro and rejoins both on the far side. In Ankeny, the Interstates split and I-80 continues east. On the west edge of the Iowa City metropolitan area, it intersects I-380, a segment of the Avenue of the Saints. Northwest of the Quad Cities in Walcott is Iowa 80, the world's largest truckstop. I-80 passes along the northern edge of

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and Bettendorf and leaves Iowa via the Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge over the

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into Illinois. The majority of the highway runs through farmland, yet roughly a third of Iowa's population live along the I-80 corridor.

Illinois

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, I-80 runs from the Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge across the Mississippi River south to an intersection with

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. It then runs east across north-central Illinois just north of the Illinois River to Joliet. I-80 continues east and joins I-94 just before entering Indiana.

Indiana

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, I-80 runs concurrently with another Interstate Highway for its entire length. It runs with I-94 on the

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from the Illinois state line to Lake Station, Indiana, then with

on the Indiana Toll Road from Lake Station to the Ohio state line. Between La Porte and the Toledo metropolitan area, I-80/I-90 is located within of the

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state line but does not enter that state. From the State Road 9 (SR 9) and I-80/I-90 interchange, the sign marking the Indiana–Michigan state line is visible. I-80/I-90 passes through the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area, passing the

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and the University Park Mall, intersecting with the

St. Joseph Valley Parkway The St. Joseph Valley Parkway is a freeway in the U.S. states of Indiana and Michigan, serving as a bypass route around Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend in Indiana and Niles in Michigan. The freeway runs to the south and west of Elkhart an ...

. At another point in northern Indiana, I-80/I-90 comes within about of the Michigan border.

Ohio

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, I-80/I-90 enters from the Indiana Toll Road and immediately becomes the Ohio Turnpike. The two Interstates cross rural northwest Ohio and run just south of the Toledo metropolitan area. In

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, the turnpike intersects I-75 in an area known as the

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. This intersection is one of the largest intersections of three Interstate Highways in the United States. In Elyria Township, just west of

, I-90 splits from I-80, leaving the turnpike and running northeast as a freeway. I-80 runs east-southeast through the southern suburbs of Cleveland. Just northwest of Youngstown, the Ohio Turnpike continues southeast as

, while I-80 exits the turnpike and runs east to the north of Youngstown, entering Pennsylvania south of

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Pennsylvania

, I-80 is the main east–west freeway through the central part of the state. It runs from the Ohio state line near Sharon to the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge over the Delaware River and is called the "Z.H. Confair Memorial Highway". It traverses the extreme northern section of Greater Pittsburgh. I-80 serves as the western terminus for I-376 which connects it to Pittsburgh International Airport and on to Downtown Pittsburgh and suburban Pittsburgh. I-80 intersects I-79, which connects with Erie (about to the north) and Pittsburgh (about to the south). Further east, I-99 connects with State College and Altoona. A spur from I-80 ( I-180) runs to Williamsport. Upon entering the Pocono Mountains region, I-80 meets I-81, connecting

Syracuse, New York Syracuse ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Yonkers, and Rochester. At the 2020 census, the city' ...

, and

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, and I-476 which connects with Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, and

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. Another spur ( I-380) runs to Scranton. In

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, I-80 reaches its highest elevation east of the Mississippi River, , although other Interstate Highways east of the Mississippi, including

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in North Carolina and Tennessee, reach higher elevations. In 2007, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), combined with state legislature Act No. 44, initiated plans to enact a tolling system on the entire span of I-80 throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On October 15, 2007, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the PTC signed a 50-year lease agreement, which would allow the PTC to maintain and, eventually, toll I-80. However, the application for a toll was rejected by the

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(FHWA).

New Jersey

I-80 does not enter

. Once the I-95/ New Jersey Turnpike was extended in 1971 from its former terminus at US 46 in Ridgefield to I-80 in Teaneck, the section from Teaneck to Fort Lee was resigned as I-95, and it is the latter roadway that enters New York City via the George Washington Bridge. I-80's designated end (as per signage and

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(NJDOT) documents) is Measured in Google Earth from I-80 end sign (visible in Street View) to the beginning of the George Washington Bridge short of New York City in Teaneck, before the Degraw Avenue overpass. There, signs designate the end of I-80 and the beginning of I-95/New Jersey Turnpike northbound. Therefore, the fact that exit numbers on I-95 beyond the end of I-80 appear to be a continuation of I-80 exit numbers is a coincidence. They match what would have been the correct milemarkers of I-95 had the

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been built. One section of I-80 running from Netcong to Denville was constructed in 1958.

History

I-80 was included in the original plan for the

as approved in 1956. The highway was built in segments, with the final piece of I-80 completed in 1986 on the western edge of

. This piece was coincidentally dedicated close to the 30th birthday of the Interstate Highway System, which was noted at the dedication and considered to be a milestone in the history of highway construction in the United States. It was also noted at the dedication that this was only south of Promontory Summit, where another first in a transcontinental artery was completed—the golden spike of the US's first transcontinental railroad.

Geological study

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described the geology revealed by the building of I-80 in a series of books on the formation of the continent of

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, books that were published between 1981 and 1993 and collected in a one-volume edition in 1998 '' Annals of the Former World'' which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999. In "Basin and Range" (1981), he described how the idea emerged in a conversation with Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes: "What about Interstate 80, I asked him. It goes the distance. How would it be? 'Absorbing,' he said. And he mused aloud: After 80 crosses the Border Fault, it pussyfoots along on morainal till that levelled up the fingers of the foldbelt hills. It does a similar dance with glacial debris in parts of Pennsylvania. It needs no assistance on the craton. It climbs a ramp to the Rockies and a fault-block staircase up the front of the Sierra. It is geologically shrewd. It was the route of animal migrations, and of human history that followed. It avoids melodrama, avoids the Grand Canyons, the Jackson Holes, the geologic operas of the country, but it would surely be a sound experience of the big picture, of the history, the construction, the components of the continent."

Junction list

;California : in

: in Oakland : on the Oakland– Emeryville city line. The highways travel concurrently to Albany. : in Vallejo : in Fairfield : in

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: in West Sacramento : in

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;Nevada : in

: south-southwest of Lovelock. The highways travel concurrently to Winnemucca. : in Wells ;Utah : in

: in Salt Lake City. The highways travel concurrently to South Salt Lake. : in South Salt Lake : southeast of Salt Lake City : in Silver Creek Junction. I-80/US 189 travels concurrently to east-northeast of Evanston, Wyoming. : in Echo ;Wyoming : in Little America. The highways travel concurrently to south-southeast of Walcott. : in

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. The highways travel concurrently to Rock Springs. : east of Rawlins. The highways travel concurrently to south-southeast of Walcott. : in Laramie. I-80 / US 30 travel concurrently to southwest of Cheyenne. : southwest of Cheyenne : on the Fox Farm–Cheyenne line : east-northeast of Cheyenne. The highways travel concurrently to Pine Bluffs. ;Nebraska : southwest of Big Springs : southwest of Big Springs : in Ogallala : in

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: south of

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: south of Elm Creek : south of Grand Island : in

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: in Lincoln : in Lincoln. The highways travel concurrently to north-northeast of Lincoln. : in Lincoln : in Waverly : in Omaha : in Omaha : in Omaha ;Iowa : in Council Bluffs. The highways travel concurrently through Council Bluffs. : in Council Bluffs : northwest of Minden : in Avoca : north-northeast of Lorah. I-80/US 6 travel concurrently to De Soto. : in De Soto : in West Des Moines. I-35/I-80 travels concurrently to Ankeny. : on the Clive– Urbandale city line : in Des Moines : in Ankeny : in Altoona. The highways travel concurrently through Altoona. : in Altoona. I-80/US 6 travels concurrently to Newton. : south of Malcom : east-northeast of Williamsburg : on the Tiffin– Coralville city line : north-northwest of Wilton. The highways travel concurrently to

. : in Davenport. I-80/US 61 travels concurrently through Davenport. : in Davenport : in Le Claire ;Illinois : in East Moline : in Colona : in Colona : northeast of

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: in LaSalle : in Channahon : in Joliet : in

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: in New Lenox : on the

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– Orland Park–

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city line : in Country Club Hills : in Hazel Crest. The highways travel concurrently to the South Holland–

Lansing Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, maki ...

village line. : on the South Holland–Lansing village line. I-80/I-94 travels concurrently to Lake Station, Indiana. : in Lansing. The highways travel concurrently to Lake Station, Indiana. ;Indiana : in Hammond. The highways travel concurrently through Hammond. : in Gary : in Lake Station. I-80/I-90 travels concurrently to northwest of

. : southeast of

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: in South Bend : north-northeast of Middlebury : west-northwest of Fremont ;Ohio : in Maumee : in Perrysburg : northeast of Stony Ridge : north-northwest of

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: in

North Ridgeville North Ridgeville is a city located along the eastern border of Lorain County, Ohio. The city's population was 35,552 in 2020. North Ridgeville is the fastest-growing city in northern Ohio. It has been ranked the 13th safest city in the United St ...

: in Strongsville : on the Richfield–

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line : in Streetsboro : east-southeast of North Jackson : in Mineral Ridge : in Girard : north of

Hubbard Hubbard may refer to: Places Canada *Hubbard, Saskatchewan *Hubbards, Nova Scotia Canada/United States * Mount Hubbard, a mountain on the Alaska/Yukon border *Hubbard Glacier, a large freshwater glacier in Alaska and Yukon Greenland *Hubbard Gla ...

;Pennsylvania : south of Hermitage : south of Mercer : northwest of Grove City : west of

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: east-northeast of Falls Creek : northwest of Zion. I-80/US 220 travels concurrently to east of Mackeyville. : north of New Columbia : northeast of New Columbia : in Lime Ridge : north-northwest of Drums : east of East Side : south-southwest of Pocono Summit : in Arlington Heights. The highways travel concurrently to east of East Stroudsburg. ;New Jersey : in

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: west of Stanhope. The highways travel concurrently to south-southeast of Netcong. : in Netcong : east of Rockaway : in Parsippany-Troy Hills : in Parsippany-Troy Hills : in Parsippany-Troy Hills : in Parsippany-Troy Hills : in Wayne : in Teaneck

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Eric Buchanan's Interstate 80 Photos Index page
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