Interstate 35

Interstate 35

Interstate 35 is an Interstate highway in the central United States. Like other "interstates," it is commonly referred to as I-35. Its odd number indicates that it is primarily a north-south highway. It stretches from Laredo, Texas at the Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota at Minnesota State Highway 61.

Table of contents

1 Number of Miles
2 Major Cities Along the Route
3 Intersections with other Interstates (from South to North)
4 Spur Routes
5 Notes
6 External links

Number of Miles

1568

Texas - 505 miles
Oklahoma - 235 miles
Kansas - 234 miles
Missouri - 114 miles
Iowa - 218 miles
Minnesota - 262 miles

Major Cities Along the Route

Intersections with other Interstates (from South to North)

Interstate 10 in San Antonio, Texas
Interstate 37 in San Antonio, Texas
Interstate 35 splits into I-35E and I-35W in Hillsboro, Texas
Interstate 20 in Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas
Interstate 30 in Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas
Interstate 45 in Dallas, Texas (via I-30 in the downtown Mixmaster)
I-35E and I-35W rejoin in Denton, Texas
Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Missouri
Interstate 29 in Kansas City, Missouri
Interstate 80 in Des Moines, Iowa
Interstate 90 in Albert Lea, Minnesota
Interstate 35 splits into I-35E and I-35W in Burnsville, Minnesota
Interstate 94 in Minneapolis and in St Paul, Minnesota
I-35E and I-35W rejoin in Forest Lake, Minnesota

Spur Routes

Dallas, Texas - I-635
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - I-235
Wichita, Kansas - I-235
Spur to Wichita, Kansas and Salina, Kansas - I-135 (see below)
Spur to Topeka, Kansas - I-335
Kansas City, Missouri - I-435, I-635
Des Moines, Iowa - I-235
Duluth, Minnesota - I-535

While numbered as loop routes for I-94, routes I-494 and I-694 in Minneapolis/St. Paul serve as loops for I-35 as well.

A spur has been proposed extending from I-380 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to St. Paul.

Notes

I-35 splits up into I-35W and I-35E in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. The official mile markers follow I-35E through Dallas -- I-35W carries its own milage from Hillsboro to Denton, as though it were an x35 loop.
I-135, which branches off in Wichita, Kansas, is 95 miles long. It carried the designation I-35W until the 1980s, despite never rejoining the main line of I-35. It terminates in Salina, Kansas at the intersection with Interstate 70 (though the controlled-access freeway continues north as US 81).
I-35 and I-335 in Kansas are toll roads.
I-35 splits again into I-35W and I-35E in the Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota area.

External links

Kansas City Star's ''I-35 Odyssey, A Summer Travel Series"

Highway History - A Look at the History of the Federal Highway Administration