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U.S. Route 40 (US 40) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from Silver Summit, Utah, to Atlantic City, New Jersey. In the U.S. state of Colorado, US 40 is a major east–west route. It crosses the Rocky Mountains, passing over the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass before descending to the Front Range.
Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the zero meridian (Ellsworth Avenue, one block south of 1st ...
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U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America (a nickname shared with U.S. Route 66), [3] [4] is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, US 40 once traversed the entire ...
The U.S. Highways in Colorado are the segments of the national United States Numbered Highway System that are owned and maintained by the state of Colorado. The longest of these highways is U.S. Highway 160 (US 160), which spans 497.223 miles (800.203 km) [1] across southern Colorado.
Nicknamed the Valley Highway through Denver, the Monument Valley Highway in Colorado Springs, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway in Pueblo. It is also part of the unofficial Pan-American Highway [6] I-70: 449.589 [12] 723.543 I-70 at the Utah state line: I-70 at the Kansas state line 1956 [1] current Longest interstate in Colorado.
I-25 in Colorado Springs: I-25 Bus. (now US 87) in Colorado Springs 1963: 2007 Decommissioned in October 2007 as part of a highway swap to number Powers Boulevard as SH 21; signage was not removed until spring 2008; now Fillmore Street SH 39: 7.57: 12.18 I-76 in Wiggins: SH 144 near Jackson Lake State Park: 1938: current SH 40
Average travel time between Pueblo and Colorado Springs on this route was approximately 2.5 hours (or a full 8.5 hours from Pueblo to Denver). This route was upgraded with the help of the federal government to become US 85 and US 87 by 1930, now paved in concrete and shortening the travel time between Pueblo and Colorado Springs to just one hour.