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The numbered state highway system covers approximately 3,135 miles of road in Colorado, subtracting the total miles of Interstate and US Highways from 9,100 miles of the state highway system. [1] These are maintained using state funds which are collected by state and federal gas tax and a portion of vehicle registration fees. [2]
State Highway 79 (SH 79) is a 23.8 mi (38.3 km) long state highway in Adams and Weld counties in Colorado. The highway is also called "Kiowa–Bennett Road" and "Converse Road". It traverses through remote, open plain. The highway does not pass through any towns. It does service some subdivisions in the area.
In 1975 Colorado Governor Dick Lamm vowed to "drive a silver spike" through the plans for the road. [16] In 1989 voters turned down an expansion of the freeway by a four-to-one margin. In the late 1990s a citizens group called Citizens Involved in the Northwest Quadrant (CINQ) was formed to oppose the completion of the freeway.
The section in Fort Collins was known as the "Denver Road". The section up the Poudre Canyon was built in the 1920s. The route as a Colorado state highway was established in the 1920s from its current western terminus all the way to Nebraska. In 1926, US 38 took over its routing from Sterling, its current eastern terminus, to Nebraska.
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.
SH 9 crosses the Colorado River just before its termination at a junction with US 40 in Kremmling. [2] In 2016, the state completed a wildlife crossing project to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions between Green Mountain Reservoir and Kremmling, including 2 wildlife overpasses and 5 underpasses; the state also widened the road and shoulders. [3 ...
State Highway 119 (SH 119) is a 63.7-mile-long (102.5 km) state highway in north central Colorado.It extends in a southwest to northeast direction, from a junction with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Clear Creek Canyon between Golden and Idaho Springs to a junction with Interstate 25 (I-25) east of Longmont.
Route map U.S. Highway 34. US 34 highlighted in red ... In the U.S. state of Colorado, US 34 is a 260-mile-long (420 km) road that spans across northern Colorado.