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The Nevada Lincoln Highway Committee has hosted for the past 25 years an annual celebration called Lincoln Highway Days. The route continues on "Old 30" to Ames, about a mile north of "New 30", going along the south and west sides of Iowa State University. Gravel roads to Iowa Highway 17, where it again followed County Road E41 through Boone to ...
In Iowa the Lincoln Highway was also known as State Primary Road No. 6 from 1920 to 1926. Its designation changed when the federal highway system was created and it became known as U.S. 30 in 1926. The Lincoln Highway Association operated until 1927, however, the following year it put up memorial markers along the route.
(Note: There have been many new 4-lane bypasses constructed on U.S. Route 30, so to follow the 1928 route of the Lincoln Highway, at times it is necessary to travel the old U.S. Route 30 alignments through the center of the cities and towns along the route.) Illinois Route 31 from Aurora northwestward to Geneva, Illinois.
The Iowa DOT and Iowa 511 can help you check road conditions and plan for save travel during snowstorms. Here's how to use the resources.
The route of the Lincoln Highway through Iowa was announced on September 14, 1913. They chose what was known as the "Iowa Official Trans-Continental Route," which was already being used by transcontinental motorists through the state. It covered 358 miles (576 km) of dirt and gravel roads that began in Clinton and traveled west to Council ...
The Iowa chapter of the LHA has, since 2008, sponsored a tour of the Lincoln Highway. To keep friendly to classic cars, the tour does not travel upon the sections of the road which are gravel. [51] After years of lobbying by the LHA, the Iowa Department of Transportation, in 2006, designated the Lincoln Highway the first Iowa Heritage Byway. [52]
Part of the Lincoln Highway; now County Road V40 Iowa 132: 5.74 [19] 9.24 I-35 / I-80 in Des Moines: Iowa 90 (now US 6) in Des Moines 1925: 1963 Now Douglas Avenue Iowa 133: 4.23 [16] 6.81 US 34 / US 218 in Mount Pleasant: Oakland Mills Park (then a state park) 1925: 1961
Roughly analogous to U.S. Route 61, Iowa Highway 70, U.S. Route 218, Iowa Highway 150, and U.S. Route 63: Capitol Highway Lineville to Des Moines Analogous to U.S. Route 69: Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa, and McGregor Trail Ottumwa to McGregor Also known as the Park Highway. Analogous to Iowa Highway 149 and U.S. Route 151