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I-49 in Northwest Arkansas. The first portion of what would become I-49 was completed in the late 1990s and was opened to Mountainburg as AR 540. [3] On January 8, 1999, the road was fully opened to traffic and was re-designated part of an extension of I-540, with the name "John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway", in honor of a former US Representative from Arkansas. [4]
State Route 49 (SR 49) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California that passes through many historic mining communities of the 1849 California gold rush and it is known as the Golden Chain Highway. [2] The road was initially lobbied in 1919 by the Mother Lode Highway Association, a group of locals and historians.
U.S. Route 71 in conjunction with Arkansas Highway 23 served the Northwest Arkansas area for many years, but as the area grew the routes became congested. The need for a limited-access highway became apparent, and Interstate 49 was completed through the area by 1999.
Approved in 1987 and completed in 1999, at a cost of $458 million, the alternate route, I-540, eventually renamed I-49, [2] had an obstacle of an unnamed 1,800-foot-tall (550 m) peak just north of the Washington—Crawford county line, in what John Haman of Arkansas Business called "smack in the middle of motoring wilderness."
"Interstate 49 North" was a 36-mile (58 km) construction project that extended the highway from I-20 in Shreveport to the Arkansas state line and was divided into 11 segments. On November 27, 2013, the first 18.9-mile (30.4 km) section between LA 1 and US 71 opened to traffic, [ 16 ] and the extension to a point just south of the Arkansas state ...
Mountainburg is located along U.S. Route 71, and thrived when this road was the main route in northwest Arkansas. Since the construction of Interstate 540 (now Interstate 49) to the west, it has been a sleepier community. The city park in downtown Mountainburg has since 1980 hosted two large dinosaur models. [5]
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Arkansas Highway 282 Spur is a spur route of 0.97 miles (1.56 km), following Dollard Road in Crawford County near Mountainburg. The route connects AR 282 over Interstate 49 to the local Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department shop. [1]