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Highway 179 (AR 179, Ark. 179, and Hwy. 179) is a north–south state highway in Franklin County, Arkansas. Since 1998, the state highway designation has run from a county road intersection at the unincorporated community of Greenwood to US Highway 64 (US 64) in Altus. The highway is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT).
It runs concurrently with State Highway 5 for several miles past Elmer and continues north to Altus, the largest Oklahoma town on the route. At the intersection of U.S. Highway 62 in Altus, SH-5 splits off and 283 joins with State Highway 6 for the next 12 miles (19 km) before it takes a western bend to the town of Mangum .
The highway passes through unincorporated McQueen 4 miles (6.4 km) [2] and then enters Jackson County. Just east of Duke, the route crosses SH-34. Nine miles (14 km) later, US-62 becomes a multilane highway and begins a concurrency with SH-6. The two highways travel together into Altus, where they intersect US-283.
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The current iteration of State Highway 44 was first added to the Oklahoma State Highway system on April 14, 1932. [2] The highway as originally designated was a split route; its southern section began at SH-34 in Eldorado, and proceeded northeast to end at US-62 west of Altus. Another section of SH-44 began at the route's current southern ...
Longest state highway in Arkansas. AR 8 — — SH-63 at the Oklahoma state line: US 59/US 71 in Mena — — AR 8 — — US 59/US 71 in Mena: US 63 in Warren — — AR 8 — — US 63 at Carmel: US 65 in Eudora — — AR 8 — — US 65 near Eudora: US 65 at Arkla — — AR 9: 51.44: 82.78 US 79 at Eagle Mills: US 67/US 270B in Malvern ...
Highway 64 runs through Altus, and the city limits follow the highway west from the main population center. This highway runs west to Ozark and east to Clarksville. Highway 186 runs north from Altus to give access to Interstate 40, 6 miles (10 km) to the north. To the south, there are no highway bridges over the Arkansas River between Ozark and ...
The highway has major junctions with I-540 at Van Buren (the main highway connecting to Fort Smith), I-49 at Alma (the main highway connecting to Fayetteville and Bentonville), I-30 and I-57 in North Little Rock, and I-55 to Blytheville. For the majority of its routing through Arkansas, I-40 follows the historic alignment of two separate U.S ...