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U.S. Highway 287 is a north-south United States highway. It serves as the major trunk route between the Texas cities of Fort Worth and Amarillo. The highway is broken into two segments by Yellowstone National Park, where an unnumbered park road serves as a connector.
[edit] Termini
As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Choteau, Montana, 100 miles (161 km) south of the Canadian border, at an intersection with U.S. Highway 89. Its southern terminus (as well as those of US 69 and US 96) is in Port Arthur, Texas at an intersection with State Highway 87, five miles (8 km) up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico.
[edit] Historic termini
When US 287 was first commissioned in 1939, it extended only from the south entrance of Yellowstone National Park to Denver, Colorado. The route was extended southward to the Texas coast in 1940, and northward into Montana in 1965.
[edit] States traversed
The highway passes through the following states:
[edit] Related US Routes
[edit] References
- ^ Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 18 May 2006.
