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EspañolU.S. ROUTE 84
(Redirected from U.S. Highway 84)
'U.S. Route 84' is an east-west United States highway. It started as a short Georgia-Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado.
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia, at an intersection with I-95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, at an intersection with U.S. Route 160.[2]
★ The original 1926 route of U.S. 84 skirted the southern border of Georgia, from Brunswick to the north edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, then west to Dothan, Alabama, just across the Alabama line.
★ In 1934, U.S. 84 was extended to Grove Hill, Alabama, then south on US 43 to Wagarville, Alabama, west to State Line, Mississippi, north on US 45 to Waynesboro, Mississippi, and then across Mississippi and Louisiana to Farwell, Texas. State Line was bypassed in the 1960s by a direct connection between Grove Hill and Waynesboro. A few sources report that the part between Natchez, Mississippi and Wagarville was planned as 'US 86' a year before. The Alabama Department of Transportation library in Montgomery, Alabama, holds state-issued maps and documents from that era with the stretch from US 43 to Mississippi labeled that way. At one point, funding was not secure for building a bridge over the Alabama River, and a US 86 designation would have made the absence of a bridge less obvious.[3]
★ The east ends of U.S. 84 and U.S. Route 82 were swapped in 1989 after the roads around Waycross, Georgia, were reconfigured.
The highway passes through the following states:
★ Georgia
★ Alabama. In Alabama, U.S. 84 is paired with unsigned State Route 12.
★ Mississippi In Mississippi, U.S. 84 is paired with US 98 from Bude/Meadville to Washington, where it merges with U.S. 61.
★ Louisiana
★ Texas
★ New Mexico
★ Colorado
The Mississippi section of U.S. 84 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.
The section from Brunswick, Georgia to Roscoe, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East/West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present U.S.-Mexico border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called ''El Camino Real''. The designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico.[4][5]
The western endpoint of U.S. 84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C.W. McCall in the 1975 song, ''Wolf Creek Pass''.
★ U.S. Route 84 in Georgia
1. US Highways from US 1 to US 830 Robert V. Droz
2. Endpoints of U.S. 84
3. Endpoints of U.S. 86
4. El Camino East/West Commission website
5. Alabama's Joint Resolution about the El Camino East/West Corridor
'U.S. Route 84' is an east-west United States highway. It started as a short Georgia-Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado.
| Contents |
| Termini |
| Historic termini |
| Route description |
| Legal Definition |
| Miscellanea |
| See also |
| References |
Termini
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia, at an intersection with I-95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, at an intersection with U.S. Route 160.[2]
Historic termini
★ The original 1926 route of U.S. 84 skirted the southern border of Georgia, from Brunswick to the north edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, then west to Dothan, Alabama, just across the Alabama line.
★ In 1934, U.S. 84 was extended to Grove Hill, Alabama, then south on US 43 to Wagarville, Alabama, west to State Line, Mississippi, north on US 45 to Waynesboro, Mississippi, and then across Mississippi and Louisiana to Farwell, Texas. State Line was bypassed in the 1960s by a direct connection between Grove Hill and Waynesboro. A few sources report that the part between Natchez, Mississippi and Wagarville was planned as 'US 86' a year before. The Alabama Department of Transportation library in Montgomery, Alabama, holds state-issued maps and documents from that era with the stretch from US 43 to Mississippi labeled that way. At one point, funding was not secure for building a bridge over the Alabama River, and a US 86 designation would have made the absence of a bridge less obvious.[3]
★ The east ends of U.S. 84 and U.S. Route 82 were swapped in 1989 after the roads around Waycross, Georgia, were reconfigured.
Route description
The highway passes through the following states:
★ Georgia
★ Alabama. In Alabama, U.S. 84 is paired with unsigned State Route 12.
★ Mississippi In Mississippi, U.S. 84 is paired with US 98 from Bude/Meadville to Washington, where it merges with U.S. 61.
★ Louisiana
★ Texas
★ New Mexico
★ Colorado
Legal Definition
The Mississippi section of U.S. 84 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.
Miscellanea
The section from Brunswick, Georgia to Roscoe, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East/West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present U.S.-Mexico border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called ''El Camino Real''. The designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico.[4][5]
The western endpoint of U.S. 84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C.W. McCall in the 1975 song, ''Wolf Creek Pass''.
See also
★ U.S. Route 84 in Georgia
References
1. US Highways from US 1 to US 830 Robert V. Droz
2. Endpoints of U.S. 84
3. Endpoints of U.S. 86
4. El Camino East/West Commission website
5. Alabama's Joint Resolution about the El Camino East/West Corridor
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