U.S. ROUTE 287

'U.S. Route 287' is a north-south United States highway. It serves as the major truck 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.

Contents

Termini

Historic termini

States traversed

Related US Routes

References

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.

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 Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas in 1940, and northward into Montana to U.S. 89 at Choteau, Montana in 1965. North of Choteau, U.S. 89 continues north into Alberta as Provincial Highway 2 through that province's major cities of Calgary and Edmonton, connecting with a Canadian link to the Alaska Highway in the latter city.
The Canada to Gulf Highway Association, which later became the U.S. Highway 287 Association, was active from the 1910s until the 1970s to promote the highway as a popular tourist route with scores of members from businesses and organizations in cities all along the route.

States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

★ Montana

★ Wyoming

★ Colorado

★ Oklahoma (35 miles, 56 km, across the panhandle, at Boise City)

★ Texas

Related US Routes

★ U.S. Highway 87

★ U.S. Highway 187

References

1. Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 18 May 2006.


★ Endpoints of US highways