U.S. Route 35

U.S. Route 35
Route information
Length:	412 mi[1] (663 km)
Existed:	1934[1] – present
Major junctions
South end:	I‑64 at Scott Depot, WV
	WV 2 at Point Pleasant, WV SR 7 at Gallipolis, OH US 23 / US 50 at Chillicothe, OH I-71 at Jeffersonville, OH I-675 at Beavercreek, OH I-75 at Dayton, OH I-70 in Richmond, IN US 30 near Hamlet, IN
North end:	US 20 at Michigan City, IN
Location
States:	West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Bannered Divided Replaced

U.S. Route 35 (US 35) is a United States highway that runs northwest-southeast for approximately 412 miles (663 km) from northern Indiana to the western suburbs of Charleston, West Virginia. Although the highway is physically southeast-northwest, it is nominally north-south. The highway's northern terminus is in Michigan City, Indiana, at U.S. Route 20. Its southern terminus is in Scott Depot, West Virginia, at Interstate 64.^[2] Currently, the West Virginia portion of the highway is being expanded to four lanes, mostly along a completely new route. The Ohio portion has already been upgraded to a four-lane highway/freeway between the West Virginia state line and Trotwood, west of Dayton.

Route description

West Virginia

In West Virginia from Scott Depot to Point Pleasant, US 35 is currently being expanded to a four-lane expressway. Currently the route is four lanes from I-64 to the junction with the bridge to Buffalo (West Virginia Route 869), which serves the large Toyota engine and transmission plant in Buffalo, and continues as a 2-lane route for 14.6 miles (23.5 km) to another four lane section of eight miles (6 km) to the Ohio River, which is the state line.

The remaining 14.6 mile gap had a $174 million contract awarded for its completion on June 2, 2015. The section will tentatively be completed by fall of 2019. ^[3] A possibility of completion as a toll road had been put forward before funding was made available.

Officially, US 35's new alignment begins at I-64 Exit #40 near Scott Depot, from which point US 35 proceeds north on its new roadway.^[2]

Ohio

Signed east-west in Ohio, US 35 crosses the Ohio River on the Silver Memorial Bridge, and enters Ohio. The first interchange is located adjacent to the Gallia-Meigs Regional Airport in Gallipolis as well as State Route 7. From there, it continues as a full freeway towards Jackson, with interchanges at SR 160, SR 850, and SR 325. Passing Rio Grande, the highway becomes a four-lane at-grade expressway when it reaches Centerville. This setup continues until SR 32 where the highway bypasses Jackson. A strange interchange configuration currently exists at US 35 and SR 32 - an interchange called a windmill interchange. Each highway has ramps that exit to the other highway ending at an intersection that one can travel either direction. This is odd because both highways end up having at-grade intersections, albeit with a grade-separation of the main highway corridors. Continuing west, the highway reverts to an expressway until it reaches Richmond Dale. The section between Richmond Dale and Chillicothe was upgraded to a full freeway in 2005 and includes a large cut through a 1,000 feet (300 m) ridge. This section of road provides westbound motorists with a panoramic view of the Scioto River valley. Travelers eastbound at Chillicothe near the Bridge Street exit can see the hills that are shown on the Great Seal of the State of Ohio. The next major interchange is with Interstate 71 in Jeffersonville. As the route continues through flat farmlands, it has a full-access interchange with I-675 in Beavercreek. Several miles later, US 35 opens into a three-lane highway (with five lanes in some parts) through downtown Dayton and has another full-access interchange with Interstate 75 in downtown Dayton. The Ohio portion of US 35 merges with Interstate 70 near New Paris. The portion of US 35 from the western edge of Dayton to the merge with I-70 is the only two-lane section remaining, passing through the city of Eaton. US 35 is a major Appalachian corridor linking I-70 and points west to I-64 and points east.

The portion of the route between Jackson and Gallipolis is known as the Bob Evans Highway. This section is designated as a Welsh Byway by the Ohio Department of Transportation as well.^[4]

Indiana

US 35 enters Indiana with Interstate 70, and splits off on the northwest side of Richmond. US 35 then travels in a northwest path as a winding 2-lane highway to the city of Muncie, where it merges with Indiana highways 3 and 67 as a 4-lane expressway. It then continues north, returning to a 2-lane highway near the town of Royerton, to an intersection with Indiana 28 where it turns west, toward Interstate 69.

US 35 then rides along with I-69 northward to Indiana 22 then turns west and travels through the cities of Gas City, and Greentown, arriving at a new (opened 2014) interchange with US Highway 31 (Proposed Interstate 67) just east of Kokomo. It rides along with US Highway 31 northward for only 4.5 miles, to a new interchange (opened 2014) where it splits off toward the northwest, toward Logansport.

US Highway 35 then widens to a 4-lane expressway, just prior to its intersection with US Highway 24, where it bypasses Logansport as part of a new expressway between Lafayette and Fort Wayne (opened 2015), but splits off to the north after just 4.2 miles, and heads north/northwest to travel through the towns of Winamac, Knox and La Porte before finally terminating at US 20 in Michigan City which has been the terminus as of 2010.

History

Originally, US 35 was routed from Charleston, West Virginia, on the north side of the Kanawha River (the current West Virginia Route 62) to Point Pleasant, West Virginia until the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967. When the new Silver Memorial Bridge was completed in 1969, US 35 was moved to the south side of the river (the former West Virginia Route 17) away from Point Pleasant, and its terminus was in St. Albans, West Virginia, at the junction of US 60. US 35 in Indiana also originally went through Kokomo down Markland Ave, Washington St through downtown then Davis Rd on to its current route. It was later bypassed to what is now State Road 931 before being changed to its current route in 2014. ^[5]

As of June 15, 2009, the old segment of US 35 between Buffalo Bridge, West Virginia, and US 60 is now signed as West Virginia Route 817.

On October 1, 2009, the State of Indiana transferred the western 5.31 miles (8.55 km) of US 35 to Michigan City's local highway system. US 35 in Michigan City is currently being served by commercial traffic that travels in and out of downtown (where it originally terminated at US 12); according to local traffic counts, only half of the measured traffic on US 35 is through traffic. After the transfer of control, Michigan City began reconstructing the road using local, state and federal-aid funds.^[6] The change was approved by AASHTO on October 17, 2008.^[7]

Major intersections

State	County	Location	mi[8]	km	Destinations	Notes
West Virginia	Putnam	Teays Valley			CR 33 (Teays Valley Road) – St. Albans, Scott Depot
					I‑64 – Huntington, St. Albans, Charleston	I–64 exit 40
		​			WV 34 / CR 13 (Poplar Fork Road) – Winfield
		​			To WV 817 (via CR 817/2)
		​			To WV 62 (via WV 869) – Buffalo, Eleanor	Western terminus of WV 869
		​			WV 817 south	south end of WV 817 overlap
	Mason	Beech Hill			WV 817 north	north end of WV 817 overlap
		​			WV 817 south
		​			WV 2 – Point Pleasant, Huntington	interchange
Ohio River					Silver Memorial Bridge
Ohio	Gallia	Gallipolis Township			SR 7 – Pomeroy, Gallipolis	interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
					SR 735 to SR 7 – Pomeroy, Gallipolis	interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
					SR 160 – Vinton, Gallipolis	interchange; no eastbound exit
		Mills			SR 160 – Vinton, Gallipolis	interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		Springfield Township			SR 850 (Rodney Pike)	interchange
		Raccoon Township			SR 325 – Vinton, Rio Grande	interchange
					SR 279 west – Centerville (Thurman post office), Oak Hill	Eastern terminus of SR 279
	Jackson	Bloomfield Township			SR 327 – Wellston, Cooper Hollow Wildlife Area	interchange
		Lick Township			SR 32 / SR 124 – Athens, Cincinnati	interchange
					Pattonsville Road / Broadway Street	interchange
					SR 93 – Coalton, Jackson	interchange
		Coal Township			County Road 84 (Chillicothe Pike)	interchange
	Ross	Jefferson Township			Vigo Road / Watson Road - Richmond Dale	interchange
		Liberty Township			US 50 east – Athens	east end of US 50 concurrency; interchange
		Scioto Township			US 50 west (Eastern Avenue) to US 23 south	west terminus of US 50 concurrency; interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
					US 23 south to US 50 west – Portsmouth, Waverly	east end of US 23 concurrency; interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
					To US 50 west / Main Street – Chillicothe	interchange
					US 23 north – Columbus	west end of US 23 concurrency; interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
					SR 159 / US 23 Bus. (Bridge Street) to US 23 north – Kingston, Columbus	interchange
					SR 104 (High Street)	interchange
		Union Township			To US 50 / Pleasant Valley Road / Egypt Pike	interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
					County Road 550 - Pleasant Valley	interchange
		Concord Township			County Road 87 - Frankfort	interchange
					SR 138 – Greenfield, Clarksburg	interchange
	Fayette	Union Township			SR 753 – Greenfield, Washington CH	interchange
					SR 41 – Greenfield	interchange
					US 22 / US 62 / SR 3 – Washington CH, Hillsboro	interchange
					Palmer Road	interchange
		Jefferson Township			SR 435 to I-71	interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
					SR 435 to I-71 – Columbus, Cincinnati	interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Greene	Jamestown			SR 72 – Jamestown, Cedarville	interchange
		Silvercreek Township			Old US 35 - Jamestown	interchange
		Xenia Township			Bickett Road	interchange
		Xenia			US 68 (Home Avenue) – Wilmington	interchange
					US 42 – Lebanon	interchange
					Lower Bellbrook Road	interchange
		Xenia Township			US 35 Bus. east (West Main Street) – Xenia	interchange
		Beavercreek			SR 835 west (Research Boulevard) / North Fairfield Road	interchange
					I-675 – Cincinnati, Columbus	I-675 exit 13
					Dayton-Xenia Road / Linden Avenue	interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Montgomery	Riverside			SR 835 (Woodman Drive)	interchange
		Dayton			Smithville Road	interchange
					Steve Whalen Boulevard	interchange
					Keowee Street / Wayne Avenue	interchange
					SR 48 (Main Street) / Jefferson Street	interchange
					Ludlow Street / Perry Street	interchange
			35.30	56.81	I-75 / SR 4 north – Cincinnati, Toledo	I-75 exit 52B
					James H. McGee Boulevard	interchange
					Gettysburg Avenue	interchange
		Drexel	30.22	48.63	SR 49 north – Greenville	Southern terminus of SR 49
	Preble	West Alexandria	17.22	27.71	SR 503 (Main Street)
		Eaton	11.92	19.18	SR 122 east (South Franklin Street)	Eastern end of SR 122 concurrency
			11.68	18.80	US 127 / SR 732 south (Barron Street) – Fort St. Clair
			11.42	18.38	SR 122 west (West Main Street)	Western end of SR 122 concurrency
		Jackson Township	2.38	3.83	SR 320 north	Southern terminus of SR 320
		Jefferson Township	1.66	2.67	I-70 east – Dayton, Columbus	east end of I-70 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; US 35 east follows exit 1
			0.00 0.00	0.00 0.00	Ohio–Indiana state line
Indiana	Wayne	Wayne Township	0.33	0.53	US 40 (National Road) – Lewisburg, OH	I-70 exit 156
			3.65	5.87	SR 227 – Union City	I-70 exit 153
			5.22	8.40	US 27 (Chester Boulevard)	I-70 exit 151
			7.25	11.67	I-70 west / Williamsburg Pike – Indianapolis	north end of I-70 overlap; US 35 north follows exit 149B
		Webster Township	8.51	13.70	SR 38 west – Greensfork, Hagerstown, New Castle	Eastern terminus of SR 38
		Dalton Township	23.15	37.26	SR 1
	Randolph	Union Township	27.20	43.77	US 36 – Summit Lake State Park
	Henry	No major junctions
	Delaware	Muncie	41.09	66.13	SR 3 south / SR 67 south – New Castle, Muncie, Ball State University	Southern end of SR 3/SR 67 concurrency; interchange; no access from US 35 north to SR 3 south / SR 67 south or SR 3 north / SR 67 north to US 35 south
		Center Township			Memorial Drive	interchange
		Muncie	43.70	70.33	SR 32 – Winchester, Muncie	interchange
		Hamilton Township	47.21	75.98	SR 67 north (SR 67 Bus. south) – Portland	Northern end of SR 67 concurrency; interchange
					Muncie (SR 3 Bus. south)	interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance
			50.10	80.63	SR 3 north / SR 28 east – Hartford City, Albany	Northern end of SR 3 concurrency; south terminus of SR 28 concurrency
		Harrison Township	60.11	96.74	I-69 south / SR 28 west – Alexandria, Indianapolis	Southern end of I–69 concurrency; north end of SR 28 concurrency; US 35 south follows exit 245
	Grant	Jefferson Township	70.34	113.20	SR 26 – Fairmount, Hartford City	I-69 exit 255
		Gas City	74.46	119.83	I-69 north / SR 22 east – Fort Wayne, Upland, Taylor University	Northern end of I–69 concurrency; south end of SR 22 concurrency; US 35 north follows exit 259
		Jonesboro	78.73	126.70	SR 15 north – Jonesboro, Indiana Wesleyan University	Southern terminus of SR 15
		Mill–Franklin township line	81.21	130.69	SR 9 – Anderson, Marion
		Franklin Township	82.35	132.53	SR 37 – Elwood, Marion
		Sims Township	89.28	143.68	SR 13 / SR 19 north – Elwood, Swayzee, Wabash	south end of SR 19 concurrency
	Howard	Greentown	96.19	154.80	SR 213 south – Windfall	Northern terminus of SR 213
		Howard–Taylor township line	100.13	161.14	SR 19 south – Tipton, Wildcat Creek Reservoir Park	north end of SR 19 concurrency
					US 31 south / SR 22 west – Kokomo, Indianapolis	Southern end of US 31 concurrency; western end of SR 22 concurrency; US 35 south follows exit 162
		Center Township			Touby Pike - Airport	US 31 exit 165
		Howard Township			US 31 north – South Bend	Northern end of US 31 concurrency; northbound exit and southbound entrance; US 35 north follows exit 166
		Howard–Clay township line			SR 931 to US 31 north – Peru, Kokomo
		Clay Township			Davis Road	interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance
	Cass	Galveston	113.57	182.77	SR 18
		Walton	120.14	193.35	SR 218
		Washington Township	126.13	202.99	US 24 east – Fort Wayne	south end of US 24 concurrency
		Logansport			Downtown Logansport	former US 35 north
					No Name	northbound exit only; former US 24 west / US 35 north
		Washington Township			SR 25 north – Rochester	interchange; south end of SR 25 overlap
					SR 25 south / SR 29 south – Lafayette, Indianapolis	interchange; north end of SR 25 overlap
			130.58	210.15	Old State Road 25	interchange
		Logansport	131.92	212.30	US 24 west / Bus. US 24 east – Logansport, Monticello	interchange; north end of US 24 concurrency
		Royal Center	141.27	227.35	SR 16 – Monon
	Pulaski	Winamac	155.15	249.69	SR 119 south (Washington Street)	Northern terminus of the southern section of SR 119
			155.65	250.49	SR 14 (11th Street)	Southern end of SR 14 concurrency
			155.77	250.69	SR 14 east	Northern terminus of SR 14 concurrency
	Starke	California Township	165.79	266.81	SR 10 east – Bass Lake	Southern end of SR 10 concurrency
			167.18	269.05	SR 10 west – North Judson	Northern end of SR 10 concurrency
		Knox	172.19	277.11	SR 8 east (East Culver Road)	Southern end of SR 8 concurrency
		Center Township	174.20	280.35	SR 8 west – LaCrosse, Hebron, Airport, Kankakee State Fish Wildlife Area	Northern end of SR 8 concurrency
		Davis Township	179.48	288.85	US 30 – Valparaiso, Plymouth	interchange
	LaPorte	South Center	185.80	299.02	US 6 east – Walkerton	south end of US 6 concurrency
		Washington Township	190.75	306.98	US 6 west – Gary	north end of US 6 concurrency
		La Porte	197.58	317.97	SR 2 / SR 39 south (Lincolnway) to SR 4	Southern end of SR 39 concurrency
			199.44	320.97	SR 39 north to Indiana Toll Road – New Buffalo	Northern end of SR 39 concurrency
		Springfield Township	204.91	329.77	US 20 to I-94 / US 12 / US 35 – Gary, Michigan City, South Bend	Northern terminus of US 35
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

See also

List of unused highways in Ohio

References

1. Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 02:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC).
2. "West Virginia US 35 Deletion Request" (PDF). American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
3. "More Than $174 Million Contract Awarded to Finish U.S. 35 in W.Va.". WSAZ-TV. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
4. Ohio Department of Transportation. "Ohio Byway". Retrieved 2007-07-18.
5. "1960 Indiana Highway Map".
6. Indiana Department of Transportation (2008-08-25). "An Application from the State highway or Transportation Department of Indiana" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-27.
7. AASHTO (2008-10-27). "Committee action and approvals". Retrieved 2008-10-27.
8. Indiana Department of Transportation (2004). Reference Post Book (PDF). Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Transportation. U-35. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2012.

External links

• Indiana Highway Ends: US 35

Browse numbered routes
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