U.S. Route 67 in Arkansas

U.S. Highway 67
Route information
Maintained by AHTD
Length:	279.15 mi[1] (449.25 km)
Major junctions
South end:	US 67 / US 82 in Texarkana at Texas state line
	I-30 near Texarkana I-30 / US 70 in Benton I-430 in Little Rock I-30 in Little Rock I-630 in Little Rock I-30 / US 65 / US 70 / US 167 in North Little Rock I-30 / I-40 / US 65 in North Little Rock I-40 in North Little Rock I-440 in Jacksonville
North end:	US 67 near Corning at Missouri state line
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Bannered Divided Replaced Arkansas Highway System Interstate US State Business Spurs Suffixed Scenic Heritage ← AR 66 AR 69 →

U.S. Route 67 is a U.S. highway running from Presidio, Texas northeast to Sabula, Iowa. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, the route runs 279.15 miles (449.25 km) from the Texas border in Texarkana northeast to the Missouri border near Corning.^[1] The route passes through several cities and towns, including Hope, Benton, Little Rock, Jacksonville, Cabot, Beebe, Walnut Ridge, and Pocahontas.

Route description

U.S. Route 67 runs parallel to Interstate 30 from Texarkana to Benton, where it then runs concurrent with I-30 to North Little Rock. It then runs east, concurrent with I-40, for about 2 miles (3.2 km) then branches off to the northeast as a freeway to US 412 in Walnut Ridge.^[2]

Just north of US 412, the freeway ends at a large, partially complete interchange, and US 67 becomes a five-lane undivided highway north to Pocahontas. From Pocahontas, the road turns northeasterly as a two-lane highway to Corning on a concurrency with US 62, then turns north again and crosses into Missouri.

History

Original trace of the Southwest Trail, precursor to U.S. Route 67 in the area.

The southwest-northeast bisector of Arkansas has always been an integral motor route.^[3] Prior to designation as US 67, the route was known as the Southwest Trail, an old military road around 1803.^[3] The Southwest Trail connected St. Louis, Missouri with Texas by steamboat in Fulton, Arkansas.^[4] The main railroad was built along the Southwest Trail, which developed many towns along the route. President Andrew Jackson appropriated money for the route in 1831, and designated it as a National Road. Although the route shifted slightly, it always has followed the natural break between the Ozark Mountains and the Ouachita Mountains.

Money for road maintenance was raised individually by county in the early 20th century, which hindered development of the route.^[3] In the 1920s, federal money became available, and the route was designated U.S. Route 67. The routing followed the Lakes to Gulf Highway and the Bankhead Highway. Federal designation brought paving to the route, which grew the small towns along the route.

In early 2009, the Arkansas legislature passed a bill naming the portion of US-67 from the Missouri state line to Jackson County "Rock n' Roll U.S. 67" as a tribute to the route that many musicians of the 1950s and 1960s took as they traveled. Governor Mike Beebe stated that he had hopes that the naming would bring tourism to northeast Arkansas. Porton of the route, and also Arkansas Highway 7 between Hope and Hot Springs frequently used by Bill Clinton is designated The Highway of Hope by Arkansas Code § 27-67-220.

Surviving bypassed alignments

Several portions of the original late 1920s alignment of US 67 have survived, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One listed segment is in Lawrence County, which is about 11.25 miles (18.11 km) in length, and runs north from Alicia to Hoxie, most of this being sandwiched between the present Arkansas Highway 367 and US 67, and the adjacent railroad tracks. Near the village of Village Creek Relief it briefly turns west, crossing Village Creek, and then rejoining the railroad tracks near the town of Relief.^[5] A second listed segment, also about 11 miles (18 km) in length, extends from Biggers in central eastern Randolph County, northeast to Datto in Clay County, and then straight north to a junction with Arkansas Highway 211.^[6] Another section in Miller County is also listed on the National Register.

Future

Arkansas is upgrading US 67 to an Interstate-grade freeway from Little Rock to the Missouri state line, and the corridor is slated to become a southern extension of Interstate 57.^[7] The freeway currently runs from Little Rock to Walnut Ridge, but it is unknown when and where the freeway north of there to the state line will be constructed.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Miller	Texarkana				US 67 south / US 82 west (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) to US 71 north / State Line Avenue	Texas state line
					US 71 north (Hazel Street) – Texarkana Business District	South end of US 71 overlap
					US 71 south (Hickory Street)	North end of US 71 overlap
					US 82 east (East 9th Street)	North end of US 82 overlap
					AR 245 to I-30	former interchange
					Arkansas Boulevard / Airport Drive - Airport
					AR 237 south / AR 296 east – Mandeville
	Mandeville				AR 296 west to I-30 / US 71
	​				AR 108 west to I-30
	​				I-30 west – Texarkana	I-30 exit 12
Red River				Bridge
Hempstead	Fulton				AR 355 north – Fulton, Millwood Dam
	​				To I-30 – Little Rock, Texarkana	I-30 exit 18
	Guernsey				AR 353 north – Guernsey
	Hope				AR 174 south (Fulton Street)
					US 278B west (Hervey Street) to I-30	South end of US 278B overlap
					AR 29B south (Main Street)	South end of AR 29B overlap
					AR 29B north (Hazel Street)	North end of AR 29B overlap
					US 278 / AR 29 (Bill Clinton Drive) to I-30	north end of US 278B overlap
					AR 73 south
	​				AR 174 north
Nevada	Emmet				AR 299 north to I-30	South end of AR 299 overlap
					AR 299 south to AR 53	North end of AR 299 overlap
	Prescott				AR 332 west (Washington Road) – De Ann
					US 371 south – Magnolia	south end of US 371 overlap
					US 371 north / AR 24 east to I-30 – Nashville, Bluff City	north end of US 371 overlap
Clark	​				AR 51 north to I-30 – Okolona	South end of AR 51 overlap
	​				AR 51 south – Beirne	North end of AR 51 overlap
	Gurdon				AR 53 south – Whelen Springs, White Oak Lake State Park	South end of AR 53 overlap
					AR 182 west – Okolona
	​				AR 53 north to I-30 / AR 51	North end of AR 53 overlap
	​				AR 26S – Clark County Industrial Park
	Gum Springs				AR 26 (Reynolds Road) to I-30
	Arkadelphia				AR 7 south / AR 8 east / AR 51 north (Caddo Street)	South end of AR 7 / AR 8 / AR 51 overlap
					AR 8 west / AR 26 west / AR 51 south (Pine Street) to I-30 – Antoine, Amity	North end of AR 8 / AR 51 overlap
	Caddo Valley				AR 7 north to I-30 – Hot Springs, DeGray Dam, Arkadelphia Human Development Center	North end of AR 7 overlap
Hot Spring	Friendship				AR 283 north to I-30
	Donaldson				AR 51Y south to AR 51 south / AR 222 – Donaldson Business District
	​				AR 51 south to AR 222 – Donaldson Business District
	Malvern				US 270B west / AR 9 south (South Main Street) to I-30	south end of US 270B overlap
	​				US 270 to I-30 – Hot Springs, Sheridan	north end of US 270B overlap
	​				AR 171 south
Saline	​				I-30 / Old Military Road – Texarkana, Little Rock	I-30 exit 106
	Haskell				AR 229 south – Haskell, Traskwood
	​				I-30 west / AR 229 north – Texarkana	south end of I-30 overlap; US 67 south follows exit 114
see I-30
Pulaski	North Little Rock			143A	I-40 west / US 65 north / AR 107 north – Conway, Fort Smith	north end of I-30 / US 65 overlap; south end of I-40 overlap; US 67 north follows exit 143B; US 67 south follows exit 153B
				154	North Hills Boulevard	northbound exit and southbound entrance
				155	I-40 east – Memphis	North end of I-40 overlap; US 67 north follows exit 155
				1	McCain Boulevard	Signed as exits 1A (east) and 1B (west) northbound
	Sherwood			3	Trammel Road / Wildwood Avenue	signed as exits 2 (Trammel Road) and 3 (Wildwood Avenue) northbound
				4	AR 176Y (Brookswood Street)	no direct southbound exit
				5	AR 176 (Kiehl Avenue)
	Jacksonville			6	AR 440 – Memphis, Texarkana
				8	Redmond Road	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
				9	Main Street
				10A	James Street
				10B	Gregory Street	no access across US 67
				11	AR 161 – Air Force Base	AR 161 is signed northbound at exit 10B
Lonoke	​			16	AR 5 / AR 321 / AR 367 – Heber Springs, Cabot	Signed as exits 16A (AR 321 / AR 367) and exit 16B (AR 5) northbound
	Cabot			19	AR 89 – Cabot
	Austin			22	AR 305 – Austin
	Ward			25	AR 319 – Ward
White	Beebe			28	US 64 west / US 67B north – Beebe, Conway	South end of US 64 overlap
				29	AR 367S – Beebe
				31	US 67B south / AR 31 – Beebe, Antioch
	​			35	AR 13 – McRae, Garner
	Searcy			42	US 67B north / AR 367 south – Searcy, Garner
				44	AR 367 – Searcy
				45	AR 36 west – Searcy
				46	US 67B south / AR 36 east – Searcy, Kensett
	​			48	AR 385 – Judsonia
	​			51	AR 157 – Judsonia
	​			54	B.K. Lake Road
	Bald Knob			55	US 64 east / US 167 north – Bald Knob, Batesville	North end of US 64 / US 167 overlap
	​			60	Russell
	​			65	AR 87 – Bradford
Jackson	​			69	CR 315 – Possum Grape
	​			Bridge over White River
	Ingleside			74	AR 224
	​			80	AR 14 – Waldenburg
	​			82	AR 17 – Newport
	Newport			83	AR 384 – Newport
				85	AR 18 – Newport, Grubbs
	​			87	CR 43
	​			95	AR 37 – Tuckerman, Grubbs
Craighead	​			102	AR 226 east – Jonesboro, Cash, Arkansas State University
Lawrence	Alicia			111	AR 230 to AR 367 / AR 91 – Alicia, Bono
	Walnut Ridge			121	US 63 south – Hoxie, Jonesboro
					US 412 – Paragould, Walnut Ridge	Interchange; north end of freeway
					US 67Y to AR 34
					US 67B south – Walnut Ridge Business District, truck route to US 412 west
Randolph	Shannon				AR 90 east – O'Kean
	Pocahontas				AR 304 east – Sharum, Delaplaine, Black River Technical College
					AR 304N east
				Black River Bridge over Black River
					US 62 west – Imboden	South end of US 62 overlap
see US 62 (mile 274.1-300.3)
Clay	Corning				US 62 east – Business District, Piggott	North end of US 62 overlap
	​				AR 328 west – Success
	​				US 67 north – St. Louis	Missouri state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

• Bannered routes of U.S. Route 67
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Clay County, Arkansas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Arkansas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Randolph County, Arkansas

References

Route map: Bing / Google

1. Planning and Research Division (2010). "Arkansas Road Log Database" (Database). Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
2. General Highway Map, Pulaski County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map). 1:62500. Cartography by Planning and Research Division. Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. May 13, 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
3. Hanley, Ray (1999). "Introduction". A Journey Through Arkansas - Historic U.S. Highway 67. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 0-7385-0052-6. LCCN 99-65712.
4. Hanley, Ray (1999). "Saline County to Miller County: Benton to Texarkana". A Journey Through Arkansas - Historic U.S. Highway 67. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 0-7385-0052-6. LCCN 99-65712.
5. "NRHP nomination for Old US 67, Alicia to Hoxie" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-12-20.
6. "NRHP nomination for Old US 67, Biggers to Datto" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
7. "Boozman provision in appropriations bill paves way for U.S. 67 to become I-57". Retrieved 19 June 2016.