U.S. Route 11

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U.S. Route 11
Length: 1645 mi[1] (2647 km)
Formed: 1926[1]
South end: US 90 at New Orleans, LA
Major
junctions:		 US 49 at Hattiesburg, MS
I-65 at Birmingham, AL
I-24 at Chattanooga, TN
I-26 at Johnson City, TN
I-81/I-64 near Staunton, VA
I-76/PA Tpk. near Carlisle, PA
US 6 at Scranton, PA
US 20 near Syracuse, NY
North end: QC 223 at Rouses Point, NY
United States Numbered Highways
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

U.S. Route 11 is a north-south United States highway extending 1,645 miles[1] (2,647 km) across the eastern United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 90 in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans, Louisiana. The northern terminus is at the United States-Canada border in Rouses Point, New York, where the route continues north as Route 223. US 11, created in 1926, largely follows the route of the original plan.

Until 1929, U.S. 11 ended just south of Picayune, Mississippi, at the Pearl River border with Louisiana.

The U.S. 11 bridge across Lake Ponchartrain served as a little-known alternate to the severely damaged Twin Span Bridge on Interstate 10, which was completely closed for six weeks after Hurricane Katrina. The Twin Spans fully reopened to traffic four months later.

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Major cities

[edit] Louisiana

US 11 begins at U.S. Route 90 (Chef Menteur Highway) in far eastern New Orleans, Louisiana. The route heads north, paralleling Interstate 10 across Lake Pontchartrain into Slidell. North of Slidell, US 11 follows Interstate 59 to Pearl River, where US 11 joins I-59 at exit 3 and follows the interstate across the East Pearl River into Mississippi.

[edit] Mississippi

At exit 1 in Nicholson, less than a mile into Mississippi, US 11 separates from I-59. The two highways parallel one another as they progress northward, passing through Picayune, Hattiesburg, and Laurel. At Meridian, U.S. Route 80 joins US 11 and Interstate 20 joins I-59 as both roadways turn to the east.

US 11 and US 80 continue to parallel the I-20/I-59 expressway eastward to the Alabama state line.

The Mississippi section of US 11 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

[edit] Alabama

Main article: U.S. Route 11 in Alabama

US 11 and US 80 split three miles into Alabama near Cuba, with US 80 following an eastward track toward Demopolis. US 11, in contrast, continues to parallel the I-20/I-59 freeway through Livingston to Eutaw, where US 11 joins U.S. Route 43. The overlapping routes proceed northeast to Tuscaloosa, where US 43 splits from US 11 and heads north. US 11, however, continues along the I-20/I-59 corridor to Birmingham.

West of downtown Birmingham, US 11 intersects U.S. Route 78. US 78 turns east onto US 11, forming an overlap as the roadway enters the heart of the city. In the midst of the city center, US 78 breaks from US 11, progressing south of US 11 as the two routes exit the city. East of downtown, I-20 splits from I-59, with US 11 following I-59 to the northeast. US 11 passes through Gadsden and Fort Payne before crossing into Georgia ten miles northeast of Hammondville.

Throughout Alabama, U.S. 11 is paired with unsigned Alabama State Route 7.

[edit] Georgia

Main article: U.S. Route 11 in Georgia

US 11 travels 21 miles (34 km) through Dade County across the northwest corner of Georgia, paralleling Interstate 59 for most of its routing. At Wildwood, I-59 terminates at Interstate 24; US 11 then parallels I-24 north into Tennessee.

The entire length is co-signed with State Route 58.

[edit] Tennessee

US 11 enters Tennessee west of Chattanooga. The route, concurrent with State Route 38 from the state line north, runs parallel to Interstate 24 for three miles to an intersection with Cummings Highway (U.S. Route 41/U.S. Route 64/U.S. Route 72/State Route 2). While SR 38 terminates here, US 11 follows the highway east into downtown Chattanooga. At the intersection of Broad Street and East 23rd Street, US 11 and US 64 separate from US 41 and US 72 and follow East 23rd east through downtown. The routes briefly overlap with US 41 (here concurrent to U.S. Route 76) on Dodds Avenue before resuming an easterly progression on Brainerd Road.

East of downtown, I-24 terminates while Interstate 75 continues east along the I-24 right-of-way. US 11 and US 64 continue to the northeast, paralleling I-75 to Cleveland. In downtown Cleveland, US 64 separates from US 11, following U.S. Route 74 east out of the city.

US 11 remains in close proximity to I-75 as it heads north, passing through Sweetwater and Loudon before entering Farragut. On the western edge of town, US 11 merges with U.S. Route 70 at Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee to form the Kingston Pike. The routes remain joined into the Knoxville suburbs, where US 11/US 70 follow I-75, now concurrent to Interstate 40, into downtown.

In eastern Knoxville, US 11 splits into U.S. Route 11W and U.S. Route 11E, with US 70 following US 11E. Both routes follow a northeasterly routing through northeastern Tennessee, with US 11W taking a more northerly course than its eastern alternate. While US 11W passes through Blaine, Rutledge, Bean Station, Rogersville, Surgionsville, Church Hill, Mount Carmel and Kingsport, US 11E branches south to connect Jefferson City (home of Carson-Newman College), Morristown, Greeneville, Jonesborough and Johnson City. The two routes cross into Virginia at Bristol.

[edit] Virginia

Main article: U.S. Route 11 in Virginia

US 11W and US 11E rejoin as US 11 in Bristol less than a mile north of the Tennessee-Virginia state line. As Lee Highway, US 11 proceeds northeastward through Abingdon, Wytheville and Radford, running parallel to Interstate 81, before reaching Christiansburg, where US 11 joins U.S. Route 460. The two routes overlap for 28 miles to Salem, where the two highways split. US 11 winds through Roanoke on several roads, sometimes opposite the signed direction.

From Roanoke, the highway continues to remain close to I-81 as it goes through Buchanan, Lexington, Staunton, Harrisonburg and Winchester before entering West Virginia about 10 miles northeast of Winchester.

[edit] West Virginia

US 11 enters West Virginia less than 200 yards southeast of I-81. As the Winchester Pike, US 11 heads northeast for 25 miles through Berkeley County, passing through Martinsburg before crossing the Potomac River into Maryland.

[edit] Maryland

In Maryland, U.S. 11 continues to parallel I-81, passing through Hagerstown in Washington County before crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania.

[edit] Pennsylvania

US 11 and I-81 enter Pennsylvania south of Greencastle. The two routes head to the northeast, running parallel to each other as they pass through Chambersburg, Shippensburg, and Carlisle. Northeast of Carlisle in Middlesex, US 11 interchanges with the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) and I-81 in succession. US 11, now to the south of I-81, continues eastward into the western suburbs of Harrisburg.

In Camp Hill, a close suburb of Harrisburg, US 11 stops paralleling I-81 and joins U.S. Route 15 northward through the western suburbs of Harrisburg. As the road exits the Harrisburg area, US 11 and US 15 begin to parallel the Susquehanna River as both head northward. The two routes remain overlapped to an intersection in Shamokin Dam, where US 15 branches off to the northwest, following the path of the Susquehanna's West Branch northward. US 11, in contrast, continues to parallel the main Susquehanna River, passing through municipalities such as Danville, Bloomsburg, and Berwick prior to reaching Wilkes-Barre.

In Wilkes-Barre, US 11 breaks from the Susquehanna and begins to run parallel to I-81 once more. From Wilkes-Barre, the highway goes through nearby Scranton, becoming the North Scranton Expressway north of downtown. In Clarks Summit, just north of Scranton, US 11 intersects U.S. Route 6. US 6 joins US 11 westward to Factoryville, where US 11 separates from US 6 and resumes its northerly trek through Susquehanna County to the New York-Pennsylvania border.

[edit] New York

US 11 proceeds northwestward through New York from the Pennsylvania border to Binghamton. US 11 and I-81 continue to parallel each other as they head north from Binghamton toward Syracuse, passing through Cortland in the process.

The route traverses the Onondaga Indian Reservation just south of the city before entering the suburbs of Syracuse. US 11 continues northward, passing through downtown and crossing I-81, Interstate 690 and the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) before interchanging with I-81 at exit 26 north of downtown and west of the Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

North of Syracuse, US 11 and I-81 continue to parallel each other northward through Central New York and, from Pulaski north, in close proximity to Lake Ontario. In Watertown, US 11 and I-81 separate north of the city, with US 11 taking a more north-easterly routing than I-81, which continues to parallel Lake Ontario northward to the Canadian border. US 11 heads northeast from Watertown, passing along the northern edge of the Fort Drum Military Reservation and traversing a number of towns and villages, including Canton and Potsdam.

Heading east now from Potsdam are routes 11B and US 11. These two routes swapped names in the 1980s, with 11B now taking the southern route and 11 the northern route, joining back up in Malone. 11C was built to bypass Brasher Falls and Winthrop, and they swapped names in the 1990s. US 11 passes north of Adirondack Park and through several communities, including Malone, on the park's edge. In Champlain, US 11 interchanges with Interstate 87 at exit 42 and meets U.S. Route 9 a half-mile to the east.

Four miles east of Champlain in Rouses Point, US 11 intersects New York State Route 9B on the western shore of Lake Champlain. US 11 turns north at the junction, following the routing established by NY 9B to the south into the heart of Rouses Point. North of the village center, US 11 intersects the western terminus of the eastern segment of U.S. Route 2. After another three-quarters of a mile, US 11 terminates at the Canadian border, becoming QC 223.

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[edit] See also

[edit] Related U.S. Routes

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c US Highways From US 1 to US 830 Robert V. Droz

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Main U.S. Routes
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
80 81 82 83 84 85 87 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
101 163 400 412 425
Lists  U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Bypassed - Portal
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Major highways of Greater Birmingham
I-20 • I-59 • I-459 • I-65 • US 11 (Bessemer/Gadsden) • US 31 (Decatur/Montgomery) • US 78 (Bankhead/Crestwood) • US 280 • Red Mountain Expressway • Lakeshore Parkway • Proposed I-22 • Corridor X-1
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Roads in the Susquehanna Valley
Beltway Capital Beltway
Interstate Highways Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) • I-78 • I-81 • I-83 • I-283
U.S. Routes US 11 • US 15 • US 22 • US 30 • US 209 • US 222 • US 322 • US 422
Limited-access Pennsylvania Routes PA 283 • PA 581 • SR 3032
Other Pennsylvania Routes PA 17 • PA 23 • PA 25 • PA 34 • PA 39 • PA 72 • PA 74 • PA 94 • PA 114 • PA 117 • PA 147 • PA 174 • PA 225 • PA 230 • PA 233 • PA 235 • PA 241 • PA 274 • PA 325
PA 340 • PA 341 • PA 343 • PA 419 • PA 441 • PA 443 • PA 462 • PA 465 • PA 501 • PA 533 • PA 641 • PA 645 • PA 696 • PA 722 • PA 743 • PA 772 • PA 849 • PA 850
PA 897 • PA 934 • PA 944 • PA 997 • PA 999
Other Quadrant Routes SR 3015 • SR 3017 • SR 3020
Browse numbered routes
< I-10 MS MS 12 >
< I-10 AL SR-12 >
< MD 10 MD MD 12 >
< PA 10 PA PA 12 >
< NY 10 NY NY 11A >
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