First-time visitors may wish to read on, but viewers who know their way around this site can use the quick links below to jump to a specific block of highways. (3-digit "branch" highways are listed under their 1- or 2-digit "parent" highway; please see the legend if you need more info.)
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My intention for the pages at this site is to provide photos and descriptions of current and historic US highways ends. Click here for more details.
I've tried to list all current and historic US routes on these pages, but I don't yet have "End" photos for all of them. If I don't have a photo of the specific highway you're looking for, try Adam Froehlig's pages - he has several others.
US highways are not the same as interstate highways. If you're looking for the ends of interstates, try this page.
Please note: Robert Droz has done extensive research on current and historic termini of existing, decommissioned, and unsigned US highway routes (view his site here). Much of the info presented on my pages has been enriched with information from his site. If you're like me and you don't have access to many historic atlases or road maps, let me emphasize that his pages are a great resource.
Images used on my pages are posted with the permission of the contributor. In the event that you want to use any images from this site: please contact the photographer or mapmaker directly (I've provided a way to contact just about everyone who has contributed to these pages). If no one is credited for a particular photo or map, that's because I did it. You're welcome to use any of my images, as long as you give me credit and link my name to my homepage. And please let me know when your page is online; my e-mail address is at the bottom of every page.
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Legend for the "End US highway" charts: |
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"Main" (or "parent") US highways (those with 1- or 2-digit numbers) are highlighted in blue, and are listed numerically. |
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"Branches" of main highways (3-digit numbers) are highlighted in light blue - and are listed under their 1- or 2-digit "parent" highway. If you are looking for a particular 3-digit US highway, but don't know its "parent" - just take the last two digits. For example, the last two digits in US 401 are "01" - so its "parent" highway is US 1. (There are a few exceptions; see "violations" below.) |
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A yellow highlight indicates a historic US "main" route which has been completely decommissioned. |
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A light yellow highlight indicates a historic US "branch" route which has been completely decommissioned. |
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An orange highlight indicates a route that appeared on a US highway system planning map, but for one reason or another was probably never actually signed on the road itself. These routes are included here to help explain, for example, why in 1926 there was a US 150 and a US 350 - but no US 250. Please refer to Robert Droz's site for more specifics. |
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Highways highlighted in pink are 3-digit routes with numbers that I consider to be major violations of the US route numbering system. (I had to highlight these routes, because it would be misleading to show them as typical "branch" routes - when they actually never even came close to their implied "main" route). |
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Any number that has been used on more than one US route is followed by a Roman numeral in brackets (the same system used by Robert Droz). For example, the original US 401 is listed on these pages as US 401 [I]. Sometime after that route number was decommissioned, the same number was assigned to a significantly different highway. That route is listed on these pages as US 401 [II]. The current US 401 is actually the third highway route to be assigned that number; it is listed as US 401 [III]. |
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A green highlight in either of the "Terminus" columns indicates that at least one photo of that terminus is available at this site. Click on the US highway number to view its page. |
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No highlight color indicates that no photo is currently available on this site. However, if a terminus is hyperlinked, that will take you to another site which does have a photo of that endpoint. Got a photo that I'm missing? Got a better photo? A different one? Or more information? ...please click here. |
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A "Yes" in the "Other Info" column indicates that I've posted additional information, usually concerning one or more historic termini for the route, and/or termini of route splits. A green highlight in this column indicates that I have at least one additional photo of this type. |
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