Maps of US highways,
and photos of their endpoints

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.)

• What's new since you last visited?
  Click here to find out...
  
  
• Here's a series of status maps which show all current and historic US route endpoints,
  and which indicate whether or not a particular endpoint has been photographed...
  
  
• At last count: 592 endpoints photographed (out of 822).
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  About 440 webpages, containing approx. 3300 images, plus 81 route maps.
  Over 200 people have contributed photos and/or information (acknowledgments and contact info here)...
  
  
• A request for submissions:
  What, where, and how to photograph,
  and how to get your photos and/or information posted on these pages...
  
  
• My rationale for doing these pages...
  

The purpose of this site is to provide photos and descriptions of current and historic US highways ends, and to provide maps that show each US highway in the context of its "route family". Click here for more details.

I've listed all current and historic US routes on these pages, but I don't yet have "End" photos for all of them (click here to view status maps). 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 endpoints of interstates, try this page at aaroads.com.

If you want endpoints of state highways, check this index at state-ends.com.

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 (that link provides 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.

Legend for the "End US highway" charts:

"Main" (or "parent") US highways (those with 1- or 2-digit numbers) are highlighted in blue, and are listed numerically.

"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.)

A yellow highlight indicates a historic US "main" route which has been completely decommissioned.

A light yellow highlight indicates a historic US "branch" route which has been completely decommissioned.

Any route shown in italics 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 some of the "gaps" in the system: 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. At this point I don't intend to post photos of the proposed endpoints for these almost-routes.

Highways highlighted in pink are 3-digit routes with numbers that I consider to be major violations of the US route numbering system. I differentiated these routes because it would be misleading to simply list them as typical "branch" routes - when they actually never even came close to their implied "main" route. A list of these misnumbered routes (along with other 3-digit route numbering curiosities) can be found here.

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].

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.

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.

The "Historic" column indicates the number of historic endpoints for each route, as well as the number of these endpoints for which I have photo. For example, if a route has an entry of "3/5", that means historically there have been five other endpoints besides the ones listed, and photos of three of them are available at this website.

The "Map" column contains links to (obviously enough) maps showing each of the US routes. All highways are shown in the context of their "route family" (in other words, 3-digit branch routes are shown on the same map as their 2-digit parent route).