Portal:Roads/Selected article/October 2007

U.S. Route 50 is a major east-west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching just over 3000 miles (4800 km) from West Sacramento, California east to Ocean City, Maryland on the Atlantic Ocean. Until it was replaced by Interstate Highways west of Sacramento, it extended to San Francisco, near the Pacific Ocean. The route mostly remains separate from Interstates, and generally serves a corridor south of Interstates 70 and 80 and north of Interstate 64.

Signs at each end give the length as 3073 miles (4946 km), but the actual distance is slightly less, due to realignments since the former figure was measured. (more…)