U.S. Route 25

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U.S. Route 25

Length:

750 mi^[1] (1207 km)

Formed:

1926^[1]

South end:

US 17 in Brunswick, GA

Major
junctions:

I-20 near Augusta, GA

I-85 at Greenville, SC
I-40 at Asheville, NC

North end:

US 42/127 in Cincinnati, OH

United States Numbered Highways
U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

U.S. Route 25 is a north-south US highway in the eastern United States of America that now connects Cincinnati, Ohio at the Ohio River to Brunswick, Georgia near the Atlantic Ocean. South of Cincinnati, US 25 is intact as a designation. In Kentucky it passes through Covington, Lexington, and Richmond, entering the Appalachians. At Corbin, it splits into US 25W and US 25E , and the highway 'unsplits' in Newport, Tennessee. The more westerly US 25W passes through Knoxville, Tennessee; the more easterly US 25E passes underneath Cumberland Gap via the Cumberland Gap Tunnel.

US 25 then passes southeastward into western North Carolina, passing through Asheville; it then becomes an almost due north-south route between Asheville and its terminus in Brunswick, Georgia through Greenville, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia.

1 Former sections of US 25
2 Related routes
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Former sections of US 25

US 25 originally extended northward into Ohio and Michigan before Interstate 75 between Detroit and Cincinnati and Interstate 94 between Detroit and Port Huron, Michigan made most of US 25 superfluous north of Cincinnati. In Michigan, M-25 continues as the designation of old US 25 between Port Austin and Port Huron. Some old maps disagree on whether the east-west segment of what is now Michigan 25 between Bay City was US 25 or Michigan 25; for that discussion see M-25.

Relics of US 25 between Brownstown Township, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) and Cygnet, Ohio include US 24, M-125, and State Route 25.

US 25 in Michigan and Ohio was historically known as Dixie Highway, and the road is still so named in some places. It may also be known as "County Road 25-A" through some parts of Ohio.

[edit] Related routes

US 25 has never had any "child" routes. Interstate 75, Interstate 40, and Interstate 26 in turn lie close to either US 25 or US 25W between Covington, Kentucky and Hendersonville, North Carolina. Only because Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina are not as swift as Michigan and Ohio to decommission US routes that Interstate highways largely supplant does US 25 have much of its remaining length.

United States Highway 425 has no connection whatsoever to US 25, lying in Arkansas and Louisiana far to the west of any part of US 25, and is a major exception to the normal numbering conventions of the US highway system.

[edit] See also

U.S. Route 25E in Virginia

[edit] References

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

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