The Iowa Highways Page

IA 9 in rural Mitchell County

THE IOWA HIGHWAYS PAGE
www.iowahighways.org

A look at the evolution of Iowa's numbered highway system

Online since January 8, 1998

I-235 in downtown Des Moines

Table of Contents

About this site
Explanation of the route listings, plus a list of the many sources of information that were used to put this site together.

Site updates
What's new or different since your last visit? Find out here!

Route listings:

US highways (decommissioned routes are in italics):
6	18	20	30	32	34	52	55	59	61	63	65
67	69	71	75	77	136	151	161	163	169	218	275

Table of active state highways
Also includes lists of the ten longest and shortest highways.

Local highway pages, showing historical highway alignments in cities:
Burlington (offsite) Cedar Rapids Clinton (offsite) Council Bluffs (offsite) Davenport/Bettendorf Des Moines Dubuque (offsite)	Fort Dodge (offsite) Iowa City Muscatine (offsite) Ottumwa (offsite) Sioux City (offsite) Waterloo/Cedar Falls (offsite)

Decommissioning Watch
List of all highways that the state turned over to local governments in 2003.

Other pages:

County Roads
Deciphers Iowa's alphanumeric county road numbering system.

Photo Gallery
Large collection of photographs of Iowa highway signs and scenes.

Scenic and Historic Routes
Page about Iowa's scenic byways and other marked "trails", such as the Great River Road and the Mormon Auto Trail.

Freeway Junctions of the Heartland
Exit lists for selected freeways in Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska.

Click on the icon, courtesy of Extreme Tracking, to see where visitors have been coming from.

Links
to other highway pages and Iowa resources.