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[1] [2] Notable sections of state highways include the six crossings of the Cascade Range - the Columbia River Gorge , White Pass , Chinook Pass , Snoqualmie Pass , Stevens Pass , and the North Cascades Highway . [9] Of the 13 public road crossings of the Canada–US border in Washington, nine are on state highways. [10]
The Interstate Highways in Washington are segments of the national Interstate Highway System that lie within the U.S. state of Washington.The system comprises 764 miles (1,230 km) on seven routes that are owned and maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT); the design standards and numbering across the national system are managed by the Federal Highway ...
The United States Numbered Highway System was approved and established on November 11, 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) and included eleven routes traveling through Washington. [1] [3] In 1961, the state introduced a set of route markers in Olympia that were colored based on destination and direction rather ...
The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR). It was created in 1964 to replace an earlier numbering scheme and ratified by the state legislature in 1970. The system's 196 highways are almost entirely paved, with the exception of a gravel section on SR 165.
A Scenic and Recreational Highway shield on SR 109 near Hoquiam. The passage of the Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967, signed into law on April 27, 1967, established Washington's state scenic and recreational highway program. [1]
State Route 20 (SR 20), also known as the North Cascades Highway, is a state highway that traverses the U.S. state of Washington.It is the state's longest highway, traveling 436 miles (702 km) across the northern areas of Washington, from U.S. Route 101 (US 101) at Discovery Bay on the Olympic Peninsula to US 2 near the Idaho state border in Newport.
State Route 115 (SR 115) is a 2.28-mile-long (3.67 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington serving the city of Ocean Shores in Grays Harbor County.The highway begins at Point Brown Avenue in Ocean Shores and travels east across the peninsula before turning north and ending at SR 109 south of Ocean City at Oyehut-Hogan's Corner.
Primary State Highways were major state highways in the U.S. state of Washington used in the early 20th century. They were created as the first organized road numbering system in the state in stages between 1905 and 1937 and used until the 1964 state highway renumbering .