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U.S. Route 71 (US 71) is a U.S. route that runs from Krotz Springs, LA to the Fort Frances–International Falls International Bridge at the Canadian border.In Arkansas, the highway runs from the Louisiana state line near Doddridge to the Missouri state line near Bella Vista.
U.S. Route 71 or U.S. Highway 71 (US 71) is a major north–south United States highway that extends for over 1500 miles (2500 km) in the central United States. This original 1926 route has remained largely unchanged by encroaching Interstate highways .
U.S. Route 71 Business (US 71B) in Northwest Arkansas is a business route of US 71 that spans 19.895 miles (32.018 km). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] US 71B splits from the main route at the southern end of the Fulbright Expressway in Fayetteville , the southernmost principal city of the Northwest Arkansas region.
The Bobby Hopper Tunnel is a highway tunnel on Interstate 49 (I-49) in Arkansas, just north of the Crawford—Washington county line. It opened in 1999 to four lanes of traffic. It opened in 1999 to four lanes of traffic.
U.S. Route 71 in conjunction with Arkansas Highway 23 served the Northwest Arkansas area for many years, but as the area grew the routes became congested. The need for a limited-access highway became apparent, and Interstate 49 was completed through the area by 1999.
Arkansas has long had a stigma of poor roads, dating from the "Arkansas Roads Scandal" playing a prominent role in state politics through the 1920s and 1930s, periodic allegations of corruption, waste, and fraud, and a long-running struggle to adequately fund the operation, maintenance and expansion of a large highway system serving a rural state.
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I-49 in Northwest Arkansas. The first portion of what would become I-49 was completed in the late 1990s and was opened to Mountainburg as AR 540. [3] On January 8, 1999, the road was fully opened to traffic and was re-designated part of an extension of I-540, with the name "John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway", in honor of a former US Representative from Arkansas. [4]