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Purple Heart Trail can refer to: Interstate 5 in California, Oregon and Washington; Interstate 10 in Alabama and Arizona; Interstate 15 in Montana Interstate 115 in ...
The Interstate is also referred to as the Purple Heart Trail to honor those wounded in combat who have received the Purple Heart. [2] It enters Arizona from the west at a crossing of the Colorado River southwest of Kingman .
The 1982 Official Nevada Highway Map was the first to note I-80 as a contiguous freeway across the state. All of the business loops for I-80 in Nevada use the historical route of US 40. I-80 is also known in Nevada as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway after the former president of the same name and the Purple Heart Trail after such military ...
I-10 through Arizona is designated a "Purple Heart Trail", after the Purple Heart, the award received by American soldiers wounded in combat. [2] The western terminus is located at the California border at the Colorado River in La Paz County where I-10 continues westward into California towards Los Angeles.
[9] [10] It was designated as the Purple Heart Trail in 2013 by the Washington State Transportation Commission to honor wounded military veterans. [11] The freeway runs through the most densely populated region of Washington state, with 4.6 million people living in the nine counties on the corridor, approximately 70 percent of the state's ...
The state's Interstate highways, totaling 1,198 miles (1,928 km), were built between 1956 and 1988 at a cost of $1.22 billion. 95 percent of the system serves rural areas, the highest proportion of any state under Interstate program. [1] The entire Interstate system in Montana was designated as the Purple Heart Trail in 2003. [2]
On May 24, 2012, the South Dakota Transportation Commission declared the entire length of I-90 as part of the National Purple Heart Trail, naming it the Purple Heart Memorial Highway, named after the military decoration of the same name. [10]
Purple Heart Trail marker on Interstate 35. The Purple Heart Trail system, established by the MOPH in 1992, is purposed to "create a symbolic and honorary system of roads, highways, bridges, and other monuments that give tribute to the men and women who have been awarded the Purple Heart medal."