U.S. Route 11

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U.S. Route 11 is a north-south United States highway. The route follows largely the same route it did in the original 1926 plan.

1 Termini
2 Alternate routes
3 States traversed
4 Major Cities along the route
5 Related U.S. Routes
6 References

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Termini

As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Rouses Point, New York at the Canadian border. US 11 and U.S. Highway 2 meet, turn north a half mile to the border, and continue as Québec Provincial Highway 223. Its southern terminus is in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Pontchartrain, in eastern New Orleans, Louisiana at an intersection with U.S. Highway 90.

Until 1929, US 11 ended just south of Picayune, Mississippi at the Pearl River border with Louisiana.

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Alternate routes

As of 2004, US 11E and US 11W split in Bristol, Virginia, less than a mile north of the Tennessee state line. The routes rejoin in Knoxville, Tennessee. Together, US 11, US 11E, and US 11W serve the Tennessee-Virginia tri-city area of Bristol, Kingsport, Tennessee (served by US 11W, to the north), and Johnson City, Tennessee (served by US 11E, to the south). From there, the US 11 branches and Interstate 81 travel parallel Appalachian Mountain valleys to Knoxville.

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States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

New York (US 11 is known as Salina Street in downtown Syracuse and passes through the Onondaga Reservation just south of the city. From the reservation south to Binghamton, US 11 largely follows the course of I-81. The two highways are visible to each other much of the way, especially in winter when the trees are bare.)
Pennsylvania includes a spectacular drive (with US 15) along the Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg
Maryland (10 miles, 16 km, in the panhandle, through Hagerstown)
West Virginia (15 miles, 24 km, through Martinsburg)
Virginia (US 11 is known as Valley Pike, a scenic route known as through the Shenandoah Valley, while known as "Lee Highway" throughout most other parts of the state.)
Tennessee (US 11 is known as "Lee Highway" around Chattanooga; "Kingston Pike" in Knoxville; and "Congress Parkway" in Athens.)
Georgia (25 miles, 40 km across the state's northwest corner)
Alabama broadly parallels I-59 to Birmingham then the I-59 and I-20 to the Mississippi state line. Throughout Alabama, U.S. 11 is paired with unsigned Alabama State Route 7.
Mississippi broadly parallels the I-59 until Louisiana
Louisiana parallels I-59 and I-10 for a short distance until the state route ends.