U.S. Route 177
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Image:US 177.svg U.S. Highway 177 is a spur of U.S. Highway 77. It currently runs for 233 miles (375 km) from South Haven, Kansas at U.S. Highway 81 to Madill, Oklahoma at U.S. Highway 377. It passes through the states of Kansas and Oklahoma.
Originally, the highway functioned as a shortcut for Wichita, Kansas to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma traffic traveling between U.S. Highway 81 at South Haven, KS and U.S. Highway 77 at Three Sands Jct, Oklahoma (where U.S. Highway 77 and Oklahoma State Highway 156 intersect outside Marland, Oklahoma today).
During the 1960's, the highway was extended south to Madill, Oklahoma replacing the entire length of Oklahoma State Highway 40 from Ponca City, Oklahoma to then U.S. Highway 66 (near Wellston, Oklahoma) and the portion of Oklahoma State Highway 18 between Shawnee, Oklahoma and Madill, Oklahoma (the segment between U.S. Highway 66 and Shawnee was constructed at this time). Vestiages of the these highways remain in spur routes Oklahoma State Highway 40A, located entirely in Carney, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Highway 18A, located south of Sulphur, Oklahoma.
During this extension, the alignments of U.S. Highway 77 and U.S. Highway 177 was altered in North Central Oklahoma as follows:
U.S. Highway 77 was relocated to run north from Three Sands Jct, Oklahoma to Tonkawa, Oklahoma on the former route of U.S. Highway 177, then east on U.S. Highway 60 to Ponca City, Oklahoma. This also involved the a new U.S. Highway 60 alignment between Tonkawa, Oklahoma and Ponca City, Oklahoma, where U.S. Highway 60, U.S. Highway 77, and U.S. Highway 177 are all duplexed on the same highway (which results in northbound U.S. Highway 77, eastbound U.S. Highway 60, and southbound U.S. Highway 177 traffic running in the same compass direction - east)
Principal cities and highway intersections
- Ponca City, Oklahoma - U.S. Highway 60
- Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Shawnee, Oklahoma - Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 62, U.S. Highway 270