U.S. Route 34
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Image:US34.png U.S. Highway 34 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 1,122 miles (1,806 km) from the western suburbs of Chicago to north-central Colorado. Through Rocky Mountain National Park it is known as the Trail Ridge Road where it reaches 12,183 ft (3,713 m), making it the highest paved through highway in the United States.
U.S. Highway 34 becomes a toll road for a short ways in Colorado, where it passes through Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Termini
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is Berwyn, Illinois at Illinois State Route 43. Its western terminus is Granby, Colorado at U.S. Highway 40.
Before Interstate 55 was completed in greater Chicago, US 34 coincided with U.S. Highway 66 at its eastern end, mostly along Ogden Avenue. A few years after US 66 was wholly decommissioned as a numbered route in Illinois, so was US 34 east of its current eastern terminus.
States traversed
The highway passes through the following states:
Notable cities on the route
- Naperville, Illinois
- Aurora, Illinois
- Galesburg, Illinois
- Burlington, Iowa
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Grand Island, Nebraska
- Greeley, Colorado
- Loveland, Colorado
- Estes Park, Colorado
See also
Sources and external links
- U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz)