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Interstate 76


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Western Interstate 76

Total length: 187 miles (301 km)
Western terminus: Wheat Ridge, CO, at JCT I-70
Eastern terminus: near Big Springs, NE, at JCT I-80

States traversed & length in each:

  • Colorado — 184 miles (296 km)
  • Nebraska — 3 miles (5 km)

Major cities along route:

  • Denver, CO

Junctions with non-related Interstates:

Related loops and spurs:

    NONE

Length I’ve traveled: Entire length

Time zones:
Mountain — Entire length

Counties traversed:
Colorado — Jefferson, Denver, (re-enters Jefferson), Adams, Weld, Morgan, Washington, Logan, Sedgwick

Nebraska — Deuel

A quick hypertext drive: The western Interstate 76 connects Denver with midwestern and eastern cities, in conjunction with Interstate 80. It splits from Interstate 70 in Denver’s western suburbs, and immediately heads northeast to bypass the city, just barely managing to cut through its northwestern corner. Paralleling Clear Creek and then the South Platte River, the western I-76 runs through some of the least dense industrial land in metro Denver, elevated above it for a short stretch. After a sharp curve at the U.S. Route 85 split northeast of the city, I-76 exits into the vast nothingness of Colorado’s eastern plains.

The western I-76 may very well be the only Interstate that carries only four lanes, and never any more, for its entire length. It is at best mildly rolling, with a very slight, almost unnoticeable downward elevation trend in the eastward direction. After a few hours’ worth of perhaps the most boring drive the Interstate system has to offer, through miles and miles and miles of treeless plains, I-76 enters Nebraska for a run of just under three miles.

Despite its extremely short length, two of the more interesting features of the western I-76 are found here in Nebraska. Perhaps as a “screw you” gesture to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), who left Nebraska as the only lower-48 state that lacks a two-digit north-south Interstate, the Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) signs its three miles of I-76 with NORTH and SOUTH directional banners in defiance of the numbering rule which states that even-numbered two-digit Interstates are to run east-west. Additionally, the I-80 interchange — I-76’s only interchange in the Cornhusker State — is numbered using I-80’s exit number for its I-76 interchange. (That is, while I-80 is only three miles into Nebraska on I-76, it is numbered as Exit 102 from I-76, mirroring the fact that the I-76 interchange is Exit 102 off of I-80.)


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Interstate 76


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Eastern Interstate 76

Total length: 438 miles (705 km)
Western terminus: Seville, OH, at JCT I-71
Eastern terminus: Bellmawr, NJ, at JCT I-295/NJ 42

States traversed & length in each:

  • Ohio — 83 miles (134 km)
  • Pennsylvania — 352 miles (566 km)
  • New Jersey — 3 miles (5 km)

Major cities along route:

  • Akron, OH
  • Harrisburg, PA
  • Philadelphia, PA

Junctions with non-related Interstates:

  • Interstate 71: Western terminus in Seville, OH
  • Interstate 277: Exit 18 in Akron, OH
  • Interstate 77: Multiplex from Exit 20 to Exit 23 in Akron, OH
  • Interstate 80: Exit 60 in North Jackson, OH
  • Interstate 680: Exit 234 in North Lima, OH (WESTBOUND ONLY)
  • Interstate 79: Exit 28 in Cranberry Twp., PA
  • Interstate 70: Multiplex from Exit 75 (New Stanton, PA) to Exit 161 (Breezewood, PA)
  • Interstate 99: Exit 146 in Bedford, PA (indirectly via Business U.S. 220)
  • Interstate 81: Exit 226 in Middlesex, PA (indirectly via U.S. 11)
  • Interstate 83: Exit 242 in New Cumberland, PA
  • Interstate 283: Exit 247 in Highspire, PA
  • Interstate 95: Exit 351 in Philadelphia, PA
  • Interstate 295: Eastern terminus in Bellmawr, NJ

Related loops and spurs:

  • Interstate 376 — 15 miles long; spur from I-76 in Monroeville, PA, to downtown Pittsburgh at the eastern foot of the Fort Pitt Bridge; numbered in reverse (zero point in downtown Pittsburgh, highest numbering at I-76); officially named the Penn-Lincoln Parkway, but nicknamed “Parkway East” by locals; I-76 Exit 57
  • Interstate 176 — 12 miles long; spur from I-76 at Morgantown, PA, to U.S. Route 422 near Reading, PA; I-76 Exit 298
  • Interstate 276 — 33 miles long; spur from I-76 at Valley Forge, PA, to the PA/NJ state line on the Delaware River Bridge connecting the PA and NJ Turnpikes; road continues as Interstate 95 into New Jersey, connecting to NJ Turnpike Exit 6; will be shortened in the future when an interchange with Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania is completed; carries the easternmost 33 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; I-76 Exit 326
  • Interstate 476 — 132 miles long; spur that “spears” I-76 (exists on both sides of I-76); longest three-digit Interstate in the system; southern terminus at Interstate 95 in Woodlyn, PA, northern terminus at U.S. Route 6 in Clarks Summit, PA; southernmost 20 miles nicknamed the “Blue Route”; northern 112 miles are the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension and are tolled; crosses I-76 Exit 331 at I-476 Exit 16
  • Interstate 676 — 7 miles long; 180° loop, north and east of I-76, passing through Center City Philadelphia, PA, across the Ben Franklin Bridge, and through Camden, NJ; named the Vine Street Expressway from I-76 to I-95 in Philadelphia; connects to Ben Franklin Bridge through ramps with a traffic signal in each direction; no exit numbering in Pennsylvania, reverse exit numbering in New Jersey; termini at I-76 PA Exit 344 and NJ Exit 2

Length I’ve traveled: Entire length

Time zones:
Eastern — Entire length

Counties traversed:
Ohio — Medina, Summit, Portage, Mahoning

Pennsylvania — Lawrence, Beaver, Butler, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Franklin, Cumberland, York, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia

New Jersey — Camden

A quick hypertext drive: Coming soon.


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