End of historic US highway 420
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Approx. time
period
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East Terminus
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West Terminus
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1926-1933
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Deaver, WY
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Cody, WY
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(about 104 k)
Note: since I don't have access to a comprehensive collection of historical
road atlases, much of the info below is based on the research of Robert Droz;
click here to view his
site. Photo credits: Tom
Grier
US 420 was a short connector route between US 20 at Cody and US 310 at Deaver.
Most of it was soon swallowed up by an extension of US 14 (now Alt. US 14),
but the 11-mile segment between Deaver and Garland was redesignated as Wyoming
state highway 114. So the junction where WY 114 ends at US 310/WY 789 is the
modern functional equivalent of the historic end of US 420...
Grier, Aug.
2006
...but I suspect US 420 didn't skirt the west side of Deaver (as WY 114 does
today). Instead, it probably came into town on 1st Street, then turned north
on Central Avenue, crossed the railroad, and ended at US 310. In the photo above,
that junction is about a tenth-mile to the right.
The west end of US 420 was at its junction with US 20 in Cody
WY (you can view photos from there on this
page). In about 1933, most of US 420 was retired by a westward extension
of US 116... and then the next year, US 116 itself was eliminated by a westward
extension of US 14.
Page created 25 February 2005; last updated 23 August 2006.
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