An historic US highway endpoint in Greeley CO
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Highway
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Approx. time period
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38 |
1926-1931
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1932-1937 |
The photo below is looking west on 18th Street, which is now
Business US 34. 18th St ends at the intersection in the distance (8th Avenue);
beyond that is the University of Northern Colorado campus:
me,
Feb. 2000
Today 8th Av serves as the north-south business loop, but before today's US
85 bypass was built, it was mainline US 85. So - starting in 1926, and for about
five years - this was the west end of US 38. Then, from about 1932 to 1937,
US 6 ended here. Then, when that route was changed to run through Denver and
on to California, this road became US 34. (But US 34 never ended here - when
it was extended to Greeley, it continued west: through Loveland and Estes Park
and over Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, ending in Granby
CO.)
By the time the photo above was taken, the sign directing US 34 traffic to
the right was incorrect. Business 34 does head north on 8th Av
(and then west again on 10th Street). But mainline US 34 is now routed onto
a newer bypass, which is about a mile south (left) from here. But at
least it was better than what was there by the time of my next visit: that entire
assembly had been removed, with no replacement. I did get a couple photos from
northbound 8th Av (old US 85):
me,
Jan. 2006
The destinations on that sign hearken back to a time when mainline US 34 and
US 85 traffic was routed through this intersection. The assembly in the background
is shown close-up below:
me,
Jan. 2006
This page (in its original form) created in 1998; last updated 26
February 2006.
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