U.S. Route 95 | |
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Route information | |
Length: | 1,574 mi (2,533 km) |
Existed: | 1926 – present |
Major junctions | |
South end: | Calle 1 to Fed. 2 at the Mexico–US border in San Luis, AZ |
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North end: | BC 95 at the Canada–US border in Eastport, ID |
Location | |
States: | Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho |
Highway system | |
U.S. Route 95 (US 95) is a north–south U.S. highway in the western United States. Unlike many other US highways, it has not seen deletion or replacement on most of its length by an encroaching Interstate highway corridor, due to its mostly rural course. Because of this, it still travels from border to border and is a primary north–south highway in both Nevada and Idaho. This is one of the only US Routes or Interstate highways to cross from Mexico to Canada.
As of 2010, the highway's southern terminus is in San Luis, Arizona, on the Mexico–US border, where Calle 1, a short spur leads to Mexican Federal Highway 2 in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora. Its northern terminus is in Boundary County, Idaho, at the Canada–US border in Eastport, Idaho, where it continues north as British Columbia Highway 95.
US 95 begins in the United States at the border with Mexico at Mexico's Federal Route 2. It then follows the Colorado River northward to San Luis and on to Yuma, where it goes through town and crosses I-8. As it leaves Yuma, US 95 is an undivided two-lane highway which passes through the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground.