Colorado State Highway 52

State Highway 52
	Map of northern Colorado with SH 52 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by CDOT
Length	111.01 mi[1] (178.65 km)
Major junctions
West end	SH 119 near Niwot
	US 287 in rural Boulder County; I-25 near Dacono; US 85 in Fort Lupton; I-76 / US 6 in Hudson; US 34 in Wiggins;
East end	SH 14 in Raymer
Location
Counties	Boulder, Weld, Morgan
Highway system

Snowcapped peaks of the Continental divide as seen from SH 52

State Highway 52 (SH 52) is a 111 mi (178.6 km)^a[›] long state highway in northeastern Colorado.

Route description

SH 52 begins near Niwot, running east from its western terminus past US 287 to a diamond interchange with I-25, near the towns of Dacono, Frederick, and Firestone. The highway continues east through interchanges with US 85 in Fort Lupton and I-76 in Hudson. Farther east, the route bends north about 12 miles (19 km) south of Wiggins where it begins its concurrency with I-76, US 6, and US 34 eastward to Fort Morgan where it again turns north and traverses to Raymer, where it ends at SH 14.

Junction list

County	Location	mi^[2]	km	Destinations	Notes
Boulder		0	0.0	SH 119 – Longmont, Boulder	Western terminus
Boulder		4.5	7.2	US 287 – Fort Collins, Denver
Weld		11	18	I-25 / US 87 – Fort Collins, Denver	Interchange
	Fort Lupton	20	32	US 85 – Greeley, Brighton	Interchange
	Hudson	29	47	I-76 / US 6 – Denver, Fort Morgan	Interchange
		41.5	66.8	SH 79 south – Bennett
Morgan		72.5	116.7	I-76 / US 34 / US 6 east / SH 39 north – Fort Morgan	West end of I-76/US 34/US 6 overlap
		82	132	I-76 / US 6 east – Sterling	East end of I-76/US 6 overlap; West end of I-76 Bus. overlap; Interchange
	Fort Morgan	86	138	US 34 east (Platte Avenue) – Akron	East end of US 34/I-76 Bus. overlap
		86.5	139.2	SH 144 west (Riverview Avenue) – Log Lane Village
		87	140	I-76 / US 6 – Denver, Sterling	Interchange
Weld	Raymer	111	179	SH 14 – Ault, Sterling	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

↑ "Segment list for SH 52". Retrieved 2007-05-12.
↑ Colorado Department of Transportation, Highway Data Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine., accessed December 2007: note that not every interval between mileposts is exactly a mile, explaining why more junctions than expected are at the exact milepost

External links

Colorado Highways: Routes 1 to 100

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[dot-1] "Segment list for SH 52". Retrieved 2007-05-12.

[CDOT-2] Colorado Department of Transportation, Highway Data Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine., accessed December 2007: note that not every interval between mileposts is exactly a mile, explaining why more junctions than expected are at the exact milepost

a[›]