K-82 (Kansas highway)

K-82
Route information
Maintained by KDOT
Length	21.076 mi[1] (33.919 km)
Major junctions
West end	K-15 west of Wakefield
	US-77 near Bala
North end	US-24 west of Leonardville
Location
Counties	Clay, Riley
Highway system
Kansas State Highway System Interstate U.S. State Spurs ← US-81 US-83 →

K-82 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. The highway runs 21.076 miles (33.919 km) from K-15 west of Wakefield to U.S. Route 24 (US-24) west of Leonardville. K-82 is an L-shaped route in Clay and Riley counties. The route's east–west and north–south segments are separated by a concurrency with US-77. K-82's east–west segment serves Wakefield and Milford Lake, an impoundment of the Republican River.

Route description

K-82 begins at K-15 south of Clay Center and west of Wakefield in southern Clay County. The highway heads east and crosses Cane Creek on its way to the city of Wakefield, south of which lie the Auld Stone Bard and the Kansas Landscape Arboretum. K-82 enters the city on 10th Street, curves south on Elm Street, and leaves the city along 6th Street. The highway crosses Milford Lake on a bridge and causeway near the lake's north end. K-82 passes a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park area, one of several along the lake, before the highway leaves Clay County and enters the Fort Riley reservation. The highway follows the Riley–Geary county line—Geary County to the south and Riley County to the north—east 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to US-77, which the highway joins heading north. After the two highways curve east on the northern edge of the military base reservation near the unincorporated community of Bala, K-82 turns north while US-77 continues east toward Riley. K-82 crosses Timber Creek before reaching its northern terminus at US-24 west of Leonardville.^[2]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Clay	​	0.000	0.000	K-15 – Abilene, Clay Center	Western terminus
Riley–Geary county line	​	10.718	17.249	US-77 south – Junction City	West end of concurrency with US-77
Riley	​	17.095	27.512	US-77 north – Manhattan, Marysville	East end of concurrency with US-77
	​	21.076	33.919	US-24 – Clay Center, Leonardville	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

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