U.S. Route 83 in North Dakota

U.S. Highway 83
Route information
	Maintained by NDDOT
Existed	1926–present
Major junctions
South end	US 83 south of Hague
North end	PTH 83 north of Westhope
Highway system

U.S. Route 83 (US 83) is a major north–south highway that runs through North Dakota.

Route description

US 83 enters North Dakota at the South Dakota state line, near the town of Hague, and runs northward for approximately 68 miles (109 km), serving the small cities of Strasburg and Linton before reaching Interstate 94 (I-94). It follows I-94 west to Bismarck, where it resumes a generally northward course as a four-lane highway.

Headed toward Minot US 83 traverses mostly agricultural land, passing through the some small cities such as Wilton, Washburn and Underwood north to Max. Leaving Underwood, US 83 encounters a large strip-mining coal (lignite) operation which can not only be seen from the roadway in the vicinity of Falkirk, but a small viaduct carries coal over the highway. North of Coleharbor, US 83 briefly merges both roadways and shares land with an adjacent railroad line in order to cross a viaduct that separates Lake Sakakawea from Lake Audubon. North of the lakes, the surroundings return to cropland and grazing land, though a wind farm is located south of Minot.

US 83 passes directly through Minot, where it is known as Broadway, although the Minot Bypass to the west is an alternate route. From Minot, the northbound route passes Minot Air Force Base where it returns to a two-lane highway, and shares a roadway with eastbound North Dakota Highway 5 (ND 5) about 30 miles (48 km) north of the base for about 10 miles (16 km). The highway then diverges from ND 5 to head north to the Canadian border.^[1]

Junction list

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Emmons		0.000	0.000	US 83	South Dakota state line
		6.027	9.700	ND 11
	Linton	24.942	40.140	ND 13	Southern end of short ND 13 concurrency
	Linton	25.958	41.775	ND 13	Northern end of short ND 13 concurrency
	Hazelton	41.623	66.986	ND 34
Burleigh		65.934	106.110	I-94 / ND 14	Western end of I-94 concurrency
	Bismarck	86.983	139.986	I-94 Bus.
	Bismarck	88.998	143.228	I-94	Eastern end of I-94 concurrency
		92.463	148.805	ND 1804
		110.652	178.077	ND 36
McLean		112.712	181.392	ND 41
		121.262	195.152	ND 1804
	Washburn	128.027	206.039	ND 200A
	Underwood	140.262	225.730	ND 200	Southern end of ND 200 concurrency
		147.556	237.468	ND 200	Northern end of ND 200 concurrency
	Coleharbor	151.354	243.581	ND 48
		159.621	256.885	ND 37
	Max	171.616	276.189	ND 53
Ward		182.717	294.055	ND 23
	Minot	193.581	311.538	US 2
		200.298	322.348	US 2 Bus.
		203.842	328.052	US 83 Byp.
Renville	No major junctions
Bottineau		237.020	381.447	ND 5 / ND 256	Western end of ND 5 concurrency
		253.622	408.165	ND 5	Eastern end of ND 5 concurrency
		256.980	413.569	PTH 83	Canadian border
Concurrency terminus

References

1 2 North Dakota Department of Transportation. North Dakota Route and Mileage Map (PDF) (Map). Bismarck: North Dakota Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 30, 2018.

U.S. Route 83
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[mileage-map-1] 1 2 North Dakota Department of Transportation. North Dakota Route and Mileage Map (PDF) (Map). Bismarck: North Dakota Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 30, 2018.