U.S. Route 270




































U.S. Route 270 marker


U.S. Route 270
Route information
Auxiliary route of US 70
Length 643 mi (1,035 km)
Existed 1930[citation needed]–present
Major junctions
West end
US-54 / US-83 in Liberal, KS
East end
I-530 / US 65 at White Hall, AR
Location
States
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas

Highway system


  • United States Numbered Highway System


  • List

  • Special

  • Divided

  • Replaced




U.S. Route 270 (US 270) is a spur of U.S. Route 70. It runs for 643 miles (1,035 km) from Liberal, Kansas at U.S. Route 54 to White Hall, Arkansas at Interstate 530 and U.S. Route 65. It passes through the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It goes through the cities of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and McAlester, Oklahoma.




Contents






  • 1 Route description


    • 1.1 Kansas


    • 1.2 Oklahoma


    • 1.3 Arkansas




  • 2 History


  • 3 Future


  • 4 Major intersections


  • 5 Special routes


    • 5.1 Hot Springs business loop


    • 5.2 Other loops and spurs




  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Route description



Kansas




US 270 begins in Liberal, Kan., and leaves the state three miles south of there.


US 270 begins in the southeast part of Liberal, Kansas, at an intersection with US 83 (running north–south through the intersection) and US 54. US 270 follows the south leg of this intersection, following US 83 south. US 270 only spends 3 miles (4.8 km) in Kansas before crossing into Oklahoma. Seward County is the only Kansas county that US-270 serves.



Oklahoma




US 270 concurs with many highways in northwestern Oklahoma.


US 270 enters Oklahoma in Beaver County, the eastern third of the Oklahoma Panhandle. From here it continues east along US 64, then south towards Beaver, the county seat, along SH-23. South of Beaver, the road joins with US 412 (OK) and SH-3, the latter of which US 270 will overlap with through most of northwest Oklahoma. After leaving the Panhandle and picking up US 183 near Fort Supply, the highways turn southwest towards Woodward. US 412 splits away in Woodward. US 270, concurrent with US 183 and SH-3, proceed southeast toward Seiling. West of Seiling, US 183 splits off to the south, but in Seiling, it is replaced by US 281. The routes continue southwest to Watonga, where US 270/281 turn south along SH-8, while SH-3 continues due east to concur with SH-33. In Geary, US 270 splits off on an independent alignment, looping through Calumet before joining with Interstate 40.


US 270 remains concurrent with I-40 from Exit 115 through Exit 181, a distance of 66 miles (106 km). US 270, attached to I-40, runs through the core of the Oklahoma City Metro area, passing through the western suburbs of El Reno and Yukon into Oklahoma City proper. The partnership runs just south of Downtown and the Bricktown entertainment district on the Crosstown Expressway. Major interchanges with I-44 and I-35 (the latter involving a concurrency with the interstate and its accompanying US Highway, US 62) are found in the city. I-40/US 270 also serve two eastern suburbs of Oklahoma City, Del City and Midwest City and form the northern boundary between Midwest City's civilian areas and Tinker Air Force Base. US-270 finally exits from I-40 on the west side of Shawnee.


US 270 serves most of the towns anchoring the area east of Oklahoma City, including Shawnee, Tecumseh, Seminole, Wewoka, and Holdenville. It continues southeast to the city of McAlester, a major southeastern Oklahoma city. It also serves many of the small towns east of McAlester, such as Krebs, Alderson, Bache, Haileyville, and Hartshorne.


After passing through Hartshorne, the roads curves to the northeast before turning onto a due east course taking it through Wilburton, Red Oak, and Wister. In Wister, it turns south, running across Wister Lake's dam, and proceeding southeast to Heavener. There, it meets US 59, which it will follow for the rest of its time in Oklahoma. The town highways head south from Heavener, passing through the Wister Wildlife Management Area before entering the Ouachita National Forest. The route serves as the northern terminus of US 259 near Page. The road then squeezes into a valley between Black Fork Mountain and Rich Mountain. In this valley, it crosses the state line into Arkansas.



Arkansas




U.S. Route 270 in Sheridan, Arkansas.


US 270 enters Arkansas with US 59, and runs east to Acorn, where it meets US 71. The route then travels 15 miles north on US 71 to Y City where it splits off and continues east. The route then meets AR 88 in Pencil Bluff and AR 27 in Mt. Ida before heading to Hot Springs. Entering the city, US 270 meets US 70 southwest of town and runs concurrent with it around Hot Springs using the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway before leaving the freeway and running along Malvern Avenue southeast of the city. US 270 intersects with I-30 just outside Malvern, running a short distance northeast on the freeway before interchanging with the George Hopkins Loop bypass and running south around the city. After meeting with US 67 east of town, the alignment then turns east-southeast meeting AR 229 in Poyen and AR 190/AR 291 in Prattsville before crossing paths with US 167 in Sheridan. The route trails east towards Pine Bluff terminating at and interchanging with I-530/US 65 in White Hall.


Directly east of this interchange, the highway used to continue along Sheridan Road before terminating at AR 365/Dollarway Road in northwest Pine Bluff. This former section of the route is now signed AR 365 Spur.



History


In Arkansas, US-270 was formerly Highway 6.[citation needed]




Future


In Arkansas, it has been proposed that part of AR-51 will become part of US-270. On I-30's current concurrency with US-270, going east, drivers can take exit 99 and make a right on US-270 East. If drivers make a left when they take exit 99, they must make a left to get on I-30 West/US-270 West because there is currently no outlet past that. That road has been proposed to be extended to AR-51. This will form the future northern terminus of AR-51. This means that drivers can make a left to get on AR-51 South and will have to make a right to get on US-270 West. Then, US-270 will meet the current US-270. Drivers can make a left to get on the future US-270 Business East and must make a right to get on US-270 West, just like AR-51 did. From east to west, the future US-270 will go through the cities of Rockport, Butterfield, and Magnet Cove.



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State County Location mi km Exit Destinations Notes
Kansas Seward Liberal 0.00 0.00
US-54 (Pancake Boulevard) / US-83 north (Country Estates Road) / 2nd Street / Bluebell Road – Garden City, Guymon OK, Meade
Western terminus; west end of US-83 overlap; road continues north as US-83 (Country Estates Rd.)
Oklahoma Beaver
US-64 west / US-83 south – Perryton, Guymon
east end of US-83 overlap; west end of US-64 overlap

US-64 east / SH-23 north – Buffalo
east end of US-64 overlap; west end of SH-23 overlap
Elmwood
US-412 west / SH-3 west / SH-23 south – Booker Tx., Guymon
east end of SH-23 overlap; west end of US-412 / SH-3 overlap
Harper Log Cabin Corner
US-283 – Laverne, Shattuck
May
SH-46 – Buffalo, Gage

Ellis

No major junctions
Woodward
US-183 north – Buffalo
west end of US-183 overlap
Woodward
SH-15 west (Oklahoma Avenue) – Shattuck

US-412 east (Oklahoma Avenue) / SH-34 north (9th Street) – Enid
east end of US-412 overlap; west end of SH-34 overlap

SH-34 south – Elk City, Vici
east end of SH-34 overlap

SH-50 north – Mooreland

Woodward–Major
county line

US-183 south – Taloga, Clinton
east end of US-183 overlap
Dewey Seiling
US-60 east / US-281 north – Waynoka, Fairview
west end of US-60 / US-281 overlap

US-60 west / SH-51 west (Shepherd Street) to US-183 – Vici
east end of US-60 overlap; west end of SH-51 overlap

SH-51 east – Canton, Southard
east end of SH-51 overlap
Blaine
SH-33 west / SH-58 north – Canton, Thomas
west end of SH-33 overlap
Watonga
SH-3 east / SH-33 east / SH-8 north – Kingfisher, Okeene
east end of SH-3 / SH-33 overlap; west end of SH-8 overlap
Geary
US-281 south / SH-8 south to I-40 – Anadarko
east end of US-281 / SH-8 overlap
Canadian
I-40 west – Amarillo
west end of I-40 overlap; US-270 west follows exit 115
see I-40
Pottawatomie Clarks Heights
I-40 east / US-177 north / SH-3E east to SH-270 – Okemah, Stillwater, Fort Smith
east end of I-40 / SH-3 overlap; west end of US-177 / SH-3W overlap; US-270 east follows exit 181
Shawnee

US-270 Bus. east (Kickapoo Spur)
interchange


US-270 Bus. west / SH-18 north (Farrall Avenue)
interchange
Tecumseh
Tecumseh (Broadway)
interchange

US-177 south / SH-3W east / SH-9 west – Sulphur, Ada, Norman
interchange; east end of US-177 / SH-3W overlap; west end of SH-9 overlap

SH-9A south – Harjo, Maud
west end of SH-9A overlap
Earlsboro
SH-9A north – Earlsboro
east end of SH-9A overlap
Seminole Seminole
SH-3E west / SH-9 east – Eufaula, Shawnee
east end of SH-9 overlap; west end of SH-3E overlap

US-377 / SH-3E east / SH-99 (North Milt Phillips)
east end of SH-3E overlap

SH-270A north (North Harvey Road) to SH-9


US-270 Bus. east – Wewoka

SH-59
interchange
Wewoka

US-270 Bus. west / SH-56 – Wewoka, Ada
Hughes Holdenville

US-270 Bus. east / SH-48 to SH-9 – Holdenville


US-270 Bus. west – Holdenville
Horntown
US-75 north – Lamar, Tulsa
west end of US-75 overlap

US-75 south / SH-1 west – Coalgate, Calvin, Ada
interchange; east end of US-75 overlap; west end of SH-1 overlap

SH-31A south – Stuart
Pittsburg
Indian Nation Turnpike to US-69 – Henryetta, Tulsa, Paris
Indian Nation Turnpike exit 70
McAlester
SH-31 west (North West Street)
west end of SH-31 overlap


US-69 Bus. (Main Street)

US-69 – Muskogee, Eufaula, Atoka, Durant
interchange
Krebs
SH-31 east – Krebs
interchange; east end of SH-31 overlap
Haileyville
SH-63 west – Kiowa
west end of SH-63 overlap

SH-1 east / SH-63 east – Talihina
east end of SH-1 / SH-63 overlap
Latimer Wilburton
SH-2 south – Clayton, Talihina
west end of SH-2 overlap

SH-2 north – Robbers Cave, Kinta
east end of SH-2 overlap
Red Oak
SH-82 south (Southeast 2nd Street) – Talihina
west end of SH-82 overlap

SH-82 north – Lequire, Stigler
east end of SH-82 overlap
Le Flore Fanshawe
US-271 south – Talimena Drive, Talihina
west end of US-271 overlap
Wister
US-271 north – Poteau
east end of US-271 overlap
Heavener
US-59 north – Poteau
west end of US-59 overlap

SH-128 east – Waldron

US-259 south – Broken Bow
Arkansas Polk Rich Mountain
AR 272 to AR 88 – Talimena Scenic Drive, Queen Wilhelmina State Park
Acorn
US 59 south / US 71 south – Mena, Texarkana
east end of US 59 overlap; west end of US 71 overlap
Scott "Y" City
US 71 north
east end of US 71 overlap

I-49
proposed
Montgomery Pencil Bluff
AR 88 east – Sims
west end of AR 88 overlap

AR 88 west – Oden, Pine Ridge, Mena, Queen Wilhelmina State Park
east end of AR 88 overlap

AR 298 north – Sims

AR 27 north / AR 379 (Southfork Road) – Story
west end of AR 27 overlap
Mount Ida
AR 27 south – Glenwood
east end of AR 27 overlap

AR 949-2 (Ouachita Shores Parkway) – Denby Point Recreation Area

AR 949-3 (Shangri-La Drive) – Tompkins Bend Recreation Area
Joplin
AR 949-4 (Mount Harbor Road) – Joplin Recreation Area
Garland
AR 227 south (Sunshine Road) – Sunshine

AR 926 (Brady Mountain Road) – Brady Mountain Recreation Area, Brady Point Access Lake Ouachita
Piney
AR 227 north – Mountain Pine, Mid-America Science Museum, Mid-America Park, National Park Community College, Lake Ouachita State Park
Hot Springs 1
US 270B east – Hot Springs
interchange; west end of freeway
2
US 70 west / US 70B east (Airport Road) – Glenwood
west end of US 70 overlap
3 Mc Leod Street
4
AR 88 (Higdon Ferry Road)
5
AR 7 (Central Avenue)
signed as exits 5A (south) and 5B (north)
7
AR 128 (Carpenter Dam Road)

US 70 east / US 270B west (Malvern Avenue) – Little Rock
interchange; east end of freeway; east end of US 70 overlap; US 270 east follows exit 9

AR 171 north (Lonsdale Road)
Hot Spring Magnet Cove
AR 51 south – Butterfield
Rockport
AR 51 north – Butterfield
Malvern
I-30 west / US 270B east – Malvern, Texarkana, Dallas
west end of I-30 overlap; US 270 west follows exit 98B
Rockport
I-30 east – Benton, Little Rock
east end of I-30 overlap; US 270 east follows exit 99

US 67 / US 270B west – Glen Rose, Perla, Malvern
Grant Poyen
AR 229 – Haskell, Leola
Prattsville
AR 291 north
west end of AR 291 overlap

AR 291 south – Jenkins Ferry State Park
east end of AR 291 overlap

AR 190 east
Sheridan
US 167 – Little Rock, El Dorado

AR 46 west (Rose Street) – Jenkins Ferry State Park, Grant County Museum

US 167B (Rock Street) to I-530 – Fordyce

AR 46 east
Jefferson
AR 104 east – Samples
White Hall
I-530 (US 65) / AR 365S east (Sheridan Road east) to US 65B – White Hall, Little Rock, Pine Bluff
Eastern terminus; I-530 exit 34; road continues as AR 365S (Sheridan Rd.)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi


  •       Concurrency terminus


  •       Route transition


  •       Unopened




Special routes



Hot Springs business loop













U.S. Highway 270B

Location Hot Springs, Ark.
Length 9.4 mi (15.1 km)

U.S. Highway 270B is a 9.4-mile-long (15.1 km) business route in Garland County, Arkansas. It runs through downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas.



Other loops and spurs








  • Seminole, Oklahoma; Short highway connecting U.S. 270 to OK-9. This highway is disputed as a state or U.S. highway, as both signs are posted.


  • Magnet Cove, Arkansas (decommissioned)

  • Malvern, Arkansas



References





External links


  • Endpoints of U.S. Highway 270


















Browse numbered routes
K-269
KS
K-271
SH-266
OK
SH-270
AR 269
AR
US 271








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