U.S. Highway 84
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U.S. Highway 84 is an east-west United States highway. It started as a short Georgia-Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado.
The section from Brunswick, Georgia to El Paso, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as the El Camino East/West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present Texas/Mexico border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called El Camino Real. The designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico.
The western endpoint of U.S. 84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C.W. McCall in the 1975 song, Wolf Creek Pass.
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Termini
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia at an intersection with I-95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado at an intersection with U.S. Highway 160.
Historic termini
- The original 1926 route of U.S. 84 skirted the southern border of Georgia, from Brunswick to the north edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, then west to Dothan, Alabama just across the Alabama line.
- In 1934, U.S. 84 was extended to Grove Hill, Alabama, then south on US 43 to Wagarville, Alabama, west to State Line, Mississippi, north on US 45 to Waynesboro, Mississippi, and then across Mississippi and Louisiana to Farwell, Texas. State Line was bypassed in the 1960s by a direct connection between Grove Hill and Waynesboro. A few sources report that the part between Natchez, Mississippi and Wagarville was planned as US 86 a year before.
- The east ends of U.S. 84 and U.S. Highway 82 were swapped in 1989 after the roads around Waycross, Georgia were reconfigured.
States traversed
The highway passes through the following states:
Related U.S. routes
Sources and external links
- El Camino East/West Commission website (http://elcaminocorridor.org/)
- Alabama's Joint Resolution about the El Camino East/West Corridor (http://www.legislature.state.al.us/SearchableInstruments/2004RS/Resolutions/HJR146.htm)
- Endpoints of U.S. 84 (http://www.geocities.com/usend8089/End084/end084.htm)
- Endpoints of U.S. 86 (http://www.geocities.com/mapguy_annex/HwyEnds/End086/end086.htm)