Texas State Highway Loop 375

State Highway Loop 375
State Highway Loop 375
Route information
	Maintained by TxDOT
Length	49.21 mi (79.20 km)
Existed	1963–present
Major junctions
CCW end	I-10 near Canutillo
	I-10; US 54; US 62 / US 180; I-110
CW end	US 62 / US 85 at El Paso
Location
Country	United States
State	Texas
Counties	El Paso
Highway system
	Highways in Texas; Interstate; US; State; Toll; Loops; Spurs; FM/RM; Park; Rec;

Loop 375 partially encircles the city of El Paso, Texas. Locally, it is known as Woodrow Bean Transmountain Drive in the Northern section, Purple Heart Memorial Freeway in the Northeastern section, the César Chávez Border Highway in the southern section, and Joe Battle Boulevard in the eastern section.

The Texas Department of Transportation has announced plans to add toll lanes to the Border Highway portion of Loop 375 between Downtown El Paso and the Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge. TxDOT and the El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization have offered several plans to build the Western leg of the loop from Downtown to Canutillo, Texas: Though not finalized, preliminary plans have included upgrading US 85/Paisano Drive to freeway status from Downtown to Sunland Park Drive allow Loop 375 to run concurrently with Interstate 10 between Sunland Park Drive and Woodrow Bean Transmountain Road at Canutillo. In 2012, construction commenced of the freeway upgrade from Dyer Street east to I-10. This expansion has proved controversial, as the western leg of Transmountain Road passes through the protected Franklin Mountains State Park.^[2]

Clockwise, Loop 375 ends in downtown El Paso at US 62-85 Paisano Drive.
Counterclockwise, Loop 375 ends near Canutillo at Interstate 10 and Spur 16.

Route description

Transmountain Road has many roadcuts which expose outcrops of Precambrian rocks, which are some of the oldest in Texas.^[3] Units exposed include:

Red Bluff Granite
Castner Marble
Mundy Breccia
Lanoria Formation
Thunderbird Group (large roadcut at Smuggler's Pass)

Gallery

Snow in Franklin Mountains in El Paso causes closure of Woodrow Bean Transmountain Drive
The largest road cut on Transmountain Road, at the 5280-foot crest of Smuggler's Pass

Exit list

The entire route is in El Paso County.

Location	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Canutillo		SH 20 (Doniphan Drive)
El Paso		Spur 16
		I-10 / US 85 / US 180 (Desert Boulevard)	I-10 exit 6
		Northwestern Drive	interchange; west (counterclockwise) end of freeway; no direct westbound exit
		Resler Drive
	12	Paseo Del Norte Drive	interchange; east (clockwise) end of freeway
		Franklin Mountains State Park Tom Mays Unit
	21	US 54	interchange; west (counterclockwise) end of freeway; US 54 exit 29
	22	Bus. US 54 (Dyer Street) / FM 2529 (McCombs Street)
		Bomarc Street / Railroad Drive
Fort Bliss		Sergeant Major Boulevard(construction vehicles only)
	30	Spur 601 west (Liberty Expressway) – Airport
	32	Iron Medics Drive
El Paso	35	US 62 / US 180 (Montana Avenue)
	38	Edgemere Boulevard
	39	Pebble Hills Boulevard
	40	FM 659 (Zaragoza Road)
	41	Vista Del Sol Drive
	42A	Pellicano Drive / Rojas Drive	signed as exit 42 southbound
	42B	Bob Hope Drive	no direct southbound exit (signed at exit 42)
	44	I-10	no direct exits to I-10 east (signed southbound at exit 42 and northbound at exit 45); exits from frontage road signed as 44B (I-10 west) and 44C (I-10 east); I-10 exit 34
	45	FM 76 (North Loop Road)
	47	SH 20 (Alameda Avenue) / FM 258 (Socorro Road)
	48	Zaragoza Road	to Zaragoza International Bridge
		SH 375 Toll west	westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	49	Padres Drive
		Plant Road	eastbound access only
		SH 375 Toll east	eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	51	Yarbrough Drive
		SH 375 Toll west	westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	53	Midway Drive
		SH 375 Toll east	eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	56	Fonseca Drive
		SH 375 Toll east	eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	58	US 54 east to I-10 / US 62 (Paisano Drive)	no access from Loop 375 east to I-10 east or US 62
		Park Street	westbound access only; west (clockwise) end of freeway
		US 85 (Paisano Drive)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Incomplete access