U.S. Route 190

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U.S. Route 190
Length:	875[1] mi (1,408 km)
Formed:	1926[1]
West end:	I-10 / FM 305 in Pecos County, TX
East end:	US 90 at Slidell, LA
United States Numbered Highways Spur of US 90 List – Bannered – Divided – Replaced

Major cities
Slidell, Louisiana Mandeville, Louisiana Covington, Louisiana Robert, Louisiana Hammond, Louisiana Denham Springs, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana Opelousas, Louisiana DeRidder, Louisiana Jasper, Texas Huntsville, Texas Bryan, Texas Temple, Texas Lampasas, Texas Killeen, Texas Brady, Texas

U.S. Route 190, also known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway,^[2] is an east-west United States highway in Louisiana and Texas. It evolved from the shortest of intrastate routes in 1926 to a length comparable to a main Interstate Highway route, leading from the piney forests of Louisiana to the West Texas desert.

Contents 1 Route description 2 History 3 Other designations for U.S. 190 4 Related routes 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Route description

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The highway's eastern terminus is in the bayous near Slidell, Louisiana, at an intersection with U.S. Route 90. This junction was once known as the "White Kitchen" after a restaurant that was once located there. ^{[3] [4]} Its western terminus is in the middle of Pecos County, Texas, at an intersection with Interstate 10, 20 mi (32 km) from the tiny town of Iraan.

US 190 crosses the Sabine River and enters the western portion of Louisiana in swampy bayou terrain near Merryville, Louisiana. From Merryville the highway heads east to DeRidder, where it forms a multiplex with US 171. US 190 runs concurrently with US 171 to Ragley, where US 190 parts with US 171. From Ragley, the two-lane highway heads nearly due east almost parallel to Interstate 10 until Opelousas. US 190 crosses the northern reach of the Atchafalaya Basin near the Morganza Spillway en route to Baton Rouge. From Baton Rouge, US 190 passes, in places divided, through Denham Springs, Albany, Hammond, Robert, Goodbee, Covington, Mandeville, before reaching the eastern terminus at Slidell (US 11). The stretch between Interstate 12 south of Covington and the intersection with LA 22 at Mandeville is multilane divided with controlled access.

[edit] History

In the original 1926 plan, US 190 served the purpose of modern-day Interstate 12, as the road around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.

In 1935, the route was extended across the Mississippi River, taking over a section of U.S. Route 71. It then ended in the West Texas town of Brady, Texas at an intersection with U.S. Route 87.

U.S. 190 was assigned an additional 150 miles (241 km) across the sparsely-populated area south of San Angelo, Texas in 1979.

The current U.S. 190 near Krotz Springs, Louisiana, is a new highway. The road was built as an elevated bypass around the road called Old 190. The other bypass is the old bridge that once crossed the Morganza Spillway. It is bypassed by a single four-lane highway.

The route is now used as an alternate route for Interstate 10, across the Atchafalaya Expressway. Traffic can be diverted along Louisiana Highway 975 to Krotz Springs, and Louisiana Highway 76 to US 190/LA 1.

[edit] Other designations for U.S. 190

• Acadiana Trail / Evangeline Freeway — U.S. 190 in Louisiana
• Central Texas Expressway — U.S. 190 in Texas

[edit] Related routes

• U.S. Route 90
• U.S. Route 290

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Endpoints of US highways

Browse numbered routes
< SH 188	TX		SH 191 >