Montana Secondary Highway 424

Secondary Highway 424
Secondary Highway 424
Route information
	Maintained by MDT
Length	17.108 mi (27.533 km)
Existed	1930s–present
Major junctions
Southeast end	North Meridian Road in Kalispell
	; US 93 Alt. (to be constructed); S-548;
North end	US 93 west of Whitefish
Location
Country	United States
State	Montana
Counties	Flathead
Highway system
	Montana Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Secondary;

Secondary Highway 424 (S-424), also known as Three Mile Drive and Farm To Market Road, is a 17.108-mile-long (27.533 km) secondary state highway in Flathead County, Montana connecting northwestern Kalispell to US 93 west of Whitefish.

Route description

S-424 begins at the junction of North Meridian Road and Three Mile Drive in Kalispell, just south of US 93 and just north of US 2. It follows Three Mile Drive west past the Kalispell Middle School to an interchange with the new US 93 Alternate before curving north and west as Farm to Market Road (subsuming sections of Springcreek Road and Four Mile Drive). S-424 proceeds mostly north from here, passing the West Valley Elementary School at the intersection with S-548, entering a forested area, going north on Lodgepole Road and then going east and north on Twin Bridges Road to its northern terminus at US 93 west of Whitefish, near Spencer Lake.

S-424 passes through mostly rural and forest landscape between Kalispell and Whitefish and wildlife crossings should be expected at all times as animals search for food and water.

S-424 is a paved two-lane road throughout. In the state road log, S-424 is a combined urban and secondary route, but is only currently signed outside the Kalispell city limits. Corridor C000424 comprises U-6706 (Three Mile Drive/Farm to Market Road) and S-424.^[1]

History

Farm to Market Road can be seen on the 1935 map as an all-weather gravel road.^[2]

The 1960 map was the first to use the S-424 route designator, where state highways were shown with square shields and the new numbered state roads (the secondary highways) were shown with oval shields.^[3]

Original routing

Some map products still show the original S-424 routing, which continued on Farm to Market Road to the west terminus of, and including the entirety of, Twin Bridges Road. This routing provided access to Tally Lake Road and various U.S. Forest Service sites therein. The section of Farm to Market between Tally Lake and Twin Bridges Roads, even though paved, is much narrower and has more sudden curves than is preferred for modern driving. This prompted the route shift to Lodgepole Road between Farm to Market and Twin Bridges Roads. Lodgepole Road is a much wider county road built in 1956, and improved to paved state highway standards in 2003 expressly for this purpose.^[1]

Farm to Market Road north of Twin Bridges Road

Farm to Market Road continues north, providing access to the Twin Lakes area before intersecting with US 93 north of milepost 139.^[4]

Major intersections

The entire highway is in Flathead County.

Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Kalispell	0.000	0.000	North Meridian Road	Southeastern terminus of S-424; Jct US 93 is 0.5 mi north; Jct US 2 and S-503 is 0.7 mi south
	0.241	0.388	Hawthorne Avenue
	0.295	0.475	Northern Lights Boulevard
	0.745	1.199	US 93 Alt.	Overpass completed 2014; interchange completion 2015-16; approximate milepoint
	0.995	1.601	Stillwater Road	approximate milepoint
	1.868	3.006	Three Mile Drive (west) / Springcreek Road (south)	Becomes Farm to Market Road going north
	2.139	3.442	Mountain Vista Way
	5.683	9.146	S-548 east (Old Reserve Drive)
	13.390	21.549	Lodgepole Road (north)	S-424 follows Lodgepole Road
	15.756	25.357	Twin Bridges Road (west/north)	S-424 continues north
	17.108	27.533	US 93	Northern terminus of S-424
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Unopened

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Staff (2013). "Montana Road Log" (PDF). Montana Department of Transportation. pp. 327, 510. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
^ Montana State Highway Commission (1935). "State Highway Map" (PDF). Retrieved February 14, 2015.
^ Montana State Highway Commission (1960). "State Highway Map" (PDF). Retrieved February 14, 2015.
^ Staff (2013). "Montana Road Log" (PDF). Montana Department of Transportation. p. 55. Retrieved February 8, 2015.

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[MDT-1] Staff (2013). "Montana Road Log" (PDF). Montana Department of Transportation. pp. 327, 510. Retrieved February 8, 2015.

[MDTMAP1935-2] Montana State Highway Commission (1935). "State Highway Map" (PDF). Retrieved February 14, 2015.

[MDTMAP1960-3] Montana State Highway Commission (1960). "State Highway Map" (PDF). Retrieved February 14, 2015.

[4] Staff (2013). "Montana Road Log" (PDF). Montana Department of Transportation. p. 55. Retrieved February 8, 2015.

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