 U.S. Route 95 | ||||
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| Veterans Memorial Highway | ||||
 US 95 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byNDOT | ||||
| Length | 646.71 mi[1] (1,040.78 km) 508.410 miles (818.207 km) independent of other routes[2] | |||
| Existed | January 1, 1940–present | |||
| Restrictions | No hazardous materials throughHawthorne, must useUS 95 Truck | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 95 at theCalifornia state line | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| North end |  US 95 at theOregon state line | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Nevada | |||
| Counties | Clark,Nye,Esmeralda,Mineral,Lyon,Churchill,Pershing,Humboldt | |||
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U.S. Route 95 (US 95) is a major U.S. highway traversing theU.S. state ofNevada from north to south directly throughLas Vegas and providing connections to bothCarson City (viaUS 50) andReno (viaInterstate 80). US 95 is cosigned with Interstate 80 for 95 miles (153 km) betweenWinnemucca and a junction 32 miles north ofFallon[3] before heading north intoOregon atMcDermitt. At 646.71 miles (1,040.78 km), it is the longest highway in Nevada.
Along much of its course through Nevada, US 95 has signs designating it as theVeterans Memorial Highway. A portion of the route in Las Vegas northwest of downtown is also called theOran K. Gragson Freeway, named for Las Vegas mayorOran K. Gragson who advocated for construction of that portion of freeway in the 1960s.[4]
U.S. Route 95 enters Nevada inPalm Gardens and heads north towards Railroad Pass, where it meetsInterstate 11 andUS 93.
The three routes are then co-signed in theLas Vegas Valley and east ofHenderson, I-11 is co-signed with US 93/95 for its entire route around the eastern Las Vegas Valley.
I-11 continues through aSpaghetti junction known as the Henderson Spaghetti Bowl or Hender-Bender interchange ofInterstate 215 andSR 564.[5]
The freeway then heads west intoDowntown Las Vegas, where it intersectsInterstate 15. At theSpaghetti Bowl interchange, US 93 follows I-15 northbound.
From I-15 toElkhorn Road, I-11 and US 95 haveHOV lanes that are currently enforced by bothLVMPD (aka Metro) andNSP (formerly NHP).[6][7]
I-11 and US 95 head west, then north at an interchange withSummerlin Parkway (SR 613) overRainbow Boulevard. Eventually, the freeway passes through theCentennial Bowl with theLas Vegas Beltway (CC 215) in the northwest atCentennial Hills where I-11 currently ends atKyle Canyon Road (SR 157) and Sunstone Parkway.
The freeway portion then currently ends at Corn Creek Road, northwest of the Las Vegas Valley and then it becomes a brief four-lanedivided highway.
US 95 exits Clark County and heads into easternNye County for 107 miles. The four-lane divided highway currently ends past theMercury interchange.
It then entersEsmeralda and continues for 44 miles before meetingUS 6 inTonopah, back in Nye County. US 6/95 leave Tonopah, after two miles, enters Esmeralda County again and heads west for 41 miles (66 km) untilCoaldale, where US 6 splits west towardsCalifornia and its western terminus atUS 395 inBishop, California.
US 95 then heads northwest towardsHawthorne andSchurz, whereUS 95 Alternate splits west towards US 50, providing an alternate route towards Carson City and Reno.
US 95 itself goes north towardsFallon, where it intersects US 50. US 95 meets Interstate 80 and US 95 Alternate about halfway betweenLovelock andFernley. The two routes then run concurrently for 95 miles (153 km) until reachingWinnemucca, where US 95 splits from I-80 and followsInterstate 80 Business into downtown Winnemucca.
In downtown Winnemucca, US 95 turns north in the general direction ofParadise Valley, leaving Interstate 80 Business to followSR 289 east. North of Winnemucca, US 95 meets the eastern terminus ofSR 140, which connects toLakeview (U.S. Route 395) andKlamath Falls,Oregon and thePacific Northwest. US 95 finally exits Nevada at McDermitt and heads into Oregon.[8]
When the original plan for theU.S. highway system was adopted by theAmerican Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) in 1926, US 95 was one of the routes created. At that time, however, the route only existed inIdaho from theCanada–United States border nearEastport toWeiser near theOregon state line.[9]
A proposal to extend US 95 south toWinnemucca was considered by AASHO in 1937; however, action was deferred due to incomplete sections in Oregon. AASHO reconsidered the idea at its meeting on June 28, 1939, as part of a larger plan to extend the highway south toBlythe, California. This plan was adopted, officially establishing US 95 throughout Nevada effective January 1, 1940.[9] The route was marked along several preexistingstate highways as follows:[10][11]
The Nevada portion of US 95 covered a distance of approximately 686 miles (1,104 km). The entire route was on paved roads, except for a small portion of SR 5 between the California state line and Searchlight.[11]
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When U.S. Route 95 was designated through Nevada, it avoided using a shorter alignment between Winnemucca and Fallon. The northern segment of State Route 1A had been previously established running north from Fallon to connect with US 40 southwest of Lovelock. At the time, however, this portion of SR 1A was mostly an unimproved road.[11] State Route 1A had been completely paved by 1959,[12] and the US 95 designation was moved over it by 1960. This new alignment eliminated the need to drive west to Fernley and then double back eastward, shortening the highway's length by about 26 miles (42 km).[13]
When US 95 was realigned, the former route via Fernley was redesignated asalternate route. This would be the second highway to bear this designation, as anotherU.S. Route 95 Alternate had been created between Schurz and Fernley years earlier.[13] The two separate alternate routes would continue to meet in Fernley until circa 1978, whenU.S. Route 50 Alternate replaced the section of US 95 Alternate (original US 95) heading east towards Fallon.[14]
When US 95 was extended through the Las Vegas Valley around 1940, it used the existing roadways traversed by State Route 5. Crossing the valley from the southeast, the U.S. highway traveled along Boulder Highway (nowSR 582) through Henderson and the town ofWhitney. Reaching the city limits of Las Vegas, the road changed names toFremont Street as it headed into downtown. The route followedLas Vegas Boulevard northward briefly before going west on Bonanza Road (nowSR 579). US 95 finally turned northwest on Rancho Drive (nowSR 599), which became the Tonopah Highway as it traveled northwest out of the Vegas valley.[2][15] Over the years, this routing of US 95 along city streets would slowly be replaced with newer, high-speed facilities.
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Elected in 1959, Las Vegas mayorOran K. Gragson began advocating for regional street and planning initiatives in the growing Las Vegas Valley.[16] In the early 1960s, Gragson had become instrumentally involved in planning what was then referred to as the "West Fremont Expressway".[17] By 1968, the expressway was beginning to take shape, beginning at Las Vegas Boulevard downtown, interchanging withInterstate 15 and spurring west towards Rancho Drive.[18]
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TheLas Vegas Expressway was slowly constructed over the next decade, reaching west to Rainbow Boulevard by 1978.[19] A northward extension, linking the expressway to the Tonopah Highway northwest of downtown was completed around 1980.[20] By 1982, US 95 was moved from Rancho Drive to the completed expressway alignment.[21] Also in 1982, as the result of a petition drive, the new US 95 expressway was renamed to the "Oran K. Gragson Expressway" in honor of the four-term mayor.[16] TheNevada Department of Transportation now recognizes this portion of US 95 as the "Oran K. Gragson Freeway".[22]
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The first section of the future I-515 freeway in Las Vegas opened from the east end of the 1968-era Las Vegas Expressway at Las Vegas Boulevard to Charleston Boulevard in 1984. It was extended south to Boulder Highway (at current exit 70) by 1986. US 95 was moved from Las Vegas Boulevard, Fremont Street, and Boulder Highway onto the new freeway at that time. As additional sections of freeway were completed, both US 95 and the concurrently routed US 93 were moved to the new facility. The I-515 designation was added in 1990, but not widely signed until the completion of the entire freeway to just north of Railroad Pass in 1994. The former alignment on Fremont Street and Boulder Highway is nowSR 582, though some portions of that route are now being decommissioned by the state and turned over to local entities for maintenance.
In May 2006, the (freeway-to-freeway) interchange was completed to replace the former diamond junction at Lake Mead Parkway/SR 564 (formerly known as Lake Mead Drive) and theI-215/Bruce Woodbury Beltway. The interchange at Galleria Drive (exit 64B) was opened on November 4, 2009, resulting in the renumbering of the existing junction at Sunset Road (from exit 64 to exit 64A).
On May 15, 2020, theMonte Cristo Range earthquake damaged the highway in both directions from US 6 in Coaldale to SR 360 in Mineral County.[23]
.svg) Future Interstate 11 | |
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| Location | Las Vegas –Fernley |
| Length | 395.807 mi (636.990 km) |
US 95 is part of a proposed northwestward extension ofInterstate 11 (I-11) from Las Vegas. The interstate highway would primarily follow the US 95 corridor through central and northwestern Nevada, extending toI-80 andUS 95 Alt. inFernley nearReno andSparks viaTonopah. In 2018, theNevada Department of Transportation had initiated public outreach regarding its long-range planning efforts to narrow down options for the future I-11 corridor.[24][25]
In July 2022, it was decided that I-11 would follow the I-515/US 93/US 95 corridor through Las Vegas, and then run concurrent with US 95 to the interchange withSR 157.
Note:Mileposts in Nevada reset at county lines. The start and end mileposts for each county are given in the county column.
| County | Location | mi[2] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Clark CL 0.00–132.14 | Palm Gardens | 0 | 0.0 |  US 95 south –Needles | Continuation into California | |||
| 1 | 1.6 |   SR 163 east (Laughlin Highway) –Laughlin,Davis Dam | Western terminus of SR 163 | |||||
| Searchlight | 20 | 32 |   SR 164 west (Nipton Road) / Cottonwood Cove Road –Nipton,Cottonwood Cove | Eastern terminus of SR 164 | ||||
| Boulder City | 46 | 74 |  SR 165 east (Nelson Road) –Nelson | Western terminus of SR 165 | ||||
      I-11 south /US 93 south /SR 173 north toUS 93 Bus. –Kingman,Phoenix,Boulder City | Interchange; southern end of I-11/US 93 concurrency; southern terminus of SR 173; SR 173 north was formerly part of US 95 north; I-11 exit 14 | |||||||
| Southern end of freeway | ||||||||
| Boulder City toLas Vegas | US 95 concurrent withI-11 andUS 93 (exits 14 to 37) | |||||||
| Las Vegas | US 95 concurrent with I-11 (exits 37 to 54) | |||||||
| 92.3 | 148.5 | 54 |  SR 157 west (Kyle Canyon Road) / Sunstone Parkway –Mount Charleston I-11 ends | Diverging diamond interchange; current northern terminus of I-11; eastern terminus of SR 157 | ||||
| Las Vegas Paiute Indian Reservation | 95.6 | 153.9 | 99 | Snow Mountain (Nu-Wav Kaiv Boulevard, Snow Mountain Road) | Proposed interchange upgrade as part of I-11 extension | |||
| Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument | 101.6 | 163.5 | Current northern end of freeway; planned freeway extension viaI-11 toI-80 /US 95 Alt. inFernley nearReno andSparks | |||||
| Corn Creek Road –Corn Creek | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension | |||||||
| 106.0 | 170.6 |  SR 156 west (Lee Canyon Road) –Lee Canyon,Mount Charleston | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; eastern terminus of SR 156 | |||||
| Indian Springs | 111.5 | 179.4 | Cold Creek Road –Cold Creek | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension | ||||
| Nye NY 0.00–107.22 | Mercury | 6.0 | 9.7 | Mercury (Mercury Highway) | Interchange; proposed interchange upgrade as part of I-11 extension;restricted area; servesNevada National Security Site | |||
| | 14 | 23 |  SR 160 east (Pahrump Valley Highway) –Pahrump | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; western terminus of SR 160 | ||||
| Amargosa Valley | 30 | 48 |  SR 373 south (Death Valley Junction Road) –Death Valley Junction | Northern terminus of SR 373 | ||||
| Beatty | 60 | 97 |  SR 374 south (Death Valley Road, Main Street) –Rhyolite,Death Valley | Northern terminus of SR 374; servesDeath Valley National Park | ||||
| Scotty's Junction | 95 | 153 |  SR 267 west (Scotty's Castle Road) –Scotty's Castle | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; eastern terminus of SR 267; serves Death Valley National Park | ||||
| Esmeralda ES 0.00–44.19 | Lida Junction | 4 | 6.4 |  SR 266 west (Lida Road) –Lida | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; eastern terminus of SR 266 | |||
| Goldfield | Silver Peak Road –Alkali,Silver Peak,Blair | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension | ||||||
| Nye NY 107.22–108.44 NY 1.80–0.00 (US 6) | Tonopah | 108.44 1.80 | 174.52 2.90 |  US 6 east (Grand Army of the Republic Highway, Theodore Roosevelt Highway) –Austin,Ely | Southern end of US 6 concurrency; US 95 mileposts begin using US 6 distance | |||
| Esmeralda ES 57.74–19 (US 6) ES 85.40–99.08 | Blair Junction | 25 | 40 |  SR 265 south (Silver Peak Road) –Blair,Silver Peak,Alkali | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; northern terminus of SR 265 | |||
| Coaldale | 19 85.40 | 31 137.44 | US 6 west (Grand Army of the Republic Highway, Theodore Roosevelt Highway) –Bishop | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; northern end of US 6 concurrency; US 95 mileposts end using US 6 distance | ||||
| Mineral MI 0.00–92.56 | | 7 | 11 |  SR 360 south (Mina–Basalt Cutoff Road) –Bishop | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; northern terminus of SR 360 | |||
| Luning | 25.36 | 40.81 |   SR 361 north (Gabbs Valley Road) –Gabbs | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; southern terminus of SR 361 | ||||
| Hawthorne | 49.00 | 78.86 |  US 95 Truck north (Freedom Road) | Hazardous material route around Hawthorne; southern terminus of US 95 Truck/SR 362 | ||||
| 50 | 80 |  SR 359 south (E Street, Pole Line Road) –Lee Vining,Bridgeport | Northern terminus of SR 359 | |||||
| 50 | 80 | US 95 Truck south (Freedom Road) | Hazardous material route around Hawthorne; northern terminus of US 95 Truck/SR 362 | |||||
| Schurz | 83.16 | 133.83 |  US 95 Alt. north –Yerington,Carson City,Reno | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; southern terminus of US 95 Alt. | ||||
| Lyon LY 0.00–2.82 | No major junctions | |||||||
| Churchill CH 0.00–59.02 | | 17 | 27 | Pasture Road (SR 120 east) | Proposed interchange as part of I-11 extension; western terminus of SR 120 | |||
| | 21 | 34 | Lone Tree Road (SR 718 west) | Eastern terminus of SR 718 | ||||
| | 21 | 34 | Berney Road (SR 119 east) | Western terminus of SR 119 | ||||
| | 22 | 35 | Union Lane (SR 720 east) –Naval Air Station Fallon | Western terminus of SR 720 | ||||
| Fallon | 25.07 | 40.35 |  SR 117 west (Sheckler Road) | Eastern terminus of SR 117 | ||||
| 26 | 42 |  US 50 west (East Williams Avenue, Lincoln Highway) –Carson City,Fernley,Reno | Southern end of US 50 concurrency; former US 95 north/US 95 Alt. north | |||||
| US 50 east (East Williams Avenue, Lincoln Highway) –Austin,Ely | Northern end of US 50 concurrency | |||||||
| | Old River Road (SR 726 east) | Western terminus of SR 726 | ||||||
| Trinity | 59.02 | 94.98 |   I-80 west (Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway, Purple Heart Trail) /US 95 Alt. south –Reno | Interchange; southern end of I-80 concurrency; former US 95 south; I-80 exit 83 | ||||
| Southern end of freeway | ||||||||
| Churchill toHumboldt | Trinity toWinnemucca | US 95 concurrent withI-80 (exits 83 to 176) | ||||||
| Humboldt HU 0.00–73.76 | Winnemucca | Northern end of freeway | ||||||
 I-80 east (Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway, Purple Heart Trail) –Elko | Interchange; northern end of I-80 concurrency; southern end of I-80 BL concurrency; I-80 exit 176 | |||||||
| Hanson Street (SR 787 east) | Western terminus of SR 787 | |||||||
   I-80 BL east (East Winnemucca Boulevard) /SR 289 east –Elko | Northern end of I-80 BL concurrency; western terminus of SR 289 | |||||||
 SR 795 south (Reinhart Lane) | Northern terminus of SR 795 | |||||||
| Paradise Hill |  SR 290 north (Paradise Valley Road) –Paradise Valley | Southern terminus of SR 290 | ||||||
| |  SR 140 west (Denio Road, Adel/Oregon Road) –Denio,Lakeview | Eastern terminus of SR 140 | ||||||
| Orovada |  SR 293 west (Kings River Valley Road) –Kings River Valley | Eastern terminus of SR 293 | ||||||
| McDermitt | 73.76 | 118.71 | US 95 north (ION Highway) –Boise | Continuation into Oregon | ||||
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