U.S. Route 136 in Missouri

U.S. Highway 136 (US 136) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs for 804 miles (1,294 km) between Edison, Nebraska, and Speedway, Indiana. It is a spur route of US 36 despite never intersecting its parent. Its largest subsection is within the state of Missouri, and it begins at the Missouri River and continues east across the very northern part of the state to the Missouri-Iowa state line near Alexandria along the banks of the Des Moines River. The highway travels across the croplands of northern Missouri to the woods of the Mississippi River Valley encountering plains, forests, and wind turbines. For its entire length, US 136 is a two-lane highway and it encounters all nine county seats for the counties it passes through. Throughout Missouri, it intersects two Interstate Highways and eight other US Highways, and it runs concurrently with seven of the US Highways.