U.S. Route 59

U.S. Route 59
US 59 highlighted in red
Route information
Length1,911 mi (3,075 km)
Existed1934–present
Major junctions
South end I-69W / Fed. 85D at Mexican border in Laredo, TX
Major intersections
North end PTH 59 at Canadian border near Lancaster, MN
Location
CountryUnited States
StatesTexas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota
Highway system
US 58 US 60

U.S. Route 59 (US 59) is a north–south U.S. highway (though it was signed east–west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the U.S. Highway System, US 59 is now a border-to-border route, part of the NAFTA Corridor Highway System. It parallels US 75 for nearly its entire route, never much more than 100 miles (160 km) away, until it veers southwest in Houston, Texas. Its number is out of place since US 59 is either concurrent with or entirely west of US 71. US 59 also goes into St Joseph seeing I-229 and I-29. The highway's northern terminus is nine miles (14 km) north of Lancaster, Minnesota, at the Lancaster–Tolstoi Border Crossing on the Canadian border, where it continues as Manitoba Highway 59. Its southern terminus is at the Mexican border in Laredo, Texas, where it continues as Mexican Federal Highway 85D.