Interstate 45 in Texas

Interstate 45 in Texas

 

I-45
Get started Galveston
End Dallas
Length 285 mi
Length 459 km
Route
  • 1 Galveston
  • 4 Village of Tiki Island
  • 7
  • 10 La Marque
  • 11 Vauthier Road
  • 12 Texas City
  • 13 Century Boulevard
  • 15 Mall of the Mainland Parkway
  • 16
  • 17 Holland Road
  • 19 Dickinson
  • 20 Santa Fe
  • 22 League City Parkway
  • 23 League City
  • 24 Johnson Space Center
  • 25-70: Houston
  • 25 Alvin
  • 26 Bay Area Boulevard
  • 27 El Dorado Boulevard
  • 29 Friendswood
  • 30 Ellington Field
  • 31 Scarsdale Boulevard
  • 32
  • 33 Fuqua Street
  • 34 Alameda-Genoa Road
  • 35 Clearwood Drive
  • 36 Airport Boulevard
  • 38 State Highway 3
  • 39 Park Place Boulevard
  • 40 → Houston Beltway
  • 41 Griggs Road
  • 42 South Wayside Drive
  • 43 Telephone Road
  • 44 University of Houston
  • 45 Scott Street
  • 46 → Victoria
  • 47 Downtown Houston
  • 48 → San Antonio / Beaumont
  • 49 Quitman Street
  • 50 Patton Street
  • 51 → Houston Beltway
  • 52 Cross Timbers Road
  • 53 Airline Drive
  • 54 Tidwell Road
  • 55 Parker Road
  • 56 Canino Road
  • 57 Mount Houston Road
  • 59 West Road
  • 60
  • 61 Greens Road
  • 62 Kuykendahl Road
  • 63 Airtex Drive
  • 64 Richey Road
  • 66FM 1960
  • 68 Cypresswood Drive
  • 70FM 2920
  • 72 Hardy Toll Road
  • 73 Rayford Road
  • 76 Woodlands Parkway
  • 77 Lake Woodlands Drive
  • 79 College Park Drive
  • 81FM 1488
  • 83 Crighton Road
  • 84 Frazier Street
  • 85 Gladstell Street
  • 87 Conroe
  • 88 Loop 336
  • 90FM 3083
  • 91 League Line Road
  • 94 Willis
  • 95 Willis
  • 97 Calvary Road
  • 98 Shepard Hill Road
  • 102 New Waverly
  • 103 New Waverly
  • 109 Huntsville State Park
  • 112-118: Huntsville
  • 112 Sam Houston Avenue
  • 113 → Crockett
  • 114 frontage road
  • 115 Montgomery Road
  • 116 11th Street
  • 118 Avenue Q
  • 123FM 1696
  • 132FM 2989
  • 136FM 124
  • 142 Madisonville
  • 146 SH 75
  • 152 County Line Road
  • 156 Leona
  • 164 Centerville
  • 178 Buffalo
  • 180 Buffalo
  • 189 SH 179
  • 197 Fairfield
  • 198 Fairfield
  • 206FM 833
  • 211 Streetman
  • 213 Streetman
  • 218 Richland
  • 219 SH 14
  • 221 frontage road
  • 225 Angus
  • 228 Corsicana
  • 229
  • 231 Corsicana
  • 232 Roane Road
  • 235 Corsicana
  • 237 frontage road
  • 238 frontage road
  • 239 frontage road
  • 242 Rice
  • 243 frontage road
  • 244 frontage road
  • 246 Alma
  • 247 → Waxahachie
  • 249 Ennis
  • 251 Ennis
  • 253 Ennis
  • 255 frontage road
  • 258 Palmer
  • 260 Palmer
  • 262 frontage road
  • 263 frontage road
  • 265 frontage road
  • 266 Ferris
  • 267 frontage road
  • 268 Ferris
  • 269 ​​frontage road
  • 270 Wilmer
  • 271 frontage road
  • 272 frontage road
  • 273 Hutchins
  • 274 Hutchins
  • 275 Central Expressway
  • 276 → Fort Worth / Shreveport
  • 277-286: Dallas
  • 277 Simpson Stuart Road
  • 279
  • 280 Illinois Avenue
  • 281 Overton Road
  • 282 } → Kaufman
  • 283 Lamar Street
  • 283A old
  • 284 → Fort Worth / Texarkana
  • 284B Downtown Dallas
  • 285 Downtown Dallas
  • 286 → McKinney

Interstate 45 or I -45 is an Interstate Highway in the United States, located entirely in the state of Texas. I-45 connects the coastal city of Galveston via Houston to Dallas. The southern part runs through highly urbanized area, actually from Galveston to Conroe the highway runs more than 150 kilometers through urban area. However, between Houston and Dallas, I-45 passes through a relatively sparsely populated area with no significant cities. I-45 is 459 kilometers long.

Travel directions

The Gulf Freeway.

I-45 at Richland.

I-45 at Dallas.

Galveston – Houston

I-45 begins in Galveston, a small town on Galveston Island off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. I-45 here is a continuation of SH 87, which forms the main road through Galveston. The Galveston Causeway takes 2×4 lanes across Galveston Bay to the mainland. I-45 then passes La Marque and Texas City, where a large oil refinery dominates the horizon. This area is not yet fully intertwined with the Houston metropolitan area. At La Marque, FM 1764 joins, a short feeder to I-45 from Texas City.

The first Houston suburb along I-45 is Dickinson. The highway has 2×4 lanes here. At Webster, NASA Road 1 gives direct access to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. I-45 then has 2×4 lanes with a reversible lane. Not much later, the first impressive stack node follows, with the Beltway 8. I-45 then passes through South Houston as the Gulf Freeway and passes close to William P. Hobby Airport, one of Houston’s two commercial airports. In South Houston, a complex interchange follows with Interstate 610, after which I-45 still has 2×4+1 lanes. The highway widens from the University of Houston, where the Spur 5inserts and a braiding and parallel structure follows.

According to topschoolsintheusa, I-45 then forms the western bypass of Downtown Houston and runs on 2×3 lane overpasses. Around Downtown Houston, one intersects both Interstate 69 and Interstate 10. The merger with I-10 on the north side of downtown is spectacular, with numerous carriageways and elevated overpasses for I-10 ‘s HOV lane. I-45 has 2×4 lanes north of it and a reversible lane. Then follows a stack of I-610 with I-45 running at the top level, after which I-45 runs through the northern suburbs of Houston.

In the north of the city follows a large stack interchange with Beltway 8, followed by a long route through the northern suburbs of Houston. I-45 here has 2×5 lanes and an alternate lane, with connections to FM 1960 and FM 2920. At the northern suburb Spring one crosses SH 99 and joins the parallel Hardy Toll Road. I-45 then has 2×5 lanes through the edge city The Woodlands, where there is a lot of employment. Various connections have been designed as a junction, especially the flyovers to SH 242, after which I-45 still has 2×4 lanes.

Houston – Dallas

Just north of Houston, I-45 passes through the city of Conroe, which is now a distant suburb of Houston. The passage through Conroe has 2×4 lanes and Loop 336 is crossed twice. North of Conroe, the highway narrows in stages to 2×3 lanes at Willis and 2×2 lanes at Huntsville, where SH 19 branches off. I-45 passes through densely wooded area here.

The rural route between Houston and Dallas has 2×2 lanes and does not pass through larger towns. The highway passes through flat terrain with forest thinning to the north as the East Texas forest merges into the North Texas prairies. There are several small towns on the route where major east-west connections are crossed, such as US 190 at Madisonville, US 79 at Buffalo and US 84 at Fairfield. The real prairies don’t begin until Corsicana, a small town 50 miles south of Dallas. US 287 from Southeast Texas merges here, after which I-45 has 2×3 lanes. I-45 crosses the prairies, where the highway also includes frontage roadsknows. At the town of Ennis, US 287 exits again towards Fort Worth. It then takes another 30 kilometers to reach the southern suburbs of Dallas.

Dallas

On the south side of Dallas, there is a lot of logistics activity along I-45. At Hutchins, a large stack interchange follows Interstate 20, marking the entry into Dallas. However, I-45 has no more than 2×3 lanes in Dallas. The area around I-45 is not really dense until just before the center of Dallas. Just south of Downtown Dallas, US 175 merges, then I-45 terminates at the interchange with Interstate 30, after which Interstate 345 links to US 75.

Interstate 45 in Texas