United States Highway 52 is an unusual United States highway. While one might expect the route to be east-west as most even-numbered US Highways are, US 52 takes a northwest-southeast route.
Because of its unusual nature US 52 is signed east and west on some sections and north and south on others.
Termini
The highway's northwestern terminus is at Portal, North Dakota on the Canadian border, where it continues as Saskatchewan Highway 39. The southeastern terminus of US 52 is in Charleston, South Carolina, somewhere near the intersection of Interstate 26 and U.S. Highway 17.
States traversed
The highway passes through the following states:
Major cities
Major cities along the route include:
- Minot, North Dakota
- Fargo, North Dakota
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Rochester, Minnesota
- Dubuque, Iowa
- Joliet, Illinois
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Charleston, South Carolina
Intersections
US 52 Intersects with the following Interstate Highways:
- Interstate 94 between Jamestown, North Dakota and St. Paul, Minnesota (shared route)
- Interstate 29 in Fargo, North Dakota (with I-94)
- Interstate 35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota (with I-94)
- Interstate 35E in St. Paul, Minnesota (with I-94)
- Interstate 90 in Rochester, Minnesota
- Interstate 39 near Mendota, Illinois
- Interstates 55 and 80 near Joliet, Illinois
- Interstate 57 in Kankakee, Illinois
- Interstate 65 between Lebanon, Indiana and Indianapolis, Indiana (shared route)
- Interstate 70 in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Interstates 71, 74, and 75 in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Interstate 64 near Kenova, West Virginia
- Interstate 77 near Bluefield, West Virginia
- Interstate 81 near Wytheville, Virginia
- Interstate 77 in Fancy Gap, Virginia
- Interstate 40 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Interstate 85 between Lexington, North Carolina and Salisbury, North Carolina (shared route)
- Interstate 95 near Florence, South Carolina
Notes
- Historically, U.S. 52 was routed along University Avenue between Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. In the 1980s and 1990s, the highway was gradually shifted onto its present route along Interstate 94, although for a few years up until about 1995, there was effectively a gap in the roadway as the precise route wasn't defined. Since then, it has been routed along the interstate between the Twin Cities.
Related U.S. routes
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