End of historic US highway 420 |
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AASHO's 1927 route log misspelled "Deaver" as "Denver":
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US 420 was a short connector route between US 20 at Cody and US 310 at Deaver:
c. 1933, WY DoT
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Most of it was soon swallowed up by an extension of US 14 (now Alt. US 14), but the 11-mile segment between Deaver and Garland was redesignated as Wyoming state highway 114. So the junction where WY 114 ends at US 310/WY 789 is the modern functional equivalent of the historic end of US 420...
Grier, Aug. 2006
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...however, it is unlikely that US 420 skirted the west side of Deaver (as WY 114 does today). Instead, it probably came into town on 1st Street, then turned north on Central Avenue, crossed the railroad, and ended at US 310. In the preceding photo, that junction is about a tenth-mile to the right. This image was taken looking north on Central; US 420 probably ended at the stop sign, right across the highway from what is now the Wyoming 310 Cafe:
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Sanderson, Sep. 2022
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The west end of US 420 was at its junction with its parent route (US 20) in Cody. In 1933, most of US 420 was retired by a westward extension of US 116... and then the next year, US 116 itself was eliminated by a westward extension of US 14.
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Research and/or photo credits: Tom Grier; Dale Sanderson; Michael Summa
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last updated Sep. 7, 2022.
last updated Sep. 7, 2022.
