100 years of US routes: 1926-2026

US route endpoint in
Cody, WY

1927-1935

Motorists at the main highway intersection in Cody are given direction via a large sign bridge (which is a common practice at in-town junctions in Wyoming). This photo was looking east on Sheridan at 16th:

Grier, Aug. 2006

Today that is eastbound US 14-16-20, and US 14A begins to the left on 16th. But when the US routes were first established in 1926, Sheridan was US 20 (only); the signs for that direction (eastbound) are shown close-up here, followed by a more recent photo of the same sign bridge:

Grier, Aug. 2006

Sanderson, Sep. 2022

To the left on 16th was originally the west beginning of US 420. Then in about 1933, US 116 was extended west, swallowing up most of what had been US 420, and thus retiring that designation. So then it was US 116 that began to the left. But that lasted only about one year, because then it was US 14's turn to grow westward, and it finished off US 116. US 14 began to the left for the next year or so, but then it was overlapped with US 20 west from Cody to its current terminus at Yellowstone's east entrance.

These photos were looking south on 16th; today these signs mark the west end of US 14A. But this was once the west end of US 420, and then US 116, and then US 14: