interstate highways
National numbered routes
Interstate highways are the network of major roads crossing state boundaries in the United States, built to federal standards with limited access, multiple lanes, and high speed limits.
The system, formally the Dwight D.
Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, connects major cities and facilitates long-distance travel: We took the interstate highways from Chicago to Denver.
Often shortened to interstates or simply the interstate.
- rest stopsHighway facilities for travelers
- rest areaHighway stopping facility
- service plazaHighway facility with services
- Route 66Historic cross-country highway
- passenger carsVehicles for transporting people
Eisenhower · speed limits · traffic jam · trucking industry · long haul · interchange · federal funding · cloverleaf · rumble strips · guardrail · mile markers · I-95 · weigh stations · overpass · passing lane · national defense · lane markings · median
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- road tripsroad trip, highways, scenic drive, interstate, interstates
- 1950s AmericaEisenhower, McCarthy, McCarthyism, suburbs, Korean War
- Eisenhower EraDwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, Nixon, farewell address
- postwar eraMarshall Plan, prosperity, reconstruction, Cold War, iron curtain
- Innovationselectricity, steam engine, printing press, telephone, telegraph
interstate highwayslocal roads
Nearby community pathways
city streets · neighborhood streets · residential streets · county roads · back roads
interstate highwayssurface streets
Ground-level urban roadways
arterial roads · unpaved roads · gravel roads · country lanes · scenic byways
interstate highwaysrailways
Fixed-track transport systems
rail lines · waterways · canals · shipping lanes · bike paths