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Interstate 15
Main route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

1433.52 miInterstate 15 @ Interstate-Guide.com. Interstate Guide. Retrieved on 2008-02-15. (2307.03 km)

Formed:

1957

South end:

I-8 in San Diego, CA

Major
junctions:

I-10 in Ontario, CA

I-40 in Barstow, CA

US 95 in Las Vegas, NV

I-70 near Cove Fort, UT

I-80 in Salt Lake City, UT

I-90 near Butte, MT

North end:

AB 4 at Canadian border near Sweetgrass, MT

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Interstate 15

"I-15" redirects here. For the Soviet fighter aircraft, see Polikarpov I-15.

Interstate 15 (abbreviated I-15) is the fourth-longest north-south transcontinental interstate highway in the United States, traveling through the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. The Utah and Arizona portions have been officially designated the \'Veterans Memorial Highway\'.Utah@Rocky Mountain Roads - Interstate 15. Aaroads. Retrieved on 01-02-2008.

Since I-15\'s inception it has served as a long-haul route for North American commerce. It is now officially chartered for this purpose. From the junction of Interstate 515 in Las Vegas to the Canadian border I-15 forms part of the CANAMEX Corridor, a High Priority Corridor, as a result of North American Free Trade Agreement.CANAMEX CORRIDOR, The safe, smart and secure corridor. Canamex Corridor Project. Retrieved on 01.02.2008.

Local portions were built to connect the Inland Empire with San Diego in California, facilitate tourism access to Las Vegas, interconnect all of the the Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Utah except Logan, and provide freeway bypasses for Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Great Falls.

Since I-15\'s initial construction, California, Nevada and Utah have consistently ranked in the fastest growing areas of the United States. As a result the I-15 corridor has substantially increased in population and commuter traffic has increased the traffic burden on the freeway. Current population estimates are that over 75% of the Utah\'s populationPopulation-Visitor Center- Utah.com. Utah Travel Industry. Retrieved on 01-02-2008. and over 70% of Nevada\'s population2006 Estimates by County. Nevada Small Business Development Center. Retrieved on 01-02-2008. live in counties where Interstate 15 is the primary transportation corridor. Similarly, in California, I-15 is seeing more commuter traffic due to the growth of the Mojave Desert communities of Victorville and Barstow. In all of these states I-15 has recently been or is currently in the process of being upgraded to increase capacity.Utah Department of Transportation, Projects Under Construction. Utah Department of Transportation. Retrieved on 01-02-2008.District 1 Construction Report. Nevada Department of Transportation. Retrieved on 01-02-2008.Interstate 15 Major Improvements. California Department of Transportation. The Arizona, Idaho and Montana portions have retained their rural, long-haul character. Although Arizona has also grown substantially since I-15\'s inception, I-15 only serves an isolated corner of the state.

Due to this rapid area growth, the I-15 corridor is the focus of several mass transit projects. The Las Vegas Monorail and the TRAX light rail in Salt Lake City are now in operation. The FrontRunner commuter rail system is expected to begin operation in 2008. Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas has long been proposed as a maglev train route; in 2004 the California-Nevada Interstate Maglev project held public meetings on the plan.Staff.. FRA to begin environmental study for California-to-Nevada Maglev project. Retrieved on 04.21.2007..

Route description

Lengths
	mi	km
CA	287	462
NV	124	200
AZ	29	47
UT	401	645
ID	196	315
MT	396	637
Total	1,433	2,307

Major cities Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs
San Diego, California Riverside, California San Bernardino, California Los Angeles, California (via Interstate 10) Barstow, California (California only, Nevada uses Los Angeles as the control city south of Las Vegas) Baker, California (As seen on signs between Barstow and Baker) Las Vegas, Nevada St. George, Utah Provo, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Ogden, Utah Pocatello, Idaho Idaho Falls, Idaho Butte, Montana Helena, Montana Great Falls, Montana Shelby, Montana Lethbridge, Alberta

This highway\'s southern terminus is in San Diego, California at Interstate 8, 18 miles (29 km) north of the international border with Mexico. However, work is being done to extend this to Interstate 5. The current work on this extension is signed State Route 15. There is a continuous freeway between I-8 and I-5, but various intersections and acceleration/deceleration lanes are not up to interstate standards. The northern terminus is in Sweetgrass, Montana at the international border between the United States and Canada, where it becomes Alberta Highway 4.

California

Main article: Interstate 15 in California

North of its junction with the Riverside Freeway, State Route 91, in the Inland Empire near Corona, the route roughly follows the former routes of U.S. Highway 91 and U.S. Highway 395. North of Devore, the highway follows the approximate alignment of historic U.S. Highway 66 along with U.S. 91 and 395. U.S. 395 breaks away at Hesperia and the route continues the approximate route of co-signed 91 and 66 until about the Mojave River, 35 miles (56 km) to the north. At that point, I-15 follows the old route of U.S. 91 exclusively. For many parts of the highway, high-voltage power lines, like Path 46 and Path 27, almost all from Hoover Dam, follow the freeway, many of them link distant power stations to the Los Angeles metro area.

The starting point of Interstate 15 was originally planned to be in San Bernardino at an interchange with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10). This was logical as I-15 was following the old alignment of the historic route U.S. Route 66 which passed through San Bernardino. The segment was completed accordingly. However, legislation was later passed to extend the interstate to San Diego. But instead of extending the existing freeway from the I-10 interchange south, the California Department of Transportation created a new segment in Devore that \'branched\' off of the original alignment and bypassed San Bernardino altogether. This segment\'s alignment is generally northeast to southwest for about 15 miles (24 km). Then, in Fontana/Rancho Cucamonga, its directional alignment shifts to north-south where it eventually junctions with Interstate 10 (about 15 miles west of the original interchange in San Bernardino). The segment that had been built from Devore to San Bernardino was retained as an interstate, but was re-numbered as Interstate 215. Note that during the construction of I-15\'s present alignment, and for some time afterwards, I-215 was numbered as I-15E, and its actual mileage would begin at Interstate 10.

Nevada

Main article: Interstate 15 in Nevada

Northbound I-15 makes a steep descent from the Mountain Pass, in California into the Ivanpah Valley and the sight of Ivanpah Dry Lake. In the middle distance, the casinos of Primm straddle the freeway right at the Nevada border, while those of Jean are further off, to the left; Las Vegas is immediately on the far side of the hills on the horizon.

Interstate 15 begins in Primm, continues through Las Vegas along the Las Vegas Strip corridor. Then the interstate crosses the border with Arizona in Mesquite. The whole interstate in Nevada runs entirely in Clark County, for a distance of 123.77 miles.

Arizona

Main article: Interstate 15 in Arizona

I-15 just clips the northwestern corner of Arizona with a total length of 29.4 miles (47 km).Arizona Department of Transportation Project 015 MO 000 H577901C, sheet 73 of 103 - revised May 2005 The stretch is separated from the rest of the state and has one major exit, at Beaver Dam/Littlefield, Arizona. It includes a spectacular section where the road twists between the narrow walls of the Virgin River Gorge.

I-15 passes through the Virgin River Gorge, Arizona revealing scenic reddish brown cliffs.

Utah

Main article: Interstate 15 in Utah

I-15 continues through Utah for just over 400 miles (640 km). It is the main north-south connection for the state. The highway approximately follows the old alignment of U.S. Highway 91 from St. George to Brigham City. The highway passes through the fast-growing Dixie region, which includes St. George, Cedar City, and eventually most of the major cities and suburbs along the Wasatch Front, including Provo, Orem, Sandy, West Jordan, Salt Lake City, Layton, and Ogden. Around Cove Fort, Interstate 70 begins its journey eastward across the country. The interstate merges with I-80 for about 3 miles (5 km) from South Salt Lake to just west of Downtown Salt Lake City and also merges with Interstate 84 from Ogden to Tremonton. Along nearly its entire length through the state, I-15 winds its way along the western edge of a nearly continuous range of mountains (the Wasatch Range in the northern half of the state). The only exceptions are when it passes through the mountains south of Cedar City and again north of Cove Fort.

Extinct volcano cone near Fillmore, Utah off I-15.

Plaque located on Interstate 15 between Helena and Great Falls.

Idaho

Main article: Interstate 15 in Idaho

I-15 passes through Idaho for nearly 200 miles (320 km). The highway runs through Pocatello, Blackfoot, and Idaho Falls. It also merges with Interstate 86.

Montana

Main article: Interstate 15 in Montana

Interstate 15 continues onward through nearly 400 miles (640 km) of Montana through the cities of Butte, Helena and Great Falls, intersecting with Interstate 90, Interstate 115 and Interstate 315. At Sweetgrass, I-15 terminates upon crossing the international border into Alberta, Canada; however, I-15 signage is present on Alberta Highway 4 southbound from Lethbridge to the U.S.-Canada Border.

History

Interstate 15 was constructed along the route of U.S. Route 91. Once Interstate 15 was relatively intact U.S. 91 was decommissioned, except for one part in Northern Utah/Southern Idaho where Interstate 15 instead followed the route of former U.S. Route 191.

Interstate 15 had an eastern branch bypassing San Bernardino, California, and a western branch in Idaho. I-215 around San Bernardino was I-15Ehttp://www.interstate-guide.com/i-215_ca.html Interstate-Guide.com entry for Interstate 215 California, and the western I-86 was once called I-15W.http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-086_west.html Interstate-Guide.com entry for I-86 Western

Future

Redesignation of SR 15 in San Diego as I-15 will eventually occur when the freeway\'s interchange with SR 94 is updated to Interstate standards. The interchange currently has left-exits and blind merges, and is due to be updated with a long-awaited widening of SR 94 in 2008. At that time SR 15 will be resigned as part of I-15.