U.s. Highway 50

It overlaps I-44 to Sunset Hills, where it follows Lindbergh Boulevard — an early bypass around St. US 50 enters Indiana at the Wabash River, bypassing Vincennes and Washington and passing through Bedford, Seymour, and Versailles.

It meets the Ohio River at Aurora, and soon crosses into Ohio, running through downtown Cincinnati via Fort Washington Way (Interstate 71). It meets the Ohio River, from which it split at Cincinnati, at Belpre, and crosses the Blennerhassett Island Bridge (previously crossing the Parkersburg-Belpre Bridge) into Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Mid-Atlantic states


U.S.

East of Clarksburg through Grafton, a bit of Maryland, and Romney to Winchester, US 50 is a curving two-lane mountain road. The land flattens out after it crosses the Shenandoah Mountains east of Winchester, and it follows the old Little River Turnpike from Aldie to Fairfax and the newer Arlington Boulevard to Rosslyn, where it crosses the District of Columbia line — on the west shore of the Potomac River — and joins Interstate 66 on the Roosevelt Bridge.


Mileage sign at the eastern terminus

Within the District, US 50 immediately exits the freeway onto Constitution Avenue along the north side of the National Mall.The portion of this highway east of the Capital Beltway (I-95/I-495) is also designated, but not signed as, Interstate 595, and U.S. There the Blue Star Highway continues northeast with US 301, while US 50 turns south past Easton to Cambridge and east around Salisbury to Ocean City on the four-lane divided Ocean Gateway.

In the preliminary report, approved by the Joint Board on Interstate Highways in late 1925, US 50 ran from Wadsworth, Nevada to Annapolis, Maryland, passing through Pueblo, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, St. Major auto trails followed, included the Lincoln Highway in Nevada, the Midland Trail in parts of Utah and Colorado and again in Missouri, Illinois, and part of Indiana, and the National Old Trails Road (Old Santa Fe Trail) in eastern Colorado and Kansas.

The through route had been assigned to the Old Sante Fe Trail, while the spur U.S. As a compromise, the Joint Board on Interstate Highways approved a split configuration — U.S.Route 50S — in January. Another problem was in western Utah, where no improved road existed for US 50 to use. Finally, rather than ending US 50 at Wadsworth, where the Lincoln and Victory Highways merged, it was sent over the Lincoln Highway's Pioneer Branch, past the south side of Lake Tahoe, to Sacramento, California.


The Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The gap in Utah was soon bypassed by taking US 50 to the north, crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert with U.S.

Route 40 to Salt Lake City, and using long portions of U.S. Route 6 was marked along the direct, but still partially unimproved, route in 1937; it was finally paved in 1952, and US 50 was moved to it within a few years. Another straightening was made in 1976, when US 50 in central Utah was moved south onto the new extension of Interstate 70 at the request of the National Highway 50 Federation, a group dedicated to promoting US 50. Among other things, the group has unsuccessfully pushed for an extension of Interstate 70 west along US 50 to California.
The north–south split in Kansas was eliminated in the late 1950s, with the south route — which was to be US 250 — becoming part of US 50, and most of US 50N becoming part of a new U.S.

Route 50N is now Ohio State Route 550 and part of West Virginia Route 16.
At its west end, US 50 was extended south from Sacramento along U.S. Route 48, by the early 1930s. US 50 was officially cut back to Sacramento in the 1964 renumbering, replaced by Interstate 580, but remained on maps and signs for several more years. US 50 was extended east from Annapolis to Ocean City, Maryland several years prior to the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in 1952; this extension replaced much of U.S.