Wyoming Highway 13

Wyoming Highway 13
Arlington Road
WYO 13 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by WYDOT
Length17.325 mi[1] (27.882 km)
Major junctions
West end I-80 in Arlington
East end US 30 / US 287 north of Rock River
Location
CountryUnited States
StateWyoming
CountiesCarbon, Albany
Highway system
  • Wyoming State Highway System
← WYO 12→ US 14

Wyoming Highway 13 (WYO 13), also known as Arlington Road, is a 17.325-mile (27.882 km) state highway in Carbon and Albany counties in Wyoming, United States, that connects Interstate 80 (I‑80) in Arlington with U.S. Route 30 / U.S. Route 287 (US 30 / US 287), north of Rock River.[2]

Route description

WYO 13 begins at a folded diamond interchange on I‑80 and the west end of Elk Mountain Arlington Road in the census-designated place of Arlington in eastern Carbon County. (I‑80 heads east towards Laramie and Cheyenne and west towards Elk Mountain and Rawlins. Elk Mountain Arlington Road heads west toward another interchange with I‑80 and on to Elk Mountain.[3])

From its western terminus WYO 13 proceeds northeasterly as a two-lane road (for its entire length) to pass through Arlington. About 3.3 miles (5.3 km) along its course, WYO 13 crosses over Rock Creek and then passes through the unincorporated community of McFadden, roughly three miles (4.8 km) later. Approximately 9.3 miles (15.0 km) along its route, WYO 13 leaves Carbon County and enters Albany County.[3]

About 14 miles (23 km) from its western terminus, WYO 13 has a second bridge over Rock Creek. Northeast of the creek, WYO 12 has a bridge over two sets of Union Pacific Railroad tracks before reaching its eastern terminus at a T intersection with US 30 / US 287, just north of the town of Rock River. (US 30 / US 287 heads east to pass through Rock River and then on towards Bosler and Laramie. US 30 / US 287 heads west towards Medicine Bow and Rawlins.)[3]

Interstate 80 is frequently closed during the winter months, and a sign posted near the highway's northern terminus at US 30 / US 287 indicates whether the road is currently closed.[4]

History

Maps as early as 1927 showed an unimproved road between the communities of Arlington and Rock River. (At that time the section of US 30 through Rock River was commonly known as part of the Lincoln Highway.[5]) A 1940 Rand McNally map and a 1956 Gousha map both show an unnumbered state highway running southwest from Rock River to McFadden and an unimproved road continuing southwest to connect with another unimproved road (at a point southeast of Arlington) that ran between Millbrook (a community roughly 20 miles [32 km] west of Laramie) and Elk Moutain, via Arlington.[6][7]

By 1955 a United States Geological Survey (USGS) map showed Wyoming Highway 137 (WYO 137) heading westerly along Avenue C from US 30 / US 287 in Rock River to connect with the current routing of WYO 13.[8] The 1958 and 1976 versions of a USGS map of a different quadrangle show this highway continuing southwest to end at McFadden, but do not indicate a highway number.[9][10] A 1981 USGS map still labeled this highway as WYO 137.[11]

A 1983 USGS map finally labels the highway as WYO 13. The same map also indicates that WYO 13 had been rerouted along a section northeast of McFadden to more closely parallel the southwest bank of Threemile Creek.[12][13] The former routing is now known as Old State Hwy 13.[3] A 1988 USGS map shows the routing of WYO 13 from MaFadden southeast to end at I‑80 in Arlington.[14] The section of highway that ran south from near McFadden to end southeast of Arlington is now also known as Old State Hwy 13.[3]

While a 2012 USGS map still indicated that WYO 13's eastern end was still along Avenue C in Rock River,[15] by 2015 the map of the same quadrangle showed the eastern end having been rerouted to is current course to end north of Rock River. The same map indicated the former routing (now also known as Old State Hwy 13) no longer crossed the railway tracks along Avenue C.[16][17] Only about 1.8 miles (2.9 km) of the current WYO 13 runs along the original routing of the highway.

Major intersections

Actual mile markers increase from east to west.

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinations[3]Notes
CarbonArlington0.0000.000
 CR 402 south		Continuation south from western terminus

 I-80 east (Dwight D. Eisenhower Hwy) – Laramie, Cheyenne

 I-80 west (Dwight D. Eisenhower Hwy) – Elk Mountain, Rawlins
Elk Mountain Arlington Rd west – I‑80, Elk Mountain		Western terminus;
folded diamond interchange
exit 272 on I-80;
Elk Mountain Rd connects with WYO 13 opposite the eastbound ramps
​3.2745.269Bridge over Rock Creek
McFadden6.0859.793Baysinger Rd westT intersection
8.313.4Old State Hwy 13 east – , Rock RiverT intersection; former routing of WYO 13
Albany​14.924.0Old State Hwy 13 west – , McFaddenT intersection; former routing of WYO 13
Module:Jctint/USA warning: Unused argument(s): state
​14.96524.084Bridge over Rock Creek
​16.125.9Old State Hwy 13 east – Rock RiverT intersection; former routing of WYO 13;
road still enters Rock River, but no longer continues east over the railway tracks
​17.00427.365Bridge over Union Pacific Railroad tracks
​17.32527.882

 US 30 east / US 287 south – Rock River, Bosler, Laramie


 US 30 west / US 287 north – Medicine Bow, Rawlins		Eastern terminus;
T intersection
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also


References

  1. ^ a b "2017 Maintenance Section Reference Book" (PDF). dot.state.wy.us. Wyoming Department of Transportation. October 1, 2017. pp. 42 & 61. Retrieved June 21, 2025.
  2. ^ "Wyoming Travel Information Map" (Map). wyoroad.info. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Wyoming Highway 13" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  4. ^ "WY-13 Street View" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  5. ^ Auto Road Map: Wyoming (Map). 1:2200000. Rand McNally. 1927. Retrieved June 22, 2025 – via oldmapsonline.org.
  6. ^ Road Map of Wyoming (Map). 1:1647360. Rand McNally. 1940. Retrieved June 22, 2025 – via oldmapsonline.org.
  7. ^ Road Map of Wyoming (Map). 1:1203840. Gousha. 1956. Retrieved June 22, 2025 – via oldmapsonline.org.
  8. ^ "Rock River, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:10000. United States Geological Survey. 1955. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  9. ^ "Rawlins, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:250000. United States Geological Survey. 1958. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  10. ^ "Rawlins, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:250000. United States Geological Survey. 1976. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  11. ^ "Rock River, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 1981. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  12. ^ "Pierce Reservoir, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 1983. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  13. ^ "Pierce Reservoir, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 1968. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  14. ^ "Rawlins, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:250000. United States Geological Survey. 1988. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  15. ^ "Rock River, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  16. ^ "Rock River, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  17. ^ "Rock River, WY" (Map). usgs.gov. 1:24000. United States Geological Survey. 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wyoming Highway 13.
Template:Attached KML/Wyoming Highway 13
KML is from Wikidata
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.