U.S. Route 84

U.S. Route 84
U.S. Route 84
	US 84 highlighted in red
Route information
Length	1,919 mi (3,088 km)
Existed	1926–present
Major junctions
West end	US 160 at Pagosa Springs, CO
	I-25 / US 85 / US 285 at Santa Fe, NM; I-40 / US 54 at Santa Rosa, NM; I-27 / US 87 at Lubbock, TX; I-20 from Roscoe, TX to Abilene, TX; I-35 / US 77 at Waco, TX; I-45 at Fairfield, TX; I-49 near Mansfield, LA; I-55 near Brookhaven, MS; I-59 in Laurel, MS; I-65 at Evergreen, AL; I-75 at Valdosta, GA;
East end	I-95 / SR 38 near Midway, GA
Location
Country	United States
States	Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System; List; Special; Divided;

U.S. Route 84 (US 84) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that started as a short Georgia–Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme. Later, in 1941, it had been extended all the way to Colorado. The highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia, at an Interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95). The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, at an intersection with US 160.

The section from Brunswick, Georgia, to Roscoe, Texas, has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East–West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present Mexican border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called El Camino Real. (In Louisiana, the route was called the Harrisonburg Road.) The designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico. States are asking for federal funds to widen the US 84 El Camino East–West Corridor.

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