Last Driven July 2020
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP:130
Location: I-80 and 9 Mile Rd, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield after the Point of Rocks turnoff
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 136
Location: I-80 and Frontage Rd, Sweetwater Cty
The I-80 Frontage road occasionally crosses and gets an interchange. Following that is a reassurance shield
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 140
Location: I-80 and Frontage Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield after another Frontage road interchange. This is desolate country
AMP: 143
Location: I-80 and Bitter Creek Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield
AMP: 146
Location: I-80 and Patrick Draw Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Another reassurance shield
AMP: 150
Location: I-80 and Madison St, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield near where the frontage road dead ends
AMP: 152
Location: I-80 and Table Rock Rd, Table Rock, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield after Table Rock. I remember when driivng from Chicago to Boise with my family to 1997 we saw prominently on the map “Red Desert” and “Table Rock” and assumed they were towns. Table Rock is an abandoned gas station. It was abandoned in 1997 too. None of us ever having driven on rural western interstates, we were shocked
AMP: 154
Location: I-80 and Bar X Rd, Sweetwater Cty
This has to be one of the most boring stretches of freeway in the country
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 156
Location: I-80 and BLM Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Another reassurance shield after another interchange that leads nowhere
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 159
Location: I-80 and Tipton Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield after we cross the Continental Divide.
AMP: 165
Location: I-80 and Red Desert Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Reassurance shield after the Red Desert interchange.
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 165
Location: I-80 and Red Desert Rd, Red Desert, Sweetwater Cty
The Red Desert reassurance shield used to be another half mile further or so.
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 166
Location: I-80 and Booster Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Another reassurance shield after a road to nowhere
AMP: 168
Location: I-80 and Frewan Rd, Sweetwater Cty
Oh look nothing
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 174
Location: I-80 and Kelly St, Wamsutter
Hey look a town! Wamsutter is a positive metropolis in this area. It’s got 261 people!
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 184
Location: I-80 and County Rd, Sweetwater Cty
One last middle of nowhere reassurance shield
(Historic Photo: January 2009)
AMP: 186
Location: I-80 and WYO 789, Creston, Sweetwater Cty
We come to a junction with Wyoming 789, the last trace of a former 4-state MSR 789 that ran from Canada to Mexico along a disapproved US-789 corridor. Currently 789 exists only in Wyoming and is still signed religiously. It will jion I-80 east for several miles or head south to Colorado
AMP: 187
Location: I-80 and WYO 789, Creston, Sweetwater Cty
Exit for WYO 789 south which heads to Colorado, or stay on I-80 to stay on WYO 789 north
E to I-80 Bus/US-30 Bus/WYO 789, W to WYO 371
E to I-80 Bus/US-30 Bus/WYO 789, W to WYO 371
S to WYO 70, N to I-80/I-80 Bus/US-30/US-30 Bus
