{"id":9911536,"date":"2010-04-21T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?page_id=1536"},"modified":"2011-09-23T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T03:59:46","slug":"us-route-87-us-85-to-co-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9911536","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Route 87, US-85 to CO-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/co\/25\/85to16\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: I-25 and Circle Dr, Colorado Springs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the US-85 jump as we head out of the Springs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/co\/25\/85to16\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Junction SH-16 coming up as we head into Fountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/co\/25\/85to16\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SH-16 is just a quick route over to US-85 and then randomly turns into SH-21 a couple miles east of there. The way the highway system is structured now, SH-16 turns into SH-21 which turns into SH-83. It would be nice if that could all be one number, but I guess CDOT wanted to eliminate confusion with the 21 commissioning by giving it its own number<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/co\/25\/85to16\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1\/4 mile to SH-16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/co\/25\/85to16\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Exit for Mesa Ridge Parkway<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/US_87.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911537\">S to US-85<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911535\">N to US-24<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/I-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911612\">S to US-85<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911610\">N to US-24<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/colorado16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> E to US-85<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/US_85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> N to US-24, S through Physical Gap to | Venetucci Blvd to CO-16 |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: I-25 and Circle Dr, Colorado Springs Reassurance shield after the US-85 jump as we head out of the Springs Location: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain Junction SH-16 coming up as we head into Fountain Location: I-25 and Mesa Ridge Pkwy, Fountain SH-16 is just a quick route over to US-85 and then randomly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9911536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9911536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9911536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9911536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9911536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}