{"id":9912694,"date":"2011-08-08T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T23:30:00","slug":"nebraska-highway-61-i-80us-26-to-us-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9912694","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Highway 61, I-80\/US-26 to US-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/26\/30to80\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and Clarice Rd, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After we split from US-30, we&#8217;ll cross the railroad tracks and quickly approach I-80<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/26\/30to80\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and I-80, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stay straight over the Platte River bridge for I-80 east\/west and N-61 south. US-26 ends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/26\/30to80\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and N-61, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow I-80 west towards Sidney and N-61 south towards Grant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/26\/30to80\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and I-80, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US-26 ends here after a long, windy trek from Seaside, Oregon. Turn right for I-80 west. Stay straight for I-80 east and N-61 south<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/26\/30to80\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and I-80, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for I-80 east towards North Platte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/n61.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=2967\">S to NE-23<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912695\">N to US-30<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/70px-US_26.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912747\">W to US-30<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/I-80.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911085\">E to NE-L51B<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911084\">W to NE-L51A<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/70px-US_26.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912748\">W to US-30<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/70px-US_30.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911155\">E to NE-L51B<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9911154\">W to US-26\/NE-61<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Northbound (October 2010):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and I-80, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Immediately after crossing I-80 and picking up US-26, we&#8217;ll enter Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we prepare to cross over the railroad tracks into Ogallala, we&#8217;ll get our first 26\/61 reassurance shield<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just after that, we&#8217;re warned that we&#8217;re coming to US-30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow N-61 north for trucks heading north out of Ogallala as opposed to going through town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: \u00a0US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for 26\/30 west and 61 north. Turn right for 30 east as we cross the tracks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we come down from the tracks and get our first glimpse of downtown Ogallala, we get a shield version of the same sign<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ne\/61\/80to30\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-26 and 1st St, Ogallala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Trucks should follow N-61. I&#8217;m not sure if that sign is a remnant from when mainline 61 went through downtown (going straight from this intersecton) or not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: US-26 and Clarice Rd, Ogallala After we split from US-30, we&#8217;ll cross the railroad tracks and quickly approach I-80 Location: US-26 and I-80, Ogallala Stay straight over the Platte River bridge for I-80 east\/west and N-61 south. US-26 ends. Location: US-26 and N-61, Ogallala Follow I-80 west towards Sidney and N-61 south towards Grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912694","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9912694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9912694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9912694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9912694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}