{"id":99155,"date":"2009-01-07T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2020-07-11T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:28:54","slug":"interstate-80-wyo-377-to-wyo-789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=99155","title":{"rendered":"Interstate 80, WYO 377 to WYO 789"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Driven July 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP:<\/strong>130<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and 9 Mile Rd, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the Point of Rocks turnoff<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>136<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Frontage Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

The I-80 Frontage road occasionally crosses and gets an interchange. Following that is a reassurance shield<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>140<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Frontage Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after another Frontage road interchange. This is desolate country<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>143<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Bitter Creek Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>146<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Patrick Draw Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Another reassurance shield<\/p>\n

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AMP: <\/strong>150<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Madison St, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield near where the frontage road dead ends<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>152<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Table Rock Rd, Table Rock, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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AMP: <\/strong>154<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Bar X Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

This has to be one of the most boring stretches of freeway in the country<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>156<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and BLM Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Another reassurance shield after another interchange that leads nowhere<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>159<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Tipton Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after we cross the Continental Divide.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>165<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Red Desert Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the Red Desert interchange.<\/p>\n

(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>165<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Red Desert Rd, Red Desert, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

The Red Desert reassurance shield used to be another half mile further or so.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>166<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Booster Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Another reassurance shield after a road to nowhere<\/p>\n

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AMP: <\/strong>168<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Frewan Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Oh look nothing<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>174<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and Kelly St, Wamsutter<\/p>\n

Hey look a town! Wamsutter is a positive metropolis in this area. It’s got 261 people!<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>184<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and County Rd, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

One last middle of nowhere reassurance shield<\/p>\n

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(Historic Photo: January 2009<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>186<\/p>\n

Location: <\/strong>I-80 and WYO 789, Creston, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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AMP: <\/strong>187<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: I-80 and WYO 789, Creston, Sweetwater Cty<\/p>\n

Exit for WYO 789 south which heads to Colorado, or stay on I-80 to stay on WYO 789 north<\/p>\n

\"\" E to I-80 Bus\/US-30 Bus\/WYO 789<\/a>, W to WYO 371<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" E to I-80 Bus\/US-30 Bus\/WYO 789<\/a>, W to WYO 371<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" S to WYO 70<\/a>, N to I-80\/I-80 Bus\/US-30\/US-30 Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" N to Jim Bridger Power Plant<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155","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=99155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}