Colorado State Highway 35

State Highway 35 marker

State Highway 35
Quebec Street

Map of County and City of Denver in north central Colorado with SH 35 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by CDOT
Length: 1 mi[1] (2 km)
Existed: 1972[2] – present
Major junctions
South end: I-70 in Denver
  I-270
North end: 53rd Place
Location
Counties: Denver
Highway system
Colorado State Highways
US 34US 36

State Highway 35, also known as Quebec Street, is a state route in the city of Denver, Colorado. It is 1.317 miles (2.120 km) long. Its southern end is I-70 and its eastern end is 53rd Place. An expansion was planned but funding has not materialized.

Route description

The route begins as Quebec Street at I-70. It crosses Sand Creek[3] and intersects I-270 and Northfield Boulevard; the interchanges overlap one another.[2] The route then continues, intersects 52nd Place and ends at 53rd Place, but Quebec Street continues northward towards Commerce City.[4]

History

The route was established in 1972 as a road to Stapleton International Airport (now closed). It was planned to be extended in several locations, but it remains a short highway.[2] Government records from the 1970s indicate that the route would have gone all the way to the intersection of Quebec St. and Hampden Ave. north to I-80S (now I-76) southwest of Barr Lake, but the construction never began, even though it was still on the books until the late 1990s.[2]

The route's southern end was at the Stapleton terminal access road from 1972 to 2000, when it was moved up to I-70. From 19721977 the northern end of the highway ended at I-70, then moved to 56th Ave, and then to I-270 in 1988 before ending around 53rd Place in the mid-1990s.[2]

Future

Because of congestion in the areas around Quebec Street an extension of Highway 35 into a major highway in the eastern metropolitan Denver area has been proposed. In theory, it would be useful to alleviate traffic jams in the Quebec St. area.[2]

Exit list

The entire route is in Denver. All exits are unnumbered.

mikmDestinationsNotes
0.0000.000 I-70I-70 exit 278; southern terminus.
0.4630.745 I-270I-270 exit 4.
0.6371.025Northfield Boulevard
1.3172.12053rd PlaceNorthern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

Route map: Bing / Google

  1. "Segment Descriptions for Highway 35". Colorado Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Salek, Matthew E. (January 30, 2010). "Colorado Routes 20–39". Retrieved March 13, 2010.
  3. Colorado Department of Transportation. "Map of Denver, Colorado". Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  4. Colorado Department of Transportation. "Map of Denver County, Colorado" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-17.
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