U.S. Route 67 in Arkansas

This article is about the section of U.S. Route 67 in Arkansas. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 67.

U.S. Highway 67
US 67 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by ArDOT
Length	279.15 mi (449.25 km)
Major junctions
South end	US 67 / US 82 in Texarkana at Texas state line
Major intersections	I-30 near Texarkana I-30 / US 70 in Benton I-430 in Little Rock I-30 in Little Rock I-630 in Little Rock I-30 / US 65 / US 70 / US 167 in North Little Rock I-30 / I-40 / US 65 in North Little Rock I-40 in North Little Rock I-440 in Jacksonville
North end	Future I-57 / US 67 near Corning at Missouri state line
Location
Country	United States
State	Arkansas
Counties	Miller, Hempstead, Nevada, Clark, Hot Spring, Saline, Pulaski, Lonoke, White, Jackson, Craighead, Lawrence, Randolph, Clay
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Arkansas Highway System Interstate US State Business Spurs Suffixed Scenic Heritage
← AR 66 → AR 69

U.S. Route 67 (US 67) is a U.S. highway running from Presidio, Texas northeast to Sabula, Iowa. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, the route runs 279.15 miles (449.25 km) from the Texas border in Texarkana northeast to the Missouri border near Corning. The route passes through several cities and towns, including Hope, Benton, Little Rock, Jacksonville, Cabot, Beebe, Walnut Ridge, and Pocahontas.

Route description

US 67 is concurrent with US 64 and US 167 between Beebe and Bald Knob.

US 67 enters Arkansas from Texas in Texarkana, concurrent with US 82, along the one-way 7th Street; the other half of the one-way couplet, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, carries traffic toward Texarkana, Texas. Upon crossing State Line Avenue, the two routes share a brief concurrency with US 71 before that route turns to the south along Hickory Street. Past this intersection, the one-way couplet merges onto 9th Street. Shortly thereafter, US 67 separates from US 82 and travels to the northeast along Broad Street, crossing Interstate 49 and passing Texarkana Regional Airport.

US 67 then runs parallel to Interstate 30, passing through cities such as Hope, Prescott, Arkadelphia, and Malvern. Near Benton, US 67 merges with I-30. The two routes run concurrently to Little Rock, where the freeway also picks up US 65 and US 167. In North Little Rock, US 67 and US 167 turn to the east, concurrent with Interstate 40 for about 2 miles (3.2 km), before branching off to the northeast as a freeway.

In Beebe, the two routes begin a concurrency with U.S. 64. The three routes part ways in Bald Knob, with US 67 continuing as a freeway to the northeast. Just north of US 412 in Walnut Ridge, the freeway ends at a large, partially-complete interchange, and US 67 becomes a five-lane undivided highway north to Pocahontas. From Pocahontas, the road turns northeasterly and then easterly as a two-lane highway concurrent with US 62. In Corning, US 62 continues to the east while US 67 turns northward again before crossing the Missouri state line.

History

Original trace of the Southwest Trail, precursor to U.S. Route 67 in the area.

The southwest-northeast bisector of Arkansas has always been an integral motor route. Prior to designation as US 67, the route was known as the Southwest Trail, an old military road around 1803. The Southwest Trail connected St. Louis, Missouri with Texas by steamboat in Fulton, Arkansas. The main railroad was built along the Southwest Trail, which developed many towns along the route. President Andrew Jackson appropriated money for the route in 1831, and designated it as a National Road. Although the route shifted slightly, it always has followed the natural break between the Ozark Mountains and the Ouachita Mountains and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.

Money for road maintenance was raised individually by county in the early 20th century, which hindered development of the route. In the 1920s, federal money became available, and the route was designated U.S. Route 67. The routing followed the Lakes to Gulf Highway and the Bankhead Highway. Federal designation brought paving to the route, which grew the small towns along the route.

In early 2009, the Arkansas legislature passed a bill naming the portion of US-67 from the Missouri state line to Jackson County "Rock n' Roll U.S. 67" as a tribute to the route that many musicians of the 1950s and 1960s took as they traveled. Governor Mike Beebe stated that he had hopes that the naming would bring tourism to northeast Arkansas. Portions of the route, and also Arkansas Highway 7 between Hope and Hot Springs frequently used by Bill Clinton is designated The Highway of Hope by Arkansas Code § 27-67-220.

National Register of Historic Places

Several portions of the original late 1920s alignment of US 67 have survived, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One listed segment is in Lawrence County, which is about 11.25 miles (18.11 km) in length, and runs north from Alicia to Hoxie, most of this being sandwiched between the present Arkansas Highway 367 and US 67, and the adjacent railroad tracks. Near the village of Village Creek Relief it briefly turns west, crossing Village Creek, and then rejoining the railroad tracks near the town of Relief. A second listed segment, also about 11 miles (18 km) in length, extends from Biggers in central eastern Randolph County, northeast to Datto in Clay County, and then straight north to a junction with Arkansas Highway 211.

Mandeville

Listed on the NRHP as Old US 67, Mandeville, a historic roadway section of US 67 is preserved in Miller County, Arkansas. It travels parallel to railroad tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad for 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from an intersection with Highway 237, just north of the Texarkana Airport, northeast to Miller County Road 63. The southern portion of this road is called Mandeville Road, and is designated Arkansas Highway 296. It is eventually redesignated Miller County Road 138, and is an unnamed side road of the current alignment of U.S. Route 67 (US 67) in its northernmost stretch. Built in 1929 out of concrete, it is the longest stretch of original pavement on the Old US 67 alignment in Miller County.

The roadway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Future

Arkansas is upgrading US 67 to Interstate standards from Little Rock to the Missouri state line, and the corridor is slated to become an extension of Interstate 57. The freeway currently runs from Little Rock to Walnut Ridge, but it is unknown when and where the freeway north of there to the state line will be constructed.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Miller	Texarkana	0.0	0.0		US 67 south / US 82 west (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard)	Continuation into Texas
					US 71 north (State Line Avenue)	South end of US 71 overlap for northbound traffic; Texas state line
		0.1	0.16		US 71 north (Hazel Street) – Texarkana Business District	South end of US 71 overlap for southbound traffic
		0.5	0.80		US 71 south (Hickory Street)	North end of US 71 overlap
		1.0	1.6		US 82 east (East 9th Street)	North end of US 82 overlap; To Interstate 49 South
					AR 245 (now part of I-49)	Closed interchange
		3.6	5.8		Arkansas Boulevard / Airport Drive – Airport	To Interstate 49 North
		4.3	6.9		AR 237 south / AR 296 east – Mandeville
	Mandeville	6.4	10.3		AR 296 west to I-30 / US 71
	​	8.2	13.2		AR 108 west to I-30
	​	13.2	21.2		I-30 west – Texarkana	I-30 exit 12
Red River				Bridge
Hempstead	Fulton	18.9	30.4		AR 355 north – Fulton, Millwood Dam
	​	19.5	31.4		To I-30 – Little Rock, Texarkana	I-30 exit 18
	Guernsey	27.0	43.5		AR 353 north – Guernsey
	Hope	31.7	51.0		AR 174 south (Fulton Street)
		32.0	51.5		US 278B west (Hervey Street) to I-30	South end of US 278B overlap
		32.3	52.0		AR 29B south (Main Street)	South end of AR 29B overlap
		32.4	52.1		AR 29B north (Hazel Street)	North end of AR 29B overlap
		33.2	53.4		US 278 / AR 29 (Bill Clinton Drive) to I-30	north end of US 278B overlap
		33.5	53.9		AR 73 south
	​	35.3	56.8		AR 174 north
Nevada	Emmet	40.5	65.2		AR 299 north to I-30	South end of AR 299 overlap
		40.7	65.5		AR 299 south to AR 53	North end of AR 299 overlap
	Prescott	47.7	76.8		AR 332 west (Washington Road) – De Ann
		48.0	77.2		US 371 south – Magnolia	south end of US 371 overlap
		48.4	77.9		US 371 north / AR 24 east to I-30 – Nashville, Bluff City	north end of US 371 overlap
Clark	​	58.9	94.8		AR 51 north to I-30 – Okolona	South end of AR 51 overlap
	​	61.4	98.8		AR 51 south – Beirne	North end of AR 51 overlap
	Gurdon	64.8	104.3		AR 53 south – Whelen Springs, White Oak Lake State Park	South end of AR 53 overlap
		65.2	104.9		AR 182 west – Okolona
	​	65.7	105.7		AR 53 north to I-30 / AR 51	North end of AR 53 overlap
	​	74.4	119.7		AR 26S – Clark County Industrial Park
	Gum Springs	75.1	120.9		AR 26 (Reynolds Road) to I-30
	Arkadelphia	80.3	129.2		AR 7 south / AR 8 east / AR 51 north (Caddo Street)	South end of AR 7 / AR 8 / AR 51 overlap
		80.6	129.7		AR 8 west / AR 26 west / AR 51 south (Pine Street) to I-30 – Antoine, Amity	North end of AR 8 / AR 51 overlap
	Caddo Valley	85.7	137.9		AR 7 north to I-30 – Hot Springs, DeGray Dam	North end of AR 7 overlap
Hot Spring	Friendship	89.9	144.7		AR 283 north to I-30
	Donaldson	94.6	152.2		AR 51Y south to AR 51 south / AR 222 – Donaldson Business District
	​	95.2	153.2		AR 51 south to AR 222 – Donaldson Business District
	Malvern	106.0	170.6		US 270B west / AR 9 south (South Main Street) to I-30	south end of US 270B overlap
	​	108.7	174.9		US 270 to I-30 – Hot Springs, Sheridan	north end of US 270B overlap
	​	110.7	178.2		AR 171 south
Saline	​	117.7	189.4		I-30 / Old Military Road – Texarkana, Little Rock	I-30 exit 106
	Haskell	123.2	198.3		AR 229 south – Haskell, Traskwood
	​	124.7	200.7		I-30 west / AR 229 north – Texarkana	south end of I-30 overlap; US 67 south follows exit 114
see I-30
Pulaski	North Little Rock	153.4	246.9	143A	I-40 west / US 65 north / AR 107 north – Conway, Fort Smith	North end of I-30/US 65 overlap; south end of I-40 overlap; exit number follows I-30; I-40 exit 153B
		154.4	248.5	154	North Hills Boulevard	Northbound exit and southbound entrance; exit number follows I-40
		155.0	249.4	155	I-40 east – Memphis Future I-57 begins	North end of I-40 overlap; exit number based on I-40's mileposts
		155.9– 156.2	250.9– 251.4	1	McCain Boulevard	Signed as exits 1A (east) and 1B (west) northbound
	Sherwood	156.9	252.5	2	Trammel Road	Southbound access via exit 3
		158.2	254.6	3	Wildwood Avenue / Trammel Road	Trammel Rd. not signed northbound; northbound exit includes direct exit ramp to Landers Road north
		158.9	255.7	4	AR 176Y (Brookswood Street)	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		159.3	256.4	5	AR 176 (Kiehl Avenue)
	Jacksonville	161.0	259.1	6	AR 440 – Memphis, Texarkana	AR 440 exit 13
		163.3	262.8	8	Redmond Road	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		163.5	263.1	9	Main Street
		164.2	264.3	10A	James Street
		165.1	265.7	10B	AR 161 / Gregory Street	AR 161 not signed southbound; no access across US 67
		165.6	266.5	11A	AR 161 / Vandenberg Boulevard	Signed as exit 11 southbound; AR 161 not signed northbound
		166.3	267.6	11B	Air Force Base	Northbound exit and entrance
Lonoke	​	170.7– 171.0	274.7– 275.2	16	AR 5 / AR 321 / AR 367 – Heber Springs, Cabot	Signed as exits 16A (AR 321 / AR 367) and exit 16B (AR 5) northbound
	Cabot	173.4	279.1	19	AR 89 – Cabot
		175.4	282.3	21	AR 38 – Cabot
	Austin	176.6	284.2	22	AR 305 – Austin
	Ward	179.2	288.4	25	AR 319 – Ward
White	Beebe	182.8	294.2	28	US 64 west / US 67B north – Beebe, Conway	South end of US 64 overlap
		183.8	295.8	29	AR 367S – Beebe
		185.1	297.9	31	US 67B south / AR 31 – Beebe, Antioch
	​	189.6	305.1	35	AR 13 – McRae, Garner
	Searcy	196.6	316.4	42	US 67B north / AR 367 south – Searcy, Garner
		198.2	319.0	44	AR 367 – Searcy
		199.6	321.2	45	AR 36 west – Searcy
		200.8	323.2	46	US 67B south / AR 36 east – Searcy, Kensett
	​	202.4	325.7	48	AR 385 – Judsonia
	​	205.5	330.7	51	AR 157 – Judsonia
	​	209.0	336.4	54	Bald Knob Lake Road
	Bald Knob	209.9	337.8	55	US 64 east / US 167 north – Bald Knob, Batesville	North end of US 64 / US 167 overlap
	​	214.5	345.2	60	Russell
	​	219.9	353.9	65	AR 87 – Bradford
Jackson	​	223.6	359.8	69	CR 315 – Possum Grape
	​			Bridge over White River
	Ingleside	228.5	367.7	74	AR 224
	​	235.0	378.2	80	AR 14 – Waldenburg
	​	237.3	381.9	82	AR 17 – Newport
	Newport	238.4	383.7	83	AR 384 – Newport
		240.5	387.0	85	AR 18 – Newport, Grubbs
	​	242.8	390.7	87	CR 43
	​	251.3	404.4	95	AR 37 – Tuckerman, Grubbs
Craighead	​	257.7	414.7	102	US 78 east / AR 226 – Jonesboro, Swifton, Arkansas State University	Western terminus of US 78
Lawrence	Alicia	265.1	426.6	111	AR 230 to AR 367 / AR 91 – Alicia, Bono
	Walnut Ridge	275.0	442.6	121	US 63 / US 412 west – Hoxie, Jonesboro	Signed as exit 121A (north) and 121B (south) southbound, south end of US 412 overlap
		277.8	447.1	—	US 412B west / US 412 east – Paragould, Walnut Ridge	North end of freeway; ghost ramps exists here; north end of US 412 overlap, eastern terminus of US 412 Business
		279.4	449.7		US 67Y to AR 34
		280.6	451.6		US 67B south – Walnut Ridge Business District, truck route to US 412 west
Randolph	Shannon	288.2	463.8		AR 90 east – O'Kean
	Pocahontas	290.3	467.2		AR 304 east – Sharum, Delaplaine, Black River Technical College
		291.1	468.5		AR 304N east
				Black River Bridge over Black River
		292.0	469.9		US 62 west – Imboden	South end of US 62 overlap
see US 62
Clay	Corning	318.5	512.6		US 62 east – Business District, Piggott	North end of US 62 overlap
	​	321.5	517.4		AR 328 west – Success
	​	325.5	523.8		US 67 north – St. Louis	Missouri state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

• Special routes of U.S. Route 67
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Clay County, Arkansas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Arkansas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Randolph County, Arkansas