U.S. Route 90 in Texas
U.S. Route 90 (US 90) is a major east-west highway in the U.S. state of Texas with large portions of it running concurrently with I-10. US 90 begins at Bus. I-10 in Van Horn, travels through San Antonio and Houston, and continues on into the state of Louisiana.
U.S. Highway 90 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
Length | 607.633 mi[1][note 1] (977.891 km) | |||
Existed | 1927[1]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | I-10 BL / SH 54 in Van Horn | |||
I-10 / I-35 / US 87 in San Antonio I-37 in San Antonio | ||||
East end | I-10 / US 90 in Orange at Louisiana state line | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Texas | |||
Counties | Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Pecos, Terrell, Val Verde, Kinney, Uvalde, Medina, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Gonzales, Fayette, Colorado, Austin, Waller, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Jefferson, Orange | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Route description
Van Horn to San Antonio
US 90 begins in Van Horn at an intersection with Bus. I-10 and SH 54. US 90 travels in a southeastern direction towards Marfa where it starts an overlap with US 67. US 90 travels south and runs parallel to the US-Mexico Border near the Rio Grande. US 90 crosses the Amistad Reservoir then runs through Del Rio. US 90 turns right and runs east towards Brackettville. US 90 runs through Uvalde and Medina counties. US 90 then arrives in San Antonio where it serves as a major freeway. Multiple stack interchanges are under construction to gain access in and out of the freeway along the intersections at Loop 1604 and I-410. Further, the highway has a major junction with TX-151 as it continues eastward towards the city's inner Westside until its interchange with I-10 and I-35 at the southwest corner of Downtown.
San Antonio to Houston
East of Downtown San Antonio, US 90 multiplexes with I-10. This overlap ends in Seguin, and continues where the two highways continually cross each other en route to Houston. US 90 once again duplexes with I-10 east of Columbus briefly separating near Brookshire and continue overlapping from Katy all the way to Houston. At I-610 east of Houston, US 90 becomes independently known as the Crosby Freeway.
The Crosby Freeway from east of Beltway 8 to east of Runneburg Road in Crosby, was constructed in the early 1990s and opened to traffic in 1992. After several delays, construction work on the inner section of the freeway began in 2006 and was opened to traffic in January 2011. The western terminus of the Crosby Freeway connects to the I-610 and I-10 interchange via two freeway ramps:
- a ramp from westbound Crosby Freeway, joining an exit ramp from westbound I-10 to enter southbound I-610
- a newly constructed two-lane exit ramp from eastbound I-10 connecting to eastbound Crosby Freeway.
The previous interchange was a four-level stack interchange though the new interchange is not a full five-level stack.
Because of funding constraints, two sections of the freeway inside Beltway 8 were not built to full freeway standards: a half-mile section over Greens Bayou and an approximately mile-long section east of Normandy Street. As of December 2012, only the feeder roads have been constructed, with space reserved in the median for future freeway mainlanes. Unlike most new freeway extensions in the Houston area built in recent decades, the Crosby Freeway is not tolled. Also unlike most of Houston's existing freeways and tollways, the Crosby Freeway does not have continuous feeder roads.
The Crosby Freeway has four to six mainlanes for its entire length.
Houston to Louisiana
US 90 (known as the Crosby Freeway) heads northeast leaving Houston and ends its freeway status in Crosby. US 90 then continues traveling east through Beaumont and is locally known as College Street, passes by Baptist Hospital Beaumont and meets I-10 at a T-interchange. It then passes through Orange and has a business route (Business US 90-Y). It then crosses the Sabine River into Louisiana towards Lake Charles. With the exception of an 11-mile-long (18 km) section with only two (briefly three) lanes between Liberty and Devers, US 90 has at least four lanes between Crosby and the Louisiana state line.
Major intersections
County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |||
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Culberson | Van Horn | 0.0 | 0.0 | I-10 BL to SH 54 – Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park | Access to Culberson Hospital; BL-10 is former US 80 | |||
0.2 | 0.32 | I-10 – San Antonio, El Paso | I-10 exit 140A | |||||
| 12.0 | 19.3 | FM 1523 south | |||||
Lobo | 17.8 | 28.6 | FM 1523 north | |||||
Jeff Davis | | 21.6 | 34.8 | FM 2017 north | ||||
| 45.5 | 73.2 | RM 505 – Fort Davis National Historic Site, Davis Mountains State Park, McDonald Observatory & Visitor's Center | |||||
Presidio | Marfa | 73.0 | 117.5 | RM 2810 south (Hoover Street) | ||||
73.6 | 118.4 | US 67 south / SH 17 north – Fort Davis, Fort Davis National Historic Site, McDonald Observatory and Visitor Center, Presidio | West end of US 67 overlap | |||||
Brewster | | 98.3 | 158.2 | FM 1703 north | ||||
Alpine | 99.7 | 160.5 | SH 118 north (5th Street) – Fort Davis, Fort Davis National Historic Site, McDonald Observatory and Visitor Center | West end of SH 118 overlap | ||||
100.1 | 161.1 | SH 118 south (Cockrell Street) – Big Bend National Park Headquarters | East end of SH 118 overlap | |||||
100.2 | 161.3 | SH 223 north (North Harrison Street) | ||||||
Altuda | 107.9 | 173.6 | US 67 north – Fort Stockton | East end of US 67 overlap | ||||
Marathon | 130.5 | 210.0 | US 385 south – Big Bend National Park Headquarters | West end of US 385 overlap | ||||
| 131.6 | 211.8 | US 385 north – Fort Stockton | East end of US 385 overlap | ||||
Pecos |
No major junctions | |||||||
Terrell | Sanderson | US 285 north – Fort Stockton | ||||||
Dryden | SH 349 north – Sheffield, Iraan | |||||||
| RM 1865 north – Pumpville | |||||||
Val Verde | | Loop 25 east – Langtry, Judge Roy Bean Museum | ||||||
| Loop 25 west – Langtry, Judge Roy Bean Museum | |||||||
| Pecos River Bridge over Pecos River | |||||||
| PR 67 – Seminole Canyon State Historical Park | |||||||
Comstock | RM 1024 north – Pandale | |||||||
SH 163 north – Ozona, Barnhart | ||||||||
| Spur 406 – Amistad National Recreation Area | |||||||
| Spur 349 – Port of Entry, Amistad Dam, Amistad Reservoir, Amistad National Recreation Area, Governors Landing | |||||||
| Spur 454 – Amistad National Recreation Area | |||||||
Del Rio | Loop 79 south – Sonora, Junction, Uvalde | |||||||
US 277 north / US 377 north – Rocksprings, Junction, Sonora | west end of US 277 / US 377 overlap | |||||||
Spur 239 south (East Gibbs Street) / Spur 297 south (Veteran's Boulevard) – Ciudad Acuña, Business District | East end of US 377 overlap | |||||||
US 277 south (Bedell Avenue) – Eagle Pass, Laredo | East end of US 277 overlap | |||||||
RM 2523 – Carta Valley | ||||||||
Loop 79 – Sonora, Junction, Eagle Pass | Interchange | |||||||
Kinney | | RM 3008 north to RM 2523 – Rocksprings | ||||||
| RM 693 south to US 277 – Quemado | |||||||
Brackettville | RM 2804 | |||||||
Loop 166 east | ||||||||
RM 3348 south (Las Moras Road) – Fort Clark Springs | ||||||||
RM 334 / RM 674 – Rocksprings, Kickapoo Cavern State Park | ||||||||
SH 131 south – Spofford, Eagle Pass | ||||||||
Loop 166 west | ||||||||
| FM 1572 west – Spofford | |||||||
Uvalde | | RM 1022 south – Blewett | ||||||
| Nueces River Bridge over Nueces River | |||||||
| FM 2369 east (Dunbar Lane) to FM 1403 – Rocksprings | |||||||
Uvalde | FM 481 south – Eagle Pass | |||||||
FM 1052 north | ||||||||
FM 1435 south (Evans Street) | West end of FM 1435 overlap | |||||||
FM 1435 north (Grove Street) | East end of FM 1435 overlap | |||||||
US 83 / SH 55 north (Getty Street) – Leakey, Junction, Rocksprings, Crystal City, Laredo | ||||||||
FM 1023 north (4th Street) | West end of FM 1023 overlap | |||||||
FM 1023 south (Garner Field Road) to FM 1049 – Uvalde Garner Field Airport | East end of FM 1023 overlap | |||||||
FM 3447 north | ||||||||
FM 1574 south to FM 1023 – Airport | ||||||||
| FM 2369 west – Uvalde | |||||||
Knippa | FM 1049 north – Concan | West end of FM 1049 overlap | ||||||
FM 1049 south to FM 1023 | East end of FM 1049 overlap | |||||||
| FM 2730 north to SH 127 | |||||||
Sabinal | SH 127 north / RM 187 – Utopia, Leakey, Concan, Garner State Park, Pearsall | |||||||
Medina | D'Hanis | FM 1796 north | ||||||
FM 2200 south – Yancey | ||||||||
Hondo | FM 1250 east to FM 462 | |||||||
FM 462 north / Avenue M – Tarpley | West end of FM 462 overlap | |||||||
FM 462 south / Avenue E – Yancey | East end of FM 462 overlap; access to Medina Community Hospital | |||||||
| SH 173 – Bandera, Devine | Interchange | ||||||
Castroville | FM 1343 south to County Road 4516 / SH 173 – Quihi | |||||||
FM 471 north – Rio Medina | West end of FM 471 overlap | |||||||
FM 471 south – Castroville Airport, La Coste, Natalia | East end of FM 471 overlap | |||||||
Bexar | | SH 211 | Interchange | |||||
| Montgomery Road | Interchange | ||||||
San Antonio | Loop 1604 (Anderson Loop) | Interchange; west end of freeway | ||||||
Hunt Lane / Ray Ellison Drive | no direct eastbound exit | |||||||
I-410 / SH 16 – Airport | I-410 exit 6 | |||||||
Loop 13 (Military Drive) – Lackland AFB | ||||||||
Old Highway 90 | No direct westbound exit | |||||||
Callaghan Road | ||||||||
Acme Road | No direct eastbound exit (signed at Callaghan Road) | |||||||
SH 151 (Stotzer Freeway) – SeaWorld | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||||||
36th Street – Port San Antonio | ||||||||
General McMullen Drive | ||||||||
Cupples Road | No direct eastbound exit (signed at General McMullen Drive) | |||||||
Spur 371 (General Hudnell Drive) – Port San Antonio | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||||||
Zarzamora Street | Eastbound exit only | |||||||
Loop 353 south (Nogalitos Street) | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |||||||
I-10 west / I-35 / US 87 north – El Paso, Austin, Laredo | West end of I-10 / US 87 overlap; signed as exit 572 | |||||||
see I-10 | ||||||||
Guadalupe | Seguin | I-10 east – Houston | East end of I-10 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; US 90 east follows exit 603 | |||||
| FM 725 to I-10 – McQueeney, Stockdale | |||||||
Seguin | US 90 Alt. east / FM 464 west to I-10 – McQueeney, Gonzales | |||||||
SH 46 (Sam Flores Drive) to US 90 Alt. / I-10 – New Braunfels, Gonzales | ||||||||
FM 78 west (Eighth Street) to I-10 – Marion, Schertz | ||||||||
Bus. SH 123 (North Austin Street) to I-10 – San Marcos, Stockdale | ||||||||
FM 466 east (North King Street) – Cost | ||||||||
SH 123 to I-10 – San Marcos, Stockdale | ||||||||
I-10 – San Antonio, Houston | I-10 exit 612 | |||||||
SH 130 Toll north / I-10 – Austin, San Antonio | SH 130 exit 496 | |||||||
Kingsbury | FM 2438 south to US 90 Alt. / I-10 | |||||||
FM 1104 east to I-10 | ||||||||
Caldwell | Luling | US 183 north / SH 80 to I-10 – Lockhart, San Marcos, Nixon | West end of US 183 overlap | |||||
US 183 south to I-10 – Gonzales | East end of US 183 overlap | |||||||
Gonzales | Harwood | FM 794 south to I-10 – Gonzales | ||||||
| SH 304 to I-10 – Bastrop, Gonzales | |||||||
Waelder | SH 97 west / FM 1115 north to I-10 / FM 1296 – Smithville, Gonzales | |||||||
FM 1680 south – Moulton | ||||||||
| I-10 – Houston, San Antonio | I-10 exit 653 | ||||||
Fayette | Flatonia | FM 2762 west to FM 1115 – Cistern | ||||||
SH 95 south – Moulton, Shiner | West end of SH 95 overlap | |||||||
SH 95 north to I-10 – Smithville, Bastrop, Komensky | East end of SH 95 overlap | |||||||
FM 609 north to I-10 – La Grange | ||||||||
| FM 1295 south – Praha, Komensky | |||||||
Engle | FM 2238 north to I-10 – Freyburg | |||||||
Schulenburg | FM 2672 north – High Hill | |||||||
FM 957 south – Hallettsville | ||||||||
Loop 222 (Lyons Avenue) to US 77 – Hallettsville | ||||||||
US 77 to I-10 – La Grange, Hallettsville | ||||||||
| FM 1579 east | |||||||
| I-10 – San Antonio, Houston | I-10 exit 677 | ||||||
| FM 1383 north – Dubina, Ammannsville | |||||||
Colorado | Weimar | FM 155 north – La Grange | West end of FM 155 overlap | |||||
FM 155 south to I-10 – Sublime | East end of FM 155 overlap | |||||||
| I-10 / Hattermann Lane – Houston, San Antonio | I-10 exit 689 | ||||||
Glidden | FM 2434 west to I-10 – Oakland | |||||||
| SH 71 to I-10 – La Grange, Austin, El Campo | Interchange | ||||||
Columbus | FM 806 south (Cardinal Lane) – Rock Island | |||||||
Bus. SH 71 (Fannin Street) to I-10 – La Grange, El Campo | ||||||||
Spur 52 (Milam Street) | ||||||||
Colorado River Bridge over Colorado River | ||||||||
| I-10 west – San Antonio | West end of I-10 overlap; US 90 west follows exit 698 | ||||||
see I-10 | ||||||||
Austin | Sealy | I-10 east / FM 3538 south – Houston | East end of I-10 overlap; US 90 east follows exit 718 | |||||
Loop 350 to SH 36 / I-10 / SH 60 – Bellville, Wallis, Wharton, Rosenberg | ||||||||
I-10 west / Outlet Center Drive – San Antonio | West end of I-10 overlap; westbound exit and eastbound entrance; US 90 west follows exit 721 | |||||||
see I-10 | ||||||||
Waller | | I-10 east / Peach Ridge Road / Donigan Road – Houston | East end of I-10 overlap; US 90 east follows exit 729 | |||||
Brookshire | FM 1489 south to I-10 – Simonton, Orchard | |||||||
FM 359 north / FM 362 north – Pattison, Hempstead, Waller | West end of FM 359 overlap | |||||||
FM 359 south to I-10 – Fulshear, Pecan Grove | East end of FM 359 overlap | |||||||
| FM 2855 north | |||||||
Fort Bend | Katy | FM 1463 south to FM 359 – Richmond, Pecan Grove | ||||||
Harris | I-10 west / Katy Mills Boulevard – San Antonio | West end of I-10 overlap; US 90 west follows exit 741 | ||||||
see I-10 | ||||||||
Harris | Houston | I-10 east – Beaumont | East end of I-10 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; US 90 east follows exit 775B | |||||
I-610 – Pasadena, Galveston, Lufkin | I-10 exit 775A; I-610 exit 26A; no access from I-610 south to US 90 east | |||||||
Mercury Drive | ||||||||
FM 526 south (Maxey Road) to Wallisville Road / I-10 – Galena Park | West end of FM 526 overlap | |||||||
FM 526 north (Normandy Street) to I-10 – Galena Park | East end of FM 526 overlap | |||||||
| Beltway 8 / Sam Houston Tollway to I-10 – Humble, Pasadena / Uvalde Road | Access to Sam Houston Tollway via frontage road | ||||||
| Miller Road No. 3 | |||||||
| Miller Road No. 2 | |||||||
Sheldon | Sheldon Road | |||||||
Frontage Road | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |||||||
Barrett–Crosby line | County Road | |||||||
FM 1942 / FM 2100 (US 90 Bus. west) – Huffman, Mont Belvieu | No direct westbound exit (signed at Runneburg Road) | |||||||
Krenek Road / Runneburg Road | Interchange; east end of freeway | |||||||
Liberty | | SH 99 Toll (Grand Parkway) – Spring, Baytown | ||||||
| FM 1413 south | |||||||
Dayton | SH 146 south to I-10 – Mont Belvieu, Baytown | West end of SH 146 overlap | ||||||
SH 321 north to FM 1008 / FM 1960 – Cleveland, Kenefick, Humble | ||||||||
FM 1409 south – Old River-Winfree | ||||||||
Liberty | Loop 227 north / FM 2684 south to SH 146 – Rye, Livingston | |||||||
FM 563 south to I-10 – Anahuac, Wallisville | ||||||||
SH 146 north – Hardin, Rye, Livingston | East end of SH 146 overlap | |||||||
Ames | FM 160 (MLK Road) | |||||||
FM 1909 north to FM 160 | ||||||||
| FM 2830 north to FM 160 | |||||||
Raywood | FM 770 south to FM 563 / I-10 – Anahuac, Wallisville | West end of FM 770 overlap | ||||||
FM 770 north – Daisetta, Saratoga, Kountze | East end of FM 770 overlap | |||||||
Devers | SH 61 south to I-10 / FM 1410 – Anahuac, Hankamer, Winnie | |||||||
| FM 1009 east – Nome | |||||||
Jefferson | Nome | FM 1009 west – Liberty | ||||||
SH 326 north / FM 365 east to FM 1406 / I-10 – Sour Lake, Fannett, Winnie | ||||||||
Beaumont | FM 364 (Major Drive) to I-10 / SH 105 | |||||||
I-10 / US 69 / US 96 / US 287 – Lake Charles, Lufkin, Jasper, Houston, Port Arthur | I-10 exit 851 | |||||||
see I-10 | ||||||||
Orange | Orange | I-10 east / US 90 east – Lake Charles, Lafayette | Louisiana state line | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
Notes
- Official mileage is shorter than actual mileage. TxDOT considers US 90 to be discontinuous at, rather than concurrent with, Interstate Highways and US Highways with lower numbers.
References
- Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "U.S. Highway No. 90". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved February 7, 2011.