Great River Road

The Great River Road is a compilation of U.S. Highways, State Routes and County Roads, skirting contiguous on both banks of the Mississippi. The Great River Road runs through the ten U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota along the Mississippi and has further been extended to the two Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario.

Although there are actually several roads, it forms a coherent integrated system in the U.S. and Canada, but also in every state and every province. The continuous connection is less traffic in the technical sense of interest, but is mainly used for tourist and historical usage. Many coastal states have a number of attractions along the road opened up and use the Great River Road, to connect them with each other.

The Great River Road is a National Scenic Byway and performs with the exception of Arkansas always on both banks of the river. The extensions to Canada starting in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and Bemidji and branch out to Winnipeg, Minaki, Ontario and Dryden, Ontario.

The Great River Road was established in 1938 and maintained in every state of its own committee. These work together in Mississippi Parkway Commission ( MRPC ). The entire 3765 km long distance is consistently marked with green and white signs on which a typical Mississippi steamboat can be seen. Among them, the name of any State or Province. On the MRPC publications is spoken by the connection " Canada to Gulf ", and thus indicated the course of the route from the start in Ontario until the end in Venice, Louisiana.

Course

See also History of the Great River Road ( s).

The Great River Road is, although the name suggests it, no single road. Instead it will be from a number of roads together that have different meanings and numbering for the respective regional or local use.