page_title: List of state highway spurs in Kansas
section_title: K-157
hierarchical_section_title: List of state highway spurs in Kansas / K-157
caption_attribution_description: K-157 Sign on US 77 South
context_page_description: The Kansas state highway system includes and has included many state highway spurs that connect through highways with places that are not along a through highway. The Kansas Department of Transportation and its predecessor agencies have established most of these highways to serve small cities. In most cases, the spur highway connecting a through route with a city ends at the city limit of the city. The spur highways also serve unincorporated villages, state institutions like psychiatric hospitals, state parks and other Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism–administered facilities, and historic sites.
context_section_description: K-157 is a 3.866-mile-long (6.222 km) spur route in Lyon Township in southwestern Geary County that serves Rock Springs 4-H Center, a 4-H camp that lies in both Geary and Dickinson counties. The highway begins at the main entrance of Rock Springs 4-H Center just north of the Geary–Dickinson county line. K-157 heads north to the next section line road, then the route curves east and follows the section line road to its eastern terminus at US-77 between Junction City and Herington. The Kansas State Highway Commission proposed a state highway connection between US-77 and Rock Springs 4-H Camp in a May 24, 1950, resolution, and the commission confirmed their decision in a November 14, 1950, resolution. The highway used the north–south segment of modern K-157, but instead of heading east toward modern US-77 north of the camp, the highway headed west to the contemporary course of US-77. The Kansas State Highway Commission approved a relocation of US-77 between Herington and Junction City in a January 6, 1960, resolution. The resolution included designation of a new course for K-157 from north of the 4-H facility to connect with the new course of US-77 and to remove the connection to old US-77. K-157 was assigned to its present course after US-77's relocation was completed in 1961.
caption: US-77 approaching junction with K-157
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