page_title: Roads in Puerto Rico
section_title: U.S. Forest Highway
hierarchical_section_title: Roads in Puerto Rico / U.S. Forest Highway
caption_attribution_description: English: Puerto Rico Highway 191 signs in El Yunque National Forest, northeastern Puerto Rico. A USDA Forest Service Forest Highway, and forest road scenic drive, through the only tropical U.S. National Forest.
context_page_description: The Roads in Puerto Rico are the national, forest and municipal roadways that make up the approximately 14,400 kilometers roads through the terrain of Puerto Rico. The highways serve the more than 3 million residents, and 3-4 million tourists who visit each year.
  Puerto Rico's territorial highway system is divided into four networks called primary, urban primary, secondary, and tertiary. As a road or highway changes from being part of one network type to another network type, it maintains its same number but is then marked with a corresponding shield. The National Highway System roads are maintained by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works.
  Puerto Rico's Interstate Highways, or the Puerto Rico Highway Program, which are not signed, are partially funded by the US federal government, as Puerto Rico's citizens pay federal taxes. At one time, Puerto Rico was treated as a state for the remittance of federal-aid highway funds, but with TEA-21, a legislative act, "Puerto Rico no longer receives a share of the apportioned Federal-aid highway funds.
context_section_description: The El Yunque National Forest uses the Forest Highway road marker, a brown-colored, upside-down trapezoid with the words Bosque Nacional, (English: National Forest). This is a marker used along forest highways in the United States.
caption: Markers at the El Yunque National Rain Forest
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