page_title: Interstate 69
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Interstate 69 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: Photo of 2nd Blue Water Bridge. U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Excellence in Highway Design 1998 Biennial Awards
context_page_description: Interstate 69 is an Interstate Highway in the United States currently consisting of ten disjointed parts with an original continuous segment from Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the Canada–US border in Port Huron, Michigan, at 355.8 miles. The remaining separated segments are variously completed and posted or unposted sections of an extension southwest to the Mexican border in Texas. Of this extension—nicknamed the NAFTA Superhighway because it would help trade with Canada and Mexico spurred by the North American Free Trade Agreement—five pieces near Corpus Christi, Houston, northwestern Mississippi, Memphis, and Evansville have been built or upgraded and signposted as I-69. A sixth segment of I-69 through Kentucky utilizing that state's existing parkway system and a section of I-24 was established by federal legislation in 2008, but only a portion is signposted. This brings the total length to about 720 miles.
context_section_description: I-69 currently exists as a number of distinct segments, mostly corresponding to defined sections of independent utility (SIUs):
  The original (with later additions), fully completed route from Indianapolis, Indiana, to the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron, Michigan (SIU 1);
  Portions of the Indianapolis beltway (I-465), though not currently signed as such (SIU 2);
  A 157-mile (253 km) section including both the former Interstate 164 near Evansville, Indiana north from a temporary end at US 41; signed as I-69 in 2014 (SIU 4) to I-64, and onward north to SR 37 near Martinsville, Indiana, sections 1-5 of (SIU 3);
  The upgraded portions of the Kentucky Parkway system: Purchase, Western Kentucky and Pennyrile parkways; in addition to a portion of I-24 (SIU 5) and (SIU 6);
  A 42-mile (68 km) section from Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, to the I-40/I-69/State Route 300 (SR 300) interchange in Memphis, Tennessee part of (SIU 9) and (SIU 10);
  The existing US 59 freeway from Rosenberg, Texas, to Cleveland, Texas (SIU 19);
  A 7.8-mile (12.6 km) segment of US 77 from south of State Highway 44 (SH 44) to I-37 near Corpus Christi, Texas (SIU 22), designated as I-69 in August 2011 and re-designated as I-69E on May 30, 2013
  An 18-mile (29 km) section of US 281 from I-2 in Pharr, Texas to Edinburg, Texas, designated as I-69C on May 30, 2013.
  A 53.3-mile (85.8 km) section of US-77 (and part of US 83) from the Veterans International Bridge at Brownsville, Texas to Raymondville, Texas, designated as I-69E on May 30, 2013 (SIU 23).
  A 1.4-mile (2.3 km) section of both US 59 and Loop 20 in Laredo, Texas between the World Trade International Bridge and I-35, designated as I-69W on June 17, 2014.
  The original portion of Interstate 69 in Indiana (SIU 1 of the overall national plan) starts at an interchange with Interstate 465, the beltway around Indianapolis on the northeast side of that city. I-69 heads northeast to near Anderson, where it turns more easterly to provide indirect access to Muncie before turning more northerly towards Marion, and Fort Wayne. In Fort Wayne, I-69 runs along the western edge of the city while I-69's first (and for many years only) signed auxiliary route, I-469, loops east of the city. After crossing the Indiana East-West Toll Road (I-80/I-90) near Angola and Fremont, I-69 enters Michigan just south of Kinderhook.
  I-69 in Michigan runs north passing through Coldwater and Marshall. There it crosses I-94 east of Battle Creek. Near Olivet, I-69 begins to turn in a northeasterly direction passing through the Lansing metropolitan area. Here I-69 is cosigned with I-96 as an overlap west of Lansing, the only such palindromic pairing in the Interstate Highway System. Where it splits from I-96, I-69 turns east, both in compass direction and in signed direction, and heads north of Lansing and through Flint (where it crosses I-75) to a junction with I-94 just outside Port Huron. At its eastern terminus, I-69 joins I-94 to the Blue Water Bridge across the St. Clair River, where traffic continues on Highway 402 in the Canadian province of Ontario to London, Ontario.
  The new section of Interstate 69 in southern Indiana presently begins at the U.S. Route 41 interchange south of Evansville at the former southern terminus of Interstate 164. From there, it runs first east, then north meeting state roads 662, 66, and 62. At exit 18, Indiana State Road 57 joins I-69 on a concurrency. Shortly thereafter, it meets Interstate 64 at a cloverleaf interchange. From there, it runs north to SR 68. Construction was completed on November 19, 2012, on a 67-mile (108 km) segment (SIU 3, Section 1-3). This extension takes the route north-northeast from there to SR 64 near Oakland City, then north-northeast to US 50/US 150 at Washington and finally northeast to US 231 near the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center. Construction for the final new terrain segment (SIU 3, Section 4), which takes I-69 from Crane NSWC northeast to SR 37 on the southwest side of Bloomington, was completed in December 2015, and was extended north to Martinsville in late 2018 (Section 5).
caption: I-69's northern terminus at the Blue Water Bridge at the Canada–US border in Port Huron, Michigan, connecting it to Ontario Highway 402 in Point Edward (Sarnia), Ontario
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