Colorado State Highway 72

Colorado State Highway 72

State Highway 72 marker

State Highway 72
Route information
Maintained by CDOT
Length: 51.01 mi[1] (82.09 km)
Major junctions
South end: I-70 in Wheat Ridge
  SH 93 in rural Jefferson County
SH 119 at Nederland
North end: SH 7 east of Allenspark
Location
Counties: Jefferson, Gilpin, Boulder
Highway system

Colorado State Highways

SH 71 SH 74

State Highway 72 is a 51-mile (82 km) long state highway passing through the foothills and the eastern edge of the Front Range.

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Route description

The route is a mainly rural, scenic, mountainous highway; not having many junctions. It begins at I-70 (Exit 266) in Wheat Ridge as Ward Road. It continues north through the western parts of Arvada where it becomes Coal Creek Canyon Rd. The highway continues north-north-west through Coal Creek Canyon and aptly named Wondervu, across the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Pinecliffe, to Nederland where it meets SH 119. It goes north past Ward to its terminus with SH 7 east of Allenspark.

History

The route was established in the 1920s, when it began at 46th Avenue in Denver and headed northeast to SH 119 in Nederland. The other section of the highway northeast of Nederland was designated as SH 160. By 1936, the terminus had been moved to SH 58 (now moved). The section from SH 93 through Denver was paved by 1946, and the route was paved entirely by 1958. In 1968, SH 160 was deleted and SH 72 took the route from Nederland to Raymond.[2]

Major intersections

County Location Mile Destination Notes
Jefferson Wheat Ridge 0.00 I-70 Interchange
10.65 SH 93 – Arvada
Boulder Nederland 29.37 SH 119 Begin concurrency
32.37 SH 119 End concurrency
54.06 SH 7
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
     Concurrency terminus     Closed/Former     Incomplete access     Unopened

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