Oklahoma State Highway 2

"OK 2" redirects here. OK 2 may also refer to Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district.

State Highway 2
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Section 1
Length:	117 mi (188 km)
South end:	SH-3 west of Antlers
North end:	US-64 in Warner (concurrent with US-266)
Section 2
Length:	17 mi (27 km)
South end:	US-60/69 in Vinita
North end:	SH-10 in Welch
Highway system
Oklahoma State Highways Oklahoma turnpike system ← SH-1 SH-3 →

State Highway 2, abbreviated SH-2 or OK-2, is a designation for two distinct highways maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Though they were once connected, the middle section of highway was concurrent with three different U.S. highways, so the middle section was decommissioned for reasons of redundancy.

The southern section of highway runs from Antlers, Oklahoma to U.S. Highway 64 near Warner, covering 117 miles^[1] (188 km) through the southeastern part of the state. The northern SH-2 runs for 17 miles^[2] (27.4 km) through Craig Co. in northeastern Oklahoma.

Route descriptions

Southern section

The end of US-266 and SH-2 near Warner

The southern section of SH-2 begins at SH-3 in Antlers. It travels north-northwest from here, roughly parallelling the Kiamichi River, until reaching Clayton and US-271. North of Clayton, Highway 2 and US-271 overlap for 3 miles (5 km). Immediately after this, SH-2 meets SH-43's eastern terminus southeast of Sardis Lake. SH-2 then crosses over the lake and meets SH-1/SH-63, and the three form a six-mile (10 km) concurrency. This area is mountainous and has some tight hairpin curves. After the concurrency Highway 2 continues northward, meeting US-270 at Wilburton.

SH-2 then passes Robbers Cave State Park and the eastern edge of the Sansbois Mountains before reaching SH-31 east of Quinton, and the two form a six-mile (10 km) concurrency until Kinta. Ten miles (16 km) north of here, Highway 2 meets SH-9. Three miles (4.9 km) later, the highway passes the eastern terminus of SH-71, south of the town of Porum, Oklahoma. 10 miles (16 km) later, SH-2 meets US-266, which it will overlap until its end. After having an interchange at I-40 milemarker 278, both SH-2 and US-266 end at US-64 near Warner.

Until the early 1980s a portion of SH-2 was one of the last unpaved state highways in the Oklahoma road network. The section between the communities of Kosoma, Oklahoma and Stanley, Oklahoma in the Kiamichi River Valley, remained gravel. Its builders during the 1930s and 1940s, in order to save the expense of building two bridges across the Kiamichi River, routed the highway mid-way up the flank of Bull Creek Mountain. The highway traversed the mountain at its midway point, with no shoulders or guard rails. During the 1980s a new route was opened in the floor of the valley, featuring modern bridges across Pine Creek and the Kiamichi River. The old route on Bull Creek Mountain was decommissioned and is no longer in use.

Northern section

The northern SH-2 begins at US-60/US-69 in Vinita. It then heads due north, meeting SH-25 four miles (6.5 km) west of Bluejacket. Six miles north of here, it ends at SH-10 in Welch, Oklahoma.

The mainline road becomes U.S. Highway 59, and the official state maps show SH-2 as overlapping US-59 until the Kansas border nine miles (14.4 km) later. However, the signage all shows that SH-2 ends in Welch [1].

Junction list

Southern section

County	Location	Mile[1]	Destinations	Notes
Pushmataha		0.0	SH-3	Southern terminus
	Clayton	33.6	US-271
		36.8	US-271
		38.9	SH-43
Latimer		45.6	SH-1/63
		51.7	SH-1/63
		63.3	US-270
	Wilburton	63.3	US-270
Haskell		82.9	SH-31
	Kinta	88.6	SH-31
	Whitefield	98.8	SH-9
Muskogee		104.7	SH-71	Eastern terminus of SH-71
		114.2	US-266
		115.2	I-40
	Warner	117.1	US-64	Northern terminus of SH-2; eastern terminus of US-266
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Northern section

County	Location	Mile[2]	Destinations	Notes
Craig	Vinita	0.0	US-60/69	Southern terminus
	Pyramid Corners	11.4	SH-25
	Welch	17.3	US-59/SH-10	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Stuve, Eric. "OK-2s". OKHighways. http://www.okhighways.com/ok2s.html. Retrieved 2007-06-22. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Stuve, Eric. "OK-2n". OKHighways. http://www.okhighways.com/ok2n.html. Retrieved 2007-06-22. 

External links

• SH-2's southern section at Roadklahoma
• SH-2's northern section at Roadklahoma