Shawnee Mission Parkway

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Shawnee Mission Parkway is a stretch of roadway in Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri (only a fragment). Its western terminus at K-7 in Shawnee, Kansas and its eastern terminus at Ward Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. The roadway is signed as US 56 from Interstate 35 to its eastern terminus, with US-69 overlapping from I-35 to Metcalf Avenue, and US-169 overlapping from Metcalf Avenue to Rainbow Boulevard.

The Shawnee Mission Parkway mainly functions to connect the main cities included in the Shawnee Mission, KS mailing address. All of the cities it passes through in Kansas are included in the mailing address.

Highway route

Current highways

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* to Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, where it turns north. Before the 18th Street Expressway (and later I-35) was built, US-69 was concurrent with US-169 in southern Overland Park and followed Metcalf before heading east on SMP and north on Rainbow, the current route of US-169
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Former highways

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* decommissioning

Cities traveled

Shawnee Mission Parkway passes through the following cities:
*Shawnee, Kansas
*Merriam, Kansas
*Overland Park, Kansas
*Mission, Kansas
*Roeland Park, Kansas
*Fairway, Kansas
*Westwood, Kansas
*Mission Woods, Kansas
*Kansas City, Missouri

Exit list

Shawnee Mission Parkway largely consists of at-grade intersections. However, there are several roads only accessible by exit from Shawnee Mission Parkway.

Italicized exits have been removed. The year this occurred is listed.

Exits are not numbered.

Westbound traffic

(from Kansas City, Missouri terminus):

* Granada Avenue
* Roe Avenue/Johnson Drive
* US-69 north, Metcalf Avenue north
* US-169 south, Metcalf Avenue south
* Interstate 35 north
* Interstate 35/US-69 south/US-56 west
* Merriam Drive
* Lackman Road
* Maurer Road
* Interstate 435 north
* Interstate 435 south
* K-7 north
* K-7 south

Eastbound traffic

(from Shawnee, Kansas terminus):
* Interstate 435 south
* Interstate 435 north
* Maurer Road
* Lackman Road
* Merriam Drive
* Interstate 35/US-69 south/US-56 west
* Interstate 35 north
* US-169 south, Metcalf Avenue south
* US-69 north, Metcalf Avenue north
* "Roe Avenue north/Johnson Drive" (2003)

References