U.S. Route 60
Formed:	1926
West end:	I-64/US 60 near White Sulphur Springs, WV
Major junctions:	I-81 near Lexington I-95 in Richmond US 17 in Newport News
East end:	Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach
Virginia Routes < SR 59 SR 61 > Primary - Secondary - History

U.S. Route 60 in Virginia runs east-west through the central part of the state, generally following the Interstate 64 corridor. However, between Lexington and Richmond, I-64 is further north along U.S. Route 250, and US 60 is mostly a rural two-lane road. Image File history File links US_60. ... Image File history File links I-64. ... Image File history File links US_60. ... White Sulphur Springs is a city in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. ... Image File history File links I-81. ... Lexington is an independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the state of Virginia. ... Image File history File links I-95. ... Richmond is the capital of Virginia, a state (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) of the United States of America. ... Image File history File links US_17. ... Newport News is an independent city located in Virginia. ... Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. ... U.S. Highway 60 is an east-west United States highway, running 2,670 miles (4,300 km) from Virginia to Arizona. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Interstate 64 in Virginia runs east west through the middle of the state from West Virginia via Covington, Lexington, Staunton, and Charlottesville to Richmond. ... Lexington is an independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the state of Virginia. ... Richmond is the capital of Virginia, a state (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) of the United States of America. ...

Route description

In Virginia, as a through-route, U.S. 60 was largely replaced by Interstate 64. The latter is roughly parallel, although there is a separation of almost 50 miles crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains, where I-64 uses Rockfish Gap, and the crossing used by U.S. 60 remains a very hilly and treacherous section. Interstate 64 (abbreviated I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. ... Blue Ridge Mountains, Shinning Rock Wilderness Area Blue Ridge Mountains (NPS) Most of the rocks that form the Blue Ridge Mountains, United States, are ancient granitic and metamorphosed volcanic formations, some exceeding one billion years in age. ... Rockfish Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains near a peak known as Afton Mountain in Virginia. ...

U.S. Route 60 enters the state near the top of the Eastern Continental Divide in the Appalachian Mountains and crosses the Great Valley through Covington, Clifton Forge, and Lexington. It runs easterly across the Blue Ridge Mountains east of Buena Vista and then through the middle belt of the state. The road is two lanes for much of its journey eastward through the state, but widens to four lanes in Powhatan County and then to six lanes through the urban parts of Chesterfield County and in most of the city of Richmond. The Eastern Divide or Eastern Continental Divide is a continental divide in the United States that separates the Gulf of Mexico drainage from the watersheds that flow directly into the Atlantic Ocean. ... A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, forming a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1... Blue Ridge Mountains, Shinning Rock Wilderness Area Blue Ridge Mountains (NPS) Most of the rocks that form the Blue Ridge Mountains, United States, are ancient granitic and metamorphosed volcanic formations, some exceeding one billion years in age. ...

A hilly three-laned portion of US 60 in eastern Henrico County was infamous for many years for its center "suicide lane". East of Bottoms Bridge, Virginia, in New Kent County and western James City County, US 60 is a lightly-traveled four-lane divided highway that is sometimes used as an alternate route to the congested Interstate 64. East of Williamsburg, US 60 narrows to two lanes through the Grove Community in southeastern James City County and the Lee Hall section of Newport News, where it becomes Warwick Boulevard. US 60 crosses Hampton Roads to Norfolk via the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, and essentially follows the southern shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay to Cape Henry and Virginia Beach, Virginia, where it terminates. Historically, a suicide lane has referred to a lane in the center of a highway meant for passing in both directions. ... New Kent County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ... James City County, Virginia as shown on 1895 map James City County (formally, the County of James City) is a county located on the Virginia Peninsula, in the U.S. state of Virginia. ... Grove is an unincorporated community located in the southeastern portion of James City County, Virginia. ... Lee Hall is a former unincorporated town (or village) which is now a community in the extreme western portion of the independent city of Newport News in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ... Hampton Roads, from state map of pre-civil war Virginia circa 1858 Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water and the land areas which surround it in southeastern Virginia in the United States. ... Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) is the 3. ... Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo Chesapeake Bay where the Susquehanna River empties into it. ... Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia. ... Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...

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