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The highway’s eastern terminus is at a junction with Interstate 90\/U.S. Route 14 (I-90\/US\u00a014), concurrent with I-190, in Rapid City, South Dakota. The western terminus is the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park, concurrent with US\u00a014 and US\u00a020.  U.S. 16 used to extend all the way to Michigan, but has been truncated in favor of Interstates 90 and 96.  A ballot initiative that passed in 2022, allocated funds to extend U.S. 16 through both Joe Creek and Peoria Flats.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsRoute description[edit]Wyoming[edit]South Dakota[edit]History[edit]Major intersections[edit]See also[edit]Related routes[edit]Special and suffixed routes[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Route description[edit]Wyoming[edit]US\u00a016 begins at the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park, along with US\u00a014 and the eastern segment of US\u00a020. From the park, the three highways run concurrently to Cody and Greybull. In Greybull, US\u00a014 splits off to the east, while US\u00a016\/US\u00a020 head due south to Basin and Worland. In Worland, US\u00a016 splits off from US\u00a020, and heads east over the Powder River Pass on its way to the city of Buffalo. After passing Buffalo, US\u00a016 arches north to the community of Ucross, meeting US\u00a014 again, before arching back south to Gillette. US\u00a016 then runs east concurrently with I-90 between Gillette and Moorcroft before heading southeast to the towns of Upton and Newcastle. The highway then heads east to the South Dakota state line. For most of the way through the state, the highway is a two-lane road.South Dakota[edit]US\u00a016 is also known as Mount Rushmore Road in western South Dakota. From the state line, the highway travels near Jewel Cave, the third-longest cave in the world.[1] The highway goes through the city of Custer and shares alignment with US\u00a0385. East of Hill City, US\u00a016 splits off US\u00a0385. It then becomes a four-lane divided highway, with the two roadways separated by up to a half-mile (0.8\u00a0km) in some places, including the old gold-mining town of Rockerville, South Dakota, which is contained entirely between the two roadways.  In Rapid City, a truck bypass runs along Catron Boulevard and Elk Vale Road up to Exit 61 on I-90.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The South Dakota section of US\u00a016 is defined at South Dakota Codified Laws \u00a7 31-4-138.[2]History[edit]  US\u00a016 originally connected Detroit with Yellowstone, including a ferry link across Lake Michigan between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Michigan, the route was in use long before automobiles and was known to white settlers as the Grand River Road, and prior to the designation of US Routes in 1926, had been designated as M-16 in the 1920s from Detroit to south of Muskegon.  In 1938, reflectorized discs were placed on US-16 every 100 feet (30\u00a0m) from Detroit to Lansing, resulting in fewer nighttime traffic accidents.  Other states would later do the same on their roads.US\u00a016 initially crossed the South Dakota\u00a0\u2013 Wyoming state line west of Spearfish. U.S. Route 216 was commissioned in 1930 as a loop off US\u00a016 to the south between Rapid City and Moorcroft, crossing the state line west of Custer. In 1934, US\u00a016 was moved to the US\u00a0216 alignment, while the former US\u00a016 became part of an extension of US\u00a014.In Michigan, most of US\u00a016 was superseded by I-96 and a segment of Grand River Avenue in Detroit ultimately became M-5. US\u00a016 was later decommissioned in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and eastern South Dakota to its present termini.[3]Between Rapid City and Dexter, Minnesota, it has been supplanted by I-90. In Faribault County, Minnesota the highway took on another number as there was already a county highway 16. Residents of the county continued referring to the road as “16” or “old 16” and eventually the county renumbered it as Faribault County 16. From the county’s western border with Martin County, 16 continues East through the city of Blue Earth as part of 1st Street and Leland Parkway until it briefly combines with US-169\/Grove Street. One half mile south of that point at the intersection of Grove and 7th Streets, County 16 follows 7th Street and continues East to the border of Freeborn County. Most of the stretch through Faribault County is a relatively narrow 2 lane highway with wide gravel shoulders that has been widened at least two times since US-16 was decommissioned. East of Dexter it is now Minnesota State Highway\u00a016 and Wisconsin Highway\u00a016. In South Dakota it was replaced by various state highways (including SD 38 and 248) and county roads: generally, in West River the old alignment was transferred to county responsibility entirely, while in East River it remained a state-maintained highway.An older Alternate US\u00a016 in South Dakota has become South Dakota Highway 240.In South Dakota, in 2009, the South Dakota Department of Transportation designated US-16\/US-385 between Custer and Hill City, which passes by the Crazy Horse Memorial, now being carved in the Black Hills, the Crazy Horse Memorial Highway. This segment of US-385 is also a part of the George Hearst Memorial Highway.Major intersections[edit]Mileage resets at the state line crossing.See also[edit]Related routes[edit]Special and suffixed routes[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Route map: KML is from Wikidata     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki3\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki3\/u-s-route-16-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"U.S. Route 16 – Wikipedia"}}]}]