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State Highway 67
State Highway 67
	SH-67 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by ITD
Length	8.948 mi (14.400 km)
Major junctions
West end	Mountain Home AFB Main Gate
	SH-167
East end	SH-51 in Mountain Home
Location
Country	United States
State	Idaho
Counties	Elmore
Highway system
	Idaho State Highway System; Interstate; US; State;

State Highway 67 (SH-67) is a state highway in Elmore County, Idaho. It connects the Mountain Home Air Force Base to SH-51 in the city of Mountain Home.

Route description edit

SH-67 begins at the main entrance of the Mountain Home Air Force Base, located in southwestern Elmore County. The five-lane highway, named Airbase Road, travels due north from the base entrance to a junction with Grand View Road (signed as SH-167). From the junction, SH-67 turns northeast and travels through a section of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in the barren outskirts of Mountain Home as a four-lane, undivided highway. The highway then enters the city of Mountain Home and turns east before passing a municipal airport. SH-67 terminates at an intersection with SH-51 near the east end of the airport, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) west of an interchange with Interstate 84.^[2] Except for a brief divided section at the intersection with SH-167, the entire highway is four-lane non-divided, with center lane-left turn only areas where needed.

History edit

The history of SH-67 goes back to at least the 1930s, when the first all-weather gravel road connecting Grand View and Mountain Home was built (represented by today's SH-167, SH-67 and SH-51), and can be seen on a 1937 map of the area.^[3] A road from this road to the site of the base has existed since at least November 1942, when base construction began.

The route received its current number designation in the late 1960s in honor of the base's then-host unit, the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing (1965-1971).

The original SH-67 also included the entirety of SH-167 from Grand View to where it currently intersects with SH-67 approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the base's main gate.^[4]

In order to improve the base's prospects to remain open during a round of base closures in the 1970s, Idaho's legislature voted to expand the highway to the base to four lanes, although it was an area noted for gusty winds and tumbling tumbleweeds and little else. The expansion project also realigned the highway to go directly to the base's main gate. The unexpanded two-lane section of SH-67 that passed to the west of the base was delisted and unsigned (even though it was still officially maintained by ITD for the Simplot feed lot and the base's recreation area at C. J. Strike Dam just north of the Snake River) prior to its redesignation as SH-167.

Major intersections edit

The entire highway is in Elmore County.

Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Mountain Home AFB	0.000	0.000	Main Gate
	1.186– 1.773	1.909– 2.853	SH-167 – Grand View, C. J. Strike Dam	Originally part of SH-67
Mountain Home	8.948	14.400	SH-51 / Elmcrest Road – Mountain Home, Boise, Bruneau, Grasmere
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References edit

^ ^a ^b Staff (March 19, 2014). "State Highway 67 Milepoint Log" (PDF). Idaho Transportation Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
^ Google (September 15, 2018). "State Highway 67" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
^ Rand McNally and Company, Road map: Idaho, Mont., Wyo., published by Texaco, 1937
^ Staff (May 21, 2014). "State Highway 167 Milepoint Log" (PDF). Idaho Transportation Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2015.