Texas State Highway 20

State Highway 20
SH 20 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length	78.061 mi[1] (125.627 km)
Existed	April 2, 1969–present
Major junctions
West end	NM 460 / NM 478 in Anthony
Major intersections	SH 178 in El Paso I-10 / US 85 / US 180 in El Paso I-10 / US 180 in El Paso I-110 / US 54 in El Paso US 62 in El Paso
East end	I-10 in McNary
Location
Country	United States
State	Texas
Counties	El Paso, Hudspeth
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec
← I-20 → SH 21

State Highway 20 (SH 20) is a 78.1-mile (125.7 km) highway maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that runs from New Mexico State Road 460 at the state line between Texas and New Mexico at Anthony in El Paso County to Interstate 10 at McNary in Hudspeth County. It largely follows a former alignment of U.S. Route 80. The route passes through the city of El Paso as well as suburban and rural farming communities along the Rio Grande. With the exception of a stretch north of central El Paso where the route crosses north of I-10, the route generally runs in a narrow belt between I-10 and the Rio Grande. The route has connections to every international border crossing^[2] with Mexico in the El Paso area and has important intersections with US 54, US 62, US 85, and US 180.

Until the late 1930s, the route designation belonged to a highway in central Texas along the route of present-day

Current route

Before the state established its highway system, the route of SH 20 was used by many historic auto trails including the

Dallas before entering Arkansas at Texarkana. This route was also one of the original routes planned in 1917,^[4] and remained largely unchanged until the end of the 1930s.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

In 1927, US 80 was designated over the route of SH 1 from the New Mexico state line at Anthony to Dallas and then proceeding east to the Louisiana state line east of Waskom.^[11] The highway carried both the US 80 and SH 1 designations until the 1939 general redescription of the state highway system when SH 1 was decommissioned outside the city of Dallas.^[12] In 1944, the full length of US 80 within Texas was designated as the Veterans of World War II Highway.^[11] US 80 was relocated over I-10 through El Paso on April 2, 1969, and its former route was then renamed SH 20.^[1] US 80 was decommissioned west of Dallas on August 28, 1991.^[11]

Route description

SH 20 begins where

Sun Bowl Stadium before entering central El Paso.^[13]

In central El Paso, the route crosses I-10 and US 180 again and then soon after turns northeast on Texas Avenue where the route crosses Santa Fe and Stanton Streets leading to the

Bridge of the Americas. The route crosses US 62 at Paisano Dr. before the route turns southeast at Ascarate Park and enters the Lower Valley.^[13]

At Zaragoza Road, which leads to the

Fabens-Caseta International Bridge. The route passes through Tornillo as Alameda Avenue again before leaving El Paso County.^[13]

In Hudspeth County, the route intersects

FM 2217 which continues along the Lower Valley, and then terminates at I-10.^[13]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[14]	km	Destinations	Notes
El Paso	Anthony	0.000	0.000	NM 460 north (Anthony Drive) to NM 478	continuation into New Mexico
		0.041	0.066	FM 1905 west (Washington Street)	west end of FM 1905 overlap
		0.138	0.222	FM 1905 east (Franklin Street) to I-10	east end of FM 1905 overlap
		0.585	0.941	Spur 6 east (Wildcat Drive) to I-10
	Spur 37) – Vinton, Westway
	FM 259 west / La Union Avenue
		6.372	10.255	Loop 375 east (Talbot Drive) to I-10
	Spur 16 north to I-10 / Loop 375
		8.413	13.539	SH 178 (Artcraft Road) to I-10	interchange
		11.732	18.881	Las Cruces	I-10 exit 11
		19.667	31.651	US 180 )	I-10 exit 19
		19.996	32.180	To Fed. 45 / Mesa Street
		22.464	36.152	Copia Street ( Loop 478 )
		23.951	38.545	US 62 west (Paisano Drive)	traffic circle; west end of US 62 overlap
		24.005	38.632	US 62 east (Paisano Drive)	traffic circle; east end of US 62 overlap
		24.710	39.767	Clark Drive	former FM 1505 north
		25.651	41.281	FM 76 east (Delta Drive)
		32.133	51.713	Zaragoza Road ( FM 258 east)
		33.356	53.681	Loop 375 (Americas Avenue) to I-10	Loop 375 exit 47
	San Elizario Mission
	FM 258 west
		48.558	78.147	FM 793 – Port of Entry
	​	52.617	84.679	FM 3380 (M.F. Aguilera Road)	interchange
Spur 148 to I-10
	​	72.860	117.257	FM 1088 south – Port of Entry
	​	77.009	123.934	FM 192
	​	78.061	125.627	I-10 – El Paso, Sierra Blanca	I-10 exit 78
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• 
  U.S. Roads portal
• Texas portal

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 20". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
2. ^ "Minutes of the Sixth Regular Monthly Meeting of the State Highway Commission" (PDF). November 19, 1917.
3. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
   . Retrieved July 22, 2010.
4. ^
   Texas State Highway Department
   , Office of State Highway Engineer. July 1917. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
5. Texas State Highway Department
   . Retrieved July 21, 2010.
6. Texas State Highway Department
   . Retrieved July 21, 2010.
7. Texas State Highway Commission
   . Retrieved July 21, 2010.
8. Texas State Highway Commission. March 1, 1929. Archived from the original
   on May 10, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
9. Texas State Highway Commission
   . § M16-N24. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
10. Texas State Highway Commission
    . March 1, 1936. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
11. ^ ^{a b c} Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "U.S. Highway No. 80". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
12. ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 1". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
13. ^ ^{a b c d} Google (July 20, 2010). "Map of SH 20" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
14. ^ Texas Department of Transportation (2018). "Statewide Planning Map LRS Readout (ArcGIS)". Retrieved October 30, 2019.

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