Interstate 680

View northward on I-680 at West Center Road.

Interstate 680 (abbreviated I-680) in Nebraska and Iowa is the northern bypass freeway for the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. I-680 spans 42.86 miles from its western terminus at I-80 in western Omaha to its eastern terminus near Neola, Iowa. For a 14-mile stretch, I-680 is co-signed with Interstate 29. Until 1973, the section in Iowa between the current eastern terminus and I-29 was designated as Interstate 80N.

I-680 in Omaha was originally designated I-280; maps from the early and mid-1960s showed I-280 in Omaha. Since this highway would extend into Iowa, and Iowa had another I-280 planned for the Quad Cities area, one of these I-280s would have to be renumbered. I-680 was designated as a result of these actions.

The interstate crosses the Missouri River between the two states via the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Bridge.

This article uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Interstate 680 (Iowa-Nebraska). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the CC by-sa 3.0 License.

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