Colorado State Highway 35
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| Quebec Street | ||||
Map of County and City of Denver in north central Colorado with SH 35 highlighted in red
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| Maintained by CDOT | ||||
| Length: | 1 mi[2] (2 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1972[1] – present | |||
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| South end: |  I-70 in Denver |
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 I-270 |
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| North end: | 53rd Place | |||
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| Counties: | Denver | |||
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Colorado State Highways
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→State Highway 35, also known as Quebec Street, is a state route in the city of Denver, Colorado. It is 1.317 miles (2.120 km) long. Its southern end is I-70 and its eastern end is 53rd Place. An expansion was planned but funding has not materialized.
Route description
The route begins as Quebec Street at I-70. It crosses Sand Creek[3] and intersects I-270 and Northfield Boulevard; the interchanges overlap one another.[1] The route then continues, intersects 52nd Place and ends at 53rd Place, but Quebec Street continues northward towards Commerce City.[4]
History
The route was established in 1972 as a road to Stapleton International Airport (now closed). It was planned to be extended in several locations, but it remains a short highway.[1] Government records from the 1970s indicate that the route would have gone all the way to the intersection of Quebec St. and Hampden Ave. north to I-80S (now I-76) southwest of Barr Lake, but the construction never began, even though it was still on the books until the late 1990s.[1]
The route's southern end was at the Stapleton terminal access road from 1972 to 2000, when it was moved up to I-70. From 1972–1977 the northern end of the highway ended at I-70, then moved to 56th Ave, and then to I-270 in 1988 before ending around 53rd Place in the mid-1990s.[1]
Future
Because of congestion in the areas around Quebec Street an extension of Highway 35 into a major highway in the eastern metropolitan Denver area has been proposed. In theory, it would be useful to alleviate traffic jams in the Quebec St. area.[1]
Exit list
The entire route is in Denver. All exits are unnumbered.
| mi | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| 0.000 | 0.000 | I-70 |
I-70 exit 278; southern terminus. | ||
| 0.463 | 0.745 | I-270 |
I-270 exit 4. | ||
| 0.637 | 1.025 | Northfield Boulevard | |||
| 1.317 | 2.120 | 53rd Place | Northern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
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