Indiana State Highway 120
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Indiana State Highway 120 is an east-west state highway in the U.S. state of Indiana located close to the Michigan border. It has a western terminus in Elkhart as a surface street and an eastern terminus on the short north-south border between Indiana and Michigan, where it becomes a county road (formerly Michigan State Highway 120, or M-120), a few miles east of Fremont.
Indiana's three-digit state highways are generally "children" of one-digit or two-digit state or U.S. highways in a manner analogous to that of the U.S. highway system. Indiana 120 has U.S. Highway 20 as its "parent", to which it is nearly parallel. Until the 1990s, when U.S. 20 was diverted to a limited-access highway to the south of Elkhart, Indiana 120 had its western terminus in Elkhart on U.S. 20. After the re-alignment of U.S. 20, Indiana 120 was truncated at a street junction.
All of Indiana 120 is undivided surface highway. It is strictly an undivided surface highway, lightly traveled throughout most of its route, due to the nearby Indiana Toll Road, also known as Interstate 80 and Interstate 90, which carries most east-west long-distance travel through northern Indiana. Aside from Elkhart and Fremont, it does not traverse any towns with populations greater than 1000.
It has direct access to the Indiana Toll Road, and indirect access, through a short stretch of Indiana State Highway 127, to Interstate 69 a few miles west of Fremont.