List of Dallas-Fort Worth area freeways
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The following is a list of the freeways and tollways in the Dallas, Texas area:
- Interstate 20; Interstate highway passing through suburban Fort Worth and Arlington and sparsely populated south Dallas.
- Interstate 30; Tom Landry Highway (W) / R.L. Thornton Freeway (E) / East-West Freeway (Fort Worth); Interstate highway passing through Dallas, Arlington, and Fort Worth, begins from I-20 just west of Fort Worth.
- Interstate 35E; Stemmons Freeway (N) / R.L. Thornton Freeway (S); Interstate highway passing through Dallas and Denton, eventually meets I-35W in Denton and Hillsboro.
- Interstate 35W; North/South Freeway; Interstate highway passing through Fort Worth, eventually meets I-35E in Denton and Hillsboro.
- Interstate 45; Julius Schepps Freeway; Interstate highway passing through sparsely populated southeast Dallas, terminating at U.S. 75 in downtown Dallas. The small section between U.S. 75 and I-30 along the eastern edge of downtown Dallas is officially called Interstate 345, but is signed as "To U.S. 75" or "To I-45".
- Interstate 635; Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway; Interstate half-loop around Dallas.
- Interstate 820; Jim Wright Freeway (N.W. Fort Worth); Interstate loop around Fort Worth (southern leg is now I-20).
- U.S. Highway 67; Marvin D. Love Freeway / S.G. Alexander Freeway; freeway passing through southwest Dallas.
- U.S. Highway 75; North Central Expressway; north-south freeway starting in Downtown Dallas, passes through Plano.
- U.S. Highway 80; freeway passing through Mesquite, begins from I-30 in east Dallas. Formerly extended through Fort Worth towards El Paso before being replaced by I-20.
- U.S. Highway 175; S.M. Wright Freeway / C.F. Hawn Freeway; freeway passing through sparsely populated southeast Dallas.
- U.S. Highway 287; Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway; freeway passing through southeast Fort Worth.
- Texas State Highway 114; John W. Carpenter Freeway; freeway passing through the Las Colinas business district in Irving.
- Texas State Highway 121; Airport Freeway; freeway passing through Grapevine and northeast Fort Worth. This freeway is being extended into the suburbs north of Dallas. Known locally as SH 121.
- Texas State Highway 161; freeway/tollway passing between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Irving, will eventually connect to Texas 190 on the north.
- Texas State Highway 183; Airport Freeway / John W. Carpenter Freeway / Southwest Blvd. (Fort Worth); freeway passing through Irving and the "Mid-Cities", a 3-mile section of Texas 183 in southwest Fort Worth is a freeway.
- Texas State Highway 190; originally planned as the designation for a northern outer-loop freeway, but a tollway was built instead and Texas 190 was retained as the designation of the frontage roads of the President George Bush Turnpike (see below).
- Texas State Highway 360; Angus G. Wynne Freeway / Watson Road; freeway passing relatively along the border of Arlington and Grand Prairie.
- Texas State Highway Loop 12; Walton Walker Boulevard (W); freeway passing through west Dallas and Irving, connecting to Spur 408 in the south, passes by Texas Stadium.
- Texas State Highway Spur 97 (toll); International Parkway; tollway passing through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, connects to Texas 114/121 and Texas 183.
- Texas State Highway Spur 280; spur freeway connecting U.S. 287 to downtown Fort Worth.
- Texas State Highway Spur 366; Woodall Rodgers Freeway; freeway passing along the northern boundary of downtown Dallas, connects I-35 to U.S. 75/I-45 (technically, the north end of I-345). Eventual plans, as part of the Trinity River Corridor Project, call for extending this highway over the Trinity River and into west Dallas.
- Texas State Highway Spur 408; Patriot Parkway; freeway passing through semi-rural southwest Dallas, connecting to Loop 12 on the north, terminates at I-20 in the south.
- Texas State Highway Spur 482; Storey Lane; spur freeway connecting Texas 183/114 to Loop 12 (Northwest Highway), passes by Texas Stadium.
- Dallas North Tollway (toll); tollway extending northward out of downtown Dallas and passing along and through the wealthiest neighborhoods and shopping/dining areas in Dallas, passing through Plano, and is currently being extended into Frisco. Its free frontage roads are known as the Dallas Parkway. While the Tollway is just now being extended into Frisco, the Parkway currently extends to the northern edge of Frisco, terminating at U.S. Highway 380.
- President George Bush Turnpike (toll); tollway named after the elder President George Bush that passes through northern Dallas suburbs, currently terminating in Carrollton in the west and Garland in the east. In between, it forms the boundary between Plano to the north and Dallas and Richardson to the south. The Turnpike will eventually connect to Texas 161 in the west and I-30 in the east, forming a northern loop around Dallas. The Turnpike's free frontage roads are signed as Texas 190.
Note: When referring to Texas highways, state agencies and locals use the abbreviation SH (state highway), unless the highway is a spur or a loop. For example, Texas 121 is written and spoken as SH 121, but Texas Loop 12 is referred to simply as Loop 12.