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Begin your virtual tour of U.S. Highway 6 by clicking on any of the above entry points,
and follow roads or trails through a network of linked images.
U.S. Highway 6 runs from the tip of Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, to Bishop, California, a distance of 3,205 miles. For nearly thirty years, it had the distinction of being the longest U.S. Highway at 3517 miles, when it ran to the Pacific Coast at Long Beach. But in 1964, it was truncated to its present ending not far from the California-Nevada border. When the route was originally designated in 1926, it ran only from Cape Cod to Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1932 it was extended to Greeley, Colorado, and in 1937, it was extended again to Long Beach.
U.S. Highway 6 has been known as the "Grand Army of the Republic Highway".
UntraveledRoad features a segment of U.S. Highway 6 from near the Utah-Nevada border eastward to Delta, Utah. Deserts cover this area, interrupted briefly by a crossing of the Confusion Mountain Range. Great Basin National Park lies next to its route. A segment of old highway 6 can be seen in Green River, Utah, now designated as Utah Highway 19.
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