U.S. Route 97

U.S. Route 97
U.S. Route 97
Route information
Length	669.61 mi (1,077.63 km)
Existed	1926–present
Major junctions
South end	I-5 in Weed, CA
	US 20 in Bend, OR; US 26 in Madras, OR; US 197 at Shaniko Junction; I-84 / US 30 in Biggs Junction, OR; I-82 / US 12 near Yakima, WA; I-90 in Ellensburg, WA; US 2 in Cashmere, WA;
North end	Hwy 97 at the Canada–US border near Oroville, WA
Location
Country	United States
States	California, Oregon, Washington
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System; List; Special; Divided;

U.S. Route 97 (US 97) is a United States highway in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. The highway goes north and south through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. The highway is 669.61 miles (1,078 km) long.

There was once a plan for US 97 to go north to Alaska.^[3] In the 1960s, the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities asked British Columbia and Yukon, both in Canada, to renumber their highways "97" to match the US numbering. British Columbia did renumber (British Columbia Highway 97), but Yukon did not.^[4]

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