Interstate 35 is an interstate highway in the central United States. Like other interstates, it is commonly referred to as I-35. Its odd number indicates that it is primarily a north-south highway. It stretches from Laredo, Texas at the Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota at Minnesota State Highway 61. Many interstates used to be divided into north/south or east/west branches in the past, but I-35 is the only one that still has such divisions. In two stretches, the highway splits into Interstate 35E and Interstate 35W.
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While numbered as loop routes for I-94, routes I-494 and I-694 in Minneapolis/St. Paul serve as loops for I-35 as well.
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When I-35 ends at Laredo, Texas, Mexico Highway 85 begins at Nuevo Laredo , on the other side of the Rio Grande.
I-35 splits up into I-35W and I-35E in the Dallas/ Fort Worth, Texas area. The official mile markers follow I-35E through Dallas -- I-35W carries its own milage from Hillsboro to Denton, as though it were an x35 loop.
I-135, which branches off in Wichita, Kansas, is 95 miles long. It carried the designation I-35W until the 1980s, despite never rejoining the main line of I-35. It terminates in Salina, Kansas at the intersection with Interstate 70 (though the controlled-access freeway continues north as US 81).
At Medford, Minnesota, the on/off ramps lead to roundabouts rather than standard cross intersections. This is the first site in the state linked to a major highway to use roundabouts.
Interstate 335 was planned as an additional bypass of the Twin Cities; that road was never built.
I-35 splits again into I-35W and I-35E in the Minneapolis/ Saint Paul, Minnesota area. At one sharp turn in I-35W near the junction with I-94, it is advised to slow to 35 miles per hour (although many drivers are able to maintain the speed limit of 55 mi/h). Additionally, it is not possible to go from westbound I-94 to northbound I-35W or from southbound I-35W to eastbound I-94 without resorting to surface streets.