Indiana State Road 2

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State Road 2
Maintained by INDOT
Length:	80.98 mi[1] (130.32 km)
West end:	ILL 17 near Lowell
Major junctions:	US 41 near Lowell I-65 near Dinwiddle US 231 in Hebron US 30 in Valparaiso US 6 in Westville US 421 in Westville US 35 in La Porte US 20
East end:	US 20/US 31 in South Bend
Counties:	Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph
Major cities:	Lowell, Hebron, Valparaiso, Westville, La Porte, South Bend
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State Road 2 in the U.S. State of Indiana is an east-west route running from the Illinois border at Illinois Route 17 east to the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana at the U.S. 20/31 freeway, also known as the St. Joseph Valley Parkway. This is a distance of 80.98 miles (130.32 km).

Contents 1 Major Intersections 2 History 2.1 Old Indiana State Route 2 3 Miscellanea 4 References

[edit] Major Intersections

County	Location	Mile	Roads intersected	Notes
Lake	Lowell	0.00	ILL 17	Western terminus of SR 2.
		3.45	US 41 (Wicker Boulevard)	Concurrent for 1 mile.
	North Hayden	6.09	US 41 (Wicker Avenue)
		12.13	SR 55 (Grant Street)
		12.63	SR 55 (Harrison Street)
	Dinwiddle	14.91	I-65
Porter	Hebron	20.11	US 231
			SR 8	Western terminus of SR 8.
		22.28	US 231
	Valparaiso	35.74	US 30
			SR 130	Eastern terminus of SR 130.
		37.87	US 30/SR 49	SR 2 turns onto the Valparaiso Bypass (SR 49).
			SR 49
LaPorte	Westville	47.16	US 6
		48.07	US 421 (North Flynn Street)
		49.08	US 421
	La Porte		SR 39 (Longwood Drive)
			US 35/SR 39 (Pine Lake/Indiana Avenue)	End of concurrency with SR 39. US 35 intersects SR 2 and overlaps SR 39.
		59.76	SR 4	Western terminus of SR 4.
	LaPorte County		US 20	SR 2 and US 20 switch alignments.
St. Joseph	South Bend		US 20/31 (St. Joseph Valley Parkway)	Eastern terminus of SR 2.
			SR 933	Former SR 2 continued east and follows the Lincoln Highway.

[edit] History

Indiana 2 has largely been replaced by the Indiana Toll Road (80/90) and by U.S. Route 20. Indiana 2 appears to be part of an old alignment from Kankakee, Illinois to South Bend, Indiana, and runs more diagonally than other east-west state highways in Indiana.

In Valparaiso, Indiana 2 has been rerouted around the downtown and central business districts of the city. Instead of traveling through the city along Washington Street, Indiana 2 overlaps U.S. Route 30 and the Valparaiso Bypass (State Road 49).

Several times in its history, Indiana 2 has run along the path of the Lincoln Highway.

[edit] Old Indiana State Route 2

Until the completion of the St. Joseph Valley Parkway around the South Bend - Elkhart area, Indiana 2 continued to downtown South Bend, mostly along Western Avenue (which remains, but no longer has state highway markers). State Road 2 originally followed the Lincoln Highway to Fort Wayne before US 33 supplanted it east of downtown South Bend.

[edit] Miscellanea

Just east of LaPorte, U.S. 20 and SR 2 "switch alignments" at a lighted intersection. That is, U.S. 20 follows the north and west legs of the intersection, while Indiana 2 follows the south and east legs.

[edit] References

1. ^ Indiana Highway Ends - SR 2