Western Terminus: Colorado State Line
(continues as US-287/US-385)
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Left: view from the state line, looking on into Colorado. This is the only signed road along the Oklahoma-Colorado border.
Center: view from the state line, looking back into Oklahoma
Right: first assurance sign for OK-3. The green sign in the distance refers to this road as "Governor George Nigh's Northwest Passage," as OK-3 is called all the way to just south of Okarche, where it turns into the Northwest Expressway.
Eastern Terminus: Arkansas State Line (continues as AR-32)
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Left: view from the state line, looking on into Colorado. This is the only signed road along the Oklahoma-Colorado border.
Center: view from the state line, looking back into Oklahoma
Right: first assurance sign for OK-3. The green sign in the distance refers to this road as "Governor George Nigh's Northwest Passage," as OK-3 is called all the way to just south of Okarche, where it turns into the Northwest Expressway.
Eastern Terminus: Arkansas State Line (continues as AR-32)
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Left: view looking eastbound into Arkansas
Right: view looking westbound into Oklahoma
After looking through several road-related newsgroups, this is the longest state highway I know all of the lower 48. Purists don't agree because of the 3E/3W split (shown in the map above in purple and orange), but if you follow the 3E route (one, because it's longer; and two, because this is the direction OK-3 took before the E/W split back in the 70s) this highway runs for 616 miles, longer than even any state highway in Texas!
Western terminus pictures taken 6 August 2003. Eastern terminus pictures taken 2 May 2003.
Right: view looking westbound into Oklahoma
After looking through several road-related newsgroups, this is the longest state highway I know all of the lower 48. Purists don't agree because of the 3E/3W split (shown in the map above in purple and orange), but if you follow the 3E route (one, because it's longer; and two, because this is the direction OK-3 took before the E/W split back in the 70s) this highway runs for 616 miles, longer than even any state highway in Texas!
Western terminus pictures taken 6 August 2003. Eastern terminus pictures taken 2 May 2003.