And It's Really an East-West Highway

South US 159 / North Missouri 111
Photo courtesy of David Backlin (taken September 2002)

US 159 and Missouri 111 are multiplexed for five miles in Holt County, in northwestern Missouri. Along most of those five miles, the road runs east and west, rather than north and south as this sign assembly would indicate. It might even have caused Lewis and Clark to lose their way.