Interstate 59 in Louisiana

Infobox road
route=59
type=I
state=LA


alternate_name=
length_mi=11
length_round=
length_ref= [Federal Highway Administration Route Log and Finder List, [http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table1.htm Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways as of October 31, 2002] ]
length_notes=
year_established=1957 (received official route number; LA section proposed as early as 1939)
city=
direction_a=South
terminus_a=jct|state=LA|I|10|I|12 near Slidell, LA
direction_b=North
terminus_b=Jct|state=MS|I|59 state line
previous_type=LA
previous_route=58
next_type=LA
next_route=60

In the U.S. state of Louisiana, Interstate 59 has the shortest mileage of all the states the highway traverses. Beginning at the junction of Interstates 10 and 12 near Slidell, it bypasses Pearl River before entering crossing the West Pearl River and later the East Pearl River in Mississippi.

Major cities

Bolded cities are the officially-designated control cities:

* New Orleans
** Signed from Hattiesburg southward.
* Slidell
** It is a control city, but it isn't signed.
* Pearl River

Exit list

References