List of highways numbered 87

The following highways are numbered 87:

International

Asian Highway 87

European route E87

Australia

Greece

India

Iran

Road 87

Israel

New Zealand

New Zealand State Highway 87

United States

Interstate 87

U.S. Route 87

Alabama State Route 87

Arizona State Route 87

Arkansas Highway 87

California State Route 87

Connecticut Route 87

Florida State Road 87

Georgia State Route 87

Idaho State Highway 87

Illinois Route 87 (former)

K-87 (Kansas highway)

Kentucky Route 87

Louisiana Highway 87

Maryland Route 87 (former)

M-87 (Michigan highway) (former)

Minnesota State Highway 87

Missouri Route 87

Montana Highway 87

Nebraska Highway 87

New Hampshire Route 87

New Jersey Route 87

New York State Route 87 (former)

North Carolina Highway 87

Ohio State Route 87

Oklahoma State Highway 87

Pennsylvania Route 87

South Dakota Highway 87

Virginia State Route 87

State Route 87 (SR 87) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for most of its length as Morehead Road, the state highway runs 4.10 miles (6.60 km) from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues as North Carolina Highway 87 (NC 87), north to U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Ridgeway in southern Henry County.

Route description

SR 87 begins at the North Carolina state line southeast of Ridgeway. The highway continues southeast as NC 87 toward Eden. SR 87 heads northwest as Morehead Road to the town of Ridgeway, within which the highway follows Morehead Avenue. In the center of town, the state highway intersects US 220 Business, which heads north on Main Street and south on Church Street. SR 87 continues northwest a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Greensboro Road).

History

Route 87 was originally numbered State Route 106. When North Carolina extended NC 87 to the Virginia state line in the 1940 renumbering, SR 106 was renumbered SR 87 for continuity.

New Jersey Route 87

Route 87 is a state highway located in Atlantic County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It runs 1.70 mi (2.74 km), heading north from Atlantic City at an intersection with U.S. Route 30 (Absecon Boulevard) to Brigantine, where it terminates at the end of the Justice Vincent S. Haneman Memorial Bridge over the Absecon Channel, continuing as County Route 638 (Brigantine Boulevard). In Atlantic City, the route runs through the Marina District, which contains a few casinos, along Huron Avenue and Brigantine Boulevard. Here, Route 87 intersects with Route 187 (Brigantine Boulevard) and the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, the latter providing a limited-access route between Route 87 and the Atlantic City Expressway. Route 87 is the only road to and from Brigantine.

What is now Route 87 was initially proposed as Route S4A in 1927, a spur from Route 4 (now U.S. Route 9) in Tuckerton, Ocean County, south through Brigantine to Atlantic City. The portion of this route south of Little Beach was to be built by Atlantic County; however, the state took over plans of building the road in 1938. Despite this, Route S4A was never completed between Brigantine and Little Beach, and the portion of the road that existed in Ocean County was removed from the state highway system by 1941. In 1945, Route S56, a spur of Route 56 (now U.S. Route 30), was proposed to run from Atlantic City to Brigantine along Brigantine Boulevard. Route 87 was created on its current alignment in 1953 as an unsigned route, replacing Route S4A and the proposed Route S56. Previously, Route 87 split into two alignments in Atlantic City along Huron Avenue and Brigantine Boulevard; the Brigantine Boulevard alignment eventually became Route 187.