The Iowa Highways Photo Gallery

Dubuque

US 61 and 151
	This shot is from the trumpet interchange where US 61 and 151 merge, looking northward.
	About two miles after US 61 and 151 merge, US 52 joins the road before splitting in downtown Dubuque. Once it enters the city limits, the road becomes a 55-MPH freeway. This is also where the first "wayfinding" sign for Dubuque's districts can be found for northbound traffic. In 2004, many signs along US 61/151 and US 20 were changed to note the six districts of Dubuque, with color-coded squares before each district: College Grandview (brown), Downtown (red), Eagle Point (purple), Port of Dubuque (light blue), Southend (orange), and Westend (green).
	This interchange at Grandview Avenue actually pre-dates the rest of the expressway through Dubuque. Notice how short the exit ramps at this interchange are — far short of modern Interstate standards.
	After two interchanges (one full and one partial), the freeway becomes an at-grade boulevard for a quarter of a mile — complete with two signaled intersections and a 45 MPH speed limit — before it becomes an elevated freeway again.
	Unfortunately, the only way northbound US 52/61/151 traffic can approach US 20 is by turning right at the first traffic light, which is for a connecting road (unsigned IA 946) between the expressway and Locust Street. Before this sign was replaced in 2004, the sign gave downtown, the Civic Center, and the Ice Harbor (later Port of Dubuque) as its destinations.
	These signs are mounted on a pedestrian overpass over IA 946 between US 61/151 and Locust Street. A left turn onto Locust takes drivers to the junction with US 20.
	This is looking southeastward along 9th Street, where US 52 joins the US 61/151 expressway. IA 3 also ends its 327-mile trek across the state at this point; see the IA 3 terminus photo page for more photos here.

US 20
	This is the Dubuque skyline as visible from the US 20 bridge in May 2001; the Port of Dubuque is on the left. (Photographed by Jay Deetelm)
	Freeway-style signage for the intersection with Locust Street (which carried US 52/61/151 before the expressway was built, and is currently the main access road to the expressway from US 20) is present at the foot of the Julien Dubuque Bridge. The Iowa welcome sign, the standard Iowa Welcome Center sign, and the standard warning sign for the doubling of fines in construction zones are also visible here. (Photographed by Jay Deetelm)
	Signage for the same intersection, looking east.
	Same intersection, looking north along Locust. Note that "Illinois" (eastbound) and "Waterloo" (westbound) are the posted control cities for US 20. (A "control city" is the posted destination on a freeway sign. In this case, though, the eastbound control "city" is actually another state.)
	This is advance signage for the Dodge-Locust intersection on eastbound US 20.

Other Dubuque sights
	This is one of Dubuque's "wayfinding" signs, which gives directions to points of interest in each district. This sign is at 1st and Locust Streets in the Downtown District.
	Although Dubuque is currently not on an Interstate highway (numerous attempts to bring one through there in the 1970s failed), it is the only city in Iowa located on four US routes. This is a trailblazer sign on Bluff Street showing all four routes.
	Some traffic signals in downtown Dubuque, like these at 11th and Locust Streets (looking northward), are horizontally-mounted.
	Here are some overhead signs at the intersection of 9th and Bluff Streets (looking southward).
	This is Dubuque's famous Fenelon Place Elevator, a railway for pedestrians connecting 4th Street with Fenelon Place at the top of the hill. It has been described as "the world's shortest, steepest scenic railway." Their website has more information about the elevator.
	Some speed limit signs on Dubuque city streets have "BEGIN" signs above them. This one is on 16th Street. (Urbandale is the only other city where I have seen these.)
	Junction signs for US 52 and IA 3 at the north end of the former IA 386 (which was decommissioned on July 1, 2003) have all four cardinal directions on them. The south end had similar signage until September 2002, when it was slightly realigned to meet the north end of the Northwest Arterial (IA 32) extension. That intersection has its own photo page, while photos of IA 32's south and former north ends can be found here.