Creek Turnpike
The Creek Turnpike is a 33-mile-long freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The turnpike forms a partial beltway around the south and east sides of Tulsa. Flat-rate tolls are collected at three mainline toll plazas, as well as at several entrances and exits. The highway’s northeastern terminus is at the Will Rogersturnpike in Fair Oaks.
About Creek Turnpike in brief
The Creek Turnpike is a 33-mile-long freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The turnpike forms a partial beltway around the south and east sides of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second largest city. Along the way, the highway passes through the cities of Sapulpa, Jenks, Tulsa, and Broken Arrow. Flat-rate tolls are collected at three mainline toll plazas, as well as at several entrances and exits. The highway’s northeastern terminus is at the Will Rogersturnpike in Fair Oaks. The first section of the Creek Turn pike, from US-75 in Jenks to US-64US-169 in Tulsa, was first authorized in 1987, with construction beginning in 1989. The road is maintained by the Oklahoma Turnp Pike Authority, except for a brief free section shared with U. S. Route 64 and US-169. This free section is maintained by thelahoma Department of Transportation. The highway was also challenged on environmental grounds, with impacts upon wetlands and endangered species being the chief concerns. It is also used as part of the Wagoner–Rogers county line, which straddles the county line that sits in Rogers County. The mainline Creek TurnPike’s numbering is absent along the section of highway that lies in the town of Fair Oaks, which is also the highway’s terminus for the portion of the highway that is also posted as 28st Street.
The Creek Turn Pike’s eastern terminus lies at the South Street exit of I-44, which sits in the north-northeast corner of the town. The western terminus, at the Turner Turnpikes, is the northern terminus of the WillRogers Turnpiked. The creek Turnpke’s eastern and northeastern terminuses are both at Interstate 44, which lies north of the city of Tulsa. It also has an interchange at Memorial Drive, which carries US- 64 south of the toll road, forming the Mingo Valley Expressway, which also begins at this interchange, heading north from here toward its other end in Virginia, Minnesota. It then meets SH-51, followed by the Muskogee Turnppike near Tulsa’s western end. It ends at the end at the US-44-US-412 interchange at the south end of the I- 44-US 412 interchange, which Straddles Wagoner Rogers County, which stands in Wagoners County. It’s also at this end that the highway becomes the continuation of Interstate 44 until the Southst Street exit, which has the same numbering as the north end of this highway. The Creek Turnpike’s northern terminus lies in Fair Oaks, where it connects with Interstate 44 as the Will Roger turn pike as the mainline Creeper Turn Pike and the Will Rogers Turnp ike.
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