Wyoming Highway 376
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Wyoming Highway 376 is a highway in the state of Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

 that travels around the south side of the city of Rock Springs
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 18,708 at the 2000 census. Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975....

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Route description

Wyoming Highway 376 travels counterclockwise from west to east around Rock Springs. It travels from I-80 BUS/US 30 BUS (Dewar Drive) southeast around the southern end of Rock Springs, and turns back north as it nears Wyoming Highway 430
Wyoming Highway 430
Wyoming Highway 430 is a state road in south-central Sweetwater County, Wyoming that runs from the Wyoming-Colorado State Line to Rock Springs.-Route description:...

. Marchant Street is intersected at 2.35 miles (3.8 km) miles, and provides access to WYO 430 (New Hampshire Street). WYO 376 crosses over WYO 430 at 2.52 miles (4.1 km). Now Highway 376 curves around the eastern side of Rock Springs and reaches its eastern end at Milepost 4.31 miles (6.9 km) where it rejoins I-80 BUS/US 30, now known as 9th Avenue.

History

Wyoming Highway 376 used to continue in a counterclockwise direction from its current west end to connect back to U.S. Route 187 (Elk Street). Since U.S. Route 191 was routed onto Interstate 80
Interstate 80
Interstate 80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. It is a transcontinental artery running from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area...

 north of Rock Springs, that portion of Elk Street was unnumbered. However, WYDOT maintains the section of Elk Street between Business Loop I-80 and Interstate 80. It is mile-marked in the highway log as US 191, although signage shows U.S. 191 bypassing the town via Interstate 80. The northeast corner of the circumferential highway is not currently maintained by WYDOT.

Major intersections

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