Missouri Route 8

Route 8 is a 69-mile-long (111 km) state highway in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. It travels from Interstate 44 (I-44) in St. James to U.S. Route 67 (US 67) and US 67 Business in Desloge. It acts as a bypass, from I-44 in St. James, to US 67 in Desloge. Travelers on I-44 can use it to avoid the traffic problems in St. Louis, to US 67 in Desloge, & vice versa. Those who want to go to Ste. Genevieve can take US 67 Bus. through Park Hills to US 67, to Farmington, then take Route 32 to Ste. Genevieve. There have supposedly been plans to extend Route 8 to Ste. Genevieve. So far, those plans have not been put into effect.

Route 8
Route information
Maintained by MoDOT
Length	72.061 mi[1] (115.971 km)
Major junctions
West end	I-44 / Route 68 in St. James
East end	US 67 / US 67 Bus. in Desloge
Location
Counties	Phelps, Crawford, Washington, St. Francois
Highway system
Missouri State Highway System Interstate U.S. State Supplemental ← Route 7 → Route 9

Between Steelville and Potosi, Route 8 was initially Route 62 from 1922 to 1926. The route was renumbered because US 60 had been planned as US 62.

Route description

Route 8 begins its run in St. James concurrent with Route 68 just south of the interchange with I-44. The two routes are concurrent for approximately 4 miles before Route 68 splits from Route 8 and heads southeast to Salem while Route 8 runs east to Steelville, passing Maramec Spring Park in the process. Route 8 is concurrent with Route 19 through Steelville; the two routes split on the eastern side of town at which point Route 8 runs east through one ranger district of the Mark Twain National Forest on its way to Potosi. About 15 miles east of Potosi, it reaches Business Loop 67 in Desloge and runs concurrently with that route until their termination at the interchange with U.S. Route 67.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Phelps	St. James	0.000	0.000	I-44 / Route 68 west / Historic US 66 west – St. Louis, Rolla	I-44 exit 195; western end of Route 68 / Historic US 66 overlap
		0.466	0.750	Route KK / Historic US 66 east (James Boulevard) – Rosati	Eastern end of Historic US 66 overlap
	​	4.785	7.701	Route 68 east – Salem	Eastern end of Route 68 overlap
Crawford	Steelville	17.363	27.943	Route 19 north – Cuba	Western end of Route 19 overlap
		18.039	29.031	Route 19 south	Eastern end of Route 19 overlap
Washington	Potosi	53.132	85.508	Route 185 north – Sullivan
		54.610	87.886	Route 21 – St. Louis, Caledonia
St. Francois	Park Hills–Desloge line	70.048	112.731	US 67 Bus. south	Western end of US 67 Bus. overlap
	Desloge	72.031	115.923	US 67	Interchange; eastern end of US 67 Bus. overlap
		72.061	115.971	Cedar Falls Road	Eastern end of state maintenance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

•  U.S. Roads portal

References

1. Missouri Department of Transportation (April 27, 2017). MoDOT HPMAPS (Map). Missouri Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

External Links

Media related to Missouri Route 8 at Wikimedia Commons