Interstate 5 in Washington
Interstate 5 in Washington

Interstate 5 in Washington

 

I-5
Get started Vancouver
End Blaine
Length 276 mi
Length 444 km
Route
  • Oregon
  • Interstate Bridge
  • 1A
  • 1C Mill Plain Boulevard
  • 1D 4th Plain Boulevard
  • 2
  • 3 Highway 99
  • 4 78th Street
  • 5 99th Street
  • 7 134th Street
  • 8
  • 9 179th Street
  • 11 219th Street
  • 14 Ridgefield
  • 16 La Center
  • 21 Woodland
  • 22 Thick Access Road
  • 27 Todd Road
  • 30 Kalama
  • 32 Steelscape
  • 36 Long view
  • 39 Kelso
  • 40 North Kelso
  • 42 Lexington
  • 46 Headquarters Road
  • 48 Huntington Avenue
  • 49 Castle Rock
  • 52 Old Pacific Highway
  • 57 Rogers Road
  • 59 Father
  • 60 Toledo
  • 63 Winlock
  • 68
  • 71 Napavine
  • 72 Rush Road
  • 74 Maurin Road
  • 76 South Chehalis
  • 77 Chehalis
  • 79 North Chehalis
  • 81 Centralia
  • 82 West Centralia
  • 88
  • 95 Little Rock
  • 99 93rd Avenue
  • 101 Tumwater Road
  • 102 Capitol Boulevard
  • 103 Capitol Boulevard
  • 104 → Port Angeles
  • 105 Downtown Olympia
  • 107 Pacific Avenue
  • 108 Sleater Kinney Road
  • 109 Martin Way
  • 111 Marvin Road
  • 114 Martin Way
  • 116 Nisqually Road
  • 118 Center Drive
  • 119 Clark Road
  • 120 Gray Army Field
  • 122 Jackson Avenue
  • 123 150th Street
  • 124 Gravelly Lake Drive
  • 125 Bridgeport Way
  • 127 → Puyallup
  • 128 84th Street
  • 129 74th Street
  • 130 56th Street
  • 132 38th Street
  • 133 → Bremerton
  • 134 → Tacoma
  • 135 Portland Avenue
  • 136 Port of Tacoma Road
  • 137 54th Avenue
  • 142 → Auburn
  • 143 Federal Way
  • 147 272nd Street
  • 149 Kent-Des Moines Road
  • 151 200th Street
  • 152 188th Street
  • 154 → Bellevue
  • 156 → West Seattle
  • 157 Martin Luther King Jr. way
  • 158 Boeing Access Road
  • 161 Michigan Street
  • 162 Airport Way
  • 163 West Seattle Bridge
  • 164 → Spokane
  • 165 Downtown Seattle
  • 166 Drilling Avenue
  • 167 Broad Street
  • 168 → Bellevue
  • Ship Canal Bridge
  • 169 45th Street
  • 170 Ravenna Boulevard
  • 171 Lake City Way
  • 172 85th Street
  • 173 Northgate Way
  • 174 130th Street
  • 175 145th Street
  • 176 175th Street
  • 177 205th Street
  • 178 236th Street
  • 179 220th Street
  • 181A 44th Avenue
  • 181B 196th Street
  • 182 → Bellevue
  • 183 164th Street
  • 186 128th Street
  • 189 → Mukilteo
  • 192 41st Street
  • 193 Pacific Avenue
  • 194
  • 195 Grand Avenue
  • 198 South Marysville
  • 199 Marysville
  • 200 North Marysville
  • 202 116th Street
  • 206 Arlington Municipal Airport
  • 208 Pioneer Highway
  • 210 236th Street
  • 212 Stanwood
  • 215 Freeborn Road
  • 218 Milltown Road
  • 221 Conway
  • 224 Old Highway 99
  • 225 South Mt. Vernon
  • 226 Mt. Vernon
  • 227 North Mt. Vernon
  • 229 South Burlington
  • 230 Burlington
  • 231 North Burlington
  • 232 Cook Road
  • 236 Edison
  • 240 Alger
  • 242 Old Highway 99
  • 246 Lake Samish
  • 250 South Bellingham
  • 252 Bill McDonald Parkway
  • 253 Lakeway Drive
  • 254 Ohio Street
  • 255 Sunset Drive
  • 256 Meridian Street
  • 257 Northwest Avenue
  • 258 North Bellingham
  • 260 Slater Road
  • 262 Ferndale
  • 263 Ferndale
  • 266 Grandview Road
  • 270 Birch Bay-Lynden Road
  • 274 South Blaine
  • 276 Blaine

Interstate 5 or I -5 is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway forms a north-south route in the west of the state. The highway begins in Vancouver, not to be confused with the Canadian city that is an extension of I-5, and runs through Seattle to the Canadian border at Blaine, where the highway continues as Canadian Highway to Vancouver, BC. The route in Washington is 444 kilometers long.

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Travel directions

I-5 at Tacoma.

I-5 at Downtown Seattle.

The Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle.

Interstate 5 in Oregon crosses the Columbia River at Vancouver (not to be confused with Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada) via the Interstate Bridge, and enters Washington. Vancouver can be considered a suburb of Portland in Oregon. On the north side of the city, Interstate 205in, which forms an eastern bypass through the Portland metropolitan area. You leave the conurbation a little further on, and the highway runs parallel to the Columbia River. The I-5 has a fairly long stretch of 2×3 lanes. It passes by Longview, where the Columbia River branches west to enter the Pacific at Astoria. Just north of Longview, the highway narrows to 2×2 lanes. At Napaville, one crosses US 12, which is briefly double-numbered with I-5. US 12 runs to Yakima in the east, right past Mount Rainier, the highest point in the state at 4,392 meters. At Grand Mound the US 12 leaves the I-5 again, to walk towards Aberdeen on the coast.

One passes by Olympia, the capital of Washington. This is where US 101 rejoins, which has not been seen since Los Angeles. US 101 takes a huge detour around Olympic National Park, northwest of Olympia. There are also tropical rainforests in this area. After Olympia, the road widens to 2×4 lanes as you enter the metropolitan area of ​​Seattle. The first suburb is Tacoma, with 202,000 inhabitants, about 70 kilometers from the center. In Tacoma, the SR-16 exits, which leads to Bremerton. Interstate 705. also strikes in Tacomaoff, a short connecting road in the city. The river Puyallup is crossed via a bridge with 2×4 lanes. This is followed by a row of smaller suburbs. At Federal Way, SR-18 exits, a short link to the SR-167 parallel highway. To the south, Mount Rainier is clearly visible. Interstate 405 exits near Seattle Airport, which runs along the east side of this elongated city. SR-518 runs west to SeaTac International Airport. After this, the highway has 2×5 lanes. A little further on, the SR-599off, a short parallel highway. The highway now runs past the ports of Seattle, and Interstate 90 begins on the south side of downtown, running to Spokane on the east, and eventually all the way to Boston on the east coast, thousands of miles away. The highway here is wide, with 4×3 lanes. From the highway you have a good view of the Seattle skyline. Just north of downtown, SR-520 exits and leads to the suburb of Bellevue. After this one dives into the suburbs, the first of which is Shoreline.

Interstate 405 rejoins at Lynnwood. After this, the highway narrows to 2×3 lanes. One passes Everett, where a large Boeing factory is located. US 2, the northernmost US Highway, also ends here. After this one leaves the metropolitan area of ​​Seattle, and the highway runs parallel to several bays that open into the Juan de Fuca Strait, which leads to the Pacific. You pass the regional town of Mount Vernon, and only then does the highway narrow to 2×2 lanes. Then you enter the forest area. On the other side is already Canada, namely the Vancouver Island, where the capital of British Columbiais located, Victoria. A little further you pass Bellingham, the last major city in the United States. The Canadian border is not far now, and is reached at the border town of Blaine, barely 20 kilometers south of Vancouver. The queues to the United States are usually much longer than to Canada.

Seattle Express Lanes

In Seattle, Interstate 5 has a 11.5 kilometer long interchangeable track. This is the widest reversible lane in the world with 4 lanes. The interchange lane is open to all traffic, and is therefore not HOV only. The shuttle lane also goes over the Ship Canal Bridge. The interchangeable track was put into use in 1962.

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History

The I-5 was originally numbered US 99, a number that no longer exists today. Already on February 14, 1917, the first bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver opened to traffic, where a second bridge was built next to it in 1958 to accommodate Interstate 5 at the Oregon border . I-5 was built mainly during the 1960s. In December 1962, the Ship Canal Bridge in northern Seattle opened to traffic. On February 3, 1965, a 20-mile (32 km) stretch from Seattle to Everett opened to traffic. The last stretch of I-5 to open was between Everett and Marysville five miles on May 14, 1969.

Between 2000 and 2022, I-5 in Tacoma was reconstructed and widened in 17 phases, most notably around the interchange with State Route 16. It was one of the longest-running reconstruction projects in the United States. The project consisted of 14 subprojects, cost a total of $1.4 billion and was completed in August 2022.

Traffic intensities

The express lanes in Seattle use between 31,000 and 47,000 vehicles daily, these intensities are included in the list below (Exit 168 – 171).

Location 2016
Oregon state line 132,000
Exit 7 77,000
Exit 40 Kelso 59,000
Exit 74 Chehalis 60,000
Exit 101 Tumwater 68,000
Exit 104 147,000
Exit 107 Lacey 126,000
Exit 120 Joint Base Lewis–McChord 137,000
Exit 125 Lakewood 150,000
Exit 127 176,000
Exit 129 Lakewood 196,000
Exit 137 Fife 172,000
Exit 142 183,000
Exit 149 Kent 218,000
Exit 153 SeaTac 198,000
Exit 162 Seattle / Corson Avenue 234,000
Exit 164 239,000
Exit 168 205,000
Exit 169 Seattle / 45th Street 214,000
Exit 171 Seattle / SR-522 210,000
Exit 173 Seattle / Northgate Way 215,000
Exit 175 Seattle / 145th Street 175,000
Exit 181 Lynnwood 159,000
Exit 182 197,000
Exit 193 Everett 186,000
Exit 194 Everett 134,000
Exit 202 116th Street 111,000
Exit 210 236th Street 80,000
Exit 226 Mount Vernon 73,000
Exit 231 Burlington 53,000
Exit 255 Bellingham 80,000
Exit 263 Ferndale 42,000
Exit 276 Blaine 13,000

Lane Configuration

From Unpleasant Lanes
exit 0 Exit 4 2×3
Exit 4 Exit 7 (I-405) 2×2
Exit 7 (I-405) exit 57 2×3
exit 57 Exit 82 2×2
Exit 82 Exit 104 2×3
Exit 104 Exit 111 2×4
Exit 111 Exit 122 2×3
Exit 122 Exit 142 2×4
Exit 142 Exit 164 (I-90) 2×5
Exit 164 (I-90) Exit 165 2×7
Exit 165 Exit 166 2×5
Exit 166 Exit 168 2×7
Exit 168 Exit 169 2×4
Exit 169 Exit 171 4+4+4
Exit 171 Exit 173 3+3+3
Exit 173 Exit 176 2×5
Exit 176 Exit 194 2×4
Exit 194 Exit 227 2×3
Exit 227 Exit 276 2×2

Interstate 5 in Washington

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