Interstate 10 In Texas
Interstate 10 is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through San Antonio and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas.
At just under 879 miles (1,415 km), the stretch of Interstate 10 crossing Texas, maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation, is the longest continuous untolled freeway under a single authority in North America, a title formerly held by Ontario's Highway 401. Mile marker 880 (and the corresponding exit number) near Orange are the highest numbered mile marker and exit on the Interstate Highway System or, for that matter, on any freeway in North America.
Texas alone contains more than a third of the interstate's entire length. El Paso, near the Texas-New Mexico border, is 785 miles (1,263 km) from the western terminus of Interstate 10 in Santa Monica, California, making it closer to Los Angeles than it is to Orange, Texas, 857 miles (1,379 km) away. Likewise, Orange, on the Texas–Louisiana border, is only 789 miles (1,270 km) from the eastern terminus of Interstate 10 in Jacksonville, Florida.
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