Route Description
State Road 57 begins at U.S. Route 41 in Evansville and provides access to Evansville Regional Airport. It overlaps the Interstate 164 Evansville by-pass for that highway's final three miles (5 km), to the junction with Interstate 64. The highway serves a number of small communities and the cities of Petersburg and Washington. The final few miles of State Road 57 overlap U.S. Route 231. State Road 57 ends at the south junction of U.S. 231 and State Road 67, three miles (5 km) southwest of Worthington. A large portion of State Road 57 is planned to be bypassed by the extension of Interstate 69, with construction starting at the I-64/I-164 interchange in mid-2008.
In 2009, a portion of Indiana 57 was relocated onto the new Interstate 69 route and concurred with Indiana 68. The original route has been removed and now only exists as a service road to the Warrick County Industrial Park.
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