Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 73 Shield, from Shields Up!

Progress

Summary Page


Travel the current I-73 Corridor North from Rockingham or South from NC 68 on these videos by RoadwayWiz (November 2021)

Click on any link in a particular segment below to find more information, photos, maps, and video and Google Street View links:


Seg. #
Current Route Signage
Segment Location Needed to Complete: Work to Start*: Completion Date**:
1 Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up!Image of Future I-73 sign along US 220 near Summerfield, photo by Strider
US 220 from Virginia Border
to NC 68
Upgrade Highway to Interstate Standards After 2035
--
2
I-73 NC shield image from Shields Up! Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up! 
US 220 from NC 68 to near
Haw River
Complete
--

  March 2018

3 Thumbnail image of I-73 shiedl, from Shields Up! NC 68-US 220 Connector to NC 68 & 'I-73 Connector' Complete
--
May 2017
4 I-73 shield image from Shields Up! 'I-73 Connector' and Bryan Blvd from NC 68 to Greensboro Urban Loop   Complete

--
July 2, 2017
Loop to PTI
Airport-
Jan. 2009
5 I-73 NC shield image from Shields Up! I-840 NC shield image from Shields Up! Greensboro Urban Loop from Bryan Blvd. to US 220*** Complete
--
February 2008
6
Thumbnail image of I-73 shiedl, from Shields Up!  Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up!
US 220, from Greensboro
Urban Loop to

 I-74 Interchange near Randleman
Complete**** --
December 2013
7
 Thumbnail of I-73 NC shield, from Shields Up! Thumbnail of I-74 NC shield, from Shields Up!
Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up!
US 220, from I-74 Interchange
near Randleman to North of

SR 1364, Asheboro
Complete**** --
December 2013
8
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 73 Shield, from Shields Up!  Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74 Shield, from Shields Up!
Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up!
US 220 from North of SR 1364 in Asheboro to South of NC 134/Business 220, Ulah Complete2
  --
October 2012

9
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 73 Shield, from Shields Up! Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74 Shield, from Shields Up!
Thumbnail image of US 220 Shield, from Shields Up!
US 220 from US 220 Business, Ulah to
US 220A near Emery
Complete1
--
May 1997
10   Thumbnail of I-73 NC shield, from Shields Up! Thumbnail of I-74 NC shield, from Shields Up! US 220 Ellerbe Bypass, from US 220A near Emery to South of Ellerbe Complete 3
--
January 2008

11*
i73nc.jpg i74nc2.jpg

US 220 shield image from Shields Up!4


Rockingham Bypass, from South of Ellerbe
to US 74
Complete --
January 2025
12*
  i74nc2.jpg   Thumbnail image of US 74 Shield, from Shields Up!
US 74 from US 220 Rockingham Bypass to near NC 38 exit Complete
--
November 2000
13
--
NC 38 exit from US 74 Rockingham Bypass to SC State Line
Construct New Freeway
After 2035
--

73/74 Corridor sign photos courtesy of Adam Prince

* Updated with New Content or Information as of February 1, 2025.
Color Key: Complete, Not Listed in Current STIP
* Dates from NCDOT's Draft State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) 2026-2035 (January 2025) and are subject to change. The STIP lists projects funded from 2026 to 2035. Those not appearing in the STIP thus have an assumed starting date after 2035.
** For completed and under construction projects only.
*** Construction of the Western part of the Greensboro Loop was not specifically an I-73 project,  it was signed I-40/I-73 or Future I-73/I-840 though when it was opened, then I-40 was returned to its original route in September 2008, the SW section is now signed I-73/US 421 south of I-40.
**** While the project to completely upgrade US 220 to Interstate Standards was unfunded and thus not set to start until after 2023, NCDOT received a waiver to have these segments signed as a full interstate after the I-73/74 Asheboro construction project (I-73 Segment 8) was completed in December 2012, new exit signing was put up by October 2013, interstate signing was completed in early December 2013.

1. Though the road is signed as I-73/74 work is still needed on widening the shoulders on part of it to meet interstate standards, this project was to start in 2011, but has been shifted to after 2027 starting with the 2018-2027 STIP, and then only for the section from NC 211 south to Alt. US 220.

2. There is a remaining project to improve interchanges and bridges in this segment, NCDOT was not required by the FHWA to complete these improvements though for the route to be signed I-73/I-74.

3. Though built to interstate standards, this segment was not made part of the Interstate system until work to upgrade US 220 to interstate standards through Asheboro was complete. Though the exit signs were updated to interstate standards in the summer of 2013, the project also called for putting up official I-73 and I-74 signage (and removing US 220 signs), this was completed in December 2013.

4. For first 3 miles from Exit 25 to Exit 22.

I-73 and Future I-73 shields courtesy of  David R. Kendrick's Shield's Up!

Return to I-73/74 in NC Main Page