Image of NC Interstate 74 route shield, from Shield's Up!

Progress

Summary Page

Click on any link in a particular segment below to find additional information, maps, and, if I have them, photos:

Seg. #
Current Route Signage
 Segment Location Needed to Complete: Work to Start*: Completion Date**:
1*
Interstate 77 from
Virginia Border to Exit 101		 Complete

April 2001
2
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74, from Shield's Up!    
Interstate 77 to US 52 Complete

June 2000
3*
  Thumbnail image of US 52 shield, from Shield's Up!
US 52, Mount Airy to 
Vicinity of NC 65		 Upgrade to
Interstate Standards 		 After 2033
--
4* NC 74 shield image from Wikimedia Winston Salem Loop, Eastern Half from NC 65 to US 311 Construct New
Freeway,
4.5 mile section between US 421 and US 311 Open4

Nov. 2026
5*
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74 shield, from Shield's Up!

 US 311 from W-S Loop to North Main Street, High Point Complete2  
August 2014
6 Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74, from Shield's Up! 
US 311 East Belt Bypass from North Main St., High Point to I-85 East of Archdale Complete
Nov. 2010

7
 Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74, from Shield's Up! Thumbnail image of US 311 shield, from Shield's Up!d

US 311 Bypass from East of I-85 to I-73/US 220, Randleman
Complete


Nov. 2010, June 2013
8
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 Shield's Up!
US 220 from US 311, to North of SR 1364, Asheboro Complete***
December 2013
9
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 73 shield, from Shield's Up! Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74 shield, from Shield's Up! Thumbnail image of US 220 shield, from Shield's Up!
US 220 North of SR 1364, in Asheboro to South of NC 134/Business 220, Ulah Complete2

October 2012
10
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 73 shield, from Shield's Up!Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74 shield, from Shield's Up!  Thumbnail image of US 220 shield, from Shield's Up!
US 220 from US 220A/134, Ulah to US 220A near Emery Complete1

May 1997
11
 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 Complete3

January 2008
12*
--
 US 220 Rockingham Bypass, from Ellerbe to Rockingham Upgrade US 220 and Construct New Bypass
 Freeway		 US 220 June 2018
Bypass
Fall 2025
13   Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up!u
US 74, from US 220 Rockingham Bypass to NC 38 Complete

November 2000

13A
 		  Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up!

US 74,Rockingham Bypass from NC 38 to End at Business 74
Complete



November 2000
14*
  Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up!
US 74, Rockingham Bypass to Laurinburg Bypass
 Upgrade to 
Interstate Standards		 2030
--
15   Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up! Thumbnail image of Future Interstate 74 Corridor sign
US 74, Laurinburg and
Maxton Bypass		 Upgrade to
Interstate Standards
 After 2033
  --
16
Thumbnail image of NC Interstate 74/US 74 sign  
 US 74, Maxton Bypass to NC 41, East of Lumberton Complete

September 2008
17*
Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up!  
US 74 from NC 41, East of Lumberton to
US 76, East of Whiteville		 Upgrade to Interstate Standards
After 2033
--
18* Thumbnail image of US 74 shield,from Shield's Up! Thumbnail image of Future Interstate 74 Corridor sign US 74/76 from West of Whiteville to NC 211 East of Whiteville Upgrade to Interstate Standards After 2033 --
19
--
 US 74/76 East of Whiteville to US 17 Shallotte Bypass Construct New
Freeway		 After 2033
--

20

--
US 17 Shallotte Bypass to SC State Line
 		Upgrade to Interstate Standards and/or Construct New
Freeway
 		After 2033

--
I-74/I-77, I-74/US74 and Future 74 Corridor sign photos courtesy of Adam Prince.

* Updated with New Information as of Sept. 17, 2022.
Color Key: Complete, Complete, but not signed as Interstate, Under Construction, Funded Future Project, Unfunded Project or Not Listed in STIP.
* Dates from NCDOT's Draft State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) 2024-2033 (June 2022) and are subject to change. The STIP includes all projects funded from 2024 to 2033. Projects thus not included in the STIP have an assumed starting date after 2033.
** For completed and under construction projects only.
*** While the project to upgrade US 220 to Interstate standards is unfunded and thus not set to start until after 2025, NCDOT received a waiver to have the segment signed as a full interstate when the I-73/74 Asheboro construction project (I-73 Segment 8) was completed in October 2012, signing took place in October 2013.

1. Though the road is signed as an interstate, work is still needed on widening the shoulders on the southern end to meet interstate standards. This project was to start in 2011 but has been delayed (again) to after 2029 in latest STIP revision, and this for only the segment from NC 211 south to Alt. US 220.

2. There are remaining project to improve interchanges and/or bridges in this segment, but NCDOT was not required by the FHWA to complete these improvements for the route to be signed as an interstate.

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. Route will be signed as I-74 after Beltway is completed to I-40 in 2026.

d-On May 21, 2018 AASHTO's Special Committee on US Route Numbering approved NCDOT's request to decommission US 311 from I-73 in Randleman, along I-74 through High Point to where it currently meets US 52 in Winston-Salem. I will leave the shields up on this page until NCDOT removes the signs in each segment, Segment 6 signs were removed in April 2020.

u-future route of I-73, but not currently signed.

I-74 title shield courtesy of David R. Kendrick's Shields Up!
I-74 table shield .gif courtesy of Jeff Kitsko.

Return to I-73/74 in NC Main Page