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, photos, links to Google Maps Street View, and videos:

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 2035
--
4* NC 74 shield image from Wikimedia Winston Salem Loop, Eastern Half from US 52 to Former US 311 Freeway
Construct New
Freeway,
11.5 mile section between US 421 and US 52 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*
i73sm.jpg  i74nc2.jpg us220sm.jpg For 3 miles
US 220 Rockingham Bypass, from Ellerbe to Rockingham Complete
January
  2025
13A* i74nc2.jpg   Thumbnail image of US 74 shield, from Shield's Up!
US 74, from US 220 Rockingham Bypass to NC 38 Complete

November 2000

13B*
i74nc2.jpg   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
After 2035
--
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 2035
  --
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 2035
--
18* Thumbnail image of US 74 shield,from Shield's Up!  US 76 shield image from Wikimedia  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 2035 --
19
--
US 74/76 East of Whiteville to US 17 Shallotte Bypass Construct New
Freeway
After 2035
--

20

--

US 17 Shallotte Bypass to SC State Line

Upgrade to Interstate Standards and/or Construct New
Freeway
After 2035

--

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

* Updated with New Information as of February 21, 2025.
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) 2026-2035 (January 2025) and are subject to change. The STIP includes all projects funded from 2026 to 2035. Projects thus not included in the STIP have an assumed starting date after 2035.
** For completed and under construction projects only.
*** 
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 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.

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