Shawnee Mission Parkway is a stretch of roadway in

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and

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(only a fragment). Its western terminus at K-7 in

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and its eastern terminus at Ward Parkway in

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. The roadway is signed as US 56 from

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to its eastern terminus, with US-69 overlapping from I-35 to Metcalf Avenue, and US-169 overlapping from

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to Rainbow Boulevard. The Shawnee Mission Parkway mainly functions to connect the main cities included in the Shawnee Mission, KS mailing address. All of the cities it passes through in

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are included in the mailing address.

Route description

The Shawnee Mission Parkway begins at a full cloverleaf interchange at K-7 near Zarah and heads east as a four-lane divided highway. East of Zarah, it interchanges I-435 at a partial cloverleaf interchange. It then enters

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as an expressway and continues east as 63rd St. East of Shawnee, it interchanges

and becomes concurrent with US 56, US 69, and US 169. Near Mission, US 69 splits from the Shawnee Mission Parkway at a cloverleaf interchange and continues north as US 56 and US 169 continue east with the Shawnee Mission Parkway. Passing by Westwood, US 169 splits from the Shawnee Mission Parkway and heads north at an intersection. The route then crosses into

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and reaches its eastern terminus at a small interchange with Ward Parkway as US 56 continues northeast along Ward Parkway.

History

Shawnee Mission Parkway was once concurrent with K-10 as it followed from K-7 to Merriam Drive. From I-35 to US 56, a part of the route was K-10 Spur. When the current K-10 expressway was originally completed between K-7 and I-435, it was originally signed as K-12. When the entire expressway was completed from Lawrence to I-435 in Lenexa, K-10 was signed for the entire freeway, and K-12 was realigned to follow the old K-10 routing on Shawnee Mission Parkway to Merriam Drive. The former Spur K-10 was then resigned as Spur K-12. K-12 was decommissioned in 1992. US 50 used to also follow Shawnee Mission Parkway from

into Missouri. When I-435 was completed, US 50 was rerouted to overlap I-435 into

. From Metcalf Avenue in

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to Roe Avenue in Mission, the Shawnee Mission Parkway was assigned as K-58 until its 1979 decommissioning.

Major intersections

References

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