page_title: U.S. Route 59 in Kansas
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 59 in Kansas / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: The newly upgraded U.S. Route 59 freeway between Ottawa, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas
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  U.S. Route 59 is a north-south highway in Kansas that travels from Chetopa to Atchison.
context_section_description: US-59 is a 210-mile-long (340 km) highway which runs from south to north in eastern Kansas.  It enters the state from Oklahoma south of Chetopa and passes through Parsons, Ottawa, Oswego, Moran, Garnette, and Lawrence.  The route leaves Kansas for Missouri by crossing the Missouri River at Atchison.  Most of the route climbs the cuestas of the Osage prairie, while north of the Kansas River, it cuts through the glaciated region.
  Like other state highways in Kansas, US-59 is maintained by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT).  KDOT surveys the roads under its control on a regular basis to measure the amount of traffic using the state's highways.  These traffic counts are expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), a calculation of the average daily number of vehicles on a segment of roadway.  For the 2012 survey, the stretch of road with the highest AADT was 8,249 vehicles south of the Lawrence city limits.  The lowest was 380 vehicles at the Neosho–Allen county line.  The statistic was not measured within large cities.
caption: The newly upgraded U.S. Route 59 freeway between Ottawa, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas
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