Cherokee Expressway, Inner Dispersal Loop | ||||
Route information | ||||
Auxiliary route of I-44 | ||||
Maintained by ODOT | ||||
Length | 2.51 mi[1] (4.04 km) | |||
Existed | 1970s–present | |||
Component highways | ||||
NHS | Entire route | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | I-244 / US 64 / US 75 / SH-51 in Tulsa | |||
East end | I-244 / US 75 / US 412 in Tulsa | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Oklahoma | |||
Counties | Tulsa | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Interstate 444 (I-444) is an unsigned auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It makes up half of Tulsa's Inner Dispersal Loop (IDL), forming a partial beltway around Downtown Tulsa. Both ends of I-444 terminate at Interstate 244 (I-244), which makes up the other half of the IDL.
The route is signed in its entirety as U.S. Highway 75 (US-75), with the first half also being signed as U.S. Route 64 and State Highway 51 (SH-51), and the latter half being known as the Cherokee Expressway. The 2.51-mile-long freeway was first planned around 1957 with construction occurring into the 1970s before being fully open in 1981. I-444 was originally signed as such until 1995.