Iowa Highway 9

Iowa Highway 9
Iowa 9 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Iowa DOT
Length	295.088 mi[1] (474.898 km)
Existed	1920[2]–present
Major junctions
West end	SD 42 near Larchwood
Major intersections	US 75 in Rock Rapids Iowa 60 near Sibley US 59 near Allendorf US 71 at Spirit Lake US 169 at Lakota US 69 at Forest City I-35 near Hanlontown US 63 near Saratoga US 52 in Decorah
East end	WIS 82 in Lansing
Location
Country	United States
State	Iowa
Counties	Lyon Osceola Dickinson Emmet Kossuth Winnebago Worth Mitchell Howard Winneshiek Allamakee
Highway system
Iowa Primary Highway System Interstate US State Secondary Scenic
← Iowa 8 → Iowa 10

Iowa Highway 9 is the most northern of Iowa's east–west highways, traversing the entire northern tier of counties. It runs from the eastern terminus of South Dakota Highway 42 at the South Dakota border east of Sioux Falls, South Dakota near Benclare, to the Wisconsin border at Lansing where it continues as Wisconsin Highway 82. It is largely rural in character, bypassing any large city. Making a few dips north and south, the highway largely follows a very straight east–west alignment.