.svg) Louisiana Highway 114 | ||||
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 Route of LA 114 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Louisiana DOTD | ||||
| Length | 20.857 mi[1] (33.566 km) | |||
| Existed | 1955 renumbering–present | |||
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| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  LA 1 east of Echo | |||
| East end |  LA 1 / LA 451 east of Moreauville | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Louisiana | |||
| Parishes | Avoyelles | |||
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Louisiana Highway 114 (LA 114) is a state highway located in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It runs 20.86 miles (33.57 km) in an east–west direction from LA 1 east of Echo to a second junction with LA 1 and LA 451 east of Moreauville.
LA 114 essentially cuts off a long bend in LA 1, bypassing the city of Marksville to the south. The route travels instead through the smaller communities of Hessmer, Mansura, and Moreauville. Through traffic southeast of Mansura is directed from LA 114 onto LA 1186, connecting to LA 1 northwest of Moreauville, which leads to Simmesport and eventually into the Baton Rouge metropolitan area.
LA 114 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering, replacing a portion of former State Route 72 and the entirety of State Route 299. In 1965, the route was extended from its original eastern terminus in Mansura over the former alignment of LA 1, which was moved to a straighter path along the Kansas City Southern Railway line. However, this portion of the route, which is now classified as a local road, is intended to be deleted from the state highway system as part of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD) Road Transfer Program.
- ^ Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Highway Inventory Unit (2016). "LRS Conversion Tool". Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Retrieved August 10, 2017.