Missouri Route 32

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Route 32
Route information
Maintained by MoDOT
Length	285 mi (459 km)
Existed	1922–present
Major junctions
East end	End of state maintenance in Ste. Genevieve
Major intersections	US 61 in Ste. Genevieve I-55 in New Offenburg US 67 in Farmington Route 21 in Caledonia, Missouri Route 19 / Route 72 in Salem US 63 in Licking Route 5 in Lebanon I-44 in Lebanon US 65 in Buffalo Route 13 in Bolivar
West end	US 54 in El Dorado Springs
Location
Country	United States
State	Missouri
Highway system
Missouri State Highway System Interstate US State Supplemental
← Route 31 → Route 33
← Route 66 → US 67

Route 32 is a highway in Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at the Mississippi River near Ste. Genevieve; its western terminus is at U.S. Route 54 in El Dorado Springs. It is currently one of the longest highways in the state. Most of the highway east of Lebanon is hilly and curvy, passing through a large part of the Missouri Ozarks.

Route 32 is one of the original Missouri highways from 1922. It originally ran only from Licking to Flat River (now Park Hills). Other portions were defined as Route 66 (El Dorado Springs to Fair Play), Route 13 (Fair Play to Buffalo), and Route 68 (Farmington to Ste. Genevieve). Route 66 replaced Route 13 to Buffalo in 1925,^[1] but by 1927 it became part of US 54. Route 32 also absorbed Route 68 in 1926 or 1927. Route 64, which had been designated in 1922 between Collins and Preston (now US 54), was extended east to Lebanon in the early 1930s, and by 1935 it had swapped alignments with US 54, becoming the El Dorado Springs-Lebanon route that now mostly carries Route 32. Route 32 was extended west to Lebanon by 1946, and it was later extended west, leaving only the Louisburg-Lebanon section of Route 64, which has since been extended west.