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=== Assistant: Ohhh, US-60 is an old-school heavyweight. ===
Ohhh, US-60 is an old-school heavyweight. That road has history and serious mileage behind it.

Here’s the full picture 👇

==== 🇺🇸 US Route 60 – The Long Haul ====

US 60 runs almost coast-to-coast:

: Virginia Beach, VA → Los Angeles, CA

Total length: ~2,670 miles
One of the longest US highways ever designated.

==== 🌊 Eastern Terminus (Start) ====

Virginia Beach, Virginia

It starts literally at the Atlantic Ocean and immediately becomes a main spine across eastern Virginia.

==== 🏛️ Through Virginia ====

Major VA cities it hits:
* Williamsburg
* Richmond
* Lexington
* Buena Vista
* Covington

In early America, this was a primary western migration and trade route through the mountains.

==== 🏔️ Appalachia & Ohio Valley ====

It continues through:
* West Virginia – Charleston, Huntington
* Ohio – Portsmouth, Columbus
* Indiana – Corydon
* Illinois – near Cairo

This was the east-west road before the Interstates took over.

==== 🌾 Great Plains to the Rockies ====
* Missouri
* Oklahoma
* Texas Panhandle
* New Mexico
* Arizona – Flagstaff, Winslow (yes, that Winslow)

This is classic Route-66-style America.

==== 🌴 Western Terminus (Finish) ====

Los Angeles, California

It ends at Interstate 10, just miles from the Pacific Ocean.

==== Why US-60 is legendary ====
* Originally intended to be Route 66 (political fight changed that)
* Was the main US highway across the southern U.S.
* Pre-Interstate freight + military logistics backbone
* Runs Atlantic → Pacific like a true national artery

===== Fun contrast =====

| Road   | Character                                                    |
| ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| US-460 | Appalachian freight & Tidewater connector                    |
| US-60  | Continental-scale migration, military, and commerce corridor |

If you’re mapping, traveling, researching family history, or tracking an old property corridor — tell me what you’re working on and I can zoom into specific counties, mileposts, or historical alignments.