Colorado State Highway 23


State Highway 23 is a state highway in Phillips and Sedgwick counties in the northeastern corner of Colorado, United States, that connects U.S. [Route 385 in Colorado|U.S. Route 385] in Holyoke with Nebraska Highway 23 in Nebraska.

Route description

SH 23 begins at an intersection with US 385 and Howitt Street in Holyoke, near the city's northern edge. From its southern terminus SH 23 heads very briefly due east until it reaches the BNSF Railway tracks and then turns northeast to run parallel with the tracks through rural agricultural area. About from the beginning of the route, and after connecting with multiple county roads, SH 23 passed through the census-designated place of Amherst.
Continuing northeast along the north side of the BNSF tracks from Amherst, SH 23 travel through more agricultural area and connects with several more county roads. Roughly northeast of Amherst, the route has a slight S curve, crossing over the tracks in the middle of the curve at a level crossing. Approximately, northeast of the railroad crossing, SH 23 leaves Phillips County and enters Sedgwick County. About farther northeast, SH 23 reaches its northern terminus at County Road 63.2, which runs along the Colorado-Nebraska state line.
For its entire length of SH 23 is two-lane road, with no major junctions and, other than Holyoke and Amherst, does not pass near any populated paces.

History

The route established in about 1935, but was originally designated as SH 176. The highway was decommissioned in 1952 but was reinstated in 1968. To avoid confusion with Interstate 76, which runs less than to the north of the route, and to match Nebraska's connecting highway number, the former SH 176 was renumbered as SH 23 in 1989.

Major intersections