North Carolina Highway 711


North Carolina Highway 711 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It connects the town of Pembroke with Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 301 in Lumberton. The highway travels in an east-to-west orientation but is signed as a north-south highway, entirely in Robeson County.

Route description

NC 711 is a predominantly two-lane highway that travels from I-95/US 301 in Lumberton to NC 710 in Pembroke. South of the I-95 interchange, the road continues to the east towards downtown Lumberton as NC 72. NC 711 and NC 72 share a concurrency for north of the interchange. Two key features of the route is its crossing of the Lumber River near its southern terminus and its pass-by of University of North Carolina at Pembroke in downtown Pembroke.

History

NC 711 was established in 1951 or 1952 as a reestablishment of a primary highway between Lumberton and Pembroke. The route previously existed as US 74, but was downgraded to a secondary road when it was rerouted south onto new bypass south of the Lumber River in 1949. The original routing was from NC 72 to NC 710. Between 1963-1968, NC 711 was extended south, overlapping NC 72 to its current southern terminus with I-95/US 301.

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