cities on I-40 (with intersecting and overlapping us highways…)
wilmington
raleigh
greensboro, nc 74
knoxville
nashville
memphis 412
little rock 412
norman, ok. (412 veers north to tulsa)
amarillo 70, 34
albequerque 84, 54
flagstaff 191
bakersfield 95, 93
I-40 doesn’t quite make coast to coast, at least as defined by I-95 and I-5.
it starts in a nowhere’s ville called wrightsville beach, goes through fine n.c. towns like watha, magnolia and newton grove, before it gets to raleigh. why is there an interstate going through there, anyway? have you ever been there? it largely follows the route of the old american and north carolina railroad, carrying slave cotton and tobacco to northern markets, but nevermind that
at an indeterminate point west of grensboro, and it dies nowhere east of california city.
doesn’t even make it all the way to bakersfield… kind of symbolic?