U.S. Route 287 Business (Mansfield–Fort Worth, Texas)
Business US Highway 287-P is a 38.613-mile-long (62.142 km) business loop of US Highway 287 in the state of Texas that serves as main street for Mansfield, downtown Fort Worth and Saginaw. The highway is known as Main Street while in Mansfield, Mansfield Highway while in southern Fort Worth, Kennedale Parkway in Kennedale, Riverside Drive and Rosedale Street in central Fort Worth, Commerce Street in downtown Fort Worth, Main Street in northern Fort Worth, and Saginaw Boulevard in Saginaw. The highway was originally designated on January 14, 1991, to replace a portion of Loop 496, and the old route of US 287 and US 81. The route was then rerouted several times during the 1990s. Bus. US 287-P is located almost entirely in Tarrant County, and is mostly located in Fort Worth. The highway is, as of 2010, the longest business route of US 287, while located in Texas. Bus. US 287-P is one of the few highways to be designated as a north–south highway.
Entrance to the Fort Worth Stockyards, located on Business U.S. 287-P
Hicks Airfield, with Bus. US 287-P on left
The Saginaw Chamber of Commerce, located along the highway
The Historic Tarrant County Courthouse
U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.
U.S. Route 287 in North Texas
U.S. Route 287 near Midlothian
Approaching US 287 in Mansfield.
US 287 runs northwest-southeast through Childress, located equidistant from Amarillo and Wichita Falls.