U.S. Route 175

U.S. Route 175 (or, U.S. Highway 175) is an east-west United States highway, its span completely within the state of Texas. It comes very close to meeting its "parent", US 75, but decommissioning and rerouting in downtown Dallas, Texas brings it a couple of miles short. Before the decommissioning of US 75 south of downtown Dallas in favor of Interstate 45, US 175 met its "parent" US 75. US 175's western terminus is in Dallas, Texas at Interstate 45. The highway's eastern terminus is in Jacksonville, Texas at an intersection with US 69.

Route description

Dallas County

US 175 begins south of downtown Dallas at an interchange with Interstate 45 south of Interstate 30, Cesar Chavez Boulevard, and Good-Latimer Expressway. The highway heads towards the southeast as a freeway carrying the moniker of S.M. Wright Freeway (named for a local minister and community leader in South Dallas); it was previously named South Central Expressway in this section.

At an interchange with State Highway 310 (known locally as Dead Man's Curve), US 175 begins to head to the east (taking the name C.F. Hawn Freeway, named after a Texas Highway commissioner who lived in Athens) while the S.M. Wright Freeway name follows SH 310. The freeway continues east along the north edge of Rochester Park, through lowlands that include a crossing of White Rock Creek, until it turns back to the southeast at an interchange at Second Avenue (a previous routing of US 175) and Bruton Road; from this point US 175 maintains a consistent southeasterly direction.