 U.S. Highway 60, State Highway 9 and 59 serve the immediate area. Interstates 29, 80, 90 and 35 are nearby. U.S. Highway 60, currently being improved to a four lane divided highway across Iowa, connects to Omaha and Minnapolis/StPaul.
One of the most-traveled highways in northwest Iowa, IA 60 is scheduled to be upgraded to four-lane expressway status. (Minnesota's long-term plan is to follow suit with its remaining two-lane stretches of MN 60, as this would create an expressway along US 75, IA/MN 60, and US 169 from Sioux City to Mankato, MN, to Minneapolis.) These segments are scheduled to open in the spring of 2006:
- A 10-mile expressway segment between Le Mars and Alton
- A 13-mile segment between Alton and Sheldon
- A 9-mile segment between the O'Brien/Osceola county line to Ashton, including a bypass of that town)
The 10-mile bypass of Sheldon has been pushed back to the fall of 2006, and an 11-mile segment between Ashton and the Minnesota state line, including a bypass of Sibley, has been pushed back to the fall of 2007.
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